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Will Guitar Music Make A Comeback.
With the Foo Fighters getting too number one last sunday will it help Guitar music comeback,in the charts again.Or will they just fill it up again with the same dross,and rubbish.
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Guitar music has never gone away? Infact, the influence of guitar music on popular stuff seems to have gone up.
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I love guitar based music. but I can't see ever really dominating the pop charts the way dance or R&B has at various times. Guitar music has always been around and always will be but more as an alternative type of scene sort of like hard core hip hop.
The only time it really dominated the pop scene was in the 90's for a brief period. Most people do tend to like softer pop things especially young kids who seem to determine what's on the pop charts and what's on radio. |
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I recon it's hard to say at the moment. There's been a real absence of Rock music for a while, with only a few making number 1. As I recall Killing In The Name by Rage Against the Machine was the last at Christmas 2009 and before that Sex On Fire by Kings of Leon. As far as Albums are concerned, I recon that it is still a thing people buy into with albums, especially seeing as last year The XX, Mumford and Sons, Biffy Clyro and Kings of Leon sold pretty steadily throughout.
Not only this, but there is already some brilliant underrated bands such as Friendly Fires, Foals which don't get the success they deserve but continue in having a strong fanbase. In reality it's these types of bands which have the most longevity. And so I recon that there is always guitar music around, but whether it will make a return to the mainstream is another question. Personally I would say not for a while, unless there was a heavily influencial band to come out soon. |
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It will again eventually when most bore of the current scene and trends and move to guitar music for a while.
Every commercially accessible genre comes in and out of vogue eventually. |
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It wont come back for a long, long time we are in an awful, depressing cycle of boring pop music and boring pop artists. Its gonna be a hard cycle to break.
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Bob Geldof said some great things.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...72I05P20110319 We need someone too shake thing up again a rable. like Violent Soho. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njqYMv4iYZo |
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Guitar music will never die. We just seem to be going through a poor and contrived period of late, especially, with regard to R 'n' B and all the female acts..
There is nothing to touch a guitar based band. It's cool, it's edgy, it's got attitude. I do think something needs to come along to shake things up, and get kid off their X Boxes and down the guitar shop. It takes some time and sore fingers, but it's worth it. |
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"Guitar Music" didn't go anywhere.
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"Guitar Music" didn't go anywhere.
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People are going to grow sick of all this R&B dance crossover that I think rock music will gradually make a comeback.
Indie music has already been taken over by chavs with different clothes, though. There's been quite a lot of comebacks from the rock genre in recent years. This might be a good thing, but it also suggests that there's lack of good rock surfacing from new acts. |
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Im not a huge fan but dont mind it. And i dont think its ever gone away so
no need for a comeback. |
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With the Foo Fighters getting too number one last sunday will it help Guitar music comeback,in the charts again.Or will they just fill it up again with the same dross,and rubbish.
So there is a band that plays guitars at number one, they are one of the most consistantly middle of the road and un exciting guitar bands of the last 20 yeas. So no, it isn't the re-birth of guitar music in the charts, its just another dull act at number 1. They just happen to play guitar. |
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It's not just the guitar...all instruments need to make a comeback.
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Rihanna has some nice guitar on her Rated R album and her new song - California King Bed.
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Rihanna has some nice guitar on her Rated R album and her new song - California King Bed.
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The thing is, and I say this as a fan of guitar music, the reason that there is so little guitar music in the charts is that guitar bands have done a wonderful job of not being very interesting or exciting in recent years, certainly those aiming at a broad audience.
There are plenty of exciting niche guitar scene, like the new wave of american post hardcore bands, but that isn't music designed for a mass audience. Unless guitar music does something worthy of making a comeback it wont. Dave Grohl did a perfectly good job of helping to save mainstream guitar music 20 years ago, but now he's exactly what guitar music needs saved from. Crazy as it sounds, if you think the charts are so terrible and the music is overly computerised or what not, why not get some mates pick up a guitar and make something better, every golden age of guitar music has been based on people doing that. Punk did not come from people bleating on the internet about how shit the charts are. Personally I don't care if rock is in the charts, perhaps i'm getting old but I don't need to see my music taste validated by chart success or other people listening to the same thing. I know there is amazing guitar music out there, i listen to it every day. It isn't in the charts, but who cares? |
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The thing is, and I say this as a fan of guitar music, the reason that there is so little guitar music in the charts is that guitar bands have done a wonderful job of not being very interesting or exciting in recent years, certainly those aiming at a broad audience.
There are plenty of exciting niche guitar scene, like the new wave of american post hardcore bands, but that isn't music designed for a mass audience. Unless guitar music does something worthy of making a comeback it wont. Dave Grohl did a perfectly good job of helping to save mainstream guitar music 20 years ago, but now he's exactly what guitar music needs saved from. Crazy as it sounds, if you think the charts are so terrible and the music is overly computerised or what not, why not get some mates pick up a guitar and make something better, every golden age of guitar music has been based on people doing that. Punk did not come from people bleating on the internet about how shit the charts are. Personally I don't care if rock is in the charts, perhaps i'm getting old but I don't need to see my music taste validated by chart success or other people listening to the same thing. I know there is amazing guitar music out there, i listen to it every day. It isn't in the charts, but who cares? I don't really see a huge demand amongst the youth for mainstream rock music that much. The world has changed, mallified. Music isn't so much about 'art' or making any kind of statement, music is now about pleasantness, dancability or being funny... which is why people have trouble naming any kinds of acts from right now that are going to be listened to in 10, 20 years. Dunno if this is the true first era for that, since I think the mid seventies and late eighties were the same, but since about 1999 the industry has condensed to the point where subversion is either impossible or just not there. And the point of rock music IS subversion. The only possibility for subversion I can see is if someone gets very famous and then ravishes their fellow celebrities in a really cruel and intelligent manner... THAT would cause a stir considering how pally and bourgeois all of the pop, rap and rock elite are nowadays. But in doing that they risk drawing the ire of rabid stans, basement dwellers and other lunatics, especially those who know how to use the internet. |
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I don't really see anything to get excited about in the foo fighters getting to number one for a week.
A welcome change even if its only for a week. Like a breath of fresh air in a heatwave
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I think most people were just thankful that it had knocked Adele :yawn: off the number one slot.
A welcome change even if its only for a week. Like a breath of fresh air in a heatwave ![]() guitar music really isn't my scene at all. i loved oasis, few sterophonics songs and some artic monkeys. mainstream stuff to be honest. |
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People are going to grow sick of all this R&B dance crossover that I think rock music will gradually make a comeback.
Indie music has already been taken over by chavs with different clothes, though. There's been quite a lot of comebacks from the rock genre in recent years. This might be a good thing, but it also suggests that there's lack of good rock surfacing from new acts. it has never gone away, but its all too samish now, its all been done, i think its very very boring unless its done with a passion. 95% of it is just re-hashing old sounds and its very very dull. plus some guitar based music fans are probably the most pretencious musical snobs on the planet. i was brought up on guitar music, from the 60's onwards, ive experienced the beat boom, psychedelia, bubblegum, glamrock, rock in all its sub genres, punk, new wave, indie/alternative, britpop, grunge, etc.... im tired of 95% of modern guitar music, because ive heard it all before, done better by its originators..... hence for most of my modern music, i look to dance (no not the cheesy euro crap like basshunter or cascada). BUT in saying all that, when modern acts get it right, they score very highly in my estimation... qotsa, the hives, white stripes are just three examples of acts that have produced, for me, some of the very best rock ever. |
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Ha ha ha ha f*** haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! are you having a laugh? 'Guitar music' as you put it is the template for ALL music forms. 'The Foo Fighters' are one of the greatest rock bands on the planet and have been well before 'Wasting Light'. Music would be nothing without bands like 'The Who', 'Led Zep', 'The Stones', 'The Beatles'. I ignore all crap on this forum about 'Lady GaGa' because if that's what people like that's what people like but to make a bold statement like 'WIll guitar music make a comeback?' just really grinds my gears. It takes alot to push my buttons but that pushed my button. That is the boldest and one of the most outright ignorant statements I have ever heard and I am bloody furious
. If anybody wants to 'discuss' what I have just said, bring it on.
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If anybody wants to 'discuss' what I have just said, bring it on.
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Ha ha ha ha f*** haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! are you having a laugh? 'Guitar music' as you put it is the template for ALL music forms. 'The Foo Fighters' are one of the greatest rock bands on the planet and have been well before 'Wasting Light'. Music would be nothing without bands like 'The Who', 'Led Zep', 'The Stones', 'The Beatles'. I ignore all crap on this forum about 'Lady GaGa' because if that's what people like that's what people like but to make a bold statement like 'WIll guitar music make a comeback?' just really grinds my gears. It takes alot to push my buttons but that pushed my button. That is the boldest and one of the most outright ignorant statements I have ever heard and I am bloody furious
. If anybody wants to 'discuss' what I have just said, bring it on.There is not very much at the moment. So in chart terms, asking when it will make a comeback is perfectly sensible. Going all incredible hulk about it and calling people ignorant is not. Read the thread. |
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Yeah, calm down dude!
It's not an entirely clear picture. Some people have a fantasy that guitar music was once dominant in the charts, while the reality is somewhat different. Yes, it is true that in the past, rock/metal acts regularly featured in the Top 40 - but when it comes to the higher echelons of chart music, the top 5 or top 10 for example, you're really going back to before downloading to see it happening with any regularity. Now, some commentators have jumped on this and proclaimed the death of rock music - a totally preposterous idea. Foo Fighters single 'Rope' was one of their lowest charting ever; yet their album was one of their highest charting ever, hitting No. 1 in 12 countries, breaking first-week digital sales records in Australia and New Zealand, and giving them their first ever Billboard No. 1 album. Likewise, even a band as heavy as Metallica, who never penetrate the singles chart, had one of the Top 5 global selling albums of 2008, and were the fifth highest grossing tour act of 2010. And there are newer bands as well, such as Slipknot and Avenged Sevenfold, who don't touch the singles chart but have high selling albums. It is blatantly clear that the audience for rock music is not shrinking, but in fact growing - but because of changes in the ways music is found, this growth is not to be found in singles chart success, but in albums and, most notably, touring. I used to believe that there was a time when guitar music would return to the singles chart, but honestly, I believe in terms of that the point of no return may have been past. The amount of dross in the Top 40 at the minute is STAGGERING, and it's not just rock that is missing out - even bands like Take That are struggling in the singles chart, but continue to sell bucketloads of albums. I don't think the singles chart will see the level of variety it has in the past ever again, only just the odd track bought by a loyal fanbase entering one week and then leaving the next. But in terms of rock music, I think it's in as healthy a state now as it has been since the start of the 00s. |
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. If anybody wants to 'discuss' what I have just said, bring it on.