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It's been awhile since I've posted here on this blog... been busy with other things. This morning I was listening to some old music from the 1980s -- I forgot just how good some of the music was back then. For a long while I quit listening to most music from the 80s, I guess I was just tired of it for awhile but now I'm back listening to music from my teen years again.

I listen to a variety of music from different time periods but I still love my Rock Music the best. While listening this morning I got to thinking about how much Rock Music has changed since it's inception in the 1950s. Generally speaking, Rock Music has always been good music to my ears except for the last decade (or so). Most of the "Pop Music" (popular music) of today pales in comparison to the Rock Music most all of us grew up with.

My choices below are random (off the top of my head). This is no easy task to pick one song from each decade of GOOD ROCK MUSIC (1950's - 1990's).

Below is just a sample of my favorites from each decade (the era of GOOD ROCK MUSIC):


1950's

Elvis Presley - Jailhouse Rock

 





1960's

The Doors - Break On Through (To The Other Side)

 




1970's

Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same

 





1980's

The Clash - Rock the Casbah



1990's

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit




*I hear a record scratch starting around 2000*

The most popular (and good) bands of the 2000s were bands that started out in the late 1980's to 1990's. Band like: Green Day (1987), Blink-182 (1992), Radiohead (1985), The White Strips (1997), Nickleback (1995) etc... were all popular in the 2000's but not "new" in the 2000's.

What about NEW singers/bands that formed in the 2000/2010's? The NEW groups/singers of the 2000/2010's were Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Pussycat Dolls, Danity Kane, Justin Bieber and Jonas Brothers (to name a few).  All of a sudden I'm feeling sick while laughing...


The era of BAD ROCK MUSIC (2000's to today)



2000's

Jonas Brother - Burnin' Up

 


He's burning up while I'm barfing up... ugh!

 


 2010's

Justin Bieber - Boyfriend

 


This is so bad I can't even listen to the first full minute of the song.

WTF Happened To Rock Music?!

WTF happened to "REAL ROCK MUSIC"? We had some hard hitting music starting way back in the 1950's. Sure some of the Rock Music of the 1950's was not the hard/heavy rock most of us grew up with but it was the "roots" or beginning of Rock Music. By the time the of the late 1960's Rock Music became very hard/heavy sounding and it remained that way until the "new bands/singers" of 2000's came along to ruin Rock Music.

If you want to hear "REAL ROCK MUSIC" today you will have to find a band that has been together before the 2000's or search hard and deep "underground". By "underground" I mean a group/singer is NOT "mainstream" or "popular".

We've had about 5 decades or 50 years (50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's) of GOOD ROCK MUSIC. I can't wait to hear Rock Music of the 2020's. Maybe, just maybe, GOOD ROCK MUSIC will come back during the 2020's. I can only hope the "new bands/singers" of the future will listen to and bring back REAL ROCK MUSIC.

Maybe I'm just getting old... or maybe the Rock Music of 2000's-2010's really is that bad.

My teenage years was in the 1980's... that was considered to be the worst time period of music  until the beginning of 2000's. Even the worst music of the 1980's was still good by comparison to today's music.


Now let's get back to some GOOD ROCK MUSIC! I will leave you with one of my favorite songs that was very popular in my teen years... compare this to the "teen music" of today (Jonas Brother or Justin Bieber).



1987

INXS - Need You Tonight

 





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Comment by barrytheb on March 5, 2014 at 7:24pm

Some of my favorite newer bands!

 

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