RIP rock 'n' roll?
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jesusbuiltmycar said:
Isn't that just sales of singles? Most rock fans buy albums!
When was the last time you bought a single (or downloaded one)?
Exactly real fans buy albums, Eps, Mixtapes but very rarely singles, i only have half a dozen if that amoung 300 odd albums.When was the last time you bought a single (or downloaded one)?
Its only 10-16 year olds that seem to buy singles these days and most of them end up buying whichever manufactured pop band or Xfactor winner is popular for a few weeks.
dave
It's dead is it? I'll have to keep listening to this then http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-S5aVuKsgI
Since when did the charts have anything to do with rock music.
I'd go further and say that rock music shares an uneasy truce with any recording medium. Rock'n'roll should be live...in pubs and clubs...stadium rock is a cancer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5O1aLO87k
I'd go further and say that rock music shares an uneasy truce with any recording medium. Rock'n'roll should be live...in pubs and clubs...stadium rock is a cancer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5O1aLO87k
mattley said:
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Ferg said:
Since when did the charts have anything to do with rock music.
I'd go further and say that rock music shares an uneasy truce with any recording medium. Rock'n'roll should be live...in pubs and clubs...stadium rock is a cancer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5O1aLO87k
I'd go further and say that rock music shares an uneasy truce with any recording medium. Rock'n'roll should be live...in pubs and clubs...stadium rock is a cancer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5O1aLO87k
Ferg said:
mattley said:
Er.....^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Ferg said:
Since when did the charts have anything to do with rock music.
I'd go further and say that rock music shares an uneasy truce with any recording medium. Rock'n'roll should be live...in pubs and clubs...stadium rock is a cancer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5O1aLO87k
I'd go further and say that rock music shares an uneasy truce with any recording medium. Rock'n'roll should be live...in pubs and clubs...stadium rock is a cancer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX5O1aLO87k
Dunno how I missed that :?
Rock'n'roll is indeed dead. The live band scene seems be dying a steady death. I played 97 gigs with my band last year, and we earnt less than half the money we earnt doing 60-something gigs in 2009. We average under £300 a gig these days, and the last 3 New Years Eve gigs we've had in the book have all been cancelled in the run up to December with the old "sorry mate, a DJ is cheaper, and the punters aren't fussed about seeing a live band anyway" excuse.
DJs are the new rock bands. On the other hand, I think stadium stand-up comedy is the new rock'n'roll. People are flocking to see Peter Kay, Bill Bailey etc in their droves.
DJs are the new rock bands. On the other hand, I think stadium stand-up comedy is the new rock'n'roll. People are flocking to see Peter Kay, Bill Bailey etc in their droves.
Edited by timbob on Thursday 13th January 22:46
In a way it will never die.
In a while all this lady gaga, n-dubs and x-factor manufactured s
t will be viewed the same as way as we view a lot of 80's and 90's music now, dated. OK there will probly be something else (which may be worse than what we have now) but rock music will always have the same basic sound, in a way this makes it more timeless. A lot of the younger rock/metal fans sooner or later get interested in the more established bands (Iron Maiden/AC-DC etc). This which is why the album's you could only get on LP in the 70's and tape in the 80's are constently been re-released.
In a few years time people would have forgot who Cheryl Cole and Justin Bieber are, but people will still be queuing to get into rock concerts.
In a while all this lady gaga, n-dubs and x-factor manufactured s
t will be viewed the same as way as we view a lot of 80's and 90's music now, dated. OK there will probly be something else (which may be worse than what we have now) but rock music will always have the same basic sound, in a way this makes it more timeless. A lot of the younger rock/metal fans sooner or later get interested in the more established bands (Iron Maiden/AC-DC etc). This which is why the album's you could only get on LP in the 70's and tape in the 80's are constently been re-released.In a few years time people would have forgot who Cheryl Cole and Justin Bieber are, but people will still be queuing to get into rock concerts.
Rock (at least all of the good rock) is vernacular music, in the same tradition as blues and folk, and has traditionally carried on outside the mainstream of "popular" music, apart from periods when it became popular.
For example, the record boom of the '20s, the birth of rock and roll in the 50s, the "British invasion", Punk, Britpop. All that's happened now is X-Factor and Glee, which have had the effect of skewing the singles chart because sales are quite low now.
From what I've seen of the indie scene there's a lot of activity, certainly more than when I was really heavily involved in playing and promoting back at the beginning of the decade, mainly due to it being much easier to discover music you like these days. I have friends in a band who get emails from all over the world because they've heard their music over the internet.
So people are still out there, still slogging around the toilet venues. And people are still going to watch.
For example, the record boom of the '20s, the birth of rock and roll in the 50s, the "British invasion", Punk, Britpop. All that's happened now is X-Factor and Glee, which have had the effect of skewing the singles chart because sales are quite low now.
From what I've seen of the indie scene there's a lot of activity, certainly more than when I was really heavily involved in playing and promoting back at the beginning of the decade, mainly due to it being much easier to discover music you like these days. I have friends in a band who get emails from all over the world because they've heard their music over the internet.
So people are still out there, still slogging around the toilet venues. And people are still going to watch.
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