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THERE 👏 ARE 👏 OTHER 👏 ROCK 👏 OPERAS 👏 BESIDES 👏 AMERICAN 👏 IDIOT 👏AND 👏THE 👏 BLACK 👏 PARADE 👏

This might be on the outer edges of the 'rock' part of a rock opera, but I need people to listen to Janelle Monáe's Metropolis series of concept EPs and eventually her debut album The ArchAndroid, some with dystopian themes of being a robot that falls out of line, in love and starts thinking for itself, and others about being a saviour alien, that was awesome.

Also, Canadian rock band Fucked Up had a great rock opera called David Comes To Life in 2011 that was great.

(If not 'rock', I don't know what else to call Fucked Up lol, they started out as definitely hardcore punks, but they've done so much other interesting work since then that can't really be called punk)

Also obligatory reminder that 'rock opera' =/= 'rock musical'

(That said, I found Quadrophenia on vinyl at a uni sale for $5, which was kinda nice)

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similar with musicians I think. Sometimes you just have to watch every single fuzzy 4:3 performance and interview with a musician just to realise a lot of those interviews are grating, unglamorous and just need to be got through because the interviewer clearly doesn't know shit about them, sometimes playing off your head on LSD actually looks really lame and shambolic and does not really unlock creativity, sometimes a band has one good tune and the rest of the album actually sounds mid to you and you cannot deny it, and sometimes the fella is a complete, total antisocial freak who shouldn't have been let near a microphone

I think watching some random actor's entire filmography just because you fancy them is actually so important. It teaches you that even the most successful artists start somewhere. That they experience ups and downs and career ruts and often have to do very weird projects at some point just because their rent is due. And maybe you discover that you don't even like that guy all that much lol

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Alt rock has come back in such a big way in the past few years, and as a long-time alt rock fan, I feel kinda vindicated but it's also so disorienting sometimes? Like the same people that would've laughed at my Nirvana shirts in the 2010s now realise how cool a band they were. I'm not on Tiktok, but I've read like Vice articles about how teen tiktokers 'discovered' old music again during lockdown and suddenly it was cool again, and yes, 'old' music included 90s and 2000s bands. Also because of indie sleaze revival, I guess Vice is cool again too? Like it's nice, but I also can't wrap my head around it sometimes

Yes, yes, yes!! Anon this is exactly it. It's not even just limited to 90s and 00s bands, in fact. A friend and I grew up on Led Zeppelin, and so we loved Greta Van Fleet when they first started. I saw them live in 2019, and the crowd was very 50+. Now the kids on Instagram are commenting 'pookie' under singer Josh Kiszka's posts. Apparently tickets to see them when they went back on tour in like 2022/23 were really hard to get, and when I'd walk around campus with my band tee from the 2019 show, people thought I was the hottest shit on campus, which was so wild because two years ago they were calling it grandpa music.

I also noticed in my time on campus that groups of partying kids were suddenly not walking down the street blasting EDM but instead were singing along to Franz Ferdinand's Take Me Out. I've seen cool kids book music venues and throw party shows where their bands cover Van Halen's Jump, and every one of the seemingly hipster kids sings along and knows every word. It's a rennaissance like I've never seen before!

I think 'indie sleaze' revival might slightly pre-date lockdown given Lizzy Goodman's Meet Me In The Bathroom book came out in 2017 and it was already putting attention back on some of those NYC bands, but sure, alt rock revival in general only helped it. Then the documentary version came out in 2022.

You're so right, alt rock is back in such a big way, and I love it :)

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THERE 👏 ARE 👏 OTHER 👏 ROCK 👏 OPERAS 👏 BESIDES 👏 AMERICAN 👏 IDIOT 👏AND 👏THE 👏 BLACK 👏 PARADE 👏

This might be on the outer edges of the 'rock' part of a rock opera, but I need people to listen to Janelle Monáe's Metropolis series of concept EPs and eventually her debut album The ArchAndroid, some with dystopian themes of being a robot that falls out of line, in love and starts thinking for itself, and others about being a saviour alien, that was awesome.

Also, Canadian rock band Fucked Up had a great rock opera called David Comes To Life in 2011 that was great.

(If not 'rock', I don't know what else to call Fucked Up lol, they started out as definitely hardcore punks, but they've done so much other interesting work since then that can't really be called punk)

Also obligatory reminder that 'rock opera' =/= 'rock musical'

(That said, I found Quadrophenia on vinyl at a uni sale for $5, which was kinda nice)

[alt-rock-confessions]

THERE 👏 ARE 👏 OTHER 👏 ROCK 👏 OPERAS 👏 BESIDES 👏 AMERICAN 👏 IDIOT 👏AND 👏THE 👏 BLACK 👏 PARADE 👏

This might be on the outer edges of the 'rock' part of a rock opera, but I need people to listen to Janelle Monáe's Metropolis series of concept EPs and eventually her debut album The ArchAndroid, some with dystopian themes of being a robot that falls out of line, in love and starts thinking for itself, and others about being a saviour alien, that was awesome.

Also, Canadian rock band Fucked Up had a great rock opera called David Comes To Life in 2011 that was great.

(If not 'rock', I don't know what else to call Fucked Up lol, they started out as definitely hardcore punks, but they've done so much other interesting work since then that can't really be called punk)

Also obligatory reminder that 'rock opera' =/= 'rock musical'

(That said, I found Quadrophenia on vinyl at a uni sale for $5, which was kinda nice)

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@dadrockconfessions

classic rock song youtube comments section is like girlblogging for wistful divorced dads

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The more I look at this picture of Matt Bellamy, the more I'm convinced that Stephanie Meyer used it to base Edward Cullen's looks off.

I mean, just fucking look at it

They should've at least spiked his hair, it might've saved the film

Also, there were better Matt-as-vampire looks they could've gone for! Imagine if they'd styled Robert Pattinson thusly:

Put some silly goofy into it. Give the man a cool coat and a certain je-ne-sais-quoi. ✨

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for the anon who said 'every rock band has sexual tension amongst at least 2 members'

don’t forget to kiss the homies <3

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follow-up to the Scott Wieland ask: I probably phrased it badly, but I felt like everybody mourned Cornell while Wieland got overshadowed, which was sadder for me as someone who felt STP got a bad rap over the years.

Yeah, I get that tbh, they're still running pieces about his drug addiction, for one. They did a piece with his son a couple of years ago when he started releasing his own music, very different to Scott's, and it was posed as a piece investigating whether his son felt the perks of having a rockstar dad and he was just like 'yk what. I understood him when I developed my own hard drugs addiction; not much to say about him dad-wise'.

Feel like it's kind of overshadowed his contributions as a musician— even back in the 90s I feel like the only discussion around Scott Weiland used to be 'why does he sing so bad' which is crazy, he sounded so good!? And then him getting kicked out of STP kinda ingloriously and the fact that they're still going, while obviously Soundgarden can never happen again without Chris, I do get it. Scott was really kicked while he was here, and all he did was wrote some incredible 90s grunge albums.

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I was sadder about Scott Wieland's death than I was about Chris Cornell's

I hear you anon, me too.

I think it was also the fact that Scott was one of the first of a barrage of beloved artists to die in such a short period of time that hit so hard. Scott died in the beginning of December 2015 iirc? And it shocked us all, because the 90s were barely 15 years ago, those guys couldn't be old enough to die, right?? And then in about a month, we'd lost Lemmy, and then two weeks later, Bowie. Then Prince a few months after. I don't know if we were better at coping with losing rockstars by 2017, but it still hurt.

Purple's still a cracking album, to me.

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Fontaines D.C. at NOX ORAE 2018 [x]

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I don't hate Radiohead, but their fans online are so awful I no longer enjoy listening to their music. I know it's a silly reason to sour on a band but I don't want anything to do with them anymore.

I sympathise anon, there are definitely music fandoms that I've felt I do Not want to enter, and it's got nothing to do with the band, just that their fans can be real snobs about music.

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swifties always going on the "you just hate women" defense like first of all Taylor Swift is not a woman she's an unskippable ad

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My personal alt rock confession is I genuinely couldn’t give a shit about Inhaler. They sound so generically pop rock to me. In my capacity as someone who keeps up with new music I will probably at least give a little time to listen to their new album but I just… can’t make myself bother about them. Nepo baby-ass model boys.

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THERE 👏 ARE 👏 OTHER 👏 ROCK 👏 OPERAS 👏 BESIDES 👏 AMERICAN 👏 IDIOT 👏AND 👏THE 👏 BLACK 👏 PARADE 👏

This might be on the outer edges of the 'rock' part of a rock opera, but I need people to listen to Janelle Monáe's Metropolis series of concept EPs and eventually her debut album The ArchAndroid, some with dystopian themes of being a robot that falls out of line, in love and starts thinking for itself, and others about being a saviour alien, that was awesome.

Also, Canadian rock band Fucked Up had a great rock opera called David Comes To Life in 2011 that was great.

(If not 'rock', I don't know what else to call Fucked Up lol, they started out as definitely hardcore punks, but they've done so much other interesting work since then that can't really be called punk)

Also obligatory reminder that 'rock opera' =/= 'rock musical'

(That said, I found Quadrophenia on vinyl at a uni sale for $5, which was kinda nice)

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I've recently come to a conclusion that literally every band you and I can think of has some sorts of sexual tension between at least two of its members. It's just something universal in the world of rock.

Sexual tension and tenderness, don't forget. Anon you have no idea how much fun putting together this post was, cheers.

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I like the way you moves Lexxo

Sexyy