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

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It does suck that we lost the collective experience of a massive rock album coming out.

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That hyperbole is ridiculous. It doesn't make any sense.

The people who think that "music sucks these days" are the ones who are lazy about finding music they like. They depend on fm radio to feed them great music. It's illogical and laughable.

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Ok but pop music has been like that for decades upon decades.

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Pop music is popular because it is:
Accessible
Unoffensive
Marketable

Who consumes music? Who actually buys records, listens to radio, and goes to concerts? In the 90's, and a lesser extend, the 80's, record companies realized who the people were who were buying these things, and it's pre-teen girls. They're highly impressionable and start trends which last and influence well into adult-hood. Think about where your most lasting musical influences were formed, probably before you turned 15. Pop radio is marketed to teen girls. That's why it's all about hunky shirtless "gentlemen" talking about romantic ways to make love in the backs of trucks, pop starlets talking about how hot they are, and wealthy edgy black rappers talking about how rich and cool they are while they f&$k. It's wish fulfillment. It's tapping into the inate desires of teenagers and pre-teens especially girls.

Girls want hunky romantic "gentlemen", guys their parents will hate who have money and are desired by other women, and they want to rebel against their parents' "oppression" by being rebelliously sexualized. That's what pop music is about. Notice that that is basically what most rock music was about in the 70's and 80's. When was the last time you heard a "rock" star about any of those things? Romantic ways to sneak off and make love? Being the coolest, richest, woman-pleasingest SOB on earth? Being the sexiest, most desired sex object a woman could aspire to be? Probably 1990 with "Cherry Pie". Late 90's maybe, but Pop Punk mostly talked about partying, being a sad lonely loser, or skateboarding.

Commercial radio promotes these values because that's what teens and pre-teens want to hear. Rock no longer embodies these simple, insipid values, so it is not played.

That's fine. Just pick out the larger scheme and the general meme. The course of discussion will allow you to then address more specific points further on. I value your opinion and would like to hear your criticisms of it.

You cannot argue any of that.

Its terrible to us, but we are the minority.



Rock is not dead for this reason however, it just takes some "scouting" to find. We are our own DJs now as it were. This is why I take pride in the music I enjoy and encourage others to try something new if the music I am promoting can be enjoyed by others.

Actually it disappeared even furthef back than that. It litreally went out for good when the millenium/century/2000 came around. It was trailing off fast in the late 90s and completely disappeared around 2000. Thank God for satellite radio as it's the only outlet for decent pop/rock music. Terrestrial radio (at least as far as music is concerned) died around the year 2000.

I'd say the average person doesn't listen to music as hard as some of us.

They are casual listeners that just want something catchy. These songs all tend to follow the same formula and are created to appeal to the masses. They don't care about lyrics, they don't care about a song being complicated, or having soul to it or substance, none of that.

But rock music isn't dead by no means. It's just not a big part of pop(ular) radio.

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Well wouldnt it be nice if while i was driving around there was a radio station dedicated to new music where they told you the name of the band and the song before each song came on?

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it's called XM radio

Thank American Idol and The Voice for our tolerance to amateur music. Talent show winners as stars is incomprehensible.

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DJs used to have the fricking job of introducing new music to the people. Scouting new bands and playing their shite on the radio, etc....

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XM radio DJ's do. the FM radio DJ's get a list of songs to play by clearchannel.