action Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 8 hours ago, EvanG said: Also, this is not what I associate with the Dutch, the south perhaps who have a Burgundian background (like the Belgians) and who are more known for celebrating and enjoying life with food, drink, etc., but the rest of the country comes from a Calvinist background which doesn't really gel with ''partying, laughing, having a good time'' as you see it. Not that it's so black or white anymore nowadays, but that's not how I would associate them. weren't the calvinists kind of the cool guys though? they could shag birds and drink a lot, whereas the catholics (to this day) need to be all goody-good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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PatrickS77 Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 13 hours ago, Len Cnut said: but who’d listen on a forum full of metallers? this forum certainly is not full of metallers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatrickS77 Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 14 hours ago, Len Cnut said: Stadiums are cold impersonal, there’s no such thing as stadium rock n roll, not really. Uhm. Yes there is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 Just now, PatrickS77 said: Uhm. Yes there is. By the time it made it as a regular in stadiums it was all over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatrickS77 Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 (edited) 15 hours ago, action said: not as good as freddie, son It's not really a competition though. How do you rate that shit anyway? Freddie Mercury, James Brown, Jim Morrison, Robbie Williams... all great at what they do/did. 7 minutes ago, Len Cnut said: By the time it made it as a regular in stadiums it was all over. It's over? Ask U2, Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, AC/DC, Metallica, Guns N' Roses, even fucking Bon Jovi... I think they beg to differ. Edited September 30, 2020 by PatrickS77 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvanG Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 4 hours ago, action said: weren't the calvinists kind of the cool guys though? they could shag birds and drink a lot, whereas the catholics (to this day) need to be all goody-good I believe it is the other way around, the Calvinists were about hard work and no play and living modestly while the Burgundians were all about embracing life with all its pleasures. Protestants are more conservative than Catholics in that regard. Carnival is a good example, in the south it's larger than life, people live for it, while in the rest of the country they barely even celebrate it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 Quote It's over? Ask U2, Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, AC/DC, Metallica, Guns N' Roses, even fucking Bon Jovi... I think they beg to differ. The groups you named are perfect examples of why it was over. The Stones I give a pass to due to personal taste but really and truly, what was left of rock n roll by the time The Stones were doing stadiums in the 80s? it was done. AC/DC, as good as a great many of their songs are, were like a revivalist nostalgia act. Same with Guns, Metallica, U2 and Springsteen were just pants. At that point it was just about corporate sponsorship and maximizing earnings as these 'artists' rapidly approached middle age and realised that they hadn't made half the money that they could have and were looking to the future about how they were gonna keep themselves in the manner to which they'd become accustomed. And thats fine, I ain't against anyone earning a few bob. But it ain't rock n roll, at least not in the sense of a fertile forward moving genre with some legs to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatrickS77 Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 17 minutes ago, Len Cnut said: The groups you named are perfect examples of why it was over. The Stones I give a pass to due to personal taste but really and truly, what was left of rock n roll by the time The Stones were doing stadiums in the 80s? it was done. AC/DC, as good as a great many of their songs are, were like a revivalist nostalgia act. Same with Guns, Metallica, U2 and Springsteen were just pants. At that point it was just about corporate sponsorship and maximizing earnings as these 'artists' rapidly approached middle age and realised that they hadn't made half the money that they could have and were looking to the future about how they were gonna keep themselves in the manner to which they'd become accustomed. And thats fine, I ain't against anyone earning a few bob. But it ain't rock n roll, at least not in the sense of a fertile forward moving genre with some legs to it. But those are still here, going on and going strong for the most part, so it's not over. It may only be over (after they retire), because bands tend not to get that big anymore. And there is just something magical about that stadium of 50,000 people singing the same song. A show starting in daylight, going into twilight and ending in the night. That is an atmosphere an arena or club can never match. And all 3 situations are rock n roll. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvanG Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 23 minutes ago, Len Cnut said: But it ain't rock n roll, at least not in the sense of a fertile forward moving genre with some legs to it. Bands like Pearl Jam and Foo Fighters are stadium acts, what would you call them? If it's not rock n roll. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 1 minute ago, PatrickS77 said: But those are still here, going on and going strong for the most part, so it's not over. It may only be over (after they retire), because bands tend not to get that big anymore. And there is just something magical about that stadium of 50,000 people singing the same song. A show starting in daylight, going into twilight and ending in the night. That is an atmosphere an arena or club can never match. And all 3 situations are rock n roll. I think the rock festival was a good idea, initially. Its kinda what the idea of stadium shows kinda grew on the back of? But it was like a communal concern y'know, big free concerts, various stages where you could sorta wander from one to the other. I mean its not my sort of thing but there's something to it. But even those ended up exercises in corporate sponsorship. And I agree there is something magical about such communal gatherings. And its rock n roll inasmuch as they are playing that old music, I don't mean to say that they are playing Trad Jazz, I'm just saying that, to my mind, when a genre has run its course and its no longer that thing that it used to be but rather other people doing some sort of facsimillie of something that once was, add to which the various commercialism at play, from merchandizing to sponsorship, it then, to my mind, lacks some of the essence/soul of the original thing, which was about style and subversion etc etc 3 minutes ago, EvanG said: Bands like Pearl Jam and Foo Fighters are stadium acts, what would you call them? If it's not rock n roll. Dreadful? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvanG Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 (edited) 4 minutes ago, Len Cnut said: Dreadful? Yeah, I expected that because I know you don't like them, but to me that's rock n roll and there's nothing ''corporate sponsorship and maximizing earnings'' about that. I mean, Pearl Jam spent a good deal of the 90's fighting Ticketmaster in court regarding ticket prices. I think you have a very different definition of rock n roll than most people! Edited September 30, 2020 by EvanG 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 3 minutes ago, EvanG said: Yeah, I expected that because I know you don't like them, but to me that's rock n roll and there's nothing ''corporate sponsorship and maximizing earnings'' about that. I mean, Pearl Jam spent a good deal of the 90's fighting Ticketmaster in court regarding ticket prices. I think you have a very different definition of rock n roll than most people! There's a few more examples of groups that shunned the commercial aspect somewhat but then lack the musical aspect in terms of, y'know, contributing to it as a growing forward moving genre. I don't think its arguable that rock n roll music is dead, has been for a long while now. In fact even hip hop is kinda at where rock n roll was in the 80s when stadium rock came to prominence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvanG Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 1 minute ago, Len Cnut said: There's a few more examples of groups that shunned the commercial aspect somewhat but then lack the musical aspect in terms of, y'know, contributing to it as a growing forward moving genre. I don't think its arguable that rock n roll music is dead, has been for a long while now. In fact even hip hop is kinda at where rock n roll was in the 80s when stadium rock came to prominence. Ok, I get what you're saying, but to me a band doesn't have to evolve a genre to still be considered rock n roll. A band like the Foo Fighters have been doing pretty much the same thing since their first record and there's nothing new to their sound nor have they helped evolve the rock genre at all, but that doesn't mean that they're not rock n roll anymore... but I guess you have a different definition of the term, and that's ok too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted September 30, 2020 Share Posted September 30, 2020 4 minutes ago, EvanG said: Ok, I get what you're saying, but to me a band doesn't have to evolve a genre to still be considered rock n roll. A band like the Foo Fighters have been doing pretty much the same thing since their first record and there's nothing new to their sound nor have they helped evolve the rock genre at all, but that doesn't mean that they're not rock n roll anymore... but I guess you have a different definition of the term, and that's ok too. Yeah, as I say, I'm not saying they don't play rock n roll music, or a 2020 take on it, I meant it in a difference sense: Quote And its rock n roll inasmuch as they are playing that old music, I don't mean to say that they are playing Trad Jazz, I'm just saying that, to my mind, when a genre has run its course and its no longer that thing that it used to be but rather other people doing some sort of facsimillie of something that once was, add to which the various commercialism at play, from merchandizing to sponsorship, it then, to my mind, lacks some of the essence/soul of the original thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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