 ShootToThrilTell The TruthPremium
join:2004-06-07
Sherman Oaks, CA
1 edit | Iv'e Been Saying it for Years! My feeling about this is that 10 years ago artists were still playing their instruments and writing music that was more diverse and interesting. In the past couple of years the record company's are going for the fast kill (POP Music) 1 hit wonders. It stinks that all Hip Hop & Rap Sounds The Same, and every pop song lasts about a week on the charts. Rock has always been the answer for reviving the industry but it too has gone into slumber. We need another Pearl Jam or Guns & Roses to kick it up.... Maybe a band that can compete with AC DC... In My Dreams
Oh... And most bands today even the big Caliber Names are writing Crap, I'm talking About Metalica, U2, Aerosmith....etc. What ever happened to Eric Clapton, Sting, Pink Floyd, David Bowie....are they just enjoying the royalties of past hits? |
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 Hot_RatsHe's Not Tor Johnson
join:2003-07-08
Indianapolis, IN | said by ShootToThril: We need another Pearl Jam or Guns & Roses to kick it up.... Maybe a band that can compete with AC DC... I agree, but 10 years ago there was plenty of crap around; New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men, Michael Bolton, Madonna, Def Leppard even coughed up a new hairball for our listening pleasure back in '92 or so.
There were also about 10 bands each that sounded a lot like Pearl Jam and Guns and Roses and AC DC.
Unfortunately that is how the music industry reacts to a Pearl Jam or Guns and Roses or AC DC; by trying to sell us knock-off crap that sounds "like" the band who came up with the original sound.
I like hard rock/industrial/metal/punk/alternative music. I like almost anything but country and Celine Dion, but the aforementioned is what I listen to mostly, and yeah, I think Metallica should have hung it up after Master of Puppets. Sure, Aerosmith should have never stopped doing drugs and died young and with some dignity after "Rock in a Hard Place" and before pinching loaves like "Permanent Vacation" (1987)"Pump" (1989) for us.
But I digress.
I know you didn't mean that they should put out some new music that sounds like Pearl Jam, G 'n R, or AC DC, I get what you're saying- a band with a style and a sound that's something different, something that's not just some familiar-sounding formulaic crap, a CD with more than just 2 good songs to suck us in and 7 filler tracks to give us the bare minimum to fill an "album" so we'll plunk down our $15.
We are, at least in Indy, fortunate enough to have an "Alternative Rock" station which means we are currently listening to the latest crop of "Alternative" bands that sound like the alternative bands that sounded like Pearl Jam and STP and Nirvana. I can't tell any of them apart, and from the albums I've downloaded, I've found there are typically 2 good songs, and I'll be damned if I'm paying $15 for that. There has to be some real talent out there somewhere, but the record companies don't seem to be able to find it.
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ithxp
join:2002-11-13
Toms River, NJ | reply to ShootToThril
www.DivinityDestroyed.com a local band from toms river new jersey is realy kicking it up over in the tri state area and is doing better then any record sales could ever do Band name: Divinity Destroyed Genre: Wold Metal or Rock (many types of rock)
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ShootToThrilTell The TruthPremium
join:2004-06-07
Sherman Oaks, CA | reply to Hot_Rats
Do you think listening to "AC DC - Highway to Hell" kinda becomes the rain dance for the music industry.....as in it's only going to get worse. Even Boyz II Men had some Unique flavor to add to the R&B World.
The Sad thing is that bands like Pearl & Guns started a new style of bands in the Pop Rock culture called One Album hit Bands, I would have to add Counting Crows in the pile as well.
It seems that there is a trend of Bad Writing accompanied by Crap Producers All over the place. I can' even listen to Sting or Dave Matthews any more since they both have gone off the wall trying to sound more like billboard material than actually writing good Music. Even Korn.. The most promising Band in the Heavy Metal/ New Age Group has failed with their awful last album.....what the hell was that...Simple they are running out of material just like all the rest of them out there. The only band i heard this year that has a solid album were Audioslave and they just sound like a better polished Sound garden mixed with Rage.
I keep my old AC DC, ZZtop & other True rocking legends on re-play until the something interesting comes my way.
And to all teens who are listening to Punk bands like sum 42, Ataris, My Chemical Romance.......Get a life, your music is as interesting as Rap or Hip Hop....It all sounds the Same. |
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ShootToThrilTell The TruthPremium
join:2004-06-07
Sherman Oaks, CA | reply to ithxp
Iv'e heard better sounding 15 year old Metal Bands in my lifetime. Sorry. |
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