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Originally Posted by Supersonic
Aloha !
There you have it. You think a guy who sounds like he sings with both tooths knocked in the back of it's throat plus silly hip hop tunes sounds amazing...
There are bands that are creative and innovative, but most of them take it to extremes and therefor the real rock feeling gets lost. Thoguh Aerosmith tryed on Just Push Play with all the drum loops, but it didn't work. Bon Jovi tryed on Crush with the drumloops but it didn't make the songs any better, Bounce was even worse when it comes to that.
I think lots of older bands have lost the plot a bit. Take a look at all the big artists from the eighties and nineties, most of them release weak stuff compared to their usual standards. U2, Aerosmith, Bryan Adams, Bon Jovi, Oasis, none of them are able to deliver good stuff, most of all because they've lost the feeling they had when they just started or their interests have changed. Still they try to get back to it while involving new ideas. Sad enough, most of the time it just doesn't work.
Salaam Aleikum,
Sebastiaan
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You know, I found that I enjoy some of hip-hop/rap stuff tremendously. I really like some of their arrangements, ideas for songs are nice. Overall sound is cool. As I said I enjoy Sean Paul. Also Shaggy is great. Outcast.
Overall I think they are more inventive than rock artists. And that's why they are more successful now.
Indeed, "old" rock atrists cannot get it together. And new rock artists seem to be satisfied with simply rehashing what was done in the 60-80. Think Jets, the Drakness, The White Stripes, Coldplay (lame version of U2).
So it seems that the development of rock music has come to a halt. And, of course, hip-hop/rap/pop take advantage of that.
I just hope that "old", accomplished rock stars like Bon Jovi (I don't have much faith in new artists) can get their act together and start making statements with their music. Well, I can to an extent appreciate Crush. At least they tried to become competitive. They should try harder though.
03-28-2004, 01:54 AM
While the rap at JLo may be a bit unfair- she is certainly not the only one out there- in a recorded version I would prefer she be left out of it. The song to me is about how the few singer/songwriters out there still making music like Bruce, Dylan, Tom Petty, my recent musical rediscovery Jackson Browne, are few and far between and not much good to take its place. I agree that new rock is not moving the genre forward. I am glad for Jet who make rock and roll and not just grunge inspired depressing stuff which permeates the airwaves but there is really not much to be excited about- all been done before. Jon pulled this song because he felt it was too harsh and negative. It could be interpreted that way but I think the point he and Billy Falcon are making is so true and sometimes the truth is not pretty. The song does sound country rockish but I love country rock- the beginning sounds actually like Bob Segar's Turn the Page.
