Music's dead. (indie, rock, white stripes, Kurt Cobain, music snob)

jibber · 11-13-2005, 02:27 AM

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Originally Posted by cheeseman

Ok,I know I'm a walking contradiction, but I'm generally anti new music because I've got this "It's already been done by so and so" mentality, but then afterwards I think "has it? Or is that what I'm trying to convince myself" (that it hasn't)

Christ.Did any of that make the slightest iota of sense

well with that mentality, you're likely to never be impressed by anything. ever. think about it, in all the history humanity has gone through, EVERYTHING that could have been done in terms of art (be it music, visual arts, literature etc etc) has already been done. See a great painting in a gallery? guess what, hundreds of artists have done something rediculously similar. Does that make it any less valid as artwork or any less beautiful? it's up to you. The same applies to music. If you have that mentality, you're going to miss out on some great music, because no matter how much something reminds you of something else, how many traces of another band are in that song, or how strongly their influences show, if it is truly great music, there will be SOMETHING, even the tiniest miniscule detail to set it apart, and make it something worthwhile.

**Scarlett O'Hara** · 11-13-2005, 02:28 AM

You are Kiwi, I am Kiwi.

Nuff said.

Cheese · 11-13-2005, 02:34 AM

Sorry.Full up with the flu.
Thinking round corners

Cheese · 11-13-2005, 02:45 AM

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Originally Posted by jibber

well with that mentality, you're likely to never be impressed by anything. ever. think about it, in all the history humanity has gone through, EVERYTHING that could have been done in terms of art (be it music, visual arts, literature etc etc) has already been done. See a great painting in a gallery? guess what, hundreds of artists have done something rediculously similar. Does that make it any less valid as artwork or any less beautiful? it's up to you. The same applies to music. If you have that mentality, you're going to miss out on some great music, because no matter how much something reminds you of something else, how many traces of another band are in that song, or how strongly their influences show, if it is truly great music, there will be SOMETHING, even the tiniest miniscule detail to set it apart, and make it something worthwhile.

It usually takes a bit to impress me with many things be it fashion,automobilia,music etc,but some of it eventually gets through so maybe it's time I stopped living in the past.No it is time I stopped living in the past.....except for my cars.

Coda · 11-13-2005, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by boo boo

Music isnt dead, its just average bands who make a lot of money for imitating other bands, because being retro is whats hot, not doing something new and innovative, thats why all the most popular bands are retro. Jet(imitating AC/DC), The Darkness(imitating Queen), Interpol(imitating Joy Devision), The Vines(imitating Nirvana), The Hives(imitating The Rolling Stones), The Killers(imitating Duran Duran) and Franz Ferdinand(whoever they are imitating, they are the worst band ever). Its about corperate magazines like rolling stone and bloated record companys who try to push the image that Rock N Roll covers all music, which is a lie. Rock N Roll has become crap, in order for music to progress, Rock N Roll needs to die.

It doesn't necessarily have to die. It just needs a wicked band to come along and push the boundaries once again.

Coda · 11-13-2005, 09:40 AM

Or....Maybe it does....Maybe a new style of great music needs to emerge from all the fakeness of today's society. Something that is previously unheard of.

Spikey · 11-13-2005, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by Coda

Or....Maybe it does....Maybe a new style of great music needs to emerge from all the fakeness of today's society. Something that is previously unheard of.

This is the most ridiculous thread ever! Music dead? It's all around you! Ok........Yes there's nobody who is different from anybody else but it's out there and some people like it..Even tho it makes you want to do this....

boo boo · 11-13-2005, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by Coda

Or....Maybe it does....Maybe a new style of great music needs to emerge from all the fakeness of today's society. Something that is previously unheard of.

Bluegrass Speed Metal Polka!

Sneer · 11-13-2005, 11:12 AM

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Originally Posted by boo boo

The 80s
-Dokken
-Winger
-Motley Crue
-Poison
-White Lion
-Ratt
-Quiet Riot
-The Scorpions
-Stryper
-Europe
-Manowar
-Twisted Sister
-Bon Jovi
-Vixen
-WASP

The 00s
-Radiohead
-The White Stripes
-The Mars Volta
-Muse
-The Arcade Fire
-Sigur Ros
-Tool
-Bright Eyes
-SOAD
-Coheed and Cambria
-Porcupine Tree
-Goodspeed You! Black Emperor
-Mastodon
-Mostly Autumm
-Between The Buried and Me

Has music gotten better or worse, hmmm........

hell yes its gotten better. and those are not the only new bands around as you know, theres many more new, exciting groups emerging.

Sneer · 11-13-2005, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Expletive Deleted

Music has always been fresh and exciting, there's never been a stretch of time where music experienced a bad period. No matter what year, era, or decade you pick, there's guaranteed to be a ton of good bands from it.

i know, the point of the thread is he was saying music today is dead, incinuating theres nothing fresh or varied around anymore. but we know thats not true. at least in the indie scene.

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