The next big thing for Rock music........

pjoasisrule
pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
edited April 2006 in Other Music
Anybody have any idea whats next for rock music? It seems like rock has gone through different periods through they years with different types of music being popular psychedelic, new wave, grunge, britpop, etc. So far this decade seems to be the worst for music with emo and indie being whats popular right now, anybody got any predictions for the future of music? Any up and coming bands that you think will be big (not more indie bands with nothing mega about them). Do you think rock music has taken a turn for the worse and is gonna be completely dead? It seems as if pop and rap have completely taken over rock music. Although I hate all new rap and pop, it seems like there are very very few rock bands coming out that are quality. Even the quality ones are nothing as big as those during the 90's like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Oasis, STP, etc. Has the corporate world destroyed rock and roll? I would be curious to hear what people think.
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  • Drifting Away
    Drifting Away Posts: 270
    some one will come along and stick it too the man!
    Run to the hills
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  • brain of c
    brain of c Posts: 5,213
    disco re-takes the world.
    d'oh!!!!!!

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  • Drifting Away
    Drifting Away Posts: 270
    millions committ sucide in response

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    Run to the hills
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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    I really enjoy all the indie bands getting exposure i think they are making some great music.
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  • brhf9
    brhf9 Posts: 1,475
    for something new...armaggedon will come...and we will have to start ir all over again...
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  • solace23
    solace23 Posts: 704
    Check out: http://www.wolfmother.com/2005.html

    They are an aussie band- kinda have a led zep/black sabbath feel- they will be huge!!
  • Klumpie
    Klumpie Posts: 2,649
    solace23 wrote:
    Check out: http://www.wolfmother.com/2005.html

    They are an aussie band- kinda have a led zep/black sabbath feel- they will be huge!!

    I think their will be some retro bands. New bands that sounds like Deep Purple, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, The Doors etc.

    And Wolfmother is a great example.
  • enharmonic
    enharmonic Posts: 1,917
    Sounds like you are more interested inthe next big MARKETING thing, and not the music.

    IMHO, the next thing in music will be great bands that you never hear about because they're not interested in being a part of the big machine. Lots of great bands telling the leeches to go suck on the garbage that can't make it without their devil deals. The next wave is grass roots bands...bands as good as Pj that you will never hear about on a national scale because they want nothing to do with getting monumentally ripped off.
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  • Klumpie
    Klumpie Posts: 2,649
    enharmonic wrote:
    Sounds like you are more interested inthe next big MARKETING thing, and not the music.

    You can't predict the big next thing in music, but you can predict who is going to sell alot of albums. And yes, I studied Marketing.
  • genevieve
    genevieve Posts: 1,203
    If you go to the website http://www.edge.ca/station/ongoing_history_of_new_music.cfm

    And go to listen to past shows there are some good ones
    about music trends and stuff. I listen to the show every
    Sunday morning on my local station.
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  • enharmonic
    enharmonic Posts: 1,917
    Klumpie wrote:
    You can't predict the big next thing in music, but you can predict who is going to sell alot of albums. And yes, I studied Marketing.

    Sure you can. It's basically a follower strategy. Wait for someone to take a chance on something different, and when it sells, rush to makrket with your own substitutes to capture some of the market share. That is exactly what is wrong with music today, and proof that marketing guru's know fuck all about music. Selling units...yes. Music...no.
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  • MCG
    MCG Posts: 780
    I'm already sick of the indie scene, not all of it but the bands with kind of a clean guitar sound, playing mostly on the high strings... usually involves a dude with a high pitched voice almost monotonously shout/singing kinda like Arcade Fire/early At the Drive-in kinda shit. I've seen way to many bands like that circulating around Canada lately! What I really miss is good old fashioned rock n' roll acts. Distorted guitar, heavy riffs and meaningful, emotional songwriting. Everyone is so busy trying to be different nowadays they are forgetting what was good about sounded good about Nirvana, Led Zepplin, Hendrix, The Doors... and of course, Pearl Jam.
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  • genevieve
    genevieve Posts: 1,203
    MCG wrote:
    I'm already sick of the indie scene, not all of it but the bands with kind of a clean guitar sound, playing mostly on the high strings... usually involves a dude with a high pitched voice almost monotonously shout/singing kinda like Arcade Fire/early At the Drive-in kinda shit. I've seen way to many bands like that circulating around Canada lately! What I really miss is good old fashioned rock n' roll acts. Distorted guitar, heavy riffs and meaningful, emotional songwriting. Everyone is so busy trying to be different nowadays they are forgetting what was good about sounded good about Nirvana, Led Zepplin, Hendrix, The Doors... and of course, Pearl Jam.

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  • MCG
    MCG Posts: 780
    genevieve wrote:
    We got ourselves a HUGE Fall Out Boy fan here!!! :D hehehe

    No, no we don't :). What ever could have brought that on?
    Which came first,
    the bad idea or me befallen by it?
  • Echoes
    Echoes Posts: 1,279
    hopefully the next 'big' thing for rock music is all the current rock stations dying off and maybe some interesting ones coming about.
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  • pj_zombie
    pj_zombie Posts: 272
    Echoes wrote:
    hopefully the next 'big' thing for rock music is all the current rock stations dying off and maybe some interesting ones coming about.

    Heh, that's pretty much how it'd have to happen. Whoever's in charge of the rock stations now would have to change by either being bumped off and new people come on or altogether changing.

    Personally I don't like this Indie scene either. There's a band here or there that catches my interest but for the most part I just find the music boring. The main problems with those bands are the vocals, which are horribly bland with no passion, and the guitars. I'm a big fan of well used solos in a song and most indie bands seem to have boring guitar work. I'll be happy when the bland era is put to rest but for the moment it's at least better than emo and rap crap.
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  • Echoes
    Echoes Posts: 1,279
    I think that good guitar work does nnot necessarily imply solos. There are plenty of "indie" bands and bands that are being marketed as indie that frankly suck ass. There are also a lot of genuinely poor indie bands out there too, of course.
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  • pjoasisrule
    pjoasisrule Posts: 3,412
    99% of indie music is poor, havent heard an indie band that even comes close to the best classic rock and big bands of the 90's. All indie bands lack graet melodies and hooks, most dont have great talents in musicianship or song writing, and no indie bands have made albums with the first to the last song all being good. In fact, most have no more than just one semi catchy song that gets old real fast. It also seems like every band out now is called indie........I dont even understand what indie means anymore, is it just a new term for rock because they cant describe the shit new music that comes and is coming out as rock music?
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  • Echoes
    Echoes Posts: 1,279
    pjoasisrule wrote:
    99% of indie music is poor, havent heard an indie band that even comes close to the best classic rock and big bands of the 90's. All indie bands lack graet melodies and hooks, most dont have great talents in musicianship or song writing, and no indie bands have made albums with the first to the last song all being good. In fact, most have no more than just one semi catchy song that gets old real fast. It also seems like every band out now is called indie........I dont even understand what indie means anymore, is it just a new term for rock because they cant describe the shit new music that comes and is coming out as rock music?

    man that is basically the least accurate post that I have ever read, but to answer your question the term indie is pretty much just a bullshit term to describe a movement in music that was pretty much anti-the established rock scene and thrived in spite of not receiving major radio play. To be "indie" at its most technical sense would be to not be under a major record label.
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  • UpHereInMyTree500
    UpHereInMyTree500 Posts: 1,772
    next big thing in Australia: The Grates
    Wave came crashing...

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