More and more I find myself hating any new rock music that they play on the radio. It just doesnt hold a candle to the classics we all know and love. I'm beginning to wonder if this the end of an era for rock music.

Try and keep up, son. Rock has been dying a slow death for the past 20 years. Music has become a lost art.

I hear ya. For me, the mid to late nineties is the latest good rock music I've heard.

I'm hoping U2's upcoming disc is better than the last one. It should be. It's an odd number....

No just open up. rock music has grown and evolved.

All of the odd numbers discs are their best... Very strange.

No it's mostly about image and marketing now. There is a decided lack of orginal talent in rock these days.

There is way to much rock in country music anymore. So I stopped listening to it. There is way to much hip hop in my rock anymore. So I don't listen to much of that anymore.

The only things that I really like anymore is some of the heavy metal, some of the techno and electronica, some of the European alternative bands. As long as they don't have the screaming cookie monster voices. And a lot of the dark ambient music.

If I fixed on any particular decade -- '50's, '60's, '70's, or '80's -- I could write lists of talented artists that would take up better than half of this thread. Artists that actually had something to say, whose music was inspired, whose lyrics were thought-provoking, and whose longevity could actually be measured.

If I did the same thing with bands from 1990 on until today, I could probably count them all on one hand.

I like some of the new rock thats out, such as 3 days grace, theory of a deadman, franz ferdinand

It's not dead, the good new bands are just harder to find now cause the mainstream bands are so terrible.

Here's a few to look into:

Kasabian
The Shins
Muse
Keane
Franz Ferdinand
The Bravery
Arctic Monkeys
Radiohead

Ooh, I forgot Black Rebel Motorcycle Club

And I forgot to mention CAKE ^.^

Take out the word rock, add in "popular music of all types" and I agree.


Ill check em out, love radio head and the arctic monkeys, will have to check out the rest, thanks.

mabey it's dead to all of thew dead out there, yet in my head, the gain is set at 7, reverb at 3, and my MARSHELL is thumpin' w/ megadeth, guns n' roses, the Stones, ect.; rock never dies, it's just that people started to turn it down so they could fix their checkbook, and go find who their daughter out with at 3am, I love music and I also have a 2yr old who loves it to; it is all how you percieve it, just 'couse the new stuff SUCKS and sells a million records doesn't mean that you have to accept it, I don't, nor my kid!!