ever notice this about modern rock, pop/rock, and powerpop bands?
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its not just that. when a famous (or not so famous) band comes out with a new song, it is OVERPLAYED!!! and ppl get real tired of it an the artist real quick. so its hard for them to make more than 5 "good" "big" hits...
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No, but it's not a particularly imaginative genre, either.  While I'm blissfully ignorant of the current scene, the trend of "MOR" (middle of the road) acts that actually got play in the 80's and 90'on Christian Radio stations was to be musical milquetoast and about 5 years in arears of current forms.  Petra may have listened to Sting's albums, but they did precious little to become truly musically adventurous.  Add to that a general laziness of lyric writing, where long, a-rhytmic passages of theology are ripped from a King James Bible and shoehorned into a 4/4 backbeat.  There were exceptions, of course, but precious few.  Also add to that a theological content in the lyrics that's explicitly aimed at adolescents, and Christian Rock becomes something to grow out of(when I was a child, I listened to Christian Rock, but now that I have grown, I have set aside those childish things).  I refuse to "graduate" to the Gaiters or others of such ilk.
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Not Rock n Roll baby...and I'm not just talking about the 60s. Some really original contemporary bands\n\nJet\nHard Fi\nArtic Monkeys
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Here is a variety of more Modern Rock (90s to 2000s):\nJust to name a few from different bands:\n\nBlack Hole Sun - Soundgarden\nInterstate Love Song - Stone Temple Pilots\nEnter Sandman - Metallica\nFly From Inside - Shinedown\nSo Cold - Breaking Benjamin\nTouch, Stand, Peel - Days of the New\nSomebody Told Me - The Killers\nYour Disease - Saliva\nCrawling In The Dark - Hoobastank\nSad Statue - System of the Down\nNever Take Friendship Personal - Anberline\nSeven Nation Army - The White Stripes \nNovember Rain - Guns N Roses\nSwamped - Lacuna Coil\nSmells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana\nJeremy - Pearl Jam\nThe Messenjah - P.O.D.\nPlanet Hell - Nightwish
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I think rock is based on what you know, the hair bands of the 80's (at least those that you're referencing) knew all about partying, the excesses of the 80's (drugs, sex and alcohol).  A lot of what's coming out now (depending on your scene/genre of course) seems to be based off of the punk/hardcore scene.  And a lot of that music has a purpose--to talk about something, usually politics of some sort.  I think rock has actually had a lot of the same topics (most of which you named), it's just how they approach it.  Instead of the debauchery of the 80's, it's the sensitive "emo" guys.  As for the partying, with so many dying of drug use and HIV/AIDS, some of that has put a scare into that type of mentality.\n\nThere are some bands out there that aren't negative, it's just a matter of finding them.  As for talent, I think you touched on it somewhat, the record companies are looking for maximum profitability and, right now, the consumers don't seem to want 10-12 minute songs with 2 or 3 shredding guitar solos.  3-4 minute long songs, a catchy chorus, sing-a-long verses, stuff like that is what's trendy.\n\nI have to disagree that Cobain ruined rock, he influenced it a certain way, but it's bounced back from the dark sides of grunge.  I'd say it's angrier now at times (especially some punk and hardcore bands).  But then look at the world around us, it's getting harder and harder to not have negativity pressed on us.
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KoRn,acdc,mettalica,chevelle, disturbed, slipknot ,guns and roses,incubus,queens of the stone age,red hot chili peppers,\n\nOH AND FORGET THOSE STUPID EMOS OH NOW THEY MADE ROCK ALL SOFT AND $HIT.
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alot of bands did songs in one take back then.  Engineers do not do this anymore and alot of times the differnt band parts don't even play and record on the same time. However i think that the newer styles of recording are not that good.
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You are not alone! Those are some of my favorite bands!
477127
i guess its some 80's band ;-)
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OMG YES!  They are pretty much my favorite band ever!  They are so refreshing from all this other pop/rock crap that's around.  Their lyrics are absolutely amazing and better yet they are somewhat of a Christian band if you listen to the lyrics.  I swear they have a song for any situation a person could go through.  The words to their songs are so complicated and confusing...but when you listen is so amazing how they came up with them.
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You need to broaden your listening a little bit.  Knowing the genres will help you figure them out.  Look at the bands in any particular genre and see what their sound has in common. :-)
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I gotta say, I agree with you. With the exception of the occasional song here and there, I really don't like much of anything that came out after 1990 except for new albums that were put out by my favorite bands. All the rock music that is coming out these days is either trying way to hard to make it in mainstream or it's just way to heavy with absurd lyrics that you can't even understand.
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today's music does suck. i think the 60's and 70's was THE best Rock n Roll. Ever. Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, Hendrix... Today's music is all the same, heavy, chords, and screaming to the same riffs over and over again. Talent has definetley dropped over the past few decades.
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Rock today and rock back then talk about totally different things. Rock back then was more soulful and todays it's just emo.
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Oh that would be so good.. but loads of good metal bands around nowdays as well, it's not all teen boppy!
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This is a question for music, not politics\n\nBut Sup Pop records has pumped out some good bands, like Nirvana
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I guess i have a wide variety.......... Ac-Dc Aerosmith AFI All-American Rejects A7X The Beatles Billy Talent Breaking Benjamin Coheed &; Cambria Counting Crows Daniel Powter Def Leppard Five for Fighting Foo Fighters Goo Goo Dolls Green Day Guns N Roses HIM Hoobastank Jet Jimmy Eat World Korn Meatloaf *isn't ironic they fall in order next to each other??* Metallica My Chemical Romance Nazereth Nickleback Nirvana Oasis The Offspring Ozzy Osbourne Panic At the Disco Paramore Rascal Flats Rob Thomas Santana Seether Shinedown Staind Stroke 9 Sum 41 S.O.A.D. Tenacious D Train Vertical Horizon Weezer The White Stripes Yellowcard Many more........... except RAP and JAZZ :P