Who killed rock?
A) Carter
B) Clinton
C) Dylan
D) Malcom McLaren
E) Reagan
F) Black Sabbath
G) Country swallowed it alive.
Pick your favorite choice and write your thank-you note to them here.
― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 9 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
J) American "Alternative Rock" of the 90s (Nirvana, Pearl Jam, etc.)
― Oliver, Wednesday, 9 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
I'm sorry. It was me. I had just got my BB gun and was aiming for my
next-door neighbor's grandfather, when Rock came within my line of
fire while carrying a pitcher of homemade iced tea for the kids. Next
thing you know there's more ambulances in front of our house than I'd
ever seen in all my twelve years of existence. It was really sad
because I was allowed to play with guns after that until I left the
house.
― Michael Daddino, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
I mean I
wasn't allowed to play with guns after that. But at
least I had the fireworks racket -- a kid's gotta have something, you
know?
― Michael Daddino, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Surely the question isn't who killed rock but who's still fucking the
corpse.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Dear Dylan, thanks for killing rock. It was starting to suck anyway, and so it was really nice when you picked up the electric guitar and showed that even a folkie could do it so it wasn't so fucking special after all.
Dear Clinton, thank you for killing rock by geting REO Speedwagon to re-form at the president's request and thus proving that the boomers had nothing to be nostalgic about. I was sick of that nostalgia, and it was about time somebody reminded us of what your fucked-up music of your youth was really like.
Dear Malcom McLaren, thanks for punk. After punk, nothing could really be rock anymore, because rock had nowhere to go but overblown and punk had nowhere to go but somewhere else and anyway, the period where rock could matter was over, because, y'know, the hopes of the 60s all started to go stale and rotten anyway, and the me-generation can bite me (heh!) so if rock had stuck around it would have bit anyway.
Dear Carter, people blame Reagan for the 80s, but they really should
blame you. You were a nobody, but a nasty nobody, and it was hard to imagine you presiding over much in the way of culture for anybody anyway. I mean, you weren't a figure of pure evil either, just sort of someone who inspired everyone to give the fuck up. And some rockers were getting to that age anyway. So yeah, thanks.
― Sterling Clover, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Two moments: The Day Elton John signed a contract with
Disney.
And the day Phil Collins signed a contract with Disney.
― Gage-o, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Video killed the radio star, and Big Star's
Radio City begat
the Replacement's "Seen Your Video".
― fritz, Thursday, 10 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)
MTV not only killed the radio show, they killed rock as well.
― Pump Wellington, Sunday, 20 January 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)