re: Big part of the problem we have in the country today is the death of rock.

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So Tool and Linkin Park didn't make new genres? Cool.

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Tool was well established by 94 and not to dig at Linkin Park too much but if they were considered a standard bearer it just furthers the point that popular rock was in a tailspin by that point.

Hybrid Theory sold 16 million copies. Definite indicator of rock being in a tailspin.

All them Witches

No it isn’t.

Saying rock is in a tailspin because you’re taking one sub genre of rock and applying it to the entire genre of rock is stupid.

Branch out of radio top 40 bullshite, people. Christ.

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Branch out of radio top 40 bullshite, people. Christ.

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I assumed from the OP we were discussing popular rock. Most of my favorite bands never sniffed the top 40.

Godsmack has a new album out with two really good songs on it. Bulletproof and When Legends Rise.

Chris Jericho's band Fozzy had a couple hits recently in Judas and Painless.

Shinedown has a new album too but I've only heard one song from it so far.

There's lots of great rock music still being made. No argument there.

I am not a huge fan of the female lead singer rock bands. I just listened to a few songs of the Pretty Wreckless and I thought it was meh. I don't hate them just not my style I guess

The music business has changed a lot but world changing albums don’t exist anymore.

There will never be anything like Appetite for Destruction or Nevermind in this day and age.

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We live in the halcyon days. That’s why so much new mainstream music sucks. It’s not born out of pain.

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Yeah this is a simplistic take. It sounds cool and I guess it fits into your worldview, but it isn't really true. The mainstream recording industry is the real problem. They'd rather record everything through EZ Drummer or through Logic with a click and quantize the track so any color is lost completely. It's super rare that you can find a band that records live. Most talented kids don't have any way to sustain themselves or even figure out how they want to write songs, especially compared to the older days when musicians actually got paid. Mainstream labels don't want to take chances and don't see how important the slight imprecision was, as it makes it human. In terms of being a musician, it's worse now than it's ever been. I've played bass for 15 years, and I still have friends who are trying to make it through music, but most have given up and gotten day jobs. They might play on the weekends or something.

Until something changes in mainstream music, you won't see anything like the 60's through 90's, and it's certainly not because we are living in some utopia or at the end of one.