Is Chemical Bros considered rock?
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Marco Baroni wrote:
> > 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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> I like some of the people you and others mentioned (btw: I never thought of
> UNKLE as a rock band), but I also think that, paradoxically, somebody like
> Beck was an important rockstar of the late nineties exactly in virtue of
> the fact that his rock is very non-rock, so to speak. As opposed to a band
> such as Nirvana, who were great in their being so rock'n'roll: guitars,
> angst, noise, pain, teenage spirit and stuff. I agree that nowadays there
> is some good, or at least interesting, experimental rock-related music
> around, but no good rock'n'roll, in my humble opinion. But this could just
> be me becoming old and more interested in sophisticated production and
> original chord changes than in nihilism, distorsion and angst...
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> Regards,
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> Marco
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