Was There A Time When Rock "Died Down?"?

not from the late 80's to the early nineties, thats when music was good then it got lame after 1995. It got back to greatness by 2001-2002. Eventhough I didn't understand stuff then I lived through the last half of the 80's and from many books, documentaries from VH1 the late 80's was a good time if you were a rock, metal, or early rap group. It was after 1995 that music just went into a cycle of terrible music continued with Brittany Spears, boybands, and tons of rap groups that I don't listen to. Wasn't till my four years of college that music became good, many great groups, artists, musicians have composed a lot of good stuff.

Rock music has never died down. I doubt it ever will. The problem is the QUALITY of Rock music - and music in general has.

I am personally living through this right now. I'm listening to 70's - 80's - and 90's (NOT Grunge) music primarily. Most of the 'mainstream' bands today are crap and posers. Nothing going on is exciting. Having said that, a lot of unsigned bands out right now are keeping good music going. It's a shame that THESE bands aren't the ones that are getting all the exposure. Say what you will about MySpace (and there are A LOT of crappy bands on MySpace), but I have come to know a lot of great bands through MySpace that I might never have heard of otherwise.

I am very much into rock music now. I grew up on the mid 90s scene, and went through high school in the late 90s through 2001. There was a lot of music that I was luke warm to in the mid 90s, like Bush, Collective Soul, Fuel, etc.

I was on the trailing edge of people who liked the more straight up 90 rock bands such as the Foo Fighters and Stone Temple Pilots vs the people who got into the whole pop scene or started to like Limp Bizkit. I was more into my favorite band, Our Lady Peace, a lesser known alternative rock band from Canada that has never gotten a ton of mainstream exposure south of their home country, yet they've been around for about 14 years.

Today there aren't a whole lot of new bands that interest me, but I always believe that if you look hard enough that you will find something out there to your liking, weather or not the band is all over the mainstream radio.

I believe that rock music "has died down" in this decade a bit, there are not a whole lot of bands ou there today that I like.but I believe that you can credit Audioslave for having a big hand in keeping rock music alive (3 guys from Rage Against the Machine, and Chris Cornell lead singer from Soundgarden).

To me they just rocked, a bunch of veteran musicians who could rock out (and Tom Morello had his usual crazy off the wall, yet fitting guitar solos). And Chris Cornell has become one of my favorite singer/songwritters. Unfortunately Audioslave broke up after releasing only 3 albums, but Chris has brought back his solo career, and he also covers a lot of his old songs from his 90s bands Soundgarden and Temple of the Dog onto the younger fans that show up to his concerts (as well as Audioslave songs). So IMO he keeps part of rock's past alive from the stuff that he created along with playing his new material.

There are also other bands from the past that may not be in the limelight a whole today but still carry on. The Scorpions are still out there, for your 80s scene, some classic rock bands like the Steve Miller band still tour the same with Rush.

Ulitmately I think rock music may have died down some, but it never goes away. It's like a pair of jeans in that not always at the forfront of the latest trends, but it never goes out of style either.

(And for the record one band that I do dig that started up in this decade is a band called Shinedown).

I'd say right now. The best rock band that comes to mind is Foo Fighters. What else is there? You might say there are others, but what I consider rock is not metal, death metal, whatever metal, and all that other new stuff. The new stuff, other than Foo, just doesn't do it for me. I don't think we'll ever see any more great rock band like Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, The Who, etc...

the hard rock and hair bands died down around 1992-93 when bands like nirvana became popular.

89-91, i don't think so. too many awesome hair bands, but 92-94 yes. the country music scene (garth brooks, alan jackson, tim mcgraw, etc.) was much more popular then the rock music at that time.

Most rock that came out was put out by angry, white guys who might have been in love. Luckily disco was the perfect antidote to rock. Actually the late 70's and early 80's were a nice rest from it period.

i think it most certainly did actually around the time i was born- 1991-92

Yea ROCK HAS DIED RIGHT NOW

'96 - present, very few "great" bands these days