re: Do you think rock bands will ever make a resurgence?

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98.1 mixes in some 90s bands

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Dude, 90's is considered "classic rock" now. Just think back 10 years ago. 98.1 was playing lots of 80's rock...

That being said, it is interesting how rock has taken a back seat in popular culture. It's still insanely popular, but not nearly as much as it was in the 80's and 90's.

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Eagle 98.1 is light years better than 95.7 in NOLA.

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I've never clearly picked that one up but honestly I can't imagine 98.1 being light years better than anything. Like even a root canal. They play the same old tired arse songs over and over, they have THE MOST annoying commercials on the whole dial (which just go on and on), the DJs are dorks, Walton and Johnson are full-on idiots, they JUST HAD to bring Richard Condon's irritating arse into it, etc.

If you're just talking music selection it still seems unfathomable but 98.1 is just pure torture to me all the way around.

Everything is "on demand" now, so I don't know how much radio airplay is even a consequence of anything, other than niche stations' advertising revenue. It certainly has no impact on most "artists'" careers.

Most damning, is that image has become everything. Outside of a very few areas that have, sort of, kept the tradition alive - there just aren't the legions of kids annoying their parents with the neighborhood garage band rehearsals. Without that critical mass of musicians from which to pluck the next generation of something approaching sincere young rock bands, it has died and will remain dead as a musical genre - a historical fact, rather than a living, breathing form of popular music.

The media companies decide who gets exposure and who doesn't - that's much easier now than 30 - 40 years ago, because with the rise of autotune, ProTools, corporate run songwriting banks, talent is completely optional (probably a detriment) to success in the field.

Hip-hop, Bro-Country and teenie pop have been the dominant forms of popular music since rock's last swoon in the mid-to-late 90s.

I was referring to what was still on the radio, even bands like them are not. Also I know there are classic rock stations I listen 98.1 all the time. I am just referring to how new stuff is never on the mainstream radio anymore.

Rock and roll ain't noise pollution
Rock and roll ain't gonna die
Rock and roll ain't noise pollution
Rock and roll it will survive

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Pop culture started shifting away from rock in the 90s and outright abandoned it 10 years ago. The radio doesn't even play it anymore. There's a whole generation of kids growing up righ now who aren't hearing rock made in the last 20 years on their radio. Rock is old people music, like smooth jazz or music that utilizes actual instruments. Most indie bands don't really "rock" per se as they all have this kinda groovy feel with no bite or crunch. The only music giving kids that 10' tall bullet-proof badass feeling is hil-hop. The only music that even sorta sounds like rock that's in the mainstream is nashville pop country :yak:

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Most damning, is that image has become everything. Outside of a very few areas that have, sort of, kept the tradition alive - there just aren't the legions of kids annoying their parents with the neighborhood garage band rehearsals. Without that critical mass of musicians from which to pluck the next generation of something approaching sincere young rock bands, it has died and will remain dead as a musical genre - a historical fact, rather than a living, breathing form of popular music.

The media companies decide who gets exposure and who doesn't - that's much easier now than 30 - 40 years ago, because with the rise of autotune, ProTools, corporate run songwriting banks, talent is completely optional (probably a detriment) to success in the field.

Hip-hop, Bro-Country and teenie pop have been the dominant forms of popular music since rock's last swoon in the mid-to-late 90s.

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I agree with you. The only counterpoint I'll submit is that one could argue that in the 70's and 80's when the pop airwaves were dominated by white male singer/songwriters, that really was a forced taste on large swaths of the audience that didn't really prefer it. IOW, the dominant stuff you're seeing now always had a much bigger audience than we actually realized at the time. I saw a recent article about this that I'll try to track down.

Tons of good rock bands still out there putting out good music. I hope rock doesn't become mainstream again because that is what got the scene so overexposed and watered down.

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s Linkin Park,red hot chili peppers, blink 182, matchbox twenty, third eye blind, sugar ray,etc. I remember their songs actually being played on the "pop/top chart"

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Because those were pop acts.