I'm not sure we want a new Bon Jovi.

Seriously though, you gotta look for new bands with a sound developed by themselves, because at the end you still have your acdc records if you wanna listen to something that sounds like acdc. That's just my point of view.

Why would you want new bands to sound like old bands? Wouldn't they then just be pale imitations of older, better bands?

Also, Wolfmother. And Airbourne . They're both so like AC/DC, that when I actually heard them, I literally wanted to kick the universe to death.

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Its because his music is unbearably crap.

I must add, I did like Bon Jovi at one stage around his glam rock days (when I was just a dumb kid) but I stopped after he did the sound track for that gunslinger style movie.

Well no, but you seem to be suggesting that there is one single unifying quality about all these bands, and that similarly all new music lacks any merit. Those are two ridiculous generalisations. I listened to a lot of classic prog in my teens, so for me the true "classic" bands were Pink Floyd, Yes, ELP, King Crimson, Camel, Caravan, Rush. I see a direct lineage between these bands and the likes of Porcupine Tree, The Mars Volta, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Kayo Dot. Not that they're retreading the same ground, but they're working from the same starting point of combining rock energy and a level of complexity either in compositional or production terms. Bands like Bon Jovi, Queen, AC/DC, Styx, etc. The defining quality seems to be of Anthemic rock tunes, but beyond that, their lineage is just all those bands who like playing rock and roll. The anthem has largely gone out of style, but then that Kings of Leons' song Sex on Fire comes along to make me sad.

Does it?



I think you're thinking of Epic in the mad-for-it, wicked, radical, totally-bodacious, neat, transitory slang way. The kind of way that makes me want to slap people.

I didnt say all new music sucks, otherwise I wouldnt have come looking for good new music in the first place. ;)

No I said the new style sucks. Whatever though, I do think that music should have stayed the same as it used to be, if 20 bands could be famous in the 80s playing the same style does that make them just copying off each other? No, just like if a new band played the same style they would not be copying the old bands. Music style and band style are two different things, and I was referring to music style.

Sounds different to me. What would you rather me call it?

The way is all is done, is different than it used to be. You cant deny that.