Direction of Music

[TW1GGY]

What is the next dirction of music??

I must be getting old but most new music today is crap!! I never thought I would be at this stage in my life. I have found myself going back and discovering music that came out well over a decade ago and realizing that I really missed some great music. I think music of today is going in so many direcitons.. But I feel the next big thing is a return to a basic rock sound. This movement led by band's like the Strokes, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and someother bands that are just basic rock and roll. What ever happened to the supergroups of days gone by?? Who today could sell out Erkison Stadium???? U2 is the only band I can think of. We are really in a time of some shitty music. Their are bands out their that will stand the test of time. Where's the attitude in music today?? I don't feel it fron anybody out today except for a very few bands.. I mean How much attitude do you get from Likin Park or Crazy Town?? When I went to Ozzfest last year the lead singer from Crazy Town was pretty much pushing people to take his John Hancock... Fuck both of those bands!!! The music industry today is so "Here today..... Gone today.." Here are some bands to watch out for... Flogging Molly, Reel Big Fish, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Cold, Union Underground, Dropkick Murphys, 2 skinnee j's, anthenaum. these are just some underrated band that are out today. check them out. Where is music going?? I don't know...... Hopefully the death of the boy band is around the corner... but I think music has only one place left to go and that is........ what do you think????

 

[magnus]

the guys from Athanaeum are dicks. I guess that goes for anyone who thinks they're going somewhere.

The place where the movement is going is R&B. I'm not saying it'll last forever, but the trend seems to be going toward that. Right now, the youth market has its popular music and the back end (hopefully) of rap-metal. Country-oriented people have the resurgence of bluegrass and that could cause a small void on the other side of that coin, and naturally adult contemporary is looking for anything new and fresh. You basically have the people who are expeted to fill into a slot being in that slot and nothing more - that tends to suggest that there's a space left to be filled. Especially now that the R&B companion - hip hop/rap - has cooled a bit lately in popular songs save for the Atlanta scene - it's where I figure the new thing will go. This will probably be a big deal to some more established artists who will look to the success of some artists with different mixes/collaborations/producers, and that'll end up being the flavor, the whole Roots/D'Angelo/Erykah Badu Philly scene along with the popular success of Nelly Furtado's R&B laced pop hits lately. I give it six months to hit and two years to die.

 

[Superfluous_Nut]

The last great rock explosion came on the heels of New Kids on the Block. Let's hope there's another wave.

 

[gutter]

Metal is coming back. I can feel it. But i kind of hope it doesn't. I like listening to stuff that no one else would know. Plus, it just cries out for a bunch of posers to start their own metal bands. Any credible band will be out there anyway and I'll find them.

I feel punk is about to have its second coming. But sadly it will be lead by the Blink 182's in some watered down version.

 

[magnus]

so what if it's "watered down"? I don't mind Blink and I'm kinda tired of punk being elitist about what they feel is and isn't "their kind". I'm much like the average listener in that case, I tend not to like the most hardcore parts of punk.

 

[meatpile]

I agree, and Janelle and I have commented on it too many times.

Something's gotta give, something new has to happen soon. Nothing has happened to pop music since Nirvana, and that was a long fucking time ago. If you want to throw gangster rap in there, it was 1992 also *chronic*.

I couldn't be more tired of what's being pumped out of the radio.

Hopefully, some crazy shit will start panning out. Hard to be as 'cool' as grunge, with guys that had been busting their asses for years finally making it big. Genuine rock stars with heroin habits dying too young. THAT'S rock and roll.

What's next? I hope it hurries.

 

[gutter]

Watered down meaning too commercial. Meaning 12 year old girls in Abercrombie skirts with their hair in a blue mohawk. It all becomes about style. I've never dressed like the music I listen too. Who cares what you wear? I think the elitist attitude has passed. People like to eat. Green Day got a bad rap from the punk bands lingering around in the early 90's. I think you can keep a punk attitude and still be successful. Just don't go on TRL.

 

[BearBryant]

mtv was one of the best things to ever happen to music. Now mtv is the worst thing to ever happen to music..

 

[magnus]

agree on all above counts. I think that right now the youth market is still strong in its own venue right now, expecting that someone's going to release something soon.

I guess my point is that I've seen a lot of positive things happen to certain genres - cross over country hits, punk hits - and their home music ends up casting them out saying they're not true to their music.

I dunno. I think considering the recent latin thing it's just gotta be the R&B thing next. There's too much of a void for groove right now.

 

[Superfluous_Nut]

A friend of mine said that it takes a republican administration to get good music. Something to do with a bleak outlook and authority to rail against....