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Post by tank13 on Apr 21, 2009 14:54:47 GMT -5
WIth the first decade of the 2000's coming to a close, i think its safe to say the era of big bands is over. The 90's procured the last decade of bands being able to fill stadiums. Oasis, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Verve, Green Day, etc. etc. With the exception of Coldplay, Killers and Kings of Leon almost at the level, this decade has killed the ability for bands to become huge like on the scale of the 90s.
Who is to blame? Several of reasons off the top of my head. 1) Illegal downloads took a big chunk out of record sales. 2) Rock music is just not mainstream any more. Unless if you produce pop rock songs or put out a power ballad, rock bands not getting any radio play on a top 40 station. 3) Stateside, rock radio stations barely exist any more. If they do, they play Nickelback (who is still a product of the 90s), Metallica (old metallica), various other hard rock and metal bands, and still a ton of grunge music. 4) Hip Hop has taken over rock's music as pop music. Dance music will always be pop. But hip hop and rock music switched places this decade. I like hip hop, I'm not hating on it. 5) The internet also destroyed big bands. With 24/7/365 access to bands, you no longer have to wait for them. There's no longer a mystery about bands. There's no reason to really follow them or get really excited with them. I mean, with a couple of clicks you can see bands personal pics on myspace. On twitter, you can find out what Liam had for lunch, or if Dave Grohl took a nap. They are no longer mythical figures who lived in the pages of rolling stone, spin, NME. They no longer just lived in video clips on mtv. Now you see Liam answering random questions on his webcam.
Maybe I'm just old at 25. Maybe I just prefer 90s bands. But that era of huge bands that a lot of us grew up on is dead. Even all these new bands out there today, I can't see any of them getting huge enough to fill a 20,000-25,000 seat stadium. That's just a larger sized basketball stadium. We're not talking football stadiums that sit 60,000+.
Maybe a lot of these new bands are just crap and can't write good rock songs.
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Post by Level 03 on Apr 21, 2009 15:49:18 GMT -5
That's a fact.
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Post by Headmaster on Apr 21, 2009 15:52:01 GMT -5
Agree.
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Post by mimmihopps on Apr 22, 2009 5:57:44 GMT -5
Not all the "big" bands are good and there's still loads of good bands without a record deal.
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Post by tank13 on Apr 22, 2009 7:10:53 GMT -5
Not all the "big" bands are good and there's still loads of good bands without a record deal. With the way the music industry his ran, all those good newer bands, or smaller bands, will never have that opportunity to become a "big bands" in terms of selling records and selling out large venues for shows.
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Post by madferitusa2025 on Apr 22, 2009 14:44:56 GMT -5
I agree the internet as well as satellite and corporate radio contributed alot to what you're talking about.
When I was a kid, there were limited outlets for music and other types of culture. So many folks had a shared experience. We watched the same channels and got the same news and listened to the same radio stations.
Now, with so much media fragmentation and proliferation of outlets and so many different genres, everything is a niche, therefore there is less opportunity for common experiences anymore.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 23, 2009 14:23:45 GMT -5
muse
you might prove me wrong but i think it was this decade that the foos and green day became stadium bands.
arctic monkeys played 2 nights at LCCC to 30 000 a night.
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Post by thedon on Apr 23, 2009 15:57:43 GMT -5
I don't agree.
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