rock and roll needs to come back

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I'm really disappointed with music on the radio now days. Nothing but rap, r&b or emo-punk can be heard. What happened to good ole rock and roll? It can't be dead can it? I keep hoping that one day it will make a comeback. One band may come and revive the genre. I watched the AMAs not too long ago only to discover how terrible was. I mean in the rock category they had a couple of rap artists plus Nickelback. Why? Because rock has become non-existant. Who here agrees that rock and roll needs to come back?

woah black betty, bam-a-lam.

I agree 100%. Classic rock music is awesome. It's infinitely better than the crap they play on the radio today.

Rock certainly isn't dead, there are loads of rock bands right now. Just because it's not on the radio doesn't mean it doesn't exist. ^_~

i love rock, metal, goth, rock&roll , classic rock such as the zepellin and hendrix. tehre is ALOT of good rock (and roll) out, but its not mainstream, thanks to the evil rap and r&b crap that dominates the scene =( but look on teh internetz, its where i got 99% of my 10 gigs of awesome rock metal and roll from.

Guys, wait!

I need to learn guitar and I work on that every night.

Then I'll write - mostly aspie related lyrical content.

And I'll preach how better we are (I'm joking about that)

I think it's because the radio used to be much more about free expression than commercialism.

Nowdays mp3s and the internet is where I think the best music can be found.

Good music is everywhere, pretty much everything I love won't be found on any radio station.

back in 1970 a genre called disco
came and ruined it all!

then came the 80's with this synth pop crap and went worse from there

Ok, so maybe alternative is the way to go. Anyone recommend some good bands?

I think rock just needs to take back some of what it had in the early 90's - bands like Tool, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Alice In Chains, Type O Negative, Pantera, Biohazard, Sepultura, Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies, Fugazi, Rancid, or even Deftones - for some reason some time in the mid 90's it all just washed right out and aside from a few of the bands I mentioned it just washed out and went to real commershy w*k alternative after which I think about the most relevant cluster you had were Korn, Limp Bizkit, and Linkin.

The trouble is I think with any sound or any culture, if it gets too popular it completely dumbs out, the production and new stuff gets really bad, and eventually the bandwagon looks somewhere else for different music. Once a genre's been kind of considered dead for a while or out of trend, all of a sudden it seems like the only people who are left are the kinds of people who made it what it was to begin with and the cycle loops. If rock is going the way it is and everyone continuously stays on this track with things I'd almost guarantee we're also in for some bands very similar in intensity and new ideas to what guys like Tool, Alice In Chains, or even Sublime had to offer and likely it'll be of an entirely different angle of identity.

The very reason I am going back in time, listening to a great find, New York Dolls, which is described as a protopunk band, and punk and heavy metal bands from the 70's. When I get back from vacation, I'll try out raw predecessors of punk such as MC5 and The Stooges. Bands probably rock as hard as they used to ,but you never hear them on air. Too much bubblegum, manufactured, image driven junk. Always had lightweights and frauds in the music industry, but somehow, there seems to be less groundbreaking material. Could be because now its about hit singles, and the emphasis on albums and concepts has faded. Legal music downloads may have ruined rock.

There are enough great old albums that I will never get around to hearing and many more being released every week. Just ignore the charts and daytime radio its music for people who dont like music. There are many more deserving artists of your time.
Give me a few artits you like and I will give you some recomendations

Hmm well good question. I like mainly classic rock. So, I guess bands like The Beatles, Rolling Stones, U2, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Doors, AC/DC, Def Leppard, Queen, ect.

Not a massive "Classic Rock" fan myslef but some stuff you might Like

Big Star you can get thier fantasitc first 2 albums on one cd now #1Record/Radio City
Great classic power pop sold practicly nothing but influenced many many bands

Echo & the Bunnymen
Really great band who produced some fantastic albums in the 80's great music fantastic lyrics I most recomend their second album Heaven up Here

Dinosaur Jr
Really great riffs mixing classic influences with a punky attitute became moderatly succesful on the back of the "grunge" movement get their album your living all over me

Gang of Four
possibly my favorite band of all time mixing a damn funky rythim section with chainsaw like guitars and biting lyrics. the likes of Flea, Micheal Stipe, Kurt Cobain were big fans
in fact REM were Gang of Fours suport band in the early REM days

Iggy and the Stooges
Credited with creating Metal,Punk,Grunge and numorous other movements
but in relasity were just a really good nialistic rock band.
Their album "Raw Power" is essential

Jesus & Mary Chain
Mixing 60's pop with lots and lots of feedback they were a bit of a one trick pony but it was a great trick I recomend their debut "Psycocandy"

The La's
most known for hit single "There she goes" the band were far more than a one hit wonder they were a one album wonder their self titled and to date only album is pure perfection from the slighty deranged mind of semi recluse Lee Mavers

Ive kept it realativly mainstreem as I dont want to go of on a complete tangent to your current tastes but I higly recomend you try those artists out let me know how you get on

I'd like to see it come back in the form of a 'Japanese Invasion' , considering the fact that a LOT of really good bands hail from there. Ironic isn't it? In the 70's an 80's when America dropped the proverbial ball when it came to autos and consumer goods, the Japanese took up the slack. They're doing the same with music, however it's really hard to get access to all the good stuff here.

Check these guys out.

http://www.myspace.com/borisheavyrocks

Don't listen to Marilyn Manson who sing that Rock is dead and Lenny Kravitz who sing that Rock n roll is dead.

Just listen to Ozzy who said that You can't kill rock n roll and Keep on rock in the free world like Neil Young says ! !! !