Why Rock Music IS Dead.

Also:

Even the alternative music album category, the place where the Grammys normally lets their freak flag fly, ignored acclaimed work by St. Vincent, Kate Bush, Wild Flag, Tuneyards and St. Vincent, among dozens of others.

Most of whom are called St. Vincent.

And finally, Skrillex!

The insane Skrillex bass-drop that has become the electronic producer’s trademark is the sound of the new distortion, one that’s way fresher and more suggestive of youth alienation right now than three chords and a scream. No Grammy-nominated artist this year made a more innovative and aggressive record than Skrillex, which doesn’t necessarily make him a visionary as much as he is a portent: His noise and rebellion emanates from a laptop and not through a distortion pedal.

ffs

sigh

Since when did rock dudes making music in a genre once known as “the sound of the city” enjoy hiking in the woods so much?

You can almost feel the dewy bliss of nature dripping into your ears — and in the perfect world, Adele’s “Rolling in the Deep,” arguably the most durable rock ’n’ roll song of the year, would be the avalanche that crushed the entire scene.

yeah Adele is the one to save rock music . lol America.

wait a min, why are Sum 41 still getting nominated?

i traded my laptop for a distortion pedal

*merges gentle folk and soft rock with expansive post-rock structures*

oh hear we go

Is the distinction that exists between so-called rock music and hard rock music the subject matter, the type of guitar distortion boxes used, and the quality of falsetto? Probably. It’s a battle between cavemen and nature boys, at least a little testosterone required. Where do the lines blur, and why? Is it a subtle class distinction — the blue-collar hard rockers versus the more “erudite” rock artists?

i think i'll stop reading now that hard rock = caveman thing has come up. Pathetic

*here

to find out which prat wrote this i need to scroll down. Fuck that i'll let someone who did read it all tell me

"able riffs"

lol @ that bruno mars pic btw

i hope someone points out to him that its not rock musics fault, its the morons at the grammys who select these things. There's plenty of great music out there.
Brits season will be up soon too, where they will say Adele saved pop music.

oh no i read on and saw this

Rapper Kanye West, of course, is the king of assemblage, a fearless adapter of any music that catches his fancy, be it the French house music of Daft Punk, the baroque pop of Jon Brion or the indie falsetto of Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon. Bruno Mars steals from doo-wop as much as he does hip-hop, tosses in a rock strum and happy-go-lucky Sublime reggae-lite vibe, none more prominent than another. And Lady Gaga is the missing link between Elton John and late-period Cher that we never knew we needed. And the line between country music and soft rock is at times barely indistinguishable.

i am not reading any further, honest.

also lol @ naming "Rolling In The Deep" as the rockin' alternative to all those nominations - rock really is dead if the biggest innovation of the year is a lukewarm "Gimme Shelter" rehash

amen

'commercial'

Also:

_Even the alternative music album category, the place where the Grammys normally lets their freak flag fly, ignored acclaimed work by St. Vincent, Kate Bush, Wild Flag, Tuneyards and St. Vincent, among dozens of others._

Most of whom are called St. Vincent.
--Ned Raggett

Skrillex is better than all these bands except Kate Bush tbh

I honestly have no problem with Skrillex at all, he's just there for me. I'm just amused by Randall going 'fresh! innovative!'

king of limbs sounds pretty "laptoppy" imo

xpost (Yeah his argument's contextual and his audience is the LA Times and not us but even so.)

the alternative music album category, the place where the Grammys normally lets their freak flag fly

Radiohead, White Stripes, the Arcade Fire.... freaky, man

for all the shit jethro tull got for beating metallica in the grammys, they are probably the *weirdest* band to ever win a grammy. i mean jethro tull! think about it! how could you even invent jethro tull?

i was listening to Heavy Horses by Jethro Tull the other day and the album is dedicated to the "hardworking shire horses of England"

You have prompted a thread revival.

but, but, but, surely Sum 41 will save us all!?

― Curtis Stephens, Tuesday, December 24, 2002 3:15 PM (9 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

at least you were 10 in 2002. made sense.

lol