Don't forget, though, that Radiohead and Beck are NOT new bands at all.
seven or eight years ago they were new. A lot of the bands that I liked
stopped existing, like Nirvana, Concrete Blonde, and Blind Melon, some
didn't, like R.E.M., but they naturally changed their style. I'm guessing
that the attention (by artists themselves and by the media) given to
electronica, and maybe even the death of a couple cool singers, has
reduced the music that I liked then to stuff of the past.
Not to say that the genre is not continuing in a different flavor, but
having changed my taste from classical music (Vivaldi, Haydn, Bach,
Brahms, Chopin - from before I could walk), to oldies and alt-rock or
whatever the hell they called it, to punk and harder rock, to industrial
(yes that means Skinny Puppy), to techno, to synth-pop, to all sorts of
electronica and dance music, to more laid-back grooves, and on to the
jazzy funky bluesy ends of the spectrum, I'm not the one to say where any
one category has landed in the year 2000.
-s-
> I have to disagree. In the genre of "avant-rock" or "postrock" there
> are loads and loads of great new stuff coming out all the time. Bands
> like Godspeed You Black Emperor! or Sigur Rós and on the more mainstream
> tip, names like Radiohead, Beck, Mogwai or UNKLE, really do rock. Of
> course one can argue whether or not all these categorize as rock..
> Personally I am scarcely an expert in this genre, but I can only marvel
> at variety and eclecticity of stuff my avant-rock-literate mates dig up
> all the time..
>
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