5 Reasons Why Indie Rock Doesn't Rock

sweetcell wrote:
http://www.craveonline.com/music/articles/172103-5-reasons-why-indie-rock-doesnt-rock

discuss, emphasis on "diss".


Quite possibly the most annoying website pop ups EVER.
All I know is that I recently got satellite radio and it really is a rarity to hear one of their alt stations play something that "rocks". Not counting the silly Lithium channel.
When I put my iPod on shuffle, I find it really refreshing when anything with a heavy beat or guitar riff comes on. I think that's why so few of these newer bands catch my ear. I think once people start covering Black Sabbath and the Ramones again then music will get some edge back. But there really isn't much that engages me. I like some indie rock…but most of it bores me to tears.
StoneTheCrow wrote:
All I know is that I recently got satellite radio and it really is a rarity to hear one of their alt stations play something that "rocks". Not counting the silly Lithium channel.


when sirius began . . . they were awesome.  awesome.  now they suck.  all music stations overplay all music, most being reduced to loop computers controlled programming.  not even stern can save that sinking ship.  i only listen to the gay channel and the news now . . . the only good stuff left.
if some new band could somehow channel ACDC i think they'd be huge…

but no one seems interested in doing that.. its been that way for about 15 years now at least….sad.

You're right. There are shitloads of Beavis and Buttheads whose music needs are totally being ignored.

hutch wrote:
if some new band could somehow channel ACDC i think they'd be huge…

but no one seems interested in doing that.. its been that way for about 15 years now at least….sad.


Most of the music this guy is dissing does nothing for me.  I don't really keep up with this type of stuff.

But.

People that write this kind of snotty, snide, sniveling shit sound just as bad to me as the people they are railing against.  I want that 2 minutes of my life back.  My 9 year old daughter could have written that drivel.
hutch wrote:
if some new band could somehow channel ACDC i think they'd be huge…


Yeah. That's exactly what we need, we already aren't bombarded by it in every commercial, at every high school, college or professional sporting event and on the streets of every fucking suburb and exurb in the United States.

Exactly what the world needs: MORE AC?DC.
Thousand wrote:
hutch wrote:
if some new band could somehow channel ACDC i think they'd be huge…


Yeah. That's exactly what we need, we already aren't bombarded by it in every commercial, at every high school, college or professional sporting event and on the streets of every fucking suburb and exurb in the United States.

Exactly what the world needs: MORE AC?DC.


you missed the point.. we're bombarded by the same old acdc tunes.. why cant a new band do that?
No, that is my point. We don't need a new band doing the same shit.
chaz wrote:
Most of the music this guy is dissing does nothing for me.  I don't really keep up with this type of stuff.

But.

People that write this kind of snotty, snide, sniveling shit sound just as bad to me as the people they are railing against.  I want that 2 minutes of my life back.  My 9 year old daughter could have written that drivel.

This.


P.S. Where did Comets on Fire go?
Thousand wrote:
No, that is my point. We don't need a new band doing the same shit.



Same shit? You mean Chuck Berry rock and roll?


we absolutely do need that..desperately.

i mean sayin we don't need bands like acdc is akin to sayin we don't need rock and roll..


screw the solos..screw the fun and party..screw songs about booze and girls

what are you left with?

very boring music no one wants to listen to thats what..
ACDC has had maybe a half dozen good songs out of…how may songs have they recorded?
James wrote:
ACDC has had maybe a half dozen good songs out of…how may songs have they recorded?



half a dozen? You're drunk. the entire back in black album- that is 10 songs for you young ones- is phenomenal.


half a dozen? seriously? listen to the music before talkin


but ok you get hung up on acdc fine.. the point was we need bands like acdc NOT acdc.. there is only one acdc.. bon scott- last time i checked -aint comin back

bands who sing songs about what rock and roll is.. girls, havin an actual good time.. partying


stones, groovies, geils, acdc, berry.. when you get away from that its BORING and its not rock and roll so don't be surprised when no one gives a shit.
James wrote:
how may songs have they recorded?

one.
Comets on fire broke up, didn't they. It's too bad. Their last show at the Black Cat was great. They played every song like it was THE song. The world needs more Comets on Fire.
are they, like, an AC/DC cover band?
sweetcell wrote:
James wrote:
how may songs have they recorded?

one.


yeah whatever.. and chuck berry wrote one song too and that song - recorded in 50 variations- spawned the beatles AND rolling stones..


whats your point?