Is it just me, or has rock music fallen off the planet the past few years.  I mean you turn on the tube these days, put on MTV or VH1, and all you hear is rap and pop music.  I have no problem with either genre of music.  I have some rap songs on my ipod, but i can get really sick of the stuff really fast. 

I put MTV2 on today and they had that Sucker Free Countdown on, which is a countdown of the 20 best rap songs of the week.  i thought to myself how can someone watch a countdown of all rap for two straight hours?  i listened to one song and the guy was rapping so fast i couldn’t understand one word he was saying.  i felt like pulling my hair out.  i wanted to hear some good tunes while i was exercising.  so after i got sick of the rap music i was listening to, it took my about 10 seconds to finally change the channel. 

i put on Vh1 and they had the top 20 video countdown on.  i figured this is good, the top 20 countdown should have a good variety of music to listen too while i exercise.  maybe I’ll actually hear some good rock music.  it turned out that there was only about 10 minutes left of the 2 hour program.  before they showed the number one video of the week they showed a recap of the videos that placed 20-2.  i was disappointed to find out that the heaviest song on the countdown was a Maroon 5 song.  how crummy is that?  how am i supposed to pump and iron and hit the treadmill while listening to Maroon 5? 

there was a song by velvet revolver on there.  the only reason why i mention this is because they are a combo of Guns n Roses and Stone Temple Pilots, who are two amazing bands.  The song they had on there sounded like something my mom would want to listen to on the soft rock channel on the radio.  the song sounded like some crappy jingle you would hear in the elevator. 

After the dissapointment of the VH1 countdown i figured i would try my luck with the radio.  the #1 video of the week was a nelly furtodo song by the way.  Nothing gets me pumped up like a a good Nelly Furtodo song huh? 

So i turn on the only rock station i know of, 103.3 the edge.  How could they let me down?  well after about 15 minutes of commercails on how to save money on car insurance and coffee at dunkin doughnuts, metallica’s enter sandman came on.  Finally i can feel pumped up while i work out.  After hearing songs by Metallica, Guns n Roses, Motley Crue, and many toher bands from the ate 80’s early 90’s my workout was complete.  it was then that i realized i didnt hear a single rock song that came out in the past 10 years. 

What will it take for new rock music to take over mainstream music on the airwaves and the telivision?