WTF happened to Rolling Stone Magazine?

The Black Eyed Peas as a reason to be exited about rock music?

Read the comments,99% negative to this article in the mag.

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2010/04/14/40-reasons-to-be-excited-about-music-new-issue-of-rolling-stone/

what the fuck are you talking about the magazine and the band are two very different entities

so it is okay in my book

Which I do.

And music was better back then too.

nothing to write about.

mark

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...was when Hunter Thompson had a piece in it.
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as were the Stones or the Dead or the Ramones or the Jacksons, or Elvis or Frank.

It's not the job of people that are 40 and 50 and 60 to lend credence or even an ear to the music of today. We can chose to ignore it, or listen along. I listen along and in my opinion the Black Eyed Peas rock the house in a very commercial and entertaining way.

I've always had nothing but disdain for the idea that the music of our youth must hold significance over anything else we hear past age 30. It's like people decide to stop listening.

Will the Black Eyed Peas save rock? Who the hell cares? In the 70's Camron Crow didn't meet an arena band he didn't love, or call the future of Rock 'n' Roll and Rolling Stone is still here, and so am I.

Listen to something new today. Listen to something that bothers you or makes you mad. Listen to something you would normally never listen to. See where it takes you.

Hearing boomer disdain for today's music is remarkably like hearing Frank Sinatra or Dean Martin express scorn for that "awful" rock and roll.

I like most stuff today except for that stuff I refer to as "belch singing." Cracks me up every time I hear it.

Really not sure if even I want to know about that one.

You've probably heard of that.

to me it sounds like belching. sorry

I knew a guy in high school. He could sing/belch the alphabet. To me they don't sound fierce or scary. They sound like some geek that is belch singing from his diaphragm. Cracks me up every time I hear it. :rofl:

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...ALL MUSIC HAS SUCKED SINCE MY MUSIC.
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But the idea that someone "not of this decade's NOW generation" not being able
to voice an opinion that "THIS band sucks" because they're "old and just don't
understand us/them" almost sounds as lacking of a well-developed perspective
as the person who hasn't liked anything since "Free Bird" -- or the person who
thinks that music wasn't really music until The Black-Eyed Peas came along.
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I think I know what "belch-singing" is -- I think it's what I have called
SCARYMONSTERSINGING and, as an occasional emphasizing technique, it
has some value -- but as a (ahem) style, it is sorely and surely oh-so-lacking.

There's lots of good young musical acts out there with talent. Peas,not so much.

Sheer poetry.

What you gon' do with all that junk?
All that junk inside your trunk?
I'ma get, get, get, get, you drunk,
Get you love drunk off my hump.
My hump, my hump, my hump, my hump, my hump,
My hump, my hump, my hump, my lovely little lumps (Check it out)

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...unlike that Rob Dylan guy.
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Folks can listen to whatever they care too,but a magazine called Rolling Stone calling the Peas hope or whatever is stupid.

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...but I think he's considered the savior of rolling.
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I think they've even NAMED it after him.
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He should.

I can't get no satisfaction
I can't get no girly action
And I've tried

Really? You want to trade lyrics across generations? We can do that all day.

But to each his own.

My iPod is heavy on 1980-1992 because of my age, but that doesn't mean it stops there.

There is plenty of great new music today but the BEP ain't it.

the original complaint was that Rolling Stone apparently names the BEP as a reason to get excited about Rock music. It wouldn't have occurred to me to categorize them as "Rock," and I'd be surprised to learn that they categorize themselves that way, too.

but none of it happens to be rock music, and not much of it is played on commercial radio. I don't even listen to the stuff that was popular when I was in my 20's and 30's. I left the popular commercial crap along side of the road a long time ago and haven't looked back.

:rofl:

They're slightly more relevant than other artists in a faddish, disposable genre of dance party music that will seem slightly embarrassing in another decade.

The article in this issue about Elizabeth Warren is great!

They got mad that it wrote about "noise" instead of Doris Day or Pat Boone.

It writes about what's relevant today, not some old dead style of music some old people can't let go of.

interspersed with a few articles here and there. :evilgrin:

Whose (mainstream) music, by and large, sucks.

Must be a misprint.
Unfortunately, they're doing some kind of site change so I can't read the article. I'd like to read their argument.