ROCK Is DEAD!
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Sibyl Ruth Bedford wrote:
> 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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