Halcyon

I'm asking that right now.

Rap is now the farm owned by an aged and weathered farmer in Central America who yielded less and less crops every year. It was believed to be because everything had been used up and the land could no longer produce. One day he is found dead in his home--he died of old age, they say.

The land wasn't bought up by outside investors since they believed the land was of no value to them. It was passed down to the farmer's children, who had moved into the city to try jobs that didn't have to do with farming. They never bothered visiting their father's farm. Little did they know that there was a small plot behind the home that could have easily given way to a very large, very useful set of crops.

Alas, the plot was overlooked and eventually withered away. No one believe there would be anything of worth from the farm, so it withers away.

Teecee

Hmm . . . sounds like a book I've read.

Jonny America

Rock n' Roll is dead, unless you count third wave ska as the modern Rock n' Roll, but even so, not many third wave ska bands pull it off. Rock on the other hand is alive and making a comeback, I mean, black people are starting to listen to it. Srsly.

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The Electron Zone

kids these days are usually in mixed genres.

usually the genres are:
Rap
Rock
Country

other then that Rock rocks

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G-lord

I personally don't believe traditional rock is dying out, but that's probably because I listen to a lot of local stuff in addition to pop rock. I do think that it is becoming less common amongst the population as a whole, but that is because there are more genres of music out now.

That doesn't mean it is dying out though. Far from.

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Finkler

To be honest, I haven't seen many great rock bands nowadays. Wait, actually, I haven't seen any great rock band in the past 7 or 8 years.

PS: The person who replies to my post like "Hey, what about Linkin Park! Its the best band ever!1!!" or something like that will get his/her testicles severed. I mean, comon guys, its the shittiest band ever. Its not even what I'd call rock. It is rap, rock, blues and many other genres combined into a mixture of super-suck.

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Ranny

"Hey, what about Linkin Park! Its the best band ever!1!!"

Traditional rock is fading, but it lives on in mixed genres.

History repeats itself, it'll come back again.

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Finkler

It wouldn't have been so bad if it was 'living on' in a decent manner, or in some decent band.

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Jonny America

Finkler what kind of bands are you referring to as good? Chances are I can refer you to something modern you would like.

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Halcyon

Linkin Park is actually a decent band. I'm not a die-hard fan, but I'm willing to testify that they have more musical capability than most bands in the past many years.

Jonny America

They had it =\. Their new album is pretty damn bad. They went from actually having texture into music to sounding like emo fags. In other words, they sold out.

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Empathy

How did the "sell out," exactly? I don't like their music at all, but I don't see enough evidence to call them sell outs. A sell out in my book is Against Me! A band who starts on a small, independent label and sings about individuality, anarchy, and the like, who goes to a major, corporate label and sing songs with two verses and five choruses construed in there.

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Jonny America

Maybe you don't listen to Against Me! as vividly as you're letting on, because a vast majority of their songs on their new album talk about their refusal to sign creative control over to their new label, but then again, they're probably just sell outs because you say so. Linkin Park, on the other hand, went from singing about emotional situations, public problems, more emotional situations, and the like, to basically just coming up with a phrase that sounds deep, and repeating four or five times a verse. Throwing in a catchy beat, and calling it a song.

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Gazooya

It won't be over. As long as there are still fans, and there is still recordings of their music..Rock will never die. That's my opinion.

I don't like today's rock. Does it mean I should go out insulting it? No. To each his own.

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JhonCaves

It's not dead, it just smells funny.

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