Posted on 05/04/2025 7:01:31 PM PDT by DoodleBob
Good choice.
Rush’s Moving Pictures would be up there for me.
close, but any of Paul McCartneys solo work, especially the michael jackson stuff, just makes my skin crawl...
Except that Rock and Roll has been declared dead several times before, most notably with the arrival of disco.
Folk music was going to squeeze it out before it even got off the ground. Disco supposedly killed it. Pop music was going to replace it. New Wave was going to replace it. Rap was going to replace it. Techno was going to make songwriters and performers irrelevant.
It only takes one individual, or a duo like Eddie and Alex Van Halen, to inspire a whole new group of performers and fans.
Just wanted to make sure this one didnât slip past you.
IMO, the record industry decided to push (c)rap and all but cut off Rock from airplay. They did this despite MASSIVE consumer demand for Rock. Just check your radio dial. You will see all kinds of classic rock stations that play things from the 60s-90s. OK. Where’s the new stuff? They refuse to play it. Don’t tell me there are no rock bands. Don’t tell me there is no market demand - what with all those classic rock stations. So where is it?
I first heard (c)rap when I was in high school in the mid 80s. I hated it immediately and have refused to listen to it or anything that even remotely smacks of it ever since. Its not music. Its just guys talking in bad rhymes I’d have been embarrassed to come up with when I was in 3rd grade, with a jackhammer in the background.
Trout Mask Replica - Captain Beefheart
Van Halen was nothing more than west coast ZZ Top.
“In many ways, the rise of pop, rap, and hip-hop can be seen as a market correction to mainstream rock’s lack of cultural innovation, aesthetic appeal, and musical experimentation.”
What a load. With Pop, rap and hip-hop you have full-blown inbreeding and copying of one another into homogenous steaming piles. No innovation. Nothing really new. Dead ends.
This is the correct answer. And as a bonus it has four sides of music.
I’m not sure if the Record Industry is to blame for the demise of rock, or Commercial Radio is at fault
I’ve got thousands of new quality rock songs on my Amazon music app. I never listen to AM/FM any more. At all.
“Hippie type Mantras or Surf Music?
Try âWhiteBird in a Golden Cageâ by âItâs A Beautiful Dayâ”
David LaFlamme, of It’s a Beautiful Day, re-released that song on his solo album as the featured track. Liberal lyrics but a nice tune.
By the mid 80s the baby boomers were in their late thirties or early forties. They aged out of the music businesses prime target audience.
I was blessed to be just within range of KSHE 95 with a very good FM tuner (I built myself a Dynaco FM-5, and later an AF-6) and a good FM antenna. :-)
For a short period there was an even better evening show on a station down in Carbondale. “Nightwatch” or something like that. But, it got canned, brought back (mostly due to a listener “insurrection” and petition campaign) headed by yours truly*, and then eventually canned again for a more pop format, 24/7. (Which was interesting, as the daytime format HAD been very light - Doris Day, etc.)
*Ah, those were the days...
Neil Peart died on January 7, 2020
The economic structure of todayâs music industry, coupled with the rapid pace of technological change, leaves little room for a genuine resurgence of rock music.
The conditions that once allowed bands like Van Halen, Pink Floyd, The Who, or Led Zeppelin to emerge and flourish no longer exist.
Financial backing for long-term artistic development has dwindled, while the industry now demands immediate results.
Equally significant, the internal creative tensions that once fueled innovation would likely prove unsustainable in a culture that no longer affords bands the time or space to evolve organically.
Motley Crue and hair bands killed Rock and Roll.
Ha ha. No chicks were throwing off their clothes in the back seat while listening to ZZ Top.
"And The Cradle Will Rock"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11mBDT5mpdw
Van Halen 'Little Guitars'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtBOtBrfJM4
“pop, hip-hop, and rap “
The theme music for gen-z
Dunno what the crap the gym plays is called, just a lot of computer drum track thumping, chanting and shouting unintelligibly.
Luckily, my ongoing deafness dulls the aggravation.
At all.
Exactly.
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