The Current State of Rock Music

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Originally Posted by RU OX Alum

Rock music sucked for a long time. In college there was hardly any rock at all, except for student bands, who although they tried (sometimes) they usualy sucked and instead of being a good band about it and get better they blamed each other and would break up.

However, while i think music on the wholle, especially rock with all these emo pop punk wannabe bands. Seriously wtf is Blue October? That song has a violin. If they were cool, they would have had a viola. A violin is a poseur viola. Anyway, I do think some bands are good:

for example, I'm digging Kasabian, and The Bravery. Actually, here is the list of cool bands besides those two right now: The Killers, Muse, Black Crowes, Franz Ferdinand, Keane, Beck, Foo Fighters. Everyone else is either broken up or on hiatus or whatever. Oh yeah, Green Day.

Kurt Cobain is God.

OK I'll edit so I'm not such a dick about this . . . there is tons of great music around, but if you're going to take the "FUCK THE RADIO" stance, you can't really sit back and bitch when it doesn't deliver to you.

If you like the Bravery, you'll probably like The Faint. If you like Franz Ferdinand, you'll probably like The Futureheads. If you like Keane, you're probably a woman. If you like punk rock, the new album by the Thermals is absolutely tremendous. If you like Muse, try TV on the Radio - this is not a difficult game. Also, I don't think any of these bands fall under the category of "rock" per se. . .

If you want to rock, pay the $10 and get "Boys and Girls In America" by the Hold Steady. Tell me that's not the best rock album in years . . .

I realize that I'm kind of the resident semi-hipster music douche. That's fine - but it's simply awful to decry 'the state of music' like it's really any lower than any other time. In fact, fuck it - download these five tracks, and tell me 'modern music' sucks:

-Califone, "The Orchids"
-Monsieur Leroc, "Cooley McCoolsen"
-Man Man, "Van Helsing Boombox"
-Killer Mike, "That's Life"
-Junior Boys, "In the Morning"

Those five tracks couldn't be more different, there's literally a song from every style but country (and I have some Bright Eyes tracks for you if that's your shit). Seriously - download, enjoy, and stop.