18 APRIL 2018 | KAYLA STERN
Rock music is one of the most popular forms of music today. Some people only listen to pop, but they are seriously missing out on a true musical experience. There are four major reasons to dump pop in the trash can and switch to rock. Number one: Pop nowadays is just the same beat matched with varying auto tuned voices. Ever song on the radio is just the same boring song about love, or about losing love. Rock music on the other hand gives you a sense of empowerment, and gets you charged up. Number two: Rock can be played at anytime, and eventually you’ll get everyone’s head bobbing along. But if you started blasting the newest pop song half the people might enjoy it, while the other half will start grumbling and complaining. Forth: People do not get involved with pop music as much as they do with rock. Half the time pop music is just used for background music anyways. If you are cooking, or cleaning you tend to put on pop just for something to listen to. But with rock it is a whole experience. You cannot listen to rock music without feeling attached to it, or pausing what your doing to just listen. The last, but certainly not least, their personalities. It may be a weird way to judge a song, but it works. Rock singers always have the most interesting lives, and you can tell by their music. Rockers always have a sad or awesome story to share whenever they sing. A pop singer is on average someone who grew up with a supporting family, and was blessed with a good voice. There is rarely a real struggle in their music. Sure some pop singers came from a sad life and worked there way up, but they never show it in there music. A quote from the famous rock singer, Steven Tyler, “We believed anything worth doing was worth overdoing,” versus a famous pop singer’s quote, “When I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can’t help but cry. I mean, I’d love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff.” One does not have to explain the stupidity of most pop singers. Now whether you go home and start listing to My Chemical Romance or go back to Britney Spears I hope I shed some light on how rock music truly does rule over pop. One does not have to explain the stupidity of most pop singers. Now whether you go home and start listing to My Chemical Romance or go back to Britney Spears, I hope I shed some light on how rock music truly does rule over pop.
10 MAY 2018 | ZAC HINDS
There is the often argument about which record is the best album. Some say The White Album, Abbey Road, Thriller, Pet Sounds, Highway 61 Revisited or Sgt pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Most people say that it is some record by The Beatles, Bob Dylan, or Michael Jackson. There are some that say that it is All Eyez On Me. I personally believe that all of these records have their own defining characteristics and great feats, but none of them can even compete with the real greatest record. The real greatest record of all time is the Voyager Golden Record.
The music on this record ranges from Beethoven to Chuck Berry. Every type of music in the world is represented on this record. No other record could even come close to this record. The span of cultures and societies represented on this record is insane. Also fun fact this record was made for aliens to know how to get to earth, so on the back this record has directions to planet Earth, tell me another record that has that. This record was launched into space along with the Voyager spaceship in 1977 and is now the farthest traveling object made by humans. No other record has the cultural and historical representation that this record has.