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Originally Posted by Savage Clone

Seriously, this forum used to be where I came to find out about music I wanted to listen to and at this point I cannot believe the level to which it has devolved. This isn't disparaging anyone personally, as personal taste as personal taste, but there has been a serious and detrimental shift here. I used to feel I was among peers. This is no longer the case, aside from the precious few that are still here.

nostalgia is always a kind of laziness. i was gonna post this link somewhere else but here you go:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...5a2_story.html

some choice quotes:

The Pulitzer for Lamar might confuse or anger those reared on the great canon of rock, but perhaps we will no longer have to endure the cloudy reveries of middle-aged men bemoaning the fact that fewer people seem to appreciate the brilliance of a 20-minute Clapton or Hendrix solo anymore. Didn’t millions of us, after all, live out our arena-rock fantasies with the Guitar Hero video game just a few years ago?

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Hip-hop has cornered the market on innovation. No present-day rock musician can compete with Lamar’s astonishing verbal dexterity or his ability to articulate the inchoate rage of his listeners in tracks that take in the full sweep of vernacular music. But superstars such as Lamar don’t really drive hip-hop culture anyway, not when obscure and iconic artists are posting mind-blowing tracks online at a rate that makes rock seem sclerotic by comparison. To take the measure of forward thinking in popular music, you have to pay attention to every culvert and tributary of hip-hop.

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At its best, rock opens an aperture into new ways of thinking about the personal and the political; but in its present state, it’s a black mirror, reflecting nothing. Until rock musicians can figure out new ways to tap into the way we live now, and dissect the psyche of a fractious, angry and fearful country, hip-hop will remain the only genre that matters.

damn!

so it looks like the party has moved on...