When, Why, And How Did Rock n Roll Die?

Connie Francis.

Years ago I read an article somewhere that said it died with Pink Floyd's "The Wall." This might have been pre internet. I'll see if I can find a link. It was well written.

Rock N Roll didn't die. It never existed.

Blame it on fucking rap.

Disco killed it.

Agreed OP ! Today, the music is truly and definitely dead. Whenever I come across the K-Pop bands (music 100% copied on the 90's RnB), I want to cry about this shit-loving youth. When it's not K-pop it's Trap, or female singers who are all imitating Rihanna. They have no personality, no identity. Looks like clones. It is as if we are witnessing the uberisation of mediocrity with what this generation dares to call "art", whose icon are Kim Kardashian and Trump. Both the symbol of America mediocrity, bad tastes, completely narcissistic and pathetic.

After the 90s Grunge / Garage style, there was not a new musical genre. There are no artists who have revolutionized music. In the 80s and 90s, there were some great and beautiful things. Like : David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Prince, Tom York, Kurt Cobain, Billie Idol, Let Zeppelin, ACDC, Guns and Roses, Aerosmith, Van Hallen, The Smith ?

Internet, especially social medias killed Arts

synthesisers and time.

It lost its subversive appeal and got commercial (Kiss was a commercial band with the make-up gimmick). Glam Rock and Punk Rock were ways to recapture that credible, subversive niche appeal.

The Black Keys still rock.

More Keys

Modest Mouse

Sharon Van Etten

Rock n Roll didn’t die. It’s only resting.

I'm a OLD OLD prof at a STEM university filled with geeky young men who listen to Rock n Roll. Which isn't dead. The only thing this thread is about is some of youse is OLD OLD too.

Hip hop and rap shit.

When people of a certain age decided music should be free, versus album$, ca$$ette$, compact di$c$, record $tore$. If I were a genuinely talented, aspiring rock 'n' roller trying eke out a living, I'd say fuggit, too.

^^^ ". . . trying TO eke out a living," grrr . . .

If people are creating music simply for the $$ then thank God they are giving up music.

When - 1980 Why - Meat Loaf stepped on it How - He never looked where he was going

1991. Hiphop takes over popular music.

[quote] New analysis from researchers in the United Kingdom, who studied the chord structure and sounds of 17,000 songs in last half-century, determined that 1991 marked the most significant revolution in the history of modern pop music. The rise of rap and hip-hop, they authors wrote, marked “the single most important event that has shaped the musical structural of the American charts."

I think there was a big Jazz influence in pop and rock, which was the reason a lot of music was more harmonically complex than today’s music. A lot of arrangers, and some producers and studio musicians were classically trained and had the ability to turn a simple song into something more sophisticated.

It died thanks to the pop-rock of the 2000's, they tried to Disney-fy it and that killed it. It was already in big trouble but then Kelly Clarkson, Avril Lavigne, Jonas Bros, etc tried to claim it for themselves as "pop-rock" and Avril claimed to be a "punk rock girl".

Record execs killed it in the early 90s. They knew that the market was really in pre-teens and those with arrested development who buy things like Beyonce barbie dolls and celebrity endorsed cosmetics.

All things shall pass

There is still a lot of great rock out there it's just not the predominant form of commercial music.

[quote] I think there was a big Jazz influence in pop and rock,

There were a lot of jazz samples in hip-hop as well. Esp. pre-91 before music clearance court cases that cracked down on sampling.

Right here, in response to someone's jealousy and greed....FU Rock and Roll

The Cure was asked to cut their set short for the 'bigger' rock star, Robert Palmer. They didn't. They kept it going and then Robert Smith told both Palmer and Rock and Roll to fuck off.

The festival, the moment

Check the psychedelic rock scene coming out of Australia:

King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard

The Murlocs

Pond

Tame Impala

All fantastic stuff!

Country music also had an effect. Alabama, George Strait and Jones, Kenny Rogers, Randy Travis, and Willie Nelson just to name a few. This is what was happening in the early 80s.

The 3rd of July 1973.

David killed me in London.

I recently saw The Regrettes live, and believe me, it was rock'n'roll. No, rock isn't the dominant genre these days, but is that necessarily a bad thing? Who cares?

What R26 said.