Do you think rock music right now is stagnant?

[sneakyblueberry]

The hair metal picture is like a huge, bleak collage of fail.

[Arcaeus]

The 80s was the worst decade in music of the past fifty years.

[True Death of Life]

The 80s was the worst decade in music of the past fifty years.

The hair metal picture is like a huge, bleak collage of fail.

WHAT IS THIS

[Gorille85]

The 80s was the worst decade in music of the past fifty years.

Pretty much.

[Adami]

Hair Metal was stagnant, grunge was stagnant, emo is stagnant. All american music trends are, that's how they survive. 50 bands all have to sound identical and look identical, this is america, deal with it.

[Kornflake]

You could probably argue that a few years ago Nickleback was the "next Nirvana" to all those Blink 182 clone bands of the early 2000s...too bad we went from terrible pop punk bands to even worse Nickelback bands.  It would be nice to have something new take over.  What would it be though?  I hope something good and not something even worse, like a Chad Kroger side project or something

[sneakyblueberry]

The 80s was the worst decade in music of the past fifty years.

Wrong.   WORNG!

[True Death of Life]

The 80s was the worst decade in music of the past fifty years.

Wrong.   WORNG!

[zxlkho]

I actually agree with that. the 60's were great, 70's were great, 90's weren't bad, and 00's were pretty good. But seriously, fuck Hair Metal and that shit.

[73109]

Maiden, Metallica, The Crue, Bruce Springsteen.

Yeah, shut up/

[Adami]

The 80's had more than hair metal. Thrash metal, industrial, prog metal, none of that would have existed without 80's stuff.

[zxlkho]

Maiden, Metallica, Queensryche, Megadeth.... that's about it. There was better prog in the 90's.

[Arcaeus]

80s had a ton of awesome stuff. Every decade did. And I won't deny the influence artists that formed in that decade had on bands I listen to now. I just prefer the 70s, 90s, and 00s. By far.

[sneakyblueberry]

The 90's is where all the shit lies.  Spice Girls, Boyzone, Backstreet Boys, 5ive, Eiffel 65, Grunge.  All shit.

[73109]

The 90's is where all the shit lies. Grunge. 

NO ONE LIKES YOU

[Arcaeus]

90s had Jeff Buckley, Faith No More, Björk, Aphex Twin, Tool, Dream Theater, Anathema, Wu-Tang, Savatage, Death, Neutral Milk Hotel, A Tribe Called Quest, Smashing Pumpkins, Elliott Smith, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Incubus, and Nine Inch Nails. All are amazing.

[Adami]

90s had Jeff Buckley, Faith No More, Björk, Aphex Twin, Tool, Dream Theater, Anathema, Wu-Tang, Savatage, Death, Neutral Milk Hotel, A Tribe Called Quest, Smashing Pumpkins, Elliott Smith, Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Incubus, and Nine Inch Nails. All are amazing.

80's had Winger.

I rest my case.

[The King in Crimson]

I could easily make the case that any decade is both the best and worst era of music ever.

Except the 70's.  The 70's > All.

[Portrucci]

The 80s was the worst decade in music of the past fifty years.

This

due to the nature of art, I'd say this decade (err I mean 00's) has had the most great artists. However, for reasons I won't go into here, the 70s' are my favourite decade of music. Naturally when looking back you can just cherry pick all the amazing bands without having to put up with the crap, now long forgotten. Nevertheless, that is my preference. And like Arcaeus said, lots of great stuff in the 80's, but for many reasons simply not on the scale of the other decades.

[ariich]

Don't know, don't care. There's tons of awesome music out there and that number seems to only be growing, so I can't complain.

This. People who complain about the "state of rock music" are just being ignorant and going on what they hear on the radio.

[Zantera]

No. If they want to find this music they can find it themselves... It's not exactly difficult to find.

This exactly.
Some people want to find good music, meanwhile others cant be bothered and just listens to whatever's on the radio/tv.
If you want to find something you can just look, it's not hard, why does everyone have to be spoon-fed?

[Gadough]

The 90's is where all the shit lies.  Spice Girls, Boyzone, Backstreet Boys, 5ive, Eiffel 65, Grunge.  All shit.

Hey now, the Backstreet Boys were awesome. No sarcasm.

[Zydar]

The 90's is where all the shit lies.  Spice Girls, Boyzone, Backstreet Boys, 5ive, Eiffel 65, Grunge.  All shit.

Hey now, the Backstreet Boys were awesome. No sarcasm.

Quit playing games with my heart, Gadough!

[Gadough]

Oh God, it's playing in my head now.

But that's just fine.

[Zydar]

[Gadough]

Oh man, I remember when boy bands were huge and all over the place; I used to have serious hardcore arguments with anyone who claimed Nsync were better than Backstreet Boys. The very notion that someone could prefer Nsync used to make me rage. Still does, actually. Nsync were terrible and Backstreet Boys were amazing. And look who's still going strong today - Backstreet Boys, with Nsync having been broken up for years now. I wonder why.

[AwakeFromOctavarium]

Damn, I just adore 90's while 80's is pretty meh for me. 90's have DT, PT, Opeth, PoS, and SX, and they are pretty much the only bands I listen to. Also some of the bands I enjoy from time to time, like Meshuggah, Tool, and Devin Townsend are all from the 90's.

For 80's, Metallica is pretty much the only obsession I had.

[PixelDream]

I saw Shinedown live last year, really the most generic rock/metal band I've heard. Essentially the problem the OP is talking about. They're not bad, but I rarely take that type of music seriously. If I ever saw many emo's in one room, it was at the Shinedown gig.

For mainstream rock we still got:

Radiohead
Muse
Kings of Leon
Queens of the Stone Age
Them Crooked Vultures
Kasabian
Editors
Placebo

All decent to awesome bands.

[wolfking]

Watching 100 greatest hard rock songs right now, talking about Nirvana changed the scene of rock out of the 80s with the stagnant hair band sound.  Most of new rock that's coming out just either sounds emoish or is trying to sound like Nickelback.  Both are bad in my mind.  It's just stagnant.  We need another Nirvana.  Anyone agree?

On a whole, I agree with you.

The amount of great 70's and 80's songs that get played on the radio and tv, proves how shit most of the music of the last 20 years has become.

[sneakyblueberry]

The 90's is where all the shit lies.  Spice Girls, Boyzone, Backstreet Boys, 5ive, Eiffel 65, Grunge.  All shit.

Hey now, the Backstreet Boys were awesome. No sarcasm.

Awesome compared to cancer.

[Moonchild]

The last revolution of commercial rock was Nu Metal whether you like it or don't.

Hair metal
Grunge
RadioHead/Bush kind of at the same time Spice Girls and BackStreet were dominating the pop world.
and
Nu Metal till 2002

There has been a revolution in the pop world over the last few years where gangsta hiphop has been slowly replaced with Lady Gaga, Shakira, Rihanna and Black Eyed Peas where the focus has been on making catchy singing chorus instead of rapping about cool cars and houses.

IMO Rock has been completely stale ever since with Muse being the lonely bunch that experiments, Radiohead pretty much stopped doing rock music since Kid A.

[ZKX-2099]

I never listen to the radio. I don't watch MTV. I mainly go by internet word of mouth to find new music. Whats popular really doesn't effect me musically.

That said if what I listened to was mainstream... I would be glad the artists were appreciated. But I wouldn't care much besides that.

[Sir GuitarCozmo]

  at all of the 80's hatred.  Everybody can eat me.

[King Postwhore]

at all of the 80's hatred.  Everybody can eat me.

Amen.

[skydivingninja]

80s had some great stuff.  Rush put out some of their best albums, there was plenty of good hair metal music (mixed with a lot of crap hair metal, but hey), Maiden, Priest, Thrash, The Cure, REM, The Police, Journey...But I do think that the 70s and 00s win forever.