re: Will bands ever make a comeback?

There’s plenty of bands out there doing original rock music. The issue for me is it just doesn’t stand out. We’ve heard it all before. There just aren’t new sounds and styles really. It’s just all really similar. If your big on lyrics, that’s helps, but I’m listening for the tune first.

None of this to say the music is bad or the artists aren’t talented, it just doesn’t feel new and exciting. It doesn’t get its grips into me. I think a lot of people feel the same way.

Here you go OP

Every Noise at Once

Type in a band (scroll to the right of the page if you don't see the search bar) and itll show you bands with similar sounds. It has every music genre in the world.

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Most of the music now is corporate engineered crap. Yeah, maybe I'm dating myself, but I was in high school in the 90s, and during that time, band music made a comeback after the late 80s pop growth.

I know there is still the odd band that comes out and sounds good, but they are getting fewer and more rare as time goes by. So, given that, in general terms, will we ever have good music again?

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Tastes change... kids DO NOT want to like the same music their parents did, at least in their teen years... or even what the previous generation liked. I had an intern once who looked at the CDs in my office and said "Aw man, you like all the same crap my parents do... Sonic Youth, The Replacements, Wilco, Pavement, Yo La Tengo, The Orb..." His parents high school sweethearts who got married right after graduating at 18, had him within that first year.... they weren't even 40 yet at that time and were "hipsters." He and his younger brother were metalheads just because... it drove his dad nuts.

There's bands wherever there is young people... especially underground metal bands, these days (at least around here).

But there will be hardly any superstar bands in the future... there have been hardly any superstar bands in the past 15 years... compared to the previous era stretching from the early 60s to the mid-00s.

There's a bunch of reasons for that, but mainly the internet has fractured/fragmented society and social interaction... it's rare that 1,000,000 people even hear and like the same things, anymore. That has knocked rock music out of contention as being the most popular thing... it's more likely that a hip hop/dance track or reggaeton track is heard by millions of people in clubs in the course of a month around the country and world than a new rock track getting wide exposure on that level. And as Rick Beato points out when he does his thing about the top 10 charts, the same songs now stay on them for a year+.

Telling that when you post on this topic people point to acts that are 35 years old as proof that bands are thriving.

If The Beatles were a young band getting a major label record deal today (which would probably be unlikely... they'd have to put out a bunch of records on small indie labels first) the label would instantly be focused on making Paul McCartney a solo act... Ringo would be fired in the first recording sessions and replaced by a studio drummer, George would probably be pushed aside on the records for a session guitarist, and they'd be focused on pushing John out because of his attitude and rebellious nature. That band wouldn't last one album. From the minute The Bangles jumped up to a major label, the label was on the side trying to pry Susanna Hoffs away to be a solo act, which she didn't want and wasn't comfortable with (and which did not work when she finally relented). That business model long ago settled on making one person a superstar.

My daughter is currently a KPop fanatic... which is like a much more corporate and soulless version of N'Sync, if you can imagine that... no artistic side at all, pure product and marketing. Before that, she was into Billie Eilish and Dua Lipa, both of whom I actually like (this may be a reason she's not into them, anymore) and who write their own songs and chart their own course. She was raised on good music and still has to hear it far more than she'd like to ... she should know better!!! But I guess they are "bands," at least.

We took my daughter with us to see The Cure in Atlanta...

She loved the "Rock a Bye Baby" versions of their songs when she was a toddler, liked the other stuff we'd play when she was a kid...

She acted like it was unbearable torture to sit in an arena and see the show.

My parents took me to Operas and symphonies, outdoor music fests (usually blues or jazz) and to see lots of famous jazz acts. I always thought it was all cool and knew it was something I'd be glad to say I saw someday... "I saw Lionel Hampton and DIzzy Gillespie and Billy Cobham..."

"You'll be proud someday to say you saw this..."
"I doubt it,"

When they played a song from the "Pornography" album, I told her "the day this record was released, three French school girls listened to it and killed themselves..." expecting her to say "I see why..." but she was intrigued and said "Reeeeeeally..." and sat up and paid attention...

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The problem is, I don't know if Rock will ever come back. Seems its all country, pop and hip/hop

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Again, look to Japan.

Band-Maid
Gacharic Spin
Nemophila
Lovebites
Nek!
Asterism
Maximum the Hormone
Ningen Isu

off the top of my head (there are a LOT more).
Spend some time on Youtube with those names and see what you think.

Oh yeah, and

The Warning
(from Mexico).

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There just aren’t new sounds and styles really. It’s just all really similar. If your big on lyrics, that’s helps, but I’m listening for the tune first.

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shouldn't have to set aside time to find new good music.

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Try college radio on the TuneIn app.

I used to listen as a background working in the corp world if not in meetings. There are stations that provide consistently interesting content. Off the top of my head: UTenn, cal tech, witr, the cal college at San Louis Obisbo, sometimes KLSU, nc state (really good), etc.

Discovered hundreds of bands, from punk to outlaw country.

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I don’t know but we’re gonna beat your fricking arse Saturday.

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Replies like this are what keeps me coming back to this cesspool.

Sometimes you just have to mess with people.