Of Guitars and Drums...
Its cool, how some people ADORE Rock and some DESPISE Rock with the same intensity, you know?
Rock turns people crazy. It breeds monsters out of nerds, it breeds psychos out of saints. Like it or not, people always have something to say when it comes to Rock. Its something you use as a bridge of conversation, when you are talking to a newly introduced fellow and you run out of interesting topics to discuss without sounding boring. After you finish up well beaten tracks like Sports and Food... you slip in something like:
"You dig Rock, man?"
If the guy goes "Rock?? Shit. You know the 40th Symphony of Mozart?? Now thats music.", chuck him out of your house. Now.
If the guy goes all radiant and "Du-ude... Metallica owns, man.", you have a pal for a lifetime.
Some guys(a.k.a Dipak) never understand what the fuss is about Rock. Ear splitting guitars with drums that thrash at unearthly tempos with a gang of guys roaring into their mikes fail to make any impact on their ears. They give you lame reasons like "Blindly aping the west", "No melody", "Just a fad" and "Un-Indian."
While others(a.k.a Rest Of The World) feel the rush of adrenaline that creeps up your veins when Joey Jordison rolls out his Double-Bass drums into near immortality. These are the guys who whistle when Kirk Hammett gets going, know that Panic! At The Disco is the name of a band and are generally aware of who Kurt Cobain is and what Grunge is.
Rock as a whole is divided into a truckload of genres and sub-genres, that nobody keeps track of it anymore. The latest variants... Emo and Nu-rock almost sound like Pop, with some guitars thrown in. They sound like BackStreet Boys on Amps, and are the favorite target of ridicule from purists, who still swear by good old AC-DC, Metallica and Iron Maiden.
You gotta pick your kind of thing. It's almost the music of the working class, who sweat and toil to earn their bread, and who use it as a tool to rant and rage and point their middle-fingers at their employers living in their suites. It is also the music of the Freak, a rebel in his own universe, who finds solace in its self-demeaning lyrics and decays to nothingness. It is the music of the young, and the old. It presents hitherto unknown lives in a song. It means so much to so many. It is also, primarily, a tool to ease out and party when you are hitting your hols.
Rock is also a reason for you to screw up your face in disgust and say.. "N Sync?? Yuck..."
P.S: Metalheads listen to Pop too.. but they'll never admit it.
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good one du-ude......and to hell with dipak..this is the rock-a-maina...
i kno wat ur talkin bout... SLIPKNOT rules... The Nameless..!!!
and dipak...no offence meant man,,,free... :D
i hv been misinterpreted.ya i still stick by my view tht it s just loud piece of shit.no 2nd thoughts.yes there is no melody.but it is my view.n regardin blindly apin the west yes wen guys jus hear 4 the heck of it thinkin it is "cool" or wtever fuck it may be. un-indian i never said n i don't understand wt u mean by un-indian. but bottomline rock=speeches of indian politicians for tht matter any politician.n yes i wld hear 40th symphony of mozart.n telling it is music of freak n working class to show their anger FUCK U.it is just a lame excuse to come up with some dirty lyrics which stems from the fact it is lack of creativity. music in any form can ease u out.for me A.R.RAHMAN will do anyday.
there is a branch of rock called Punk that is virtually anti to the system that rules us. Punk bands hav constantly challenged existing governments, more so in the US n UK so that they hav literally becum the ppl's voice. Green Day released their album American Idiot as an anti-Bush campaign when the elections wer on last time. they wer not able to make any significant change though cuz Bush won again. Sex Pistols n Clash hav been banned by the United Kingdom(which, interestingly, Dipak, HATES)for carryin lyrics mocking the Queen for her stupidity . Rock is not a lame excuse man. Suffice to say, sum ppl think tht sittin n singin bout unseen Gods using veenas is pointless(not tht m against carnatic, but its not everythin) while u can grab a guitar, make ur own tune n voice out ur feelings n views. free... music rocks,at the end of the day , in all its forms. ARR rocks too. Yaaru illainu sonna... free...
btw those so called ppl, who listen to rock jus for its being 'cool'... they drop out in a year or so. for the rest of us, its a lifelong obsession.
You are your music.. Each person is different and so everyone loves different kinds of music.. I love rock when it isn;t too jaring, there's nothing that comes close to awesome drums and guitar that makes loud music that just rocks ur world:).. but the screaming stuff that u showed me that day, I'll never learn to love that kind of music..free
hehe... free.. thats slipknot, man... its Nu-Metal... u gotta be part psycho to like it... cheers.. free..
Dude ARR is no doubt a genius but rock is equally good ARR's melodies and rock's riffs cant be compared they r both awesome
BOTTOMLINE:ARR rocks in india ,Rock rocks the world
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