why dont people make good rock music anymore, like...?

Question

pink floyd
hawkwind
deep purple
the who
led zepplin

you'ld think with new technology, comes greater music but its all $hit these days

Answer 1

Yes I agree...thats why I listen to Jrock !!
<333 many great bands in Japan....try it out!!

Answer 2

And this proves how so many people are unaware of the music world. Trapped on MTV and their pop radio stations, assuming that all that makes up rock today is emo. And all that makes up music today is talentless hip-hop (not the real hip-hop acts of the 80s, 90s, and underground). Seriously, look up. The emo scene isn't the only scene out there.

First, you just can't have the same damn classic rock. It gets old quickly. People want different styles of music. Thus came hair metal, then grunge, then punk revival, then nu metal, then garage rock, then pop punk, then emo, then alternative metal, then indie, and who knows what's next. Stop assuming music is all that.

Muse, White Stripes, Disturbed, System of a Down, Foo Fighters, Tool, Nine Inch Nails, just to name a few good rock bands out there at this moment (SOAD's on hiatus, but their music is still fresh). If you'd stop being a snob and looked around for a while, you'd realize there is still a such thing as good rock music. TURN OFF YOUR MTV AND POP RADIO STATIONS (and maybe MODERN ROCK station), and look around. There's always something good out there.

Answer 3

I only half agree with you, i love all those old bands, and i agree that the etarded rappers, and hip-hop as*holes need to drop dead. Along with the new coming Disney stars...YUCK! But bands that are still around, like, Nine Inch Nails, White Stripes, Green Day, System of A Down, They've changed they're sound because The old stuff...is exactly that. Old. I love tons of new stuff, and not all of it is bad. I love Paramore, Underoath, Senses fail, all that good stuff.
So i somewhat agree with you. But that's why they keep the old stuff around, it's not like it parished off the face of the earth. You can buy it pretty much anywhere.
An New Generation calls For a new sound. That's how it goes, and that's how it will always go.

Answer 4

i am an old rocker myself (44yrs old). Ya should have been around for disco. Talk about some crap. I agree with you about todays music though, it just doesnt say much to me.
I like music from the 50's to the present and I am kind of stuck with the classics. However, in the last 20 years I have developed a liking to groups like Collective Soul, The Wallflowers, I even like Coldplay and I did enjoy Uncle Krackers 2nd? cd (the one with the alligator on the cover) but he disappointed me with the next one he served up. I like all the groups you listed but I never heard of Hawkwind. I am not into the long hair teeny bopper groups like Bon Jovi or poison,
never was a big Kiss fan either, however I do like a little ac/dc on the side now and again. David Gilmour (from Pink Floyd) has a new one out. ckecked a little bit of it out on youtube-not bad, just cant afford to buy a new cd right now. I dont give a **** about I pods or mp3, I just like to put a cd in
and play along on my keyboard and just rock. and myfriend to close i will say this "If music be the spice of life, then kick out the m******f****g jams. and if its too loud, youre too old."

Answer 5

Do you really want all musicians to produce the same type of music? If newer bands made music that only sounded like the classics, then they would probably be accused of copying off of the last generation. Creativity is sounding different; trying something new and looking to carve your own sound. Granted, there are new bands that suck, but then again, there are old bands who are complete crap as well.

And really, wouldn't the pure magic that are all these classic, wonderful records become mundane and boring if there was a huge influx of new bands who sounded exactly the same as everything you've heard before?

Answer 6

What I do is go to Amazon and listen to the free stuff until I find something that I like. I like Dar Williams and The Roches. It is refreshing and it is music. I might even buy a couple of each. The Shaw Brothers are good.

Answer 7

There is still good music being made, it's just not necessarily in the mainstream. Today's music scene is so convoluted, you have to swim through the dredge and find music worth listening to.

Might I suggest:
The Decemberists (not as hard as other stuff, but they're all great musicians)
Muse (they have kind of a 70s rock vibe in some of their stuff)
Mars Volta (prog-punk...some is just weird and stupid...but the good stuff is really good and definitely worth listening to)

Answer 8

I agree SO much! I'm an absolute Classic Rock addict.

The truth is that most bands these days have no originality - and little or no talent. They all want instant stardom, but have no substance.


But, missing from your list:

Fleetwood Mac / Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac
Jethro Tull
Dire Straits
Mike Oldfield
Free
Meat Loaf {no one writes like Jim Steinman!}
Jimi Hendrix
Thin Lizzy



E.L. - no, we don't want them to copy the classics, but most new bands all sound identical.

That's part of the problem.

With most of the classic rock groups listed here, you can tell imediately which of them did a certain song, just from the sound / style of it.

When something modern comes on the radio, I have difficulty knowing who it is by, as it is often imposible to tell the difference between groups.
{I'm not sure some of them deserve the title 'band'}

Answer 9

well.... rock bands tend to get commercial because they want more and more profit nowadays... that's whey they don't do music from the heart, like older bands like you mentioned did back then... well a good example would be metallica: check their older songs... and then take a look on the songs on their newest released album, st. anger from 2003... they changed their style a lot, and not in a good way... they should have kept the metal spirit alive but they blew it... rumor has it they will release a new album this year... but my expectations are not great...

Answer 10

Jorn
Oomph!
Porcupine Tree
Sonata Arctica
Subway To Sally
Vanden Plas

There is great new music out there but unfortunately they're people that are too stuck in the past to even bother looking.
I call it laziness!

Answer 11

Maybe we need more pot-induced bands...don't worry I'm just kidding. I completely agree with you. Music today does suck, and I wish it would go away. As for why it sucks, I just don't have the answer.

There are other great bands though:

KISS
Metallica
Grateful Dead
Blue Oyster Cult, Joan Jett, Foghat, 15 more days till I see all three!!!
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Meatloaf

I could just keep going...