Why is 80's rock that is put out in the 21st century automatically labeled country?
494545
How could they still be putting out "80's rock"?  You do know that when "80's rock" was new, in the 1980's, it was just called music.  And I don't even understand your question anyway.
122071
Country music has changed big time in the last couple of years.  I used to hate the stuff but love it now.  It's more like country/rock now.  It's not all twangy anymore. Check out some Keith Urban.
617406
Because every twenty years things come back. It's syclical as the correct terms would be for it. And I completely disagree with the first idiot who answered this. I grew up in the 80's and loved it! It was a happy and simpler time and the music was great back then. Not the crap they serve up today, or in the 60's-70's we're absolute jokes.\n\nFrom the politics, all the way down to the crappy clothes and music. You kids today really missed out on a great time in our country. But it's not your fault, you didn't have a choice in the matter or know any better. But believe me, it was so much better back then. Any if you think twenty years back is old, wait till you are actually old in your 80's if you live that long and people tell you your generation is old. What goes around comes around. Long live the 80's !!!
348299
Yes, new wave music is more mixed in with post-punk (not to be confused with pop-punk) and electronic music than it was earlier in "the day", so it's less clarified and many people think it's nonexistent but it's really not, maybe you could say it's less common but not extinct.  Popular new wave today is considered power pop or just alternative rock to be vague.  Another problem with new wave music is that it can be tied to so many genres like indie, goth, glam metal, power pop, dark wave, industrial, punk, post-punk, etc. but that's pretty musch the same as saying it's less clarified.
807298
Because of the blockbuster mentality of today's entertainment industry. The powers that be don't want to take a gamble, so only the most generic and formulaic product is promoted. Music, film, and television all suffer from this. And speaking of alt-country, isn't crazy that the very essence, the very heart and soul of a genre, is relegated to "alternative" status?
671945
That's quite alright. I hate this new rock crap too. I like a lot of older stuff from back then like The Rolling Stones, Led Zep, Aerosmith, Elvis, & Lynyrd Skynyrd.\n\nMusic today really sucks. Except there's some good country actually.
527684
Its so refreshing to see I'm not the only one who realizes this! Real soul music has all but diappeared sometime in the 80's,shortly before rock & roll left us too. I got all the good soul from the 50's, 60's 70's. Thats back when there was actual music on the radio!
539584
AWESOME! Rock is a powerful force in the past causing parents, politcians and naysayers to go nuts! Especailly in the 1980's. The '70s, not so much controversy, but still one of the better eras full of Black Sabbath, Zepplin, Judas Priest, Dio. The '80s had tons of awesome acts like GNR and Def Leppard. I still love some of the strange lyrics and songs of the '90s much of which is Stone Temple Pilots and Alice in Chains with a bit of Red Hot Chili Peppers. It's sad to me that rock music isn't pissing enough people off and some of it is just terrible. Sure bands like Velvet Revolver, Audioslave and Red Hot Chili Peppers are great, but we need some new blood in rock! Hopefully more bands like Avenged Sevenfold will come out soon.
108645
I believe Fresh Prince first aired in 91 or 92. Nothing to do with the 80s.\n\n>>>80s style\n\n80s style in everything tried very hard to be sophisticated. That applies to architecture, fine art, TV, clothing, cars, music and so forth. Not that it always succeeded, but sophistication was the ideal. That was contrasted by the 70s plastic/futuristic style in just about everything and the early 90s descent into grunge.\n\n>>>80s music. \n\nVery poppy. Very middle-of-the-road. Thanks to MTV pop was THE 80s music.   Think Michael Jackson, Prince and Madonna.  Even the rock and 'mature' acts like U2 or Genesis were extremely poppy compared to 70s or 90s music. 80s music was very easy to listen to and almost entirely uncontroversial. Madonna was the most controverisal popular artist for songs like "Like a Virgin". That's how uncontroversial 80s music was.\n\nI discount punk as a 70s survivor rather than 80s music, just as I discount early 90s hair metal acts as 80s survivors and defintitely not 90s music.\n \n>>>80s technology development\n\nSuprisingly large on the home front. At the beginning of the 80s VCRs were almost unheard of in private homes and even medium sized cities didn't have any video rental outlets at all. Microwave ovens, personal computers, remote control TVs and cell phones were also practically unheard of. By the end of the decadee those things had all become commonplace.\n\n\n>>>>human values etc\n\nConfused. \n\nDespite the popular image of the "Greed is Good" 80s yuppie the 80s saw LiveAid. It saw the real rise of the environment movement away from the leftist hippy fringe and into the mainstream. It saw the start of the 'War on Drugs'. It saw a massive international mobilastion against apartheid in South Africa. It saw mass rallies against nuclear weapons. Social politics in movies and on TV in the 80s was far more common than anything today. \n\nOverall it was very odd. Society seemed more socially aware and socially active than at any period since the 60s, while at the same time individuals were astoundingly blase.
441490
Depends on how exactly do you define country music. Dictionary says... simple style of folk music heard mostly in the southern United States; usually played on stringed instruments. \n\nIf i assume country music to be equivalent of folk music then it is prevalent across every round and corner of this world.\n\nBut if you are talking about southern united state flavor then i doubt if its even heard outside of US.
105806
Today's music sucks so much because: \n1) Record labels are looking for hits, not albums.  \n2) "Talent" must always LOOK marketable.  \n3) Too much of the recording industries' troubles are being blamed on "illegal downloading", rather than taking the responsibility themselves for putting out crappy music.\n4) ALL (yes, ALL) new rock acts today have nothing new to offer.  Everything put out today is a ripoff of 90's alt-rock. (Example - Nickelback, Staind, etc...EVERY song uses that same minor-key harmony that originated with Alice In Chains).\n5) Most people are sheep and will listen to whatever a record company shoves in their face.\n6) Nearly every song has the same pattern...a light opening, then blaring guitars midway through the first verse, then a catchy and annoying chorus.  In other words, it's PREDICTABLE!\n\nOverall, there's a BIG lack of originality in today's music.  The "talent" isn't talented...just good at ripping off whatever has already been done.  I understand having influences, but these bands literally play the SAME thing.  As a huge music fan, I've been largely disappointed since around 1998.
953990
Are you kidding me???? There's no music like the 80s anymore.\nI love it, I mean, I also like nowadays music, but those are classics.\nFor instance, what do you say about "Every breath you take" by The Police,  I wanna know what love is by Foreigner, Total Eclypse of the heart by Bonnie Tyler, Endless love, by Lionel Richie and Diana Ross, and many more. \nThey are true classics!!!!!!\nOh and Debbie Deb is also good, by her I like When I hear music.\n\nGood question
857279
The 90's were it mate, to much hip pop hop rubbish at the moment.\nOnly dance music has had a good few years in my eyes.\nLove the 90's man, guitar music was at it's best, lost interest in lots of the music nowadays, even indie and rock stations are crap.\nAnd in the 90's we had a proper little Ska revival, crack on 90's.
587293
Well the 70s had the worst song ever in "Dream Weaver" by Gary Wright. That song, and it's ensueing popularity, was the beginning of the end of the Classic Rock era (IMHO). The style, which includes bells, bottles, jars, etc...in the background, has been covered ever since the day that idiotic Gary Wright released it. Therefore, all pop music since then, 80s, 90s, and beyond have been skewed towards kiddies.
137195
the loss of ROCK in rock music, the lack of any truely talented musicians out there, maybe research how many oldies stations there are in your area vs those that play newer music.  i know in my area it's almost all oldies, 70's, or easy listening.  Kind of makes you think, maybe it's because music these days is cookie cutter crap.\nOr....how about the fact that movie stars don't want people to pirate movies (they have those commericals, with like-the camera guys and kraft services people like...if you don't pay to see amovie I can't buy cheese for my kid) and it's like....maybe if stars didn't make millions upon millions for contributing nothing but sterotypes, violence, and sex to society.\nSOrry.  I was about to rant.
815104
It just shows that music of today suxs. Their is no originality in anything anymore
256569
Having lived through both era's, we like to think 'our music' how ever we individually define it has the most meaning. That's why some people adore pop stars and others like cult bands. \n\nDo I think that there will be a radio station like an 'oldies' or a 'classic rock' format that plays Green Day or Eminen ... if they programmers feel that they can make money doing it, there will be.