Every 20 Years...

With an exception from the 50's to the 60's, music is repeating itself every 20 years. Black artists in the fifties(chuck berry, b.b.king, etc.) created and playing the blues, but since it was such a segregated time, only the black communities listened to it, while the sheltered white communities still had gospel. But within those ten year a generation of young white males grew up listening to the blues, bought guitars, played and made their own bands, around the early sixties(like the rolling stones and the beatles) and played the blues, but in the end making it their own, and made rock music out of it. This time, changed the face and sound of all music, and shaped the music we hear today.

The seventies is where the cycle starts.

After the sixties shaped modern music, the seventies was the first decade to start with modern music at its fullest. Bands like led zeppelin and pink floyd and the who clouded the radio with their progressive rock sound. They played an all out rock onslaught, with some of the first modern synthesizers and played plenty of bluesy solos.

Technology progressed and electronic sounds were finding themselves in the main parts of songs in a decade called the 80's, reverby-techno-ish-synth songs filled the sound along with the birth of that 80's hair metal with choppy riffs and those harmonic guitar solos...

20 years have past since the 70's and a generation of kids who grew up with the songs of the seventies were now the kids with guitars in their hands, making records. Now is it just me or would a lot of grunge songs feel right at home in the seventies era, yes the rock they played had a different name(grunge) but doesn't pearl jam's album ten sound like a bunch of bluesy classic rock songs, 20 years have past and music with a sound reminisent of the 70's has come back

Now we find ourselves 20 years from the eighties...i dont know about you, but bands like "horse the band" have sounds similar to the eighties with heavy synthesizer influence, and other bands like Avenged Sevenfold sound like a harder version of of some 80's hair metal band with its solo's and choppy riffs

I'm not saying that all music is repeating, originality still falls through the cracks, but after you read this and then listen to music, see if you can find similarities to the music that came 20 years before it. It may just be me that hears it, but see if you can too

Skizz-eptical

One of the great ninties bands, The Foo Fighters, lead by the every man, Dave Grohl, are making a come back with a new upcoming album with an okay single. But one thing worries the hell out me! There is so much hype surrounding how this album will sound and about all the special tracks on it, but the general mind-f***ed public is basically remembeing classic "Foo" hits like "the best of you", "times like these" and "monkeywrench" and will be think of these songs 'everlong' before the album will come out, only to find a brand new set of songs to learn and love but songs that wont be like the old hits we grew up with. So i worry that since most kids nowadays only give a song about 10 seconds before moving on, that the new cd wont get the credit it deserves or give the tracks time to get known(unless it actually is crap, but c'mon, dave grohl never really wrote crap, i mean he wrote "smells like teen spirit"yes thats right he did!) but we'll have to wait and see, wait for my update on the album!!
-Jake