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Lord Lucan
Lord Lucan
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Hmm
Sep 05, 2003, 12:18
Grunge didn't suffocate indie rock, it was a development on it. Nirvana aren't sonically a million miles away from The Jesus and And Mary Chain after all. Just mix the JAMC with The Police and you've got Nirvana! Anyway, the indie scene needed some dead wood clearing out, like all scenes do from time time. The were just too many substandard Smiths wannabes in the end.

The idea that rock music hasn't sold anything since the early 70s is just plain wrong. What about glam, punk, post-punk, new wave, the indie stuff you mention yourself, Britpop, grunge, 'post'-rock and all the other things that don't fit easily into those categories. And I don't quite see why you make a distinction between rock and pop music. Rock's as much pop music as anything else that's in the charts (even if it likes to hide behind shades and pretend it isn't). There was no golden age of charts crammed full of rock music. There have always been The Brotherhood of Man, Renee & Renato, Cilla Black and Steps rubbing shoulders with T-Rex, The Sex Pistols and Nirvana. Things go in cycles. Rock music will get a resurgence in interest again, like it always does. Rock music hasn't died. People were premature when rave was kicking off saying it had created a revolution, lined rock stars up against the wall and taken them out. A few years later rave was on a heavy comedown and people had started noticing rock again. There will always be rock, just as there will always be disco (techno, rave or whatever form it takes) and just as there will always be shiny happy granny/tweenie pop. The fact we have more genres around now that ever before is nothing to be scared of!
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