Does anyone else notice this? Why is that? There have been modern 'revivals' of many different musical genres over the years, but not 1970's soft-rock/romantic pop.
1970's soft-rock groups like Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds have no modern analogs
Austin Brooks
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John Morgan
It's primarily because bands like Bread and Pablo Cruise weren't popular with critics or seen as cool enough, and they also weren't acceptable to metalheads. Furthermore a large part of their audience was women.
Brody Johnson
these guys were like the 70s successor to white bread 60s pop acts like Bobby Vee and Bobby Goldsboro and none of those were ever seen as cool either
Jonathan Lee
No labels, even indies, sign that kind of music anymore. Won't sell = won't get signed. Labels aren't charities, they're merchants, they're not going to waste money they could use on hookers and blow, on music only you and maybe a couple of old ass wierdos in polyester pantsuits give a shit about (and will pirate anyway).
Adam Wood
>Bread
What a fucking goofy aah name for a band
Noah Carter
Ballads in general disappeared from music since the 90s and why is speculative.
Caleb Parker
>bread
>literal fucking symbol of life and sustenance
fuck off you nihilistic little shit
Jacob Hill
>No labels, even indies, sign that kind of music anymore. Won't sell = won't get signed.
even so its pretty easy to find noise artists with 5 listeners or pretty much indie bands of any rock revival genre without any fans let alone signed. but its impossible oto find shit like that
Zachary Foster
Indie
Brayden Morris
It started because David Gates was one of the young "new wave" 60s pop songwriters like Carole King, only he wasn't as successful as her and he just ended up making forgettable shit for Dean Martin and other Vegas lounge cats so he decided to become a performer because he felt he could sing his own material better than Dean Martin did.
And so bands like Bread emerged to take the place of Bobby Vee and friends for the new decade; they were more directly rock-influenced and got rid of the lingering rudiments of Tin Pan Alley songwriting (David and Bacharach were arguably the last big pop songwriters to mostly be influenced by pre-rock ideas).
Jace Gomez
>Furthermore a large part of their audience was women
But that isn't necessarily a bad thing. Women who like punk or rock or anything more edgy/aggressive are dykes or extreme thots. If they just like country or white bread pop they're normalfags and thus marriage material.
Anthony Howard
wasnt this what mac demarco and his countless clones were doing?
Camden Torres
>Name. Name, Name & Name
I fucking hate that late 60's/70's rock trope desu
Charles Ross
t. Tradfag
Kayden Nguyen
if it was the 70s I don't think I'd have fucked a girl who was into Blondie without a couple rubbers on
Nolan Brooks
Soft rock had a place because radio catered to the masses. You see on movies that everyone was listening to Hendrix and mountain but most people were listening to joy Apollo 100 and Curtis homes sing about the playground in his mind
Carter Mitchell
What are your favourite soft rock songs/albums, Any Forums? For me, it's Marc Tanner:
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Also, 'soft rock' in the 70's stye is surprisingly difficult to write/perform. Most of those songs have layers of instrumentation, vocal harmonies and melodies which require some skill at singing, and other flourishes.
Lucas Gonzalez
Ed Sheeran is the modern equivalent to these guys.
Luke Kelly
no shit? Bobby Goldsboro had like 20 charting hits in the 60s even though nobody remembers one of them.
Ethan Gomez
isn't that what shit like Real Estate is?
Aaron Powell
They're not,good on the critics.