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Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels
although, in the last 10 years i would say there hasn't been as much progression in music as there had been in previous decades. but then i don't know if it's realistic to expect things to keep progressing at the rate they had been since the 50s either.
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I think this is a fair point. Innovation never stops, but it might not always be travelling at full pelt everywhere. I doubt that rock wll ever go through a similar period of development as the one it had between the mid 50s and mid 60s, when in less than ten years it progressed from Buddy Holly's That'll Be the Day to The Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows.
Rock is a relatively old style now and so a large bulk of major innovation has moved into other younger styles that offer more scope for real invention. I think this is largely because styles such as Grime or whatever aren't fully formed yet. There's more room to play than there is within a style over half a century old that has already had its fair share of revolutions.
In that sense, Rock is like America or Europe. It'll always provide a sense of reassurance by being around in some form or another. It's just that we'll increasingly wonder why, and as such expect less and less from it as time goes on, safe in the knowledge that more interesting things are taking place elsewhere.