Quote Originally Posted by Hyfi
At what point / year would you say that started?
I dunno, 1990-ish? Discounting rap/hip hop 'cuz I just don't give a crap, pretty much everything in the last 20 years of popular music has been a copy of something from the 60s and 70s. Maybe a little denser and heavier, but it's all just a rehash.

Quote Originally Posted by Hyfi
It does seem like there is nothing anyone can do that we have not already heard. So is music dead unless you want to hear band after band doing pretty much the same thing, as we have now?
Pop culture and technology combined in the 60s and 70s to create a new form of music never heard before in the history of humanity. We've basically been repeating it ever since.

There's always some new kind of music to discover out there, whether it's traditional Indian Ragas or Gamelan or Peruvian pan flutes or old English sea shantys, or whatever. But in rock music as an avenue for expanding music in general? Yeah, totally dead.

I've felt this way about it for many years now and I'm fine with it. I still enjoy listening to all kinds of rock music, every single day of my life, but any sort of expectation that some new band is going to scratch that itch for invention that got scratched during the golden age of rock? Ain't gonna happen.

Last time I saw Umphrey's McGee live, the audience was 95% in their 20s and acted like the band had invented their form of semi-improvisational progrock. They were so reverential for the band, so "OMG OMG, they are so brilliant and groundbreaking!!" UM is a blast to see live and they are extremely talented writers and musicians who work together as an ensemble as good as any band I've ever seen in the 30 years I've been seeing rock shows, but don't act like they somehow have moved rock music to some new plateau.

I don't begrudge anyone liking Wilco and Coldplay. Or the White Stripes or Green Day or any of the other hugely popular rock acts today. Enjoy yourself, but yeah, it's all been done before.