Bad rock bands !!! (Page 1 of 4)

sorry, forgot one. Poco thought they rocked back in the 70s, but no, no they did not.

I think the reason people are listening to drivel is because that's what they hear all day, every day -- fed to them by the corporate machine.  Unless they purposely make an effort to branch out and risk trying something new, they are going to stay on that track like little worker bees.  They don't know any better, so they listen -- and the chain is never broken.

Now, I'm going to defend Nickelback for one song - "Never Again."  That song has emotion behind it.  OK -- the emotion is anger -- but at least they obviously felt something when that song was created.  And now I'll stop 'cuz I know how you feel about them.  'Nuf said, right?

One of my favorite things is sharing music with people.  I want to know what I'm missing, and I want them to have a chance to get turned on to something new I've heard.  Anyone who knows me knows I'm a JB lunatic and have been for about a year, so they see links on my FB page, they hear me listening to, etc.  I try to do something different occasionally -- like I put up a couple of pictures of JB and the printout about him being named best overall guitarist of the year in my office.  That got questions going, and I've been swapping CDs with office mates.  Well, I got turned on to some jazz I didn't really like, but that's OK.  The good news is my coworker loved Live from Nowhere in Particular, and a new fan was born (plus he was more energetic that day, LOL.)

All I can say is... vent... and share.  Have a party and play your favorite tunes.  Educate the masses.  I told Amsterhammer in another forum that I couldn't believe what I was missing the first time I heard Lowell George with Little Feat (OK, long time ago...).  I kept thinking, "Why didn't anyone tell me?????"  So that's our job.  Tell them.  Post the stuff you like on your FB page.  Blast your music and tick off your neighbors.  Have a party and turn on the jams.  Send people links in emails.  People will click and explore.  Give them the opportunity.

As for the corporate component -- just don't feed the machine.

I guess I'm not in the majority cause I like some of the lips music.  Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots is a great album.  They are an alt band - not rockers.  I've never been a big U2 fan, but I acknowledge their importance.  They're more of a pop band imho.

Yeah.... all the above are US, Hair-Metal Bands.....(with the exception of Silverchair) Not forgetting Bon Jovi! Aghhhhhhh! 

That won't win them the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, that is for sure.

I was waiting for an appt yesterday and flipping through Time magazine.  Saw this article and thought of your thread.  Headline:  "Punks Take Broadway.  Green Day's American Idiot marks a new milestone in rock's conquest of the Great White Way."   That alone 'bout sums it up.

The killer, to me, was the first sentence:  "Billie Joe Armstrong, the lead singer and lyricist for the punck-rock band Green Day, claims he was a big fan of show tunes while growing up near Oakland, CA..."  Later in the same paragraph they say that Rock purists may see it as a sign that the California punk trio is getting soft.

Soft?  OK, I really shouldn't opine 'cuz I know nothing about Green Day except a very few songs I've heard while hitting "scan" on my radio, but c'mon?  First of all, I wouldn't consider them punk - at least not the songs on the "approved" airways list.  Second, I think all rock purists would take it as a sign that most "rock" ain't rock anymore.  Just like county music is now more similar to 70s soft rock.  What gives?

I wanna go back to the 60s/70s.  I must be getting old.   

Chris, get a copy of Nobody Likes Me the bio on Green Day. It'll give you a better understanding about where they're comin' from. Billy was a musical "Ham" since he was 5 years old cutting his first recording at the urging of his piano/vocal teacher. The "Punk" label was due to them getting noticed at the 924 Gilman Club in Berkeley. It was a Punk Rock venue, but the only place they could get on stage as they were underaged at the time. They were banned from the place the day they signed a record contract. That's not what true punks do. Obviously they have matured on their own terms and are critically acclaimed. Watch the DVD that comes with their live album Bullet In A Bible. I dig them cuz they just plain rock IMO.

                                                                                          Think Green.....Day,

                                                                                          J Dawg

Gotta disagree with the Crue mention here.....but hey to each his own.