POLL - What will save Rock and Roll?

no crabcore no credibility

ILM

mike huckabee

The Arctic Monkeys

That's not how you spell Geir Hongro

Guitar Hongro

jeff beck is working on something, i can't really talk about it, but like beck's GOT THIS, don't worry

Could use an option "Rock and Roll is doomed and cannot/does-not-deserve to be saved".

new advances in recording technology will help true melody to be captured inside of rock and roll mp3s.

forgot "beatles remasters"

Rock and roll has already been saved by melody. It happened in 1963 already, and re-happened with Britpop in the mid 90s. :)

I'm not sure Rock'n'Roll can be "saved" in the traditional sense. It seems like the old filtering mechanisms (e.g. record companies, radio stations, magazines) are becoming obsolete, and cannot continue in their functions of introducing people to new music. The relative lack of barriers to entry involved in the new distribution systems (e.g. internet, itunes) ensures that there will always be an overwhelming glut of new music, little of which is filtered for quality before it is accessible to the public at large. With this increasing volume of content that continues to get churned out, too few external resources (e.g. people, time, magazines) for separating the wheat from the chaff will be available, and thus the public will be deluged with all kinds of crap, and the amount of time investment required to find something cool will be too much to offset the relatively meager rewards. Because of this, I think that the new Rock'n'Roll paradigm that will eventually evolve (may take a few decades) will involve people making and appreciating their own music and sharing it with people who know them, without them necessarily having grand visions of marketing/selling it to the public at large. Thus, the spirit of rock'n'roll (i.e. music for its own sake) will be saved.

The return of the rock opera should do it.

The Great Ohio Earthquake of 2010. "Twas nice knowing you, Attack Attack!

rock n roll is for old people...

hipsters

the constant repackaging and remastering of old albums

hobo humping slobo babes

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can we plz send Pearl Jam back to wherever they were exiled k thx

The indictment, prosecution, and conviction of Boss Jim W. Gettys

rock n' roll isn't dying, it just needs a weekend trip to buenos aires to decompress

With apologies to Frank Zappa:

Rock 'n' Roll is not dead, it just smells funny

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