Bringing Back the Balls to Rock

[cojo965]

ROCKERS!!!!! POST!! Lordi: Bringing Back the Balls to Rock.

 

[Launcelot111]

What are we doing? Are we posting songs? Are we discussing rock and its perceived lack of balls? Are only rockers allowed to post? Maybe explain using sentences with more words than exclamation marks.

And if rock has lost its metaphorical balls, that song is not the one to help rock find them.

 

[cojo965]

What are we doing? Are we posting songs? Are we discussing rock and its perceived lack of balls? Are only rockers allowed to post? Maybe explain using sentences with more words than exclamation marks.

And if rock has lost its metaphorical balls, that song is not the one to help rock find them.

Posting songs obviously. I thought that was clear actually, guess not. And by all means It doesn't have to be just rockers, just the songs need to be rock.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

YEAH!

Rock like this is kinda dying, there's only a few of the old bands left, and very few new ones coming up to fill the gaps. It's all become a lot more pop nowadays.

 

[Calibanbutcher]

Rock like this is kinda dying, there's only a few of the old bands left, and very few new ones coming up to fill the gaps. It's all become a lot more pop nowadays.

Unless you're joking. Which I sort of suspect.

Well, he is right in one aspect:
One of the Manowar band-members has died recently...

As for newer "true-metal", I would be interested in new bands, care to give me some names?

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Rock like this is kinda dying, there's only a few of the old bands left, and very few new ones coming up to fill the gaps. It's all become a lot more pop nowadays.

Unless you're joking. Which I sort of suspect.

I'm not sure which bit you're objecting to, the bit where the song I linked was from like... 2008, or the bit where I referred to Manowar being rock. In my defence it is 1 in the morning here and I didn't think about that line, I just stuck it in to avoid a low content post.

With the song time thing, well Manowar have been going since the 80's. Even though they are creating great new music they're going to have to retire eventually, and when they and the other old bands like them do, there are very few new bands creating that 80s style sound. The bands considered rock or metal today tend to all be influenced by more modern mainstream sounds; Muse, The Killers, etc., most music by modern rock bands include electronic, pop, and indie styles into their songs, not that that's a bad thing, but I really really like the old 80's style rock sound.

And the Manowar rock band thing. Yeah...
I dunno. The way I work it in my head is that guitar riffs and chords are rock, and guitar shredding is metal, so I'd consider Manowar to be more rock (especially their slower songs) and, say, Racer X to be metal:


Of course I could still be just talking a load of crap, since the only really new rock/metal band I'm aware of that does that old style music is Wolfmother, and I've never really bothered to properly define in my head what constitutes rock or metal, I just listen to what I like.

To make it better here's a rocking picture of two Irish guys that just might bring back the balls to rock:

Spoiler

Or not...

 

[DugMachine]

Uh not really a new song or a new band but I think this has 'balls'? Either way, it's one of my favorite metal songs and I'm not much of a metalhead.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Your entire post left me gobsmacked but only this bit made me want to punch kittens in the neck.

there are very few new bands creating that 80s style sound.

If that were true I'd be ecstatic. Nothing causes artistic stagnation faster than nostalgia. But it isn't true. Not by a long shot. I am baffled at the sheer number of nostalgia bands that are going around these days. It blows the top of my skull off, it's that immense. I wanna refer you to this post [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.390948-Bringing-Back-the-Balls-to-Rock#15723988] for just a few, repeat just a few, examples. Examples that took a bafflingly small amount of effort to find, I might add. We are literally up to our ass in nostalgia bands these days and that's not counting all the hangers-on from those decades.

This decade has been so accommodating to every single potential musical palette, even yours (especially yours). Understand how it makes me want to pull my hair out to see you badmouth it because you couldn't summon the el fuevos to use Google.

Thanks for that, I generally just searched the Spotify "similar bands" section, which was what brought me onto Wolfmother, but it's kinda woeful at linking newer bands. I suppose it can only show what it's got.

 

[mitchell271]

That's not really rock, that's more like heavy metal...
If you like stuff like that, try these songs

Spoiler: Dying in your arms - Trivium

Spoiler: Before I forget - Slipknot

Spoiler: Warriors of Time - Black Tide

The fell version of this one is actually a lot better but the music video is just so cool I had to post it.

 

[Callate]

Rock like this is kinda dying, there's only a few of the old bands left, and very few new ones coming up to fill the gaps. It's all become a lot more pop nowadays.

This seems apropos...

 

[Vault101]

are we talking about rock or metal?

Rock like this is kinda dying, there's only a few of the old bands left, and very few new ones coming up to fill the gaps. It's all become a lot more pop nowadays.

you don't know how to use the internet do you?

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Soooo....

Anything then?

Nightwish is what this thread needs!

 

[Vault101]

If that were true I'd be ecstatic. Nothing causes artistic stagnation faster than nostalgia. But it isn't true. Not by a long shot. I am baffled at the sheer number of nostalgia bands that are going around these days. It blows the top of my skull off, it's that immense

to be fair I don't think theres anything wrong with wanting to capture a certain sound/feeling in music TBH I kind of like 80's sounding stuff (kind of like I had nostalga for an era I never grew up in) I actually like the sound of synths and all that

this one I dont know when it was actually released..but yeah

or Industrial often has a bit of 80's in it


or somthing like this...


I'd rather judge less on era (or perceived nostalga for said era) and more on sound and feeling

anyway...in regards to rock...somthing pretty awful happend to me the other day...I heard this song on the radio which I had been wanting to get...so I looked up the lyrics and

....[i/]it was a nickleback sonmg[/i] I found myself geniunly liking a nickleback song

[spoiler/][/spoiler]

 

[Something Amyss]

What are we doing? Are we posting songs? Are we discussing rock and its perceived lack of balls? Are only rockers allowed to post? Maybe explain using sentences with more words than exclamation marks.

And if rock has lost its metaphorical balls, that song is not the one to help rock find them.

REAL ROCKERS DON'T USE SENTENCES!

We rock!!!!!

 

[Vault101]

Nothing wrong with it in moderation, no. But it's not. As I mentioned to Half Shell there's just too much of it going around. And it's not getting any better, either. If the continued success of artists like Wolfmother, Adele or The Black Keys sends out any message it's that "Hey! Being original is for squares! Why go to all that effort when you can be adored for plundering a long expired style beat for beat?"

none of those artists seem partiucally 80's to me.....I mean alot of rock sounds awfully generic to me hence why I stay away...is that more what you mean? genericness? (I also dont mind that one song by adlele)

back on the subject of 80's....another thing I find partiuclly odd is in theory THIS


is not that different from alot of similar pop from later or thease days..its not exactly ground breaking or "briliant"...yet for some bizare reason I friggen love it a million times more than modern music...

 

[RaikuFA]

This thread is lacking some Holy Grail.


Add some Iron Maiden in for reasons.

 

[IrradiatedFish]

Balls? Rock? Balls... Rock... Balls + Rock? Rings a bell...

Spoiler: Balls!

Anyway, yeah, thought it was amusingly relevant to this thread in a not too obscure way, and there's definitely lots of balls in this rock.

 

[Vault101]

[
I didn't specify which decade they were throwing back to, just that they were throwbacks.

throwbacks huh?.....ok thats an interesting way of looking at it

"genres" come and go in terms of their "ground breaking"ness and popularity....be the good or generic I honestly don't see anything wrong with sticking to a style the artist/audience likes

but then I'd have to ask..what IS the more "progressive/groundbreaking" types of music or thing in music you'd be looking for? Dubstep?
[spoiler/][/spoiler]

then again and interesting Idea on genres themselves
[spoiler/][/spoiler]

 

[Zipa]

That's one hell of way to open a live show...

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Of course, I should've posted this instead since we're talking about balls and rock music here.