shopson67
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Rock died in the late 90's with MTV.
It's still out there, you just have to find it.
Rock died in the late 90's with MTV.
As a little kid, I remember plugging over-the-ear headphones into the stereo, putting those two albums on and analyzing the album covers as I listened... ...some of my earliest memories that still stick with me.
The Scorpions had allot of good music in the 70's.
As far as radio, I listened to K-She 95 out of St. Louis. great station. They mixed in some 80's with classic 60's and 70's rock. No pop crap like Madonna.
It's still out there, you just have to find it.
Pretty much. Napster and demographic changes mostly killed rock as far as I can tell.Rock died in the late 90's with MTV.
We had this old Philco receiver that my parents bought some time in the early 70's; the speakers were 3 feet high and it had a turntable plus 8-track. Like Beardown said, tv was shit back then, so I spent most of my free time outside, or listening to albums. The vast majority of it was British Invasion and Southern Rock.
For a long time, those old albums were very nostalgic for me, but then there came a point where they just reminded me of how painful my childhood was. Plus, my tastes changed.
I think Sludge/Doom/Stoner Rock is killing it right now. Some great stuff out there.
So far, I haven't heard Slipknot in a Burger King, so I think I'm safe there for a little while.
They're alright. I think of them as Prog Rock mixed with Pyschadelic er something.Vintage Caravan?
I hear ya...when I was a kid, all we had was the radio, maybe we could go buy a 33 or a 45 if we came into some money. Today kids have the internet and all the streaming services, and it's all based on singles. In previous decades, you could buy and enjoy an entire album, and most of it would never even hit the radio. But those commercial hit songs where what got you into the group.
I grew up listening to stuff that was produced in the late 60's and early 70's, but there came a time in the 80's when the pop music sucked so bad... I stopped listening to radio entirely, and only played what music I already owned in cassettes or CD's. As a result, I skipped right past some decent 90's or early 2000's bands, which I will pick up here and there occasionally.
Cage the Elephant is one of the newer bands that I like a lot. I heard them the first time because my iHeartRadio app said "you should listen to this."
If it requires autotune or a computer to help you sing you AIN'T SINGINGToday, a good deal of new "music" is RapidRhyming.
- no bueno -
Yeah! Al Jolson didn't need no voice - goodenerIf it requires autotune or a computer to help you sing you AIN'T SINGING
They're alright. I think of them as Prog Rock mixed with Pyschadelic er something.
Mastodon comes to mind, even tho they are more on the Prog side than most, but they are at the top of their game.
Some "new" stuff that is pretty good...All Them Witches..Windhand...Stoned Jesus, High on Fire, Red Fang...all in the 2000s.