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Posted on 5/18/24 at 10:33 am to Robin Masters
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They weren’t right. But rock seems to be dying a slow death and is hardly popular. I don’t see 1 rock song on billboard top songs chart (granted I don’t know all the artists). Country and rap are the only things selling.
Shreveport has a large black population and a lot of white CW fans. But they still have 2 radio stations that only play rock. A medium size market town supporting 2 stations playing 60 y.o. music is unusual.
BTW, I hear Frank Sinatra era stuff at Starbucks. I told the barista "Ya know, the people who bought his records are all dead. They're not in here buying coffee."
She laughed and said: 'Oh, we think it sucks, too. But we can't control what music is played.'
Posted on 5/18/24 at 10:34 am to Geekboy
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Hip Hop and Rappers are evil
Agreed, it's negative and effecting the young. Soul and funk from the 70's was more positive and uplifting.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 10:36 am to Mikes My Tiger
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Seriously? There hasn't been one rock band who debuted in the last 10 years that people know about. I'd say rock died around 2005. I can't think of anyone who was relevant after like The Killers or The White Stripes.
Top 20 streaming rock bands. Imagine Dragons only one from inside 15 years. Most are 40 years+. No idea who Mitski is but it’s Japanese so, whatever.
1
Coldplay
United Kingdom GBR • Rock
377.4M
Playlist Reach
2
Imagine Dragons
United States USA • Rock
243.1M
Playlist Reach
3
Fleetwood Mac
United States USA • Rock
187.7M
Playlist Reach
4
Queen
United Kingdom GBR • Rock
181M
Playlist Reach
5
Mitski
Japan JPN • Rock
176.8M
Playlist Reach
6
U2
Ireland IRL • Rock
172.5M
Playlist Reach
7
Bon Jovi
United States USA • Rock
170.8M
Playlist Reach
8
Aerosmith
United States USA • Rock
168.2M
Playlist Reach
9
The Killers
United States USA • Rock
160.3M
Playlist Reach
10
Bruce Springsteen
United States USA • Rock
158.7M
Playlist Reach
11
Train
United States USA • Rock
157.2M
Playlist Reach
12
Arctic Monkeys
United Kingdom GBR • Rock
156.6M
Playlist Reach
13
Red Hot Chili Peppers
United States USA • Rock
154.6M
Playlist Reach
14
Guns N' Roses
United States USA • Rock
154.3M
Playlist Reach
15
Toto
United States USA • Rock
141.7M
Playlist Reach
16
Billy Joel
United States USA • Rock
136.3M
Playlist Reach
17
Bryan Adams
Canada CAN • Rock
134.2M
Playlist Reach
18
Foo Fighters
United States USA • Rock
131.3M
Playlist Reach
19
AC/DC
Australia AUS • Rock
130.7M
Playlist Reach
20
Phil Collins
United Kingdom GBR • Rock
129.5M
Posted on 5/18/24 at 10:37 am to ronricks
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A lot of these rappers that try to act and appear tough and hard are actually Homosexuals. Undercover brothers that are acting out to hide their Homosexuality.
Over the years, other acts tried to tell us.
Red Hot Chili Peppers (Californication)
Marilyn Manson (The Dope Show)
Hole (Celebrity Skin)
Rush (Limelight)
Billy Joel (Say Goodbye to Hollywood)
System of a Down (Lost in Hollywood)
Posted on 5/18/24 at 10:38 am to Zach
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Shreveport has a large black population and a lot of white CW fans. But they still have 2 radio stations that only play rock. A medium size market town supporting 2 stations playing 60 y.o. music is unusual.
Which is sad, in the 80s Shreveport was a hotspot for Rock.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 10:43 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Here in this hopeless fricking hole we call L.A. The only way to fix it is to flush it all away Any fricking time, any fricking day Learn to swim, I'll see you down in Arizona bay
Posted on 5/18/24 at 10:48 am to Robin Masters
Dangit I forgot the best one... 
Posted on 5/18/24 at 10:58 am to RogerTheShrubber
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Which is sad, in the 80s Shreveport was a hotspot for Rock.
We had a platter show in New Iberia on Sunday featuring black gospel music. Almost all of the records were being produced in Shreveport. As a South La. guy I assumed it would be New Orleans. When I moved to Shreveport they had a station that played exclusively gospel music every day. By the late 70s that was gone.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 11:16 am to Damone
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Rock and Roll is the devil’s music. The only music that’s legal should be gospel music.
I certainly do not advocate the outlawing any music. Yet I think it may be instructive to point out that much of contemporary music does not represent a continuous spiritual bridge between it’s antecedent art forms but instead represents a distinct spiritual break.
Rock ‘n roll certainly is the music of the Devil. Yet in doing so, it at least ontologically embraces the concept that good and evil exist.
When the narrator of Robert Johnson’s “Cross Road Blues” bargained with the Devil, he knew such a deal came at a terrible price — his eternal soul. This archetype not only sired the Blues, but likewise sired the progeny of the Blues, Rockabilly and R&B.
So when the narrator of Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” confesses he “shot a man in Reno just to watch him die”, he laments not only the loss of his freedom but also the shame and guilt he has over the mortal sin of murder. The familiar Gospel trope of a train rolling down the tracks is a reminder that we all will at some time reach the end of the line while confronting our final — and eternal — spiritual destination.
Similarly, when the narrator of Jimi Hendrix’s “Hey Joe” confronts the villain-protagonist of the song about the purpose of the gun in his hand, the song is infused with the knowledge that though Joe may outrun the hangman’s noose, he will not ultimately outrun eternal judgment. The song thus becomes a dirge, a warning of impending damnation.
These two songs offer an example that what came to be called rock ‘n roll was firmly rooted in the Gospel music tradition of both spiritual damnation and spiritual redemption. Yet much of contemporary music is not simply a reinterpretation of it’s antecedent art-forms but a rejection of the spiritual themes that infused such art forms.
Too much of contemporary rap and rock embodies nihilism for nihilism sake. The gap between Robert Johnson’s “Cross Road Blues” and much of contemporary rap is thus an unbridgeable chasm.
This post was edited on 5/18/24 at 11:34 am
Posted on 5/18/24 at 11:18 am to RogerTheShrubber
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I dont understand why Conservatives support Hollywood in any way
And you conservatives #1 voice a liberal hollywood grifter
Posted on 5/18/24 at 11:22 am to Geekboy
Yet, bawls rolling thru the neighborhood in their Carolina squat truck, got it blaring. Ghetto comes in several colors apparently
Posted on 5/18/24 at 11:36 am to Toomer Deplorable
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Rock ‘n roll certainly is the music of the Devil.
Well, there you have it. I didn’t realize this was “settled science”.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 11:50 am to Penrod
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Well, there you have it. I didn’t realize this was “settled science”.
Do you understand the concept of metaphors? I’m not literally saying that Elvis was Beelzebub in disguise.
Putting that aside, we are discussing art here, not science. Certainly I grant that art is subjective and open to multiple interpretations.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 11:57 am to SDVTiger
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And you conservatives #1 voice a liberal hollywood grifter
No one knows what youre talking about.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 12:13 pm to Mikes My Tiger
quote:
Seriously? There hasn't been one rock band who debuted in the last 10 years that people know about. I'd say rock died around 2005.
I'm not talking about new bands. I'm talking about the popularity of old bands. Lots of stations in every city specialize in classic rock. Hell, some of the Rolling Stones are in their 80s and they sell out concerts.
That did not happen with the stars of prior generations (crooners) or subsequent generations (disco).
Posted on 5/18/24 at 12:44 pm to Geekboy
I mean people are now just figuring out rich black dudes beat their women?
Have you looked at the NFL?
Have you looked at the NFL?
Posted on 5/18/24 at 12:45 pm to Zach
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Lots of stations in every city specialize in classic rock. Hell, some of the Rolling Stones are in their 80s and they sell out concerts.
Yeah, my grandkids are into classic rock.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 1:07 pm to Robin Masters
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No idea who Mitski is but it’s Japanese so, whatever.
lol. Mitski is a she, and she’s American.
Posted on 5/18/24 at 1:08 pm to Geekboy
Bring back Mo-town
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