Modern rock radio is so bad

[dank69]

Where's that "old man yells at rock" picture?

Cloud. Old man yells at cloud.

 

[Oyeve]

This is why I stick to the Grateful Dead.

 

[Thebobo]

This is why I stick to the Grateful Dead.

:thumbsup:

 

[cbrunny]

Muse is about the only new music worth listening to right now IMO. Haven't heard anything that I want to listen to outside of Muse.

 

[twinrider1]

Holy crap, our modern rock station seems to have tweaked their format. I was going to complain about it being all crappy buzzy distortion, blast beasts and angry growling. But I just checked their playlist and they've mixed in some 90s rock. Might have to give them another listen.

Rival Sons, Vintage Trouble...I never hear them on the radio.

 

[Brian Stirling]

Rock had a run of about 30-35 years as the dominant form of music, but that ended about 20-25 years ago so although there are still rock acts out there and even some newer rock acts the musical form of rock is nothing like what it used to be.

By the early 90's Hip Hop and urban music had surpassed rock, and pop music, always a close second, has also surpassed rock and so has country. At this point rock is more-or-less in the same relative grouping in terms of sales as classical music and has a demographic that's also very similar.

Add in the proliferation of other outlets of digital music and FM/AM and even SiriusXM are marginal these days.

So, we have a must less important musical form and a crap ton of alternative delivery methods so it should come as no surprise that over the air rock music is hardly worth the airtime. People don't buy music like they used to so artists pretty much make all there money from touring. Top acts like Taylor Swift makes a crap ton from selling music, be she's in the minority as most acts can't pay the bills from music sales and have to tour to earn there keep.

Rock ran its course and ended its run at the top in the early 90's and the once vast sums of money that washed over the music business is largely gone with the exception of the top 1% and they're doing just fine.

If you think rock is still alive tell me what band started in the last 20 years is in the top 1%?


Brian

 

[dr150]

OP,
All music on radio is purchased so I wouldn't go there to listen to "pimped out" music from the labels.

If you want to listen to good modern rock, sign up for the paid versions of Spotify, Deezer, Google Music or the like (not Pandora streamers or the like) and listen to their recommendations and/or user playlists based on artists you like.

You'll winnow down a huge tree of a bunch of great "unknown" artists that you've never heard of that are a million times better than anything on the radio!

It's the primary way it has kept my pulse going for new stuff.

If you listen to radio, it'll whither your soul out.

Paying for such a service is a no-brainer to me given how much it has reinvigorated my listening to rock. Instead of paying for Netflix DVD, I exchanged that money for Spotify. Best decision ever!

 

[BxgJ]

Rock had a run of about 30-35 years as the dominant form of music, but that ended about 20-25 years ago so although there are still rock acts out there and even some newer rock acts the musical form of rock is nothing like what it used to be.

By the early 90's Hip Hop and urban music had surpassed rock, and pop music, always a close second, has also surpassed rock and so has country. At this point rock is more-or-less in the same relative grouping in terms of sales as classical music and has a demographic that's also very similar.

Add in the proliferation of other outlets of digital music and FM/AM and even SiriusXM are marginal these days.

So, we have a must less important musical form and a crap ton of alternative delivery methods so it should come as no surprise that over the air rock music is hardly worth the airtime. People don't buy music like they used to so artists pretty much make all there money from touring. Top acts like Taylor Swift makes a crap ton from selling music, be she's in the minority as most acts can't pay the bills from music sales and have to tour to earn there keep.

Rock ran its course and ended its run at the top in the early 90's and the once vast sums of money that washed over the music business is largely gone with the exception of the top 1% and they're doing just fine.

If you think rock is still alive tell me what band started in the last 20 years is in the top 1%?


Brian

Despite the fact that I don't really keep up with this subject too much in general, this seemed really off. By googling 'music sales by genre', here was one example, with others basically agreeing.

http://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/rock-music-twice-popular-pop-america-rb-rules-streaming/

another, nielsen -

http://s0.thejazzline.com/tjl/uploads/2015/03/nielsen-2014-year-end-music-report-us.pdf

Still checking, other sources agree, at least that rock is certainly not equal to classical. :|