Are Videos Killing Rock?
Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Music: Music Videos: Are Videos Killing Rock?
By ScottN on Wednesday, October 17, 2001 - 11:52 am:

Quote:

"Videos destroyed the vitality of rock 'n' roll. Before that, music said, 'Listen to me.' Now it says, 'Look at me.'"

-- Billy Joel in the New York Daily News.



Interesting thought. I think he's partially right. I remember hearing about a Britney Spears concert that was cancelled/moved because the stage was too small for the show...

The Beatles, when they performed on Ed Sullivan stood in place on a small stage. Don't know about their concert tours.

In his bio, Nimoy recalls a concert by Harry Belafonte, where Belafonte stood so still, that when he raised his arm it had a huge effect on the audience...

Now, 90% of everything is cr*p. But is the music video market causing the cr*p to kill off the non-cr*p?

By Todd Pence on Thursday, October 18, 2001 - 4:45 pm:

They already did, years and years ago. This is why I seldom listen to anything made after 1982.

By Blitz - Digimon Moderator (Sladd) on Friday, May 16, 2003 - 8:28 pm:

I don't think music viceos are killing Rock. They just happened to come along in time to film it as it fell to the ground and started convulsing.

By Brian Fitzgerald on Saturday, May 22, 2004 - 12:38 am:

I'd have to disagree with almost everything in the last two posts. I personaly do really like classic rock but if you pick up most albums (not "best of" collections that showcase the really good 12 songs that someone did but also the really not so good 40 other songs) and not only was the playing usually more simplistic and the recording medium not as good but the whole feel of the song doesn't match what everyone says about them. I like Alice Coopers stuff but when I first heard School's Out, 18 and Hard Rock Summer all I could think was "this guy was the hardest thing in mainstream rock at the time" it's great music but compaired to NIN, Manson and Rob Zombie it's downright easy listening.

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