The Increasing Number Of Terrible Bands

Not exactly. The new possibilities in making and recording music can make it better now than then. Of course I don't want the new music to sound like 70s. I quite like Radiohead and they've come near this with their lyrics and music. I think they're the prog rock of nowadays. But there just aren't any followers. No second Radiohead (at least what I know of). And still, wouldn't it be nice to have a band using just guitars, organ, piano, bass and drums instead of all the samples and techno beats?

Note: I must say that I don't like heavy metal much, and the nu-metal and most of the new bands that are screaming the lyrics about destruction and have just attacking wall of guitar sound, fast drums and bass are annoying me.

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In the womb, the baby thinks that it's the universe. And when the baby is born, there is a glimmer of light.
I was there, but now I am here. So there are two things - me and the universe. The universe is there for me.
Then what happens? Other people. But the universe is there for you. Now tell me what happened in the glade.
I did something to myself. Like entertainment, like music, like a daydream. There was nothing there and I saw something.
I saw his head on the bonnet of the car. You can say what you like but I saw the bird of paradise spread its wings.
DO YOU PLAY BRIDGE?

Wow, you said something smart.

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stchrissie is not me.

The Smashing Pumpkins are kind of half Heavy Metal, half Floyd spinoff. I have a ROIO of one of their concerts, and some of it is OK. I mainly got it for the cover of the Who song, Join Together.

It seems to me that some of you spend way too much time trying to compare musical eras. I think that there are quite a few good bands today, it just all depends on what you enjoy to listen too.

Well then what do you suggest?

After realizing your avatar changed, I don't want to think about what you suggest.

I listen to a lot of heavy stuff as well as bands like Radiohead and The White Stripes. I enjoy a wide variety of music.

Well, at least we can fit on the same plane on thinking the White Stripes are ok. You'd probably like it more than me, I just like that cool LEGO video. Though I've made better LEGO movies, but that's another story.............

Try some Static-X.......get "Machine". Damn good album. Not to your tastes? Ask Thorin, he'll give you something good(he hasn't failed me yet).

Bollocks.

I was referring to ys8, by the way.

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stchrissie is not me.

Well, maybe I went overboard saying the Pumpkins were a Floyd spinoff, but they pop in my head when I hear some of their stuff, like Tool. I don't think he's like Floyd at all.

The Fact:
There are no geniuses, just hard-working peope with a goal beyond everybody else's, and power of observation.

The Issue:
Creative process takes a lot of that hard work and power of observation.

The Problem:
Not everybody's willing to spend their lifes working hard and observing!!

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"What is not? And why, if we, do we? Of course!"

That is why rich people are bad songwriters. You gotta be from the grimy streets of London or something to write anything really good. That's probably why Jethro Tull, The Beatles, and The Who got so famous.