Why is rock so shite today? No answer here, this is a question for all of you. Today's rock music seems to me so uninspired and dull. No innovation at all, just stealing from the history of rock music. Or is it just me who is getting too old for rock music? Who has already heard so much of it that he now always hears the influences first and finds that the originals have been so much better. Is rock music at a dead-end or is it my relation to it? I am 100% sure that I will always find an unreleased bootleg version of Velvet Underground's Femme Fatale much more exciting than anything of the three bands I mention below. Today I listened to a live mp3 of The Strokes When It Started in my car hifi. And I must admit that I have listened to a lot of bad music in the 38 years I have been going but this is my personal candidate for the worst song ever. The garage guitar sound and the raucuous voice of the singer do not help. The repeated guitar line is the most annoying I have ever heard. Só mediocre that it is almost original. The song goes nowhere as none of the Strokes songs. How could this band ever be signed by any label? And how could anyone buy their records? It will always be a mystery to me. They are even worse than Oasis. And Oasis have been the spearhead of bad ripped-off rock music for quite some years. Slightly less hyped are The White Stripes. They are only two, a man playing the guitar and singing and his (ex-?)wife playing the drums. Their good tracks sound like hard psychedelic blues rock a little like Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Very energetic and played and sung with a devil's soul. Unfortunately many of their songs are softer and more conventional. And the speed blues ones sound all the same so that one song of theirs is actually enough. The great Fell in Love with a Girl for example. There they had their 109 seconds of fame. Last band to mention here in today's triumvirate of rock newcomers are B.R.M.C. Their record is called Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. I am curious if they will reveal another meaning of the band name's abbreviation for their next album. They are obviously copying The Jesus & Mary Chain who in the beginning have been copying The Velvet Underground period second album. But where J&MC had their own distorted guitar sound and restrained vocal delivery BRMC just sound like very good copycats. Apparently they also steal from other bands. Check the 30 second windows media snippet of Rifle from this page. First I thougt, hey this is great. Ride are back. The slower songs of BRMC are nevertheless uninteresting to say the least. So in the end the only one of today's rock scene who is worth it is Ryan Adams as I have said before. He has digested so much different music from the 60s-80s that he could create something refreshingly new out of it. And he is a beast on stage.