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Is Rock and Roll Dead???

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steelglam said:
Then you're not going to the right kinds of clubs. People still dance to rock and roll. They also dance to other forms of music. But they still dance to rock and roll.

My new favorite argument from you is that hard rock is not rock and roll. It literally has the term "rock" in the title. And it's not just for some separate, unrelated reason. It is a form of rock and roll.

You are way too hung up on genre and subgenre distinctions and divisions. Which is the death-knell of any good music.

Also...if you are 59 years old, that means you were 2 years old in 1955. So, your claim about hating the music on the charts in 1955 and going to sock hops shortly thereafter is also complete and utter bullshit. You were not listening to the charts and knowing what the hell was going on when you were 2 years old. And the oldest you could have been in the late 50s is 6 years old. So, you were going to sock hops in kindergarten or preschool? Bullshit.
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No, I was born in late 1949. I was 5 years old in 1955. I was 59 in 2009, which was the last time I danced. I hurt by back since then.
 
Urizen said:
If we can't agree on the definition, we'll never agree on it's demise.
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I suppose you are right. I am a stickler for terminology. But no matter what you call it, the music of the early to mid 1960s (which mostly young people danced to) was quite different from what followed (which was not danced to very much) until the New Romantic music, such as Spandau Ballet and True revived slow dancing. Culture Club's music is very danceable too.
 
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JohnVF said:
The punks danced. The mod revivalists danced. The new wavers danced. The goths danced. The electroclash kids danced. The darkwave kids danced. The glitch-pop kids danced. The indie kids danced. They all danced.
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That's good because if they didn't dance, then they're no friends of mine.
 
The term 'rock & roll' did not originally refer to dancing, it referred to sex. I'd argue Led Zeppelin's 'The Lemon Song' is more about sex than 'Tutti Frutti'.

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I was hinting that with Tutti Frutti, you were referring to an originator of the the basic rock backbeat, which Led Zepplin, as a rock band, is hardly a stranger to.
 
derekva said:
The term 'rock & roll' did not originally refer to dancing, it referred to sex. I'd argue Led Zeppelin's 'The Lemon Song' is more about sex than 'Tutti Frutti'.

-D
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More than the recorded version of Tutti Frutti. The lyrics that Little Richard was singing in live concerts were more risque:

Tutti Frutti, good booty / If it don’t fit, don’t force it / You can grease it, make it easy"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutti_Frutti_(song)
 
I found this easy to dance to. In fact, I'm hard pressed not to dance to it:

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As I noted way earlier in this thread, humans have a Jungian need to gather and dance.
 

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