Classical music ping...
Gotta go with the Stingmeister on that one. Rock pretty much peaked years ago, all the new stuff is just rehash.
Does he mean gems like this?
Ill send an SOS to the world
Ill send an SOS to the world
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
I hope that someone gets my
message in a bottle
sending out an SOS (repeat and fade)
The Police were OK but lets be realistic.
I agree. Today's rock is a bore. It all sounds the same. Unoriginal overamped, overmodulated noise then buried in all that noise is some effeminate male voice squealing God knows what.
Sting is right, but in a way, it's a good thing. Contemporary pop/rock music is mostly so bad that I started listening to classic American singers like Ella Fitzgerald and to swing and jazz artists and orchestras from the 30's, 40's and 50's. I might not have taken the opportunity to appreciate them if the current music scene wasn't so crummy.
Sting, we hardly knew ye.
He was much better with the Police IMHO.
I credit Sting and Phil Collins for driving me over to talk radio.
I'm glad that he's rediscovered lute music, but so did innovative "rock" acts like Dead Can Dance - who were incorporating chant and madrigal into their work back in the days when Sting was still playing watered-down white man's reggae for college students.
There are acts out there like The White Stripes, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Arctic Monkeys and Doves who are doing quite interesting things in the rock idiom.
Rather than badmouthing a scene he has become entirely out of touch with, Mr. Sumner should visit iTunes along with the rest of us in the unwashed masses and look around.
The best band you may never have heard of: Better Than Ezra
I remember the Dana Carvey routine on Sting, and the day he told his friends to start calling him "Sting":
“‘allo, Gordo!”
“You know, I’d really rather you call me Sting from now on,”
“Sting?!” “You’ve gone off your bleeding rocker, you have!”
Rock ping.
IMO Sting is correct. Seems that old school rockers were trying to emulate original R&B, gospel, classical, jazz, flamenco, bluegrass, folk, ethnic-world music and C&W musical pieces. Today, you have groups trying to sound like crappy cover bands of crappy cover bands of Madonna, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, or The Sex Pistols with horrendous results. It's either heavily produced (real bands/singers sound so bad they lip synch and air guitar at their concerts) or its just mindless screaming.
Still, there are a few bands out there that are talented like Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chilis, and Cake to name a few.
I agree. It is boring.
Too much twang both in the "voices" and the guitars making constant noise. Almost never any beat. At least, that's the "white" music. It's whiny and grungy and depressing, and they also sound like they are talking through sinus and throat infections. It ain't singing.
The "black" kind (not rap) is too repetitive mostly, but generally it's better than the white garbage.
Not the first rocker to lose interest in rock and take up cello.
Sting has a great song in french on the Chris Botti "When I Fall In Love" CD It is called Belle Dame Sans Regret'
It is worth checking out!
Listen to it here:
http://www.chrisbotti.com/music.html
Sting says today's rock is a bore .... and the old Stingeroo himself helped make it that way.
I have a few CDs of that period. Nice stuff and a preferable alternative to most anything going on in 2006.
Dear Sting,
Today's rock music is made for today's youth, not old farts like us.
He's right, outside of the Drive-By Truckers, there hasn't been squat decent released in the last 10 years.