Re: does rock still rock?

From: david hong (hongda@engr.orst.edu)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 22:46:39 MET DST

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    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..
    >
    > 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...
    >
    > Regards,
    >
    > Marco
    >
    >
    >
    >



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