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Justin Tonation:
New thread to keep other on topic. And we needed this, anyway.
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--- Quote from: kosmo vinyl on July 18, 2012, 10:02:48 pm ---The G4S Corporate Theme Song....
http://www.thestoolpigeon.co.uk/features/g4s-corporate-song-securing-your-world.html
Yeah it's as bad you think...
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I've said to others that if you want to hear what mainstream rock sounded like 20 years ago, listen to country radio today. Jon Bon Jovi knew exactly what he was doing.
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For rock and pop stars, including Staind?s Aaron Lewis, country isn?t an easy genre to crack
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Because Darius Rucker already beat them there? And isn't Bon Jovi's current stuff sounding more and more Country Rock these days, so is that because Country Rock caught up with them?
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Bon Jovi's core fans from his hair metal salad days are now well into their 40s (and a few beyond). Many probably listen to country because indie, alternative, classic rock, and CHR ignore them. But they like radio and country is the only format that appeals to them. New stuff from Bon Jovi didn't stand a chance on any rock or hit format so he subtly retooled his sound to satisfy his core fans' current sensibilities. That change meshed in well with current country.
slappy:
Good interview just posted on Mother Jones with Ketch Secor from Old Crow Medicine Show.
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2012/07/interview-old-crow-medicine-show
I bet he'd agree with you on Bon Jovi.
"That stuff coming out of Nashville now wants to see a woman looking good in the kitchen whipping up some biscuits. A woman who knows how to handle her minivan at the mall. It's a concrete jungle out there, darlin'. Turn up your radio and get into a bubble bath kind of thing."
evilizac:
The fact of the matter is that the mainstream is entirely populated with highly calculated low risk acts regardless of genre. Any country that isn't in the strict vein of its set type is quickly picked up by some "indie" community.
i am gay and i like cats:
though i know most venues hate the jam band scene due to all those crazy kids wanting to smoke pot . . . but damn you know they love the amount of alcohol they sell at those shows. i went to see coldplay and the wall, was a ghost town at the lines; kiss/motley crue, yeah they were buying but not in waves of good god how long do i have to wait in this line. now at any jam show (phish/moe/widespread/furthur/dso/disco) you have people fighting hand over fist to get beer. beer lines at jam shows are sure ways to miss a bunch of songs.
kosmo vinyl:
EDM RIP 2012- First Brostep and now this - Mark Foster (of Foster the people) has a forthcoming Electronic Dance music side project.
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