In my times...

We had something called Hardrock , now we have Post-rock ....

I can't wait for post-djent.

Modern music is still super derivative and pretentious in comparison to what bands were doing 40 years ago IMHO; having to come up with all these labels for your band today completely ruins the experience factor when all I hear sh*t like "post-djent"; makes me cringe to think people actually take that sh*t seriously. This is all aimed at the "post-rock" (as if rock ever "officially" ended) era of course; extreme metal is starting to degrade as well; everything seems to have started tapering off since the 90's IMHO.

AllP0werToSlaves wrote: everything seems to have started tapering off since the 90's IMHO.

I'm pretty sure the last two posts are meant as sarcasm, but I have to agree with both of them on some level.

The funniest thing is when you drop "post-djent" here and it is taken seriously.

Maybe I was being too post-ironic

AllP0werToSlaves wrote: The T wrote: ^No, my post was actually nonsense... Too much political reading lately  Tell me about it! I feel like I'm absorbing more and more politics as of late.

Me, I never get political...  stop laughing.

AllP0werToSlaves wrote: Modern music is still super derivative and pretentious in comparison to what bands were doing 40 years ago IMHO; having to come up with all these labels for your band today completely ruins the experience factor when all I hear sh*t like "post-djent"; makes me cringe to think people actually take that sh*t seriously. This is all aimed at the "post-rock" (as if rock ever "officially" ended) era of course; extreme metal is starting to degrade as well; everything seems to have started tapering off since the 90's IMHO. Post-rock = we aren't creative enough to write good music with hooks so we will just come up with a term that describes our laziness and lack of composition ability in the most artistically acceptable way possible. Let's take all the best parts of rock and throw them out  the window in favor of boring, droning guitars with no substance! Hooray for modern "rock"!

This is very sad. I can see that you are very outward and daring with your conclusions. I must admit that I agree and feel less than an eel doing it. I grew in a different time period with music and that time being dried up like a prune can make a person feel very alone and disconnected. I don't know what kind of proto-plasmic slim I am engendered in. But my memory banks go on forever.

Edited by TODDLER - February 10 2011 at 11:14

I find it difficult to believe that people make music quite as cynically as is being implied here. The act of making and playing music, especially in this day and age, is primarily for enjoyment of the act, not because it is fashionable or convenient. If it is wrong to follow the rules and wrong to break them then the modern musician is caught between a post-rock and a hard-rock place with the only person left to please is himself; When the limitations of 12-bar blues have run their course, add another 4 bars and call it 16-bar blues, at the end of the day it's still the blues and still fits a formula regardless of how you twist and augment it; Everything is derivative unless you are an amnesiac living in an music vaccuum, even the music of 40 years ago was derived from something that went before and was regarded by the unwashed poplace as being pretentious and escoteric (i.e. up it's own bottom); nothing in this world is new, but then it never was and never will be; progressive rock was not a step-function from nothing, it didn't suddenly appear fully-formed and ready to rock, just as it didn't just stop the day the music died.

^That's all I was saying hahaha. I do get a little over zealous with music discussion, I'll admit that