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Rock and roll death watch (and indie landfill)

I'm not sure what we're talking about any more.

But yeh the first part of the Maximum Rnr archive is nearly up online; every issue from 80s to now scanned and searchable... some time in April apparently
 
I'm not sure what we're talking about any more.

But yeh the first part of the Maximum Rnr archive is nearly up online; every issue from 80s to now scanned and searchable... some time in April apparently
Wow, i didn't know the kids were getting it together in INSERT NAME HERE on INSERT DATE HERE.
 
tbh I posted lil son jackson partly to segue into him inventing the term rock and roll but didn't make it there, yes I meant earlier stuff than him really. oof i have actually been to that shangri la shop where the fife and drum thing is filmed, the guy there makes cigar box diddly bows... that is quite a shop...
 
OK well the genre died in the 1950s then.

Later than that, definitely. 1980s it was still up and running.



But it's worth recalling that Rock and Rock'n'roll aren't the same thing; broadly, Rock'n'roll is a subset of the far larger category Rock Music.

No music genre ever dies btw, while people listen to it and more importantly, play it. Guarantee there are a fuckload of Rock'n'roll bands in the world right now, just that urbanites aren't listening to them.
 
I def would say they weren't - but not because of this mad argument about real drummers. They were, for me, a band very much against the r&b roots of rock and roll. A rock band maybe, but not a rock and roll band. They were closer to kraftwerk or some of the early chicago techno stuff.

Yeah, that’s true.

In my mind RnR isn’t only a genre but also an attitude. They often get conflated for me.



ETA. Well this is a redundant post, eh: I see that the discussion has moved on a lot since back then.
 
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tbf i've turned to inventing weird hybrids in my head.

brittle afrobeat grindcore.

Anatolian 23 skidoo.

spacetravelling electro for depressives.
 
I was more thinking of the Prodigy when they went awful... or also I think when I really realised how much I hated it it was at that night they used to do at the Garage called "Sick and Twisted" which was a mix of extreme metal and gabba/breakcore... Which I always loved the hardcore gabba part of but as soon as they mixed metal into it it just became unbearably cheesy to my ears.
 
Some of that crossover stuff was great - that Angel of Theft Slayer remix remains amazing, and the Bong-Ra EP where he made a load of tracks out of Bolt Thrower samples is great too. I saw the main guy from S&T DJing once though, and it was pretty lame. He was just playing bad tunes though.
 
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