Is it me or is modern Rock music getting worse?
 

It is in my perosonal opinion that rock and metal is indeed going down the plug hole with the likes of slipknot and kidrock pinching everyone elses ideas.

Slipknot waer masks awfully like kiss's makeup kid rock stealing sweethome alabama

Where are the days when music had feeling passion and melody unlike many of todays thrash kings?!!!!!!!!:band:

Its not music its just noise!

Bloody hell if you're going to make generalisations about an entire genre don't base it off of Kid Rock!

yes point taken but there is no talent involved in stealing classics and rebranding them. i look back to the 70s and 80s and there was so much talent on both sides of the atlantic now there is simply none carrying the torch of rock and metal

There are a few talented bands around...you just haven't found them or can't recognize what's good.

Maybe you should wait for Rolling Stone to pick a couple of them out for you in another 20 years or wait for a band in the future to cite them as influences.

Yeah, it all sucks. **** modern rock!

I don't see what the problem is really. No matter the year or decade, there has always been great rock being done somewhere, even if they are outnumbered by a great many talentless bands. Also, while this is just my opinion, I don't think you can't say "modern rock" is getting worse when you lack the incentive to look around places like AllMusicGuide, MySpace, lastfm, progarchives.com, etc. There's more to the current music world than what you hear on the radio, your hipster friend tell you to listen to, or what you read in sub-par magazines like Rolling Stone or NME.

Secondly, most commerical rock backed by big-money labels has sucked since the 60's (though not to the rediculous degree we see now), and even those who supposedly miss the "good old days" haven't the faintest clue about all the truly great music they were missing out on anyway.

The Unfan: Nice choices dude!

It's just you.

And why did you choose to cite two bands from the 90s as your examples of "modern rock"?

i don't think it's fair to make the generalisation based on a few crappy bands....or even just on superficial details....yes, Slipknot conceal their faces, but not in the same way as kiss necessarily....the only member of slipknot who's face can be even compared to Kiss would be Joey (the drummer) all of the others have really unique, abstract masks which i don't think you can really liken to anyone else, because nobody else has them....

I do agree though (bar the slipknot remark!!) in regards to the s**t they cover on supposed 'rock' networks like kerrang, metalhammer magazine (bad times!) etc etc nowadays, you'd be forgiven for thinking rock music has gone irretrievably down the pan....it's really disheartening to see bands like "Kids in glass houses" and "Scouting for girls" being marketed as 'the new rock'....ON KERRANG?! Jesus, where did all the metal go?! ;_;

And kidrock....should we even be calling him rock music? He's a joke, i really don't think any of his stuff can be classed as "rock"....there's no 'rock' in it....

But yes. i fear we are losing our rock music these days...tragically :(

I had assumed that it was common knowledge that modern mainstream rock has gone down the crapper in terms of general standards. We don't need to look much further beyond the sort of stuff that makes the top 20 in order to verify this as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

So no, it's not just you. As a fan of rock music, I fully concur with your sentiments.

No comment on Metal, though. I'm not too sure what to think about modern metal. There's too much variety to make any very sweeping statements, unlike in the case of mainstream rock.

It's simple really. There's all these people makin all these kids and all these lil kids are goin ape sh!t over all these new bands that just put out ballads and love songs, or the i'm crying cause she left me, and i hate my life i'm gonna cut my wrist songs and thats what ends up becoming "modern" rock...i hate it but thats why i just listen to mainly older stuff haha. Give me some Incubus, Sublime, old metalica, I'm good for a while haha.