Political correctness killed rock..??

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Nice little article here. I've thought this for years. Rap music took over the sex/drugs/ and fuck you attitude that rock used to have, now it's the most popular music in the world. Rock turned into pretentious bullshit with bands that were so far up their own asses they couldn't even breathe, more less hit a good line of blow! IE: Pearl Jam, Rage Against the machine... Now we're left with boring formulated pussy rock that's worse than a Billy Ray Cyrus attempt at a new country album. Oh, and don't let me forget the last several years of "Heavy Metal" music. Metal seems to be the only slight remnant of rock left the last decade, except it's become more of a caricature of itself than Hair Metal was in 1991. For the most part you have Metallica, Pantera, or Slayer ripoffs, or a shitty mix of the three, with vocals so bad Lee Dorian would say "dayyumn that sucks!"
I'm not saying we need to "bring back" any era of music, but it seems like the sex and drugs have been completely no-no'd from all rock music, but that's what rock was built on. For fuck's sake, if it weren't for the hope of getting loaded and laid at least once, I would have jumped from a freeway overpass as a teenager. Maybe the next real rock stars are being born right now, or maybe kids today are too spoiled to have anything to rebel against, but I know they won't be sitting in their parents spare room with a $2k PC recording tracks with Pro-tools and a loaded Kemper that they've downloaded 250 "killer" amp profiles on......

p.s. Sorry Kemper dudes. :D
 
Haven't read yer post yet, but political correctness kills everything.
 
What also kills it is when people sing and or portray this hard lifestyle yet are far from what they talk about. This happens in rap a lot also. But yes, there's nothing rocknroll about being pc unless u actually agree with those positions on your own anyway. There's not many genuine rebels and the ones that try to portray it in modern music are usually imposters and its so see through and calculated, much like many of today's country artists with the fake cowboy badass thing. There's no rebels saying fuck authority in rock, rap has some though. Music has been corrupted with cookie cutter acts and the likes of American idol and the like. Kids aren't exposed to rock like we were or it would easily still be quite popular.
 
Ventura":2si0klmw said:
Haven't read yer post yet, but political correctness kills everything.
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I agree!!! You cannot have fun anymore without offending someone!!!! It is real sad!!! :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:
 
joepete77":26kotqfn said:
What also kills it is when people sing and or portray this hard lifestyle yet are far from what they talk about. This happens in rap a lot also. But yes, there's nothing rocknroll about being pc unless u actually agree with those positions on your own anyway. There's not many genuine rebels and the ones that try to portray it in modern music are usually importers and its so see through and calculated, much like many of today's country artists with the fake cowboy badass thing.
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Exactly. I call it CB4 syndrome, the movie where Chris Rock was the wimpy guy pretending to be the hardcore gangster rapper.. :lol: :LOL:
 
Read the link, and you know, THIS makes a helluva lot more sense than that blathering nonsense Gene Simmons was going on about.

Great read. Thanks for posting.

Now get outta yer seats and bang some head :rock: :rock: :rock: :rock: :rock:
 
the article is blather. in the 70's, the record companies forced disco upon us. quickly becoming bored, the public moved to country music (read "Urban Cowboy"). country didn't really fill the void long enough, and disco died so new wave was born. really sucky music that was foisted on the airwaves. a few new wave folks remain, but they vegetate. southern rock died. some roots based rock acts began to emerge (police, cars, loverboy) with a sort of progressive thing going on. all became lame after a while. pretty soon, you were forced to tune in pop or hair metal on your radio. it all sounded the same. rap began to emerge, but it was all really bad rhymes with no musicality. some of the older acts resurfaced (aerosmith, eagles) with limited airplay. then the grunge scene - let's get the worst sounding equipment and make really depressing songs. good grief.

country music has become a mismash of southern rock/pop/boy bands. rap is just sampled suckiness. metal lately is detuned screaming, hard to listen to. rock and roll? seems to only exist in our practice rooms and smoky stinky dive bars.

nobody seems to really care about the music that they listen to, as long as it is the accepted *music* of their peers.

only we, the last of a dying breed of rockers, can preserve this art form. when we are gone, that's it.
 
Another issue that killed the spirit of rocknroll is that when an artist mouths off involving politics you get these pc nuts saying how the artist should keep their mouths shut, as if the artist isn't entitled to his opinion and can't express his views in a song or at a concert. It in turn makes rock generic and safe.
 
metalmaniac93":25oe5sy1 said:
Ventura":25oe5sy1 said:
Haven't read yer post yet, but political correctness kills everything.
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I agree!!! You cannot have fun anymore without offending someone!!!! It is real sad!!! :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown: :thumbsdown:
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It's much more difficult to offend people these days, because our society at large has pretty much seen everything.
And that everything is now commonplace.

Sex, drugs, and music (real Rock is barely breathing) is so common place now that showing near XXX video's hardly registers on the "offensive" meter.

We're not any more PC now than ever before. Being PC aware was more later 80's to mid 90's.
Hell, now you see actors on mainstream network shows using words like "bitch" and "dick". It's just not offensive anymore.
The whole "FU" attitude has become a common attitude.
Music video's are more explicit than ever before and no one bats an eyelash.

In some ways I think it's cool that we're past being so easily offended and wanting more PC in everything.
The thing I don't like is the general "I don't give a F**K" attitude towards everything.
It's become a "Me first and me only" attitude, and I can't get with that.

As for rebellion in music, the "bad" attitude in modern Rap is just as phony as the made up rebellious rocker attitude of the 80's.
F**K the phony rebelliousness of modern music. It's all about image now and the music is 2nd or 3rd.
I'd like to see a rebellion in the music world by bringing back real music created be real musicians.
 
It is no surprise.

We have the neutered by feminist bitch boys and their emo blatherings. Not much there. The transference of music buying power to teen girls, the real driving group in music $$$. The money follows the pussy.

Women are more into dance trendy shit, new country (check out metro boy Luke Bryan first week sales), and the Taylor Swifts of the world.

Men do not make up but a tiny slice of bought music.

As fa as rock being dead? Nah.. There are bands out there. It would be good to actually buy their work instead of stealing it and bitching that our music type is dead. A brother has to pay the bills.

I was just listening to Kix - Blow my fuse. Good crunchy LP rock about the things that make life fun.

The rage power always goes to those that give the big Fuck Off to PC.

But the rockers have the angry Cookie Monster making devil horns left. Oh yeah, we are gonna build an empire on that..

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Bloodrock":t9uk8zdi said:
joepete77":t9uk8zdi said:
What also kills it is when people sing and or portray this hard lifestyle yet are far from what they talk about. This happens in rap a lot also. But yes, there's nothing rocknroll about being pc unless u actually agree with those positions on your own anyway. There's not many genuine rebels and the ones that try to portray it in modern music are usually importers and its so see through and calculated, much like many of today's country artists with the fake cowboy badass thing.
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Exactly. I call it CB4 syndrome, the movie where Chris Rock was the wimpy guy pretending to be the hardcore gangster rapper.. :lol: :LOL:
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Straight outta LoCash! Muthafucka named Gusto!
 
great music never went away,there is plenty out there,in fact now more than ever in every genre
you can mine the depths of hard rock on youtube full time for decades and not hear all the great stuff released between say 1967 and 1977 on indie/private and major labels from every country all over the world,
you just can't be lazy and expect to fed by major media outlets
period
 
ps



Thu 14th Feb, 2013 in Local News

Drama, stress, chaos, sex, drugs, drugs, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll.

This is how Brisbane tour manager Glenn Stewart describes three weeks on the road with former Jackass star Bam Margera. Margera and his entourage – which included members of Guttermouth and CKY, as well as girlfriend Nikki Boyd, Jackass alumni Brandon Novak and close friend Louie Kovatch – brought their Fuckface Unstoppable project to Australia last month. They played 10 shows across the east coast, including dates in Magnetic Island and Airlie Beach and a special Australia Day appearance on the Gold Coast.

But the tour reportedly didn’t get off to the best of starts. In a lengthy blog post titled, “An Introduction To The Best/Worst Tour”, Stewart says Margera was “drunk on arrival, drunk on tour and drunk on departure”. That’s consistent with a Nine MSN report that claims he was “banned for life” from a Melbourne CBD hotel following a mysterious incident just a day after arriving from the US. “Citadines hotel I am kicked out of for life,” Margera tweeted the next day. “Thanks goodness. Cause I paid $5k last time for spilled paint.”


Stewart alleges they were kicked out of three more hotel rooms in three different cities, going on to describe the entire experience as a “dramatic, drug fuelled, punk rock road trip that was possibly the best experience I’ve ever fucking had”.

“I had to deal with drug addicts, weird drug dealers, almost 20 different police officers, angry hotel management, crazy groupies, fake promoters, rough security guards, terrified venue managers and a wide array of people that will make this crazy story make more sense,” he says.

To make matters worse, a publicist quit halfway through the tour, a touring guitarist jumped ship three shows from the end, and main support The Grand Scheme were booted off the tour on the way to their Brisbane show. “The problem was the support band provided all of our amps, gear, guitars and drum kit,” Stewart wrote. “As the manager it made my job a lot fucking harder.”

“Bam will … die within the next year if he keeps going the way he is going.”

But things got really messy on the last night of the tour when Stewart claims the group experimented with a psychedelic drug called 25I-NBOMe. A derivative of powerful hallucinogens 2CB and 2CI, its effects include irrational behaviour, fear, paranoia and confusion.

“It really fucked Bam up,” Stewart wrote. “At the time it was probably a bad thing but I think it almost cleansed him and made him think about the track he’s going down or heading towards … Towards the end of my night, but in the middle of Bam’s drug trip I heard a loud scream coming from downstairs. It was Bam jumping on Louie [Kovatch] thinking that he was about to die … The next day Bam had his Tarot cards read and seemed somewhat a changed man.”

Still, Stewart says he holds grave fears for the professional skateboarder and former MTV star. “I’m no expert, in fact I am wrong a fair bit – but I can see two things happening; Bam will either die within the next year if he keeps going the way he is going. Now as a friend of Bam’s I don’t want to see that happening, and neither do his close friends and family.” He went on to describe Margera as a “kind-hearted, loving guy who wants people around him to be happy and nothing else”.

“There are road bumps and unexpected twists and turns in his life, but he’s just a normal guy who has been through more than most of us combined,” Stewart wrote. “I’m now happy and comfortable calling him a mate and I want to be a part of leading him down the right track.”

Margera ended his stint in Australia with a tandem 4600-metre skydive in Cairns. “Every show has been sold out, it’s been a blast,” he told The Cairns Post.

Stewart says he plans further updates to his tour blog.
 
If I was the same age now as I was when I first picked up the instrument, I'm not sure I would be playing to be honest.

Being a young teen and seeing how offensive the stuff I was listening to back then was (at the time), as well as parents absolutely hating it was the main selling point. :lol: :LOL:
 
I was thinking about this recently too... My friend and I are just about to leave from our Las Vegas weekend to see a few Motley Crue shows here. At this new residency they light pretty much everything on fire and almost everything has a pentagram on it (Vince's belt buckle, Nikki's mic stand, Tommy's drum riser WAS a pentagram that lit on fire, etc) and that got me thinking... We're all so used to our rock bands finding Jesus (I'm looking at you Mustaine) that when a band like the Crue comes out and invites you to an intimate evening in hell and have enough fire to cause 5 Great White tragedies per show and pentagrams everywhere it's kinda refreshing.

Granted the whole pentagram thing stopped being edgy about 1984 but the fact that Crue hasn't shied away from it because they all found Jesus or anything just made it feel a lot more rebellious than most shows where the band wont play some of their songs because they're evil (Again, still looking at you Dave)
 
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