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Is rock music, like, dead?

Posted by ty97 Jan 6 '22, 11:44

Is there really music being made today that people will call 'classic rock' in 20 years? It feels like the genre is abandoned and there are no new rock acts. It's all Green Day and Fall Out Boy releasing new albums and that's it.

Have I imagined this? Is rock just not popular so it doesn't get played?

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Here's the recent playlist of my local "rock" station, you be the judge. I pretty much stream all my music now and don't pay attention to radio. -- (link) - samara Jan 6, 12:29 15
- Looks like it's 80% old, maaaaybe 20% new? It should be the opposite. -- nm - Qale Jan 6, 19:19
- Huh, I like many of those. -- nm - The Allfather Jan 6, 13:01
- Wait...you're in DC? -- nm - MDH Jan 6, 12:57
- Twenty One Pilots would be the big pull for "new" successful rock. -- nm - Reagen Jan 6, 12:35 11
  - Twenty One Pilots is probably the explanation for rock's demise -- nm - ty97 Jan 6, 12:52 3
    - I would not disagree. -- nm - Spawn Jan 6, 13:06
    - They're a great band. -- nm - The Allfather Jan 6, 13:01
    - Heathen -- nm - oblique Jan 6, 12:54
  - And I guess, Imagine Dragons. -- nm - Reagen Jan 6, 12:36 6
    - [[[hate]]] -- nm - mud Jan 6, 12:53 5
      - I don't care for either, though neither rise to a level of annoyance for me. - Reagen Jan 6, 12:56 4
        
        Oddly enough, existing and being "just fine" seems to be the biggest trend in all of pop culture lately. If I were to "shakes fist at cloud" about it -- nm - con_carne Jan 6, 13:00 3
        
        I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to either but I wouldn't automatically change the station as I would for like, The Offspring. -- nm - Reagen Jan 6, 13:02 2
        
        See, the solution there is to turn it up, way up -- nm - con_carne Jan 6, 13:12
        
        Modern rock band that is my nemesis - Milky Chance - Reagen Jan 6, 13:11
"Rock" music is now generally considered "Alternative" -- nm - Dano Jan 6, 12:23 1
- Seems to me the Black Keys/White Stripes did away with that notion a while ago, but oh well. I don't do radio that much. -- nm - con_carne Jan 6, 13:07
There's a ton of decent rock being put out now. Reagen or rollo could probably list 30 off the top of their heads. - spamlet Jan 6, 12:07 13
- I'm not talking about 80s style rock though, I'm talking about any rock in the mainstream. - ty97 Jan 6, 12:17 5
  - Just call it all rock. Remember, a rock band's radio hits are usually a poor representation of who they are as artists. Historically, anyway -- nm - con_carne Jan 6, 12:21 2
    - Certainly I'm not equating success (sales, charts, etc) with quality by any means -- nm - ty97 Jan 6, 12:49 1
      - Of course you weren't. I'm actually not sure what I was getting at there, sonny -- nm - con_carne Jan 6, 13:02
  - "mainstream" Quit moving the goal posts!!! -- nm - Spawn Jan 6, 12:18 1
    - I'm not moving the goalposts, just explaining where the question came from - ty97 Jan 6, 12:20
- Italy's Maneskin won last year's Eurovision. (Edited to remove the recent LAT story. Didn't seem very "rock n roll" to include that. Heh.) -- nm* - con_carne Jan 6, 12:16 4
  - They, oddly enough, are part of what drove my pondering on this topic, because they have a song that actually broke through to popular radio. -- nm* - ty97 Jan 6, 12:17 3
    - Yep. Beggin' -- nm - con_carne Jan 6, 12:18 2
      - I wonder if Tik Tok helped or vice versa -- nm - St. Epiphany Jan 6, 12:28 1
        
        there are 6 artists on my station that made it because of Tik Tok -- nm - Remlik Jan 6, 12:32
- You stole what I was going to say almost exactly. Top 40 stations have only sporadically liked rock. -- nm - Reagen Jan 6, 12:14
- I agree with spamcumber -- nm - St. Epiphany Jan 6, 12:10
Not dead at all. -- nm - zunk xometimes Jan 6, 11:57
No, but Mr. Beato put it well recently: rock has been lacking in popular movements/trends. Every band is trying to get noticed all by themselves - con_carne Jan 6, 11:57
The heart of 'classic' rock was the blues which is alive and well and rocking out. tune in KNKX Sat-Sun 6 to midnight Pacific time -- nm - zeitgeist Jan 6, 11:55
~I wanna rock! rock!~ -- nm - Strongbad Jan 6, 11:54
Can we swap Country music for it? -- (edited) - budice Jan 6, 11:49
There’s some quality heavier stuff like Disturbed and Avenged Sevenfold that are still doing the work — Foo is Rock Grammy royalty. -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 6, 11:47 6
- Foo definitely. But when the Grammys (seem like) they are the same 5-8 acts rotating through the rock categories every year - ty97 Jan 6, 11:49 5
  - I mean here are the 1993 Grammy winners for instance -- (link) - spamlet Jan 6, 12:25 2
    - The Grammys have become much more like the Billboard Awards over the past 30 years though -- nm - ty97 Jan 6, 12:54 1
      - I don't know what that means. - spamlet Jan 6, 13:11
  - *alwayshasbeen.gif* -- nm - spamlet Jan 6, 12:10
  - It’s either pop-rock (Imagine Dragons) or even Foo… vs harder stuff that’s popular line ShineDown or Disturbed… -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 6, 11:55
It never recovered from the combo of grunge and boy bands in the 1990s. -- nm - The Allfather Jan 6, 11:46 4
- I would even consider grunge to be rock for purposes of my question (I mean call it grunge/alternative/whatever, it WAS just a different type of rock) -- nm - ty97 Jan 6, 11:48 3
  - it & thrash saved rock from the garbage of the 80s like the "hair bands" and worse: the limp shit like Foreigner/Styx/Boston -- nm - mud Jan 6, 11:56 2
    - By which you mean the height of music in our lifetimes... -- nm* - The Allfather Jan 6, 12:49
    - I have More Than A Feeling about this post. -- nm - ty97 Jan 6, 11:58
I am curious how Foo Fighters fit into this. -- nm - Spawn Jan 6, 11:45 18
- safe Dad rock -- nm - Remlik Jan 6, 12:31 2
  - That first album though. I always go back to it. Dad rock is what they became after. This one was about real pain. -- nm - con_carne Jan 6, 13:10
  - Good enough because kids today don't know good music!!! -- nm - Spawn Jan 6, 13:05
- They get Grammy noms frequently -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 6, 11:48
- Their debut album can not only drink, it qualifies for lower car insurance rates. - ty97 Jan 6, 11:47 13
  - You asked if Rock was dead. They are still putting out great rock. Tom Morello, too. -- nm - Spawn Jan 6, 11:49 12
    - you bet. I like Wolf Alice & Warpaint too -- nm - mud Jan 6, 11:57
    - Fine, I should have used *dying*, okay? -- nm - ty97 Jan 6, 11:50 10
      - Depends on how you define rock, too. Are The Killers rock? -- nm - Spawn Jan 6, 11:55 9
        
        The Kills kill The Killers -- nm - mud Jan 6, 12:00
        
        okay you all are just old. - ty97 Jan 6, 11:58 7
        
        The Beatles? -- nm - Will Hunting Jan 6, 12:03 4
        
        No, they're just a terrible boy band. -- nm - The Allfather Jan 6, 12:56 2
        
        Fine. The Who. - Will Hunting Jan 6, 13:05 1
        
        The Who's a comically great band. -- nm - The Allfather Jan 6, 13:07
        
        *friday.gif* -- nm - spamlet Jan 6, 12:27
        
        The Killers! - Spawn Jan 6, 12:00 1
        
        The ones that come to mind for me have been around for at least a decade+. Killers, Cage the Elephant, Arcade Fire and Arctic Monkeys. -- nm - Spawn Jan 6, 12:12

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