Are teens listening to rock n' roll?

[GiaCat]

When I was a teen, I found out about the lasted rock music from MTV Alternative Nation and 120 Minutes. Nirvana, Radio Head, Stone Temple Pilots, NIN, and Hole where featured among others. Here

But I notice MTV does not play music anymore. They just follow around and chronologize the messed up lives of losers. So where is the conduit for music now?

 

[dirtwrench]

No idea where kids find the latest/greatest now. A few years back, when my kids were still in high school, mostly they listened to the same radio stations I did. And the more musically inclined loved the old rock- 70's & 80's.

Maybe I raised them wrong. lol.

And yes, MTV sucks.

 

[parodyluvr75]

Reverbnation, spotify, bandcamp, soundcloud and YouTube but I find the search isn't as good anymore, if I like someone and want to see a video I use it.

 

[RoryN]

When I was a teen, I found out about the lasted rock music from MTV Alternative Nation and 120 Minutes. Nirvana, Radio Head, Stone Temple Pilots, NIN, and Hole where featured among others. Here

But I notice MTV does not play music anymore. They just follow around and chronologize the messed up lives of losers. So where is the conduit for music now?

The conduit is everywhere. It streams. It shuffles. It's in a bazillion outdoor concerts. It can be paid for, or it's free.

On my way home last week, two 16-year-old girls blared music in their car next to mine, screaming at the top of their lungs at this far older man. The song? "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)" by the Beastie Boys. So, all of the music you listened to is uber-popular with young people today. Which is...sort of weird, and probably indicative of something far more important.

 

[Aquagal]

Mine listens to pop on the radio, most of it is crappy. My three choices in the car that get reception are country, classic rock, and pop.

Country is not allowed.

 

[warrior queen]

My youngest listens to the same station I do.... Triple J.
And he raids my cd collection for AC/DC, Rolling Stones, Kiss, etc.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

MP3s killed the video star!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I don't even listen to it anymore.



The new generation country artists have adopted the r&r I grew up on...

 

[Fala]

Back in the 1980's, I sat in front of the television, quite intoxicated one night. A commercial came on featuring the music of the seventies.

The deal was a four tape set of the 70's music. I ordered it....then forgot I had.

Well, about 2 weeks later, it's delivered to our door.

Our home at that time, served as our offices...so there were about 5 other people there.

I had no clue as to what was in the box delivered me at that time, as I'd totally forgotten I'd ordered it.

My staff stood around when I opened it....then an uproar of laughter ensued.

I spent the next few months with my employees striking up the stance and singing the "Staying Alive" song. Ok, it was funny the first couple of times...but....

Our daughter got in on it and started doing the same thing.

OK...ten years later...she's 17. After all those years of laughing at me over these tapes, she started swiping them to play in her new car as she drove around. All her friends LOVED the music.

So many of them borrowed the tapes and never returned them.

Don't have them anymore....but my daughter isn't laughing at me anymore over my taste in music.

 

[Liar]

The conduit is everywhere. It streams. It shuffles. It's in a bazillion outdoor concerts. It can be paid for, or it's free.

On my way home last week, two 16-year-old girls blared music in their car next to mine, screaming at the top of their lungs at this far older man. The song? "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)" by the Beastie Boys. So, all of the music you listened to is uber-popular with young people today. Which is...sort of weird, and probably indicative of something far more important.

When I was a teenager in the 90's. I listened to a lot of the current music but also to select stuff from the 60's and 70's. While I could discern a timeless classic when I heard it, my parents also listened to a lot of crap from that era (and tried to make me like it to no avail), which hasn't aged well, but that they had emotional attachment to.

I guess the same should happen to teens now, but with music from the 80's and 90's.

 

[Fala]

When I was a teenager in the 90's. I listened to a lot of the current music but also to select stuff from the 60's and 70's. While I could discern a timeless classic when I heard it, my parents also listened to a lot of crap from that era (and tried to make me like it to no avail), which hasn't aged well, but that they had emotional attachment to.

I guess the same should happen to teens now, but with music from the 80's and 90's.

Our daughter is quite envious of the music we grew up on. Her daddy was at the "original" Woodstock in 1969. Sad to have to emphasize "original"...as some things just can't be re-lived.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Nah it's alive and well....saw a couple of shits looking up to no good in their Scion yesterday, Mastadon totally at 11.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/06/Spinal_Tap_-_Up_to_Eleven.jpg


Rock n' roll is a live and well....at least around here.


Gangster rap is dead....but Hip hop is not, because Wu Tang is 4eva. Real hip hop, not R&B.....Rap and Bullshit.

 

[pointless]

rock will have fans for years and years and years. it will not, however, ever again be the dominate force in pop culture that it once was.

i mean, unless you count country which tends to sound like rock from ten/fifteen years ago only with a silly southern accent and nonsensical, folksy conservatism instead, you know, something interesting or good.

 

[Lancecastor]

Right now, Millennials (about to become a larger buying demographic of everything than the Boomers are/were) are listening to edm, rap and pop along with that mumford and sons type quasi folk celtic shit (so called "new music").

GenX are still listening to their boo-hoo life sucks grunge, but as a demographic/buying group, people who are 25-40 right now are a tiny slice of the economy, so they are irrelevant.

And aging Boomers are hanging on to their guitar rock, along with extending into blues and jazz.

At some point, you'll see electric guitar added to Millennial music as a "new" thing, but not for 5-10 years.

My people are looking for the "next big rock band" right now to make big in 5 years or so, but it's slim picking out there, as everything is still derivative.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

I only listen to the Milk Carton Kids. Teenager ears aren't even ripe yet. They are listening to what ever the cool kids tell them to.

 

[Aella_]

I only listen to the Milk Carton Kids. Teenager ears aren't even ripe yet. They are listening to what ever the cool kids tell them to.

Nice Halloween av., yours are v.creative, as usual.
But I'd like it even more if the stickman squashed the pumpkin-like head; more you.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

Nice Halloween av., yours are v.creative, as usual.
But I'd like it even more if the stickman squashed the pumpkin-like head; more you.

You are staring at my boobies, aren't you?

 

[Sean Renaud]

No greater sign of someone who's too stupid to work the cable box than one who thinks MTV doesn't play music. You guys are aware there are like three of them and VHS right?

 

[Oh_That_Guy]

No greater sign of someone who's too stupid to work the cable box than one who thinks MTV doesn't play music. You guys are aware there are like three of them and VHS right?

Nobody has VHS anymore and yes, there are multiple MTV channels but when people talk about it they mean the original and lament that music television used to mean you got music videos. It just doesn't anymore. It's pure garbage. Of course it was garbage before also but at least you got what was advertised. I was too old for it when it started but I still saw it now and then and MTV used to interesting if you were into current music. Even the regular shows were not terrible. Now it's ewww.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Who the fuck doesn't have VHS? That's like not having twelve spanish channels. They come because you have basic cable not because you actually want them. As for lamenting the original Mtv again, too stupid or lazy to click + or - on your remote and get to the channel that's all music all day? It's like crying that Disney doesn't show cartoons anymore and only shows live action shit like Hannah Montana. . .and forgetting that Disney spun off their cartoons onto Toon Disney that shows nothing but cartoons.

Like i said learn to work a remote.

 

[Oh_That_Guy]

Who the fuck doesn't have VHS? That's like not having twelve spanish channels. They come because you have basic cable not because you actually want them. As for lamenting the original Mtv again, too stupid or lazy to click + or - on your remote and get to the channel that's all music all day? It's like crying that Disney doesn't show cartoons anymore and only shows live action shit like Hannah Montana. . .and forgetting that Disney spun off their cartoons onto Toon Disney that shows nothing but cartoons.

Like i said learn to work a remote.

I think you mean VH1 and you're missing the point about MTV. Everyone knows they have other channels.

 

[Sean Renaud]

Apparently not since the OP is about where do kids find their music. They find it one button press up from where you're looking. If they care to use that method.

And you're correct I did mean VH1 not VHS. Stupid me.

 

[Oh_That_Guy]

Apparently not since the OP is about where do kids find their music. They find it one button press up from where you're looking. If they care to use that method.

And you're correct I did mean VH1 not VHS. Stupid me.

I'm guessing you don't have teenage kids or at least not currently.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

I'm guessing you don't have teenage kids or at least not currently.

He posts as if he is a teenager tho.

 

[GiaCat]

The conduit is everywhere. It streams. It shuffles. It's in a bazillion outdoor concerts. It can be paid for, or it's free.

On my way home last week, two 16-year-old girls blared music in their car next to mine, screaming at the top of their lungs at this far older man. The song? "(You Gotta) Fight for Your Right (to Party)" by the Beastie Boys. So, all of the music you listened to is uber-popular with young people today. Which is...sort of weird, and probably indicative of something far more important.

I know it's funny. I drive passed a high school and see kids with AC DC and Zeppelin tee shirts. Its a time warp. When I was there age, the thought of listening to anything more than ten years old was unheard of.

Perhaps rock and roll is dead, nothing new or original worth a teen's time. I see Keith Richards on the cover of Rolling Stone this month. I mean, the guy is a corpse.