Monday, February 11, 2008

The Revival of Rock and Roll

Well, I realize I promised a special on medieval stuff, but I got to thinking about the rock'n'roll genre and what grew and what fell apart. Basically after boston(which im pretty sure is still going, and has 2 girls in it now), there were no more feel good rock bands out there, cause the 90's hit, and grunge was setting in, and the air was just a hazzy horrid place. There were bands out there, but everybody was paying attention to the 90's gym dance tracks, and rap was finally making a name for itself.

I guess it took awhile, but bands started poppin up here and there like oasis, chilli peppers, U2 and even metallica. OBEY YO MASTA! MASTA and people took notice, but still other things were more distracting, like boy bands and alanis morssette's ugly face.

And then as the years rolled on, I think the genre that really infused rock was punk. Like sum 41 and Blink 182 and all those, because not only did it make people jump around, it also gave rockers in the making reason to make stuff better. OWNED. But of course I listened to all that jazz too. But during that time alot of stuff was just coming out, and more progressive stuff was being played, so all of the sudden, it was like rock was saved once again. At least until n'sync came out and we found ourselves distracted once more. Damn n'sync did so much damage to society. They hand-crafted todays preps.
Anyways deep under the sewers of all this, something was a'brewin. The creation of indie rock!

Now indie started way back early 90's, and if you really wanna get into it, indie pop started in the 70's but more bands were catching on. With theyre hip crowds and their hip t-shirts, these people didnt want to tell a soul. The general public didnt care anyways, but thats what made it sort of personal in a way. Even I was mad when I heard the shins were playing SNL for the first time. But you realize that they just want to succeed like anyone else, and they basically took a decade as a band to finally get there, which in the end makes most new indie bands feel very underwhelmed about their futures.

So with indie rock came the popularity of meshed genres, like hardcore bands, and dance-rock, and folk-rock, and now adays there is probably a rock band out there that you will love, and its inevitable. So really the question is whats next? The trend I see happening now is rock and dance peeling over to R&B, and Rap, so maybe thats the new thing.

or maybe something completely awful that makes me hate the genre all together. Time will tell!


anyways, after that 5 min constant typing ramble(which ill prolly wanna edit a million times to add all the bands i missed) ill leave with a song to listen to


its called "In transit" by "hammond Jr." which is not his full name but anyways, its solid

next blog=whatever I feel like dammit!

1 comment:

Rock.N.Rolla said...

good entry man. enjoyed the read -spenc