Watching the current line-up of Styx on VH-1 Classic

[JiveTurkey]

Terrible. I'm sorry y'all are just plain old.

Rig-Talk is thatta way ---->

I am old

Plenty of modern metal that kicks ass, just rock that is severely lacking imo. Deftones, Incubus and Mastodon. That's it since early 2000s for rock music that trips my trigger. I don't do the retro thing. I would rather just listen to the original that inspired it. I know in some other thread you were hating on Maiden and loving on indie rock, so we probably aren't going to start a band together based on mutual musical interests

[Dave]

There is so much amazing music right now, that if you can't find anything it's user error. Or you're just old and like Styx. Gross

[The Hiryuu]

2 of the first albums I ever owned, actually 8-tracks. Joined that club where you got 8 for a penny. Played them on my R2D2 8track player. Not sure how it coud be any cooler than that

Malmsteen and Van Halen on a Transformers Soundwave cassette player has to be close.

[draelyc]

Terrible. I'm sorry y'all are just plain old.

Rig-Talk is thatta way ---->

[hardvalve]

I am older than 99% of the people here, and liked Styx back in the day. They were some good prog rock. No real desire to see them now, I would be bored. I agree most rock music today is just awful. Metal is where it's at. So much great metal out there today, and pushing boundaries. Extol, Scale the Summit, Meshuggah, Animals as leaders, The Faceless, Spawn of Possession, Cattle Decapitation, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Severed Savior, Arsis, Suffocation. Rock is not dead, but on life support.

[soundgardener75]

I'm not sure which is sadder: that you're arguing Styx rocks, or that there is a specific line-up of Styx that you're arguing rocks...

Lol!

IMO- classic rock bands out there singing their hits without DEAD original singers are just karaoke cash cows....

Write new shit already.

WAT

[Dave]

I am older than 99% of the people here, and liked Styx back in the day. They were some good prog rock. No real desire to see them now, I would be bored. I agree most rock music today is just awful. Metal is where it's at. So much great metal out there today, and pushing boundaries. Extol, Scale the Summit, Meshuggah, Animals as leaders, The Faceless, Spawn of Possession, Cattle Decapitation, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Severed Savior, Arsis, Suffocation. Rock is not dead, but on life support.

Shut up, retard

[Noizemaker]

I like Styx. Don't know too much of their stuff besides Renegade, but I like that one enough.

As for them putting out new material, sure it might be bad, but I don't see how you can just write off a band and say they shouldn't even attempt new music. I know plenty of old bands that have put out good albums in the past 5 or so years (ex. Tesla, Winger, Motley Crue). Sure there are just as many that have put out bad ones, but I would still go and see the band if they can still play worth a shit (which Styx obviously can).

And Styx is better than 98% of music today.

[hardvalve]

I am older than 99% of the people here, and liked Styx back in the day. They were some good prog rock. No real desire to see them now, I would be bored. I agree most rock music today is just awful. Metal is where it's at. So much great metal out there today, and pushing boundaries. Extol, Scale the Summit, Meshuggah, Animals as leaders, The Faceless, Spawn of Possession, Cattle Decapitation, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Severed Savior, Arsis, Suffocation. Rock is not dead, but on life support.

Shut up, retard

I consider the source.

[marshallnoise]

I am older than 99% of the people here, and liked Styx back in the day. They were some good prog rock. No real desire to see them now, I would be bored. I agree most rock music today is just awful. Metal is where it's at. So much great metal out there today, and pushing boundaries. Extol, Scale the Summit, Meshuggah, Animals as leaders, The Faceless, Spawn of Possession, Cattle Decapitation, Fleshgod Apocalypse, Severed Savior, Arsis, Suffocation. Rock is not dead, but on life support.

Shut up, retard

Back to the manic side of the personality I see.

[Reverse Entropy]

There is so much amazing music right now, that if you can't find anything it's user error.

That's what Henry Rollins has been saying. As a certified Old Dude, I completely agree with it. There are a ton of good recommendations on stuff to listen to right on this board (in the music forum). That's where I got tips on Electric Six, Scissor Sisters, Baroness and (?) Mayfield Four. Those bands are all excellent, and there are hundreds more. It's not all boy bands and vocal divas out there. (there's also autotuned Ibiza dance music )

r you're just old and like Styx. Gross

Let's be fair. Those vocals kick major ass. They're doing that live without a bunch of studio processing crap. Tommy Shaw is singing and playing his ASS off. OK if you find a couple of songs dull, I do too. But plenty of it is really solid.

[Dave]

Fair enough, and agreed on the new music part. There is great stuff in every genre these days. Bands doing their take on every time period of music and doing it well. I dunno what's on the radio these days but I can find new bands playing any style I want to hear.

[rupe]

There is so much amazing music right now

Examples?

[Dave]

Your avatar tells me that I will just be wasting my time. Rock on you 80's hair beast, rock on. The world stopped in 1987 and Reagan is still at the helm. Ski injury ftw!!

[EndTime]

2 classic rock bands that stick out as music that I consider about as far from enjoyable are:
Reo speedwagon
&
Styx

[Reverse Entropy]

2 classic rock bands that stick out as music that I consider about as far from enjoyable are:
Reo speedwagon & Styx

If you're talking about the 'pop hits' stuff REO Speedwagon put out, I can certainly understand that. Hell, it practically broke up the band.
But do you also mean you didn't like the live album, "You Get What You Play For ?" Because that is full of really good material.

[rupe]

Your avatar tells me that I will just be wasting my time.

Try me...I have one of the most diverse music collections that you're likely to come across

[Dave]

Your avatar tells me that I will just be wasting my time.

Try me...I have one of the most diverse music collections that you're likely to come across

MGMT
Naked and Famous
Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros
Animals as Leaders
Trampled by Turtles


Lots of really good stuff.

[GuitarBilly]

I agree there is a LOT of great music out there right now. The 00's were really bad but this decade has been great so far IMHO.

[Dave]

"My music collection is so diverse. I have my token Kanye cd, my girlfriend loaded Ke$ha on my iPhone, and I have everything from the Crüe to Dio to Van Halen. 80's rock doesn't get much more diverse than having Van Hagar to VH1. This message board noob is going to bow to my superior diversity."

[Repner]

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOWK7Tam01M[/video]

[JiveTurkey]

Your avatar tells me that I will just be wasting my time.

Try me...I have one of the most diverse music collections that you're likely to come across

MGMT
Naked and Famous
Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros
Animals as Leaders
Trampled by Turtles


Lots of really good stuff.

Hijacked your suggestions. The two I have heard of were good (Animals and MGMT). MGMT probably wishes they were making music in the 80s (early 80s new wave era, not the days of cock rock). Kind of like ELO (old f*cker reference) if they were darker sounding and had a pervasive, irritating synth tone running through every song. Good vocal melodies on the songs I listened to. Animals is obviously impressive on a musical level. Absurd riffage which attracts my metal side. I played a show with once the guitar player when he was in Reflux. He wasn't a guitar player to follow to say the least lol

Edward and Trampled (the few songs of each I listened to) were of the folk singer goes jugband minus the personality of either. I am oversimplifying/unfairly categorizing these as they are yawn inducing. No balls at all. For me, maybe I just don't dig anything new? As sad as that sounds. My tastes seem to have gravitated to one extreme or the other and my middle of the road tastes no longer exist. Reo Speedwagon sucks fwiw.

[Dave]

The banjo picker in TBT is a speed metal guitarist

[rupe]

Your avatar tells me that I will just be wasting my time.

Try me...I have one of the most diverse music collections that you're likely to come across

MGMT - ok stuff, not really grabbing me
Naked and Famous - cool...I've heard "Electric Feel" before...is it a cover?
Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros - dig it
Animals as Leaders - meh. Uber talented but comes off as complicated for the sake of being complicated. Not a fan.
Trampled by Turtles - nice!


Lots of really good stuff.

Thanks...I always dig checking out new stuff

[Le_Marteau]

Your avatar tells me that I will just be wasting my time.

Try me...I have one of the most diverse music collections that you're likely to come across

MGMT
Naked and Famous
Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros
Animals as Leaders
Trampled by Turtles


Lots of really good stuff.

Fantastic fucking list.

Add some Scissor Sisters, Gregory Alan Isakov, Sara Jarosz, Capital Cities, and it'd sum up most of my recent gym playlists.