any other rock fans out there

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it seams that the fales god for the music world are wining over the true god of the sceene. by this i meen dance is everwhere and is curpting meny young mind and this must be stopped.

where are the rock god for our generation going . are they being eat alive and screaming by the dance monster or are the prepairing to attack and hopefly with our suport destroy this foul beat with very shap and cruvied sword and battle hammer and axes.
pleese tell me they are as i'm sick of this dance sh**.

I like rock music!
I can't really say that I am a fan of dance. I don't want to make anyone angry - I don't 'hate' dance - it is just not my personal taste.

Let rock live for ever!

Hell yeah, give me some Stones and Tull over all of this new s**t!

Welcome to WP!

Tim

I like some rock music too. I also like a little heavy metal.

My music genres tend to vary at times.

My musical interest stops very abruptly at the end of the 'Coo Brittania' era of the mid-late 1990s, so anything more modern than that is almost entirely unknown by me.

My regularly-played rock-themed CDs include stuff by The Animals, Led Zep, Black Sabbath, The Stranglers, Status Quo, Pink Floyd etc - plus The Sweet if I fancy glamming it up a little.

nice to see i'm not alone in this guys and this type of music is my solas for the world as it seams to be more tired by these so "mucisan " who just seeme to remixes of eachoters sh** time and time again i@m just SICK OF IT

I like a lot of music with a preference for rock, be it metal, prog/art rock etc.
I also have some dance but I rarely listen to it. I used to like gabber music (a Dutch extreme version of hardcore house music) because you can dance on it without any motoric skills whatsoever Really, you can dance like a psychopath overdosing on acid and they will think nothing of it. But it gets boring after a while.

While most of my generation had parents that liked either the Beatles or, if they were lucky, the Stones, my father raised me on The Who. Imagine a 6 year old being set exactly between the speakers with his father telling him to listen very carefully to Keith Moon drumming. Fondest memories of my childhood. My dad was cool And he also liked Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin etc. But The Who were his heroes.

Rock is a lot more Popular than it used to be, so I don't know what you're going on about.

If you don't believe me just go to MySpace which has the most popular genres, Rock is at the top, also a lot of Rock artists have recently become popular. Also Dance is not very popular at all compared to other genres, such as Hip Hop which you mihgt be referring to? In which case Hip Hop has seen a decline recently.

I mostly like Gothic Rock, so you probably wont have heard of the bands I like, but Joy Division and early The Cure comes really close. I also like a lot of other styles of music, some popular examples being Rush, Black Sabbath, AC/DC, Flipper, NEU!, Negativland, Miles Davis, Buckethead, ect.

What is your opinion on Dance-Punk like Bush Tetras?

rock is sooooo cool. I agree! plus I think dance muzac sucks down with the dance! up with the rock! WOOOOOOO

Pretty much all good stuff, probably because they believe in what they do. I like Joy Division and The Cure (Pornography kicks arse) despite them being a bit cheerful for my taste. Well, actually I´m a bit of a sucker for methaphorical/cerebral/philosophical lyrics (a weakness but I can live with it) so Van Der Graaf Generator´s organized chaotic descend into madness and eventual suicide A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers is my cup of tea. I´d love to see that song covered by Iron Maiden, Metallica or Dimmu Borgir.
Still, any good rock by a band with a passion for the music they make is fine with me. I´ve seen my share of local hero performances and the dedication is 90% of what it takes.

I'm mostly into Progressive, Classic(Art) or "Symphonic rock".
Welcome to WrongPlanet

Yeah, and that's especially true for Gothic Rock and Deathrock. I think William Burroughs said it well, and that it also applies to other Artists.

"Write about what you know. More writers fail because they try to write about things they don't know than for any other reason."

And nobody knows Romance, Sorrow, Religion, Nihilism, and Social Problems better than a Goth Band Member (ala The Sisters of Mercy).

I have to admit you lost me at Van Der Graaf, I had to look them up, unfortunetly I don't listen to much Progressive Rock.

Welcome to WP - we will rock you!

(in my best geriatric voice) They sure don't make music like they used to.

Australia has lots of great bands!

Look local. Ignore the radio.

VDGG is progressive rock with a twist. Peter Hammill´s voice is different not so much in its sort but he uses it very expressively, singing just being one way of delivering lyrics. You like it or you don´t. If you understand and like for example, how he delivers the final line of ´Primo on the parapet´ (from a clear note to an abhorrent banshee scream), you´re halfway. But, as far as there is accounting for taste, you can have a good taste for music and still not find anything in there. Solo he is even more diverse, throwing in singer/songerwriter-ish songs.

His lyrics are not that of nihilism but of dissecting the human condition. A favorite is the person that looks back on his life, finding that he lived a farce, having deceived others and himself and finding it is too late to do anything about it. Or the control freak finding you can´t control your life and still refuses to let go. But mass hysteria, alienation, stagnation of humanity, undesirability of eternal life and love songs to make you jump of a cliff, it´s all in the package.
Bruce Dickinson loves his voice, Johnny Rotten says it was one of the inspiration that led him to punk music, Voivod are big fans, you could say he´s a musicians´ musician.
Hammill is a very private person but sometimes he reluctantly acknowledges that a lot of his work is at least semi-autobiographical.

For nihilism you indeed needs to go somewhere else. Being in my teens in the 80´s, Joy Division, Sisters of Mercy, The Cure, The Smiths, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Test Dept, Scraping Foetus off the Wheel etc etc could be found in my music collection. Besides that I was literally raised on The Who. At some point I had a couple of punk and new wave friends and we also shared a taste for punk, all kinds of metal, symphonic rock, progressive rock, classical music, you name it. As long as it wasn´t that idiot chart stuff.

Could you give me some titles of good live albums of goth (etc) rock bands?