Rock And Roll Olympics?

[The Cysko Kid]

That shit is old and tired. The stones, roger waters, Eddie vedder? Old old and old. We've still got the eagles and aerosmith, but they're irrelevant. Let's talk about the state of rock today, not yesteryear. Until the stones release some terrible new songs like van halen they're not even worth talking about in contemporary music

[TheClevelandSound]

Here would be my Music Olympics Final Results by genre:

Classic Rock- USA

Punk Rock- United Kingdom

Alternative- USA

Blues- USA

Jazz- USA

Reggae- Jamaica

Ska- Ireland

Hair Metal- USA

Pop- Australia

Industrial- Germany

Modern Metal- USA

Black Metal- Norway

Electronic Dance Music- Sweden

Dubstep- United Kingdom

Hip Hop- USA

That's my count.

[The Gipper]

@theclevelandsound said:

Here would be my Music Olympics Final Results by genre:

Classic Rock- USA

Punk Rock- United Kingdom

Alternative- USA

Blues- USA

Jazz- USA

Reggae- Jamaica

Ska- Ireland

Hair Metal- USA

Pop- Australia

Industrial- Germany

Modern Metal- USA

Black Metal- Norway

Electronic Dance Music- Sweden

Dubstep- United Kingdom

Hip Hop- USA

That's my count.

Interesting. Only thing I may question is Classic Rock. With The Beatles, Stones, Who, Led Zeppelin, Bowie, Genesis, Other British Invasion acts, Queen etc. etc., I think you need to give that category to the UK.

[The Cysko Kid]

Id question giving the UK the nod on punk music too. For every sex pistols there's a Ramones and for every Clash there's a bad religion. What makes you think UK had the best punk?

[miktoxic]

@theclevelandsound said:

Here would be my Music Olympics Final Results by genre:

Classic Rock- USA classic rock nowadays can be considered the carpenters, john denver, jim morrison, jimi hendrix etc....tooo bad they are all dead

Punk Rock- United Kingdom 1000%correct. even though we had CBGBs and bands like the ramones, patti smith etc. we couldn't touch bands like the clash, sex pistols or 999

Alternative- USA what era? 80's the brits crushed us with tears for fears, and also the trees, the smiths, echo and the bunnymen, bauhaus.......done deal.

Blues- USA no doubt about that one.

Jazz- USA emmmh? classic jazz from around the world? french? no way. USA gold all the way.

Reggae- Jamaica cough/ cough. you are correct sir.

Ska- Ireland WTF?? NOFING WAY! ska is british all the way (or british influenced).

Hair Metal- USA well yeah. germany a close second.

Pop- Australia more than what is played today today in the US? hell no.

Industrial- Germany YES...and some netherlands BUT most surprising is the US contenders NIN and MINISTRY,

Modern Metal- USA can't speak on it though i know a lead guitarist personally that plays in a band called 'MORTICIAN'

Black Metal- Norway yes sir. but see the category below.

Electronic Dance Music- Sweden ^

Dubstep- United Kingdom WTF?

Hip Hop- USA of course

That's my count.

[miktoxic]

@the-cysko-kid said:

That shit is old and tired. The stones, roger waters, Eddie vedder? Old old and old. We've still got the eagles and aerosmith, but they're irrelevant. Let's talk about the state of rock today, not yesteryear. Until the stones release some terrible new songs like van halen they're not even worth talking about in contemporary music

hey i totally agree with you BUT just cuz you weren't born when those bands were relevant is no reason to consider them as has beens. your choice of bands that you probably jerk off to nightly, have everything to do with the ground-breaking music and prod that they brought to the table while you were still shitting yellow.

radiohead would be anything without the influences of pink floyd? oasis=beattles ripoff. nick cave and the bad seeds w/o influences of dylan, reed or cochrane?

i could turn you onto shit made in any decade that would make you rethink the anti vedder and floyd comments.

to each his own.

what was your first album you bought? oh that's right they only had cds then.

[brownsfan1980]

foo fighters are awesome anyone ever see their amazing documentary on youtube?

[Mr. Sensitive]

@miktoxic said:

hey i totally agree with you BUT just cuz you weren't born when those bands were relevant is no reason to consider them as has beens. your choice of bands that you probably jerk off to nightly, have everything to do with the ground-breaking music and prod that they brought to the table while you were still shitting yellow.

radiohead would be anything without the influences of pink floyd? oasis=beattles ripoff. nick cave and the bad seeds w/o influences of dylan, reed or cochrane?

i could turn you onto shit made in any decade that would make you rethink the anti vedder and floyd comments.

to each his own.

what was your first album you bought? oh that's right they only had cds then.

Actually it was cassette tapes, but my stepdad had literally hundreds of albums. Outside of the occasional niche song I pretty much don't accept that you could turn me on to anything I haven't heard. However this thread calls for Rock olympics. In the Olympics the best in the world RIGHT NOW compete. Nobody considered the USA fielding the 1992 dream team in 2012, even though they were undeniably great in 1992

[VaporTrail]

I've been listening to Dirt Poor Robins a ton, lately

It's really hard for me to pin a sound on them. When I first heard em, I figured, "ehhhh, just another indie band." But holy crap, the male/female vocals are quirky yet fantastic, and the solos just rock. I heard them on Pandora when listening to the Black Keys radio, but I feel they've got more versatility. This song's just really happy sounding a la ELO or Rusted Root.

[VaporTrail]

But I think this song of theirs is my absolute favorite. It sounds inspired by Heart and Muse, and I the solo reminds me of Page.

I really want to find more music like this.

[Kosar_For_President]

@theclevelandsound said:

Here would be my Music Olympics Final Results by genre:

Punk Rock- United Kingdom

Dead wrong, USA.