today's music pales in comparison...

Thoughts_Arrive

Arcade Fire is the only now band that I like.
Rock has gone soft.

Wobbie

I gave the black keys an honest listen yesterday. not all that impressed. they may have reached savoy brown type status in the 70's. btw, I'd take savoy brown over them :shock:

DewieCox

imalive wrote:

I gave the black keys an honest listen yesterday. not all that impressed. they may have reached savoy brown type status in the 70's. btw, I'd take savoy brown over them :shock:

Yeah, same here....I like them well enough, but I don't think they're great. Seen them in concert and it wasn't awful, but it was still one of the worst shows I've seen. Played for barely over an hour and didn't really try to engage the crowd whatsoever.

direwolf74

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

Rock has gone soft.

I disagree. There are plenty of bands out there who can melt faces with the best of them: Pearl Jam, Drive-By Truckers, The Hold Steady, Heartless Bastards, The Tragically Hip, The Black Keys, Wintersleep, Social Distortion, The Arkells, and the recently reunited Headstones...just to name a few. Rock n' roll is alive and well, my friend. You're just not looking in the right places.

mfc2006

direwolf74 wrote:

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

Rock has gone soft.

I disagree. There are plenty of bands out there who can melt faces with the best of them: Pearl Jam, Drive-By Truckers, The Hold Steady, Heartless Bastards, The Tragically Hip, The Black Keys, Wintersleep, Social Distortion, The Arkells, and the recently reunited Headstones...just to name a few. Rock n' roll is alive and well, my friend. You're just not looking in the right places.

exactly what i was thinking. if you poke around enough, you'll find some amazing bands out there.

Wobbie

direwolf74 wrote:

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

Rock has gone soft.

I disagree. There are plenty of bands out there who can melt faces with the best of them: Pearl Jam, Drive-By Truckers, The Hold Steady, Heartless Bastards, The Tragically Hip, The Black Keys, Wintersleep, Social Distortion, The Arkells, and the recently reunited Headstones...just to name a few. Rock n' roll is alive and well, my friend. You're just not looking in the right places.

I love Social Distortion....they were formed in 1978

dcfaithful

direwolf74 wrote:

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

Rock has gone soft.

I disagree. There are plenty of bands out there who can melt faces with the best of them: Pearl Jam, Drive-By Truckers, The Hold Steady, Heartless Bastards, The Tragically Hip, The Black Keys, Wintersleep, Social Distortion, The Arkells, and the recently reunited Headstones...just to name a few. Rock n' roll is alive and well, my friend. You're just not looking in the right places.

I give a loud "FUCK YES" for mentioning DBT, Heartless Bastards, and The Hold Steady.

All three of those bands are fucking awesome.

kjw818

Wilco!

mookeywrench

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

Arcade Fire is the only now band that I like.
Rock has gone soft.

I disagree with the soft rock comment....but isn't Arcade Fire a part of that 'problem'?

direwolf74

kjw818 wrote:

Wilco!

YES! Easily one of the best live bands I've ever seen. Can't believe I forgot to mention them in my earlier post. I should be ashamed of myself.

intodeep

These threads pop up all the time. I always say the same bands in defense and many are similar to the ones others have said.

I think there is a lot of great music being made. Music now is not forced down your throat. If you want it you have to go find it. Not like int he 60's/70's when the radio played a lot of good music. Not like in the 90's when you put on MTV to hear the new pearl jam, soundgarden, alice in chaines, Smashing pumpkins etc

Now if you want the goods you have to look for it a little more. Its there

Thoughts_Arrive

mookeywrench wrote:

Thoughts_Arrive wrote:

Arcade Fire is the only now band that I like.
Rock has gone soft.

I disagree with the soft rock comment....but isn't Arcade Fire a part of that 'problem'?

Yes but they are great artists, the rest suck.

Olivavu

New music these days is shite.

pjamaholic

rick1zoo2 wrote:

Have to agree with you. I grew up listening to that generation of bands and maybe I am an old fart, but most of the new stuff just doesn't measure up. I keep trying though.

True. The old bands were the best, Pearl Jam included in this lot.

your move now

I have to agree that you aren't all looking in the right places, maybe the popular stuff isn't as good as it once was but if you look for it there's some great stuff out there. And the invention of the internet means that we can all also have access to great music by unsigned groups from all across the world, I think that's pretty amazing

pjamaholic

True what you say about the internet. I get to hear music from lots of bands I otherwise wouldn't mainly because they're not played on the stupid radio and I cant afford to buy cds of bands I know nothing about.

Wobbie

imalive wrote:

bands like pink floyd, zeppelin, hendrix, yes, jethro tull, rush, the who, the beatles, etc. just don't exist today...with maybe a very few exceptions.

these bands, and so many others, put out consistently great music and they did it for a long period of time. most of today's bands put out an album or two or three and fade into oblivion. is anyone going to be listening to death cab for cutie 30 years from now? somehow, I doubt it.

^^^^ my original post.

I'm not saying there's not some decent music out there but, more often than not, these bands are here today, gone tomorrow.

your move now

but again surely in a lot of cases that's related to popularity and not ability

Wobbie

to bump a thread from 6 years ago......

gregg allman? allman bros band?

who the fuck, today, can hold a candle to that band?

no one.

https://youtu.be/FUvxRjYqjEQ