kenisah: kenisah : year-end note

YEAR-END NOTE [ABOUT ROCK MUSIC]Attack of 1990's underground.Since1980, seattle underground music prepare for attacking the earth withtheir style. It's way in 3 of decade, the world consider to heartheir music. And ear of all the world approve that in 2000 undergroundmusic become queen of the power of music.REM, Pearl Jam & Creed lead alternative rock mainstream.Thisunderground product that get the world. After glory of rock &

rollspeed that perform by Guns 'n' Roses, the man shocked with rhythm fromunderground. A variety of disturbance that produce fever for all the world. Thisfever take a long time. Caused by this, the rock n roll mainstreamhiding for a while.Inmy ear, the primary difference with the old is on vocals. Rock musicwhich originally carried the high-octave vocals, not often done by thealternative rock musicians. They defeat the interview with guitar rhythmthat full of emotion, not with melody guitar. But in present they stillkeep play song with 4 minutes of duration, same with previousgeneration. So many band raise this sort of noise, and success, such asRadiohead, REM, Muse, The Cure, and so many. in Britannia, Oasis lead.Green Day born with new punk.'Punknot dead'. If you listening this music mainstream, maybe shocked,because this punk stuff is different with David Bowie or Ramones era.More wild, and more powerful. And the player not with stand hair,.They do with jeans and black shirt. I can't name the maincharacter of this music, unless so many vocalist from this genre singingwith nose voice, sometimes like a groan of pain.Some article say that new punk is separate from alternative rock, but some say not, because in 1967 punk already existing.Nirvana plays grunge.Still, seattle underground touching the world with crazy stuff called 'grunge'. Their penetration almost like when Led Zeppelin appear from other planet.Full with rhythm, free drums expression, and social criticism lyrics.Government officials might be offended and incensed against this one. Inthis case, you can see that medicine is not only can take your ears warm,not simply give your head burst, but also transfer the political order.Someof music observers say that soil is however a fork from alternativerock, because some set of alternative rock- also exit the grungealbum. But nirvana maniac always cried that grunge is grunge. It's noproblem. In my ear grunge exploring most of guitar distortion withrepeatedly, and also repeatedly with drums. With this, grunge growbigger and bigger, but when Kurt Cobain dead, some of appreciation was gone. And soundgarden still survive.Linkin Park make something that called nu metal.Industrialmusic can do anything, including mixing heavy metal with discjockey,.Maybe to make hottest than 1980's heavy metal. So you can dancewith this, also head banging. But according to my ears, this musiccreates a static noise and allow the melody. Especially with a jump ofrepetition from DJ who dominating the track. Nu-metal musical strengthlies in the whole rhythm, and blaring vocals roar. And of course quiteappropriate if the lyrics are sung theme of social criticism. Because asa product of the underground, where euphony is created because of theelement of revolt and anti-establishment.Linkin Park, Korn,and Lim Bizkit are icon for this mainstream, but we know Faith No Moreand Rage Against The Machine as pioneer.Maroon 5 and many more similar bands declare the new conception of pop-rockTheevolution of rock music became something that require more simplification.In 1990's,rock music born with chords that more elementary than rock in1980's. Sometimes with acoustic, and forget melodic-interlude. Yes, inthis new pop rock, some times you can't see the melody. As you know,guitar melody is icon in 1970-1980's rock songs. But not now.Someof friend of mine says that rock music in 1990's periode becomesomething easy. More closely to the music pop than heavy metal. It's sofunny, because in heart of 1980's we all recognize that some of us can'tclearly make a differences between rock and heavy metal. Almost samebetween rock and heavy metal. In 1980's era, you claim that music becomerock if you see some interlude melodic or keyboards sound. And if youhear double guitar plays rhythm, you can call this music as heavy metal.Backto 1990's rock era. In here, perhaps you only see a small bit ofmelodic guitar, and the corpse is almost closely with pop music. And thisformula make rock more easylistening than before.What happen with progressive rock ?At least we get two notes about this, the beginning is prog-metal, and nu progressive as second.Dream House as volunteer of new genre called prog metal.In1980-1990's -but not in underground manufacturing- the new genre wasborn, born from mixing the different polar. Dream Theatre is one ofvolunteers for wedding of progressive polar verso heavy metal. You canenjoy the melodic keyboards at the crew of hard metal rhythm. Youcan't find this sound at 1980's heavy metal. As we know, the heavymetalin 1980's era, identified as music without keyboards, but in Dream Theater music, sound of keyboard maybe as mandatory.Standwithinfluenced from progressive maestro like Yes, King Crimson, andMarillion, Dream Theater push the earth with their music that make someold man realised that progressive music has been converted with morepowerful. Heavy metal become something new progressive one. It'scalled prog - metal.Progressive rock is a genre with multipleelements. And in prog-metal, some band work with speed melodic guitarand double drums, that duel with keyboards sound and high octave vocal.Some of they act like that with epic lyrics and symphonic arrangement,such as Symphony-X, Opeth, and Nightwish. Actually, the play moreprogressive than power & speed metal musician like Helloween. If so,this sort of medicine not a piece of alternative, but derivative from heavymetal.Spock's Beard, Porcupine Tree, The Flower Kings at nu progressive line.Yesand King Crimson fans maybe surprised with this condition. How in1990-s the progressive mainstream appears with different taste. In1970's, progressive give the complicated of stone with avant garde andsymphonic. Now, progressive music born with total of improvisation ofjazz and fusion. But, you can still love the round and melody ofrock, there was no change for this.As Yes or Pink Floyd era,serialize and long duration songs still as major characteristic of newprogressive music. Improvisation dan musical skill still as icon. Andyou know, the progressive musician as a idealism person, past orpresent, or whenever. You can't change this characteristic. [] harisfauzi - 27 december 2010pic : donovansf.com-inpresent, only rock base that can drive me to publish in english. and imust see more and more. thanks to roel & ima:)