Pet_Sounds

Actually, now that I think about it, most of the current rock bands I was thinking of were formed 20 years ago. I would be hard pressed to think of many mainstream rock bands formed in the past dcade.

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wedoitfortheloveofmusic

It's the evolution of things. Just like classical music was the thing hundreds of years ago, and blues and jazz in the 20s and 30s, hip hop in the late 70s and 80s, it's just the evolution of music. Even Jim Morrison understood, (Youtube Jim Morrison Predicts the Future of Music). You know I constantly hear that today's music sucks and today's music isn't as good as it once was and I used to be a believer of this philosophy until I saw an interview with Anthony Kiedis, lead singer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, that really put things into perspective.

“Music is alive and well…people just kind of get complacent to old and boring and forget how to go find new great music…People who say good music isn’t happening today just aren’t looking very hard or listening very hard…”

When I heard this I was just like wow, that's deep.

Chula Vista

But still... Not many acts these days dominating the musical world.

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and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Two Spirit

While the OP was over eight years ago and the question wasn't framed very well, it does hit at a very real concern for those who are more predominately into heavier music.

The responses to these kinds of questions actually irritate me. Every time a person expresses concern about the decline of Rock & Roll in the mainstream, you get these predictable responses about how you should shut up and just seek out all these underground bands online and be content with that. I sort of agree with that because you can't exactly change the masses opinion on something as arbitrary as music taste, but it feels so dismissive.

I think there's a very real need in everyone to want what you like to be popular and to have some form of representation in the media. If you think back to the late 90's and the early 00's, we actually kinda had that with nu-metal bands sharing the stage at awards shows with pop artists like Madonna/Britney Spears, rap artists like Snoop Dogg/50 Cent, as well as the country artists of the time. You really don't see that anymore, as it's mostly Pop and Hip Pop, with Hard Rock/Metal and even Country to a lesser extent being snuffed out of the entire affair. In fact, the only "Rock" bands that even share such a stage anymore are Imagine Dragons or Coldplay, which don't really qualify as rock to anyone with a true appreciation of heavier music.

Some might say that Rock just doesn't have the audience that it once had, but how much of that is organic or radio manipulation by simply not playing it? As a 22 year old male, I have a ton of guy friends that are all into at least a few hard rock and metal bands. Sure, they're not BROOTUL death metal groups or anything close to that, but it's at least a little bit heavy like Disturbed, Five Finger Death Punch, or even Linkin Park. I do feel like heavy music in any form is being phased out because it's not soft enough or easily digestible as your standard pop acts. There's a lot of us out there that would definitely listen to the radio more if it wasn't filled with shrill pop stars or whiny pop rock bands.

grindy

Nope.

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Machine

Lol wot

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ever wanted to hear death grips songs... but they're acoustic? me neither.

Puffnstuff

I miss the album oriented rock stations of the 70's and 80's where talent reined supreme and big money wasn't an issue with choosing who got air time and who didn't.

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Payola

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William_the_Bloody

Yeah, free downloading pretty much killed rock off. With all the technological distractions what's the point in learning how to be an awesome guitar player if your not going to become super rich and get unlimited pussy.

Now its all about having some bozo sing over a sampled backbeat, lame.

The Batlord

Radio rock was dead before downloading. Since the early nineties we've gone from post-grunge to nu metal and then back to post-grunge. And grunge was only a couple years of a break between butt rock and hair bands.

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