William_the_Bloody

Yes that is what I am saying. I remember an interview by Joey Ramone that stated he put the Ramones together because everything was 7th generation Led Zeppelin. But back then there wasn't even a big time gap between the two bands.

I just find it strange to see pods of emo teenagers with skateboards looking similar to how I did when I was a teenager. It just makes me feel like music has hit some sort of cultural timewarp.

I blame the collapse of the music industry for this, than the youth of today. The creative destruction of technology through free downloading has made it next to impossible for an underground band to make the same profit and living than a band like Portishead or Bauhaus would have been able to have made back in the day.

I'm not really sure the music industry can be brought back to be honest, you could pass all the copyright laws in the world and I'm sure some guy halfway across the world would invent something that would allow people to download en mass for free.

It might just be one of those things.

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard

I completely disagree with that. Go on bandcamp for a minute, and look at all the artists who upload awesome new music there on a regular basis. Or go check out a hip-hop site like Datpiff or Hot New Hip-Hop and see just how many rappers are putting out quality projects while still going unnoticed by the mainstream audiences.

Just because people aren't creating new fads to accompany genres doesn't have anything to do with the so called underground not existing. The internet has made everything available at the click of a finger, so now just because you're a big fan of skate-punk, that doesn't mean you listen exclusively to skate-punk, because you can just as easily find bands that influenced your favourite bands, and have access to a giant catalogue of nearly any band or artist who made up that genre. On top of that, just because teenagers dress a certain way, doesn't mean they listen exclusively to the music you would associate the scene with. For example, I have friends who listen primarily to hip-hop that skate board and dress like skaters. I personally wear band shirts on a day to day basis, and they're usually strictly metal shirts (black metal, death metal, grindcore) but that's a very small portion of the music I listen to, despite what people would assume from my image.

In terms of creating something original, I think that's just a poor statement. There are TONS of acts around now that are blazing their own trails. The difference is that now, you don't need to get on the radio to make an impact, you don't need to be Led Zeppelin, or the Beatles, or the Ramones. You can make great music, and stay relatively unknown to the majority of the music world, and still influence so many acts while keeping a style that is unique to yourself. Just because there might not have been new genres coined, or terms to describe this music, doesn't mean in any way that it isn't being created.

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The Batlord

Do you actually know the difference between what your average 1st tier underground band makes now as opposed to twenty or thirty years ago? It's probably inarguable that they make less from album sales, but I'm dubious that they ever got enough from album sales to make much of a living off of anyway. I'm decently sure that underground bands have always survived off of touring.

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TechnicLePanther

Successful underground music.
I have this on vinyl.

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The Batlord

Kill yourself, hipster. And vote in the Metal Album Survivor thread already, ya ****.

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TechnicLePanther

No to both. Just skip me this round, I've only heard the first album on the list.

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William_the_Bloody

Underground bands use to make a considerable amount off of album sales and merchandise, in fact, that's how they made a lot of their money touring. Touring would often leave these bands in a whole otherwise.

Well that's just it isn't, rap is old fogie music, but that's okay, it just means I'll
be cool for a little while longer.

"Hey did you check out that old geezer in the electric wheelchair wearing his NWA t shirt!" James.

"Sure did man! That was so fly! I can't wait to be as old has him, than I can get a low rider wheelchair with gold plated hubs, its going to hop up and down like a mofo! Only 40 more years, I can't wait!!!"

Ol’ Qwerty Bastard

I'm confused here. You think kids shouldn't be listening to as much music from the 80's and 90's as they currently are? What's wrong with appreciating the roots? I mean, there's an abundance of people who state "there's no good music anymore" but there's just as many people who are completely oblivious to the music scenes that existed before their time.

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The Batlord

I wasted two extra days on you, you ****ing ****ass ****! You know what that feeling is? That's my dick in your ass. That's right, my dick. In your ass. Don't bother resisting, you'll like it in the end.

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TechnicLePanther

Picturing you as Arin. Perhaps PM me a picture of yourself so I can get a more accurate depiction?

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