Let's talk music for a moment

[Jwar]

So I'm a child of the 90's. Born in the 80's, but come on...fuck the 80's. Anyway, the music in the 90's was some of the most influential shit ever in my opinion. You had drugged out, insane rock stars doing the craziest shit ever seen. Or maybe it just seemed that way to me. Probably. But whatever guys! My question is this. Who is the new Marilyn Manson of the young generation? Who is the new Kurt Cobain?? The new Peter Steele? The new Bradley Nowell???

I see new music all the time, but am severally concerned for the future of music. I mean, fuck man. Shit used to feel so raw and edgy. Now it's all the same.

Am I alone in my thoughts here?

[neonblack]

I've ended up going back and listening to bands I missed in my youth because of the lack of inspiring modern music now. People in some niche genres are pushing boundaries nowadays, but I can't think of a single edgy rock star kinda guy in modern music. There are some bands, like Daughters, The Locust, and The Blood Brothers, that were intentionally pushing peoples comfort zones with things like costumes, abrasive live shows, and some homoerotic/not typically masculine stage behavior, but they've all stopped playing.

[cedarskies]

Skrillex

[neonblack]

GTFO

[futuresailors]

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[Eivind August]

Was born in the very early 90s, still listening to a lot of the music from that time. I like a lot of new bands, but many of them seem to copy what was done in the early nineties and just putting a touch of their own on it. Not much innovation, except for the really underground stuff. Seems like my internetty generation are more into history and retro-styles than doing something new. If there's still something new to do, that is.

[dase]

I was born at the very start of the 80s and I can guarantee you in the 90s we were saying the exact same thing.

The music industry has changed to the point we probably won't have another cobain, it's decentralised and no longer monopolised by labels that will throw money behind one act. This is a good thing, an absolutely brilliant thing. Then again in the 90s a lot of us thought cobain, Manson, et al were posers. The only way I could hear about new music as a kid was reading names in thanks lists and six month out of date zines then hoping the one punk record store had some of those things in stock in my monthly trip there where I could maybe afford one LP. Now I can pay a quarter of that to get a bands record straight off bandcamp.

There's hundreds of people innovating out there now, and while none of them will ever be as famous as cobain, they'll get heard by way more people than they would 15, 20 years ago.

As for who they are? I dunno. I'm in my 30s, all new music has elements of the old in it. Just as the stuff I was really into sounded reminiscent of other things to my older friends when I was a teenager.

[spacelordmother]

^ Thank you!

This thread is so TB/TGP. Fuck nostalgia.

[01010111]

Fuck nostalgia.

[D.o.S.]

Good music doesn't have an expiration date.

[darthbatman]

It's true there seems to be a push for the homogenized sound you hear on radio hits playing in retail stores and fast food joints around the world.
Thankfully that commercially controlled music isn't all there is to hear. It was at one point unless you really knew how to dig deep underground.
As someone pointed, that process of digging and finding relatively unknown stuff you might like has never been easier than it is now. It also means
there's more shit to dig through now than ever before.. or put better, the level of access we have today to different kinds of music and media is unprecedented.

People have always said that the shit on the radio sucks. The sad truth is that folks complaining about gimmicky repetition and lack of variety way back when
just had NO IDEA. I mean like I go to a local gym or the mall or to subway and every song literally sounds almost exactly the same!
Luckily there are innovators and fortunately they're reaching greater masses than they might have in the past. Self expression in abundance is never bad.
But most likely there won't ever be a 'Next _______' whether it's Cobain, Hendrix, Tchaikovsky, Duran Duran, Aerosmith, or even Jay Z. But i mean is that bad??

[D.o.S.]

If there is never a next Aerosmith it will be too soon.

[darthbatman]

lol yeah good call, i honestly threw that one in as a joke because in my old band people used to always be like "you guyz rawk ur gonna be next aerosmith"

[AxAxSxS]

Good music doesn't have an expiration date.

qft

[Jwar]

^ Thank you!

This thread is so TB/TGP. Fuck nostalgia.

Is it? I don't think so. I just wanted to know some opinions. I think this thread is sooooo ILF. Fucker.


Anyway, nostalgia aside, music obviously does change with the times. I get the whole "underground" scene thing. I'm not even trying to say that the music that isn't as popular isn't good. I mean shit some of my favorite music comes from little known groups. My point was that all I see in the media now is fucking Miley and bitches like Kanye West. Rock music has lost it's edge and turned into some sort of pussy rock. There is no more shocking shit out there, just rehashed crap.


So who is the new "Alice Cooper", to go back even further, or Marilyn Manson to be more recent. Even the guys that shocked us in the 90's, stopped putting on a good show. Rock music in general has taken a dive and stopped being as entertaining and interesting. Fucking pisses me off.


NWA FOR LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!