What are the great rock acts that have come out in the past 20 years that can stand with The Stones, Zeppelin, The Who, U2, G n R, Foo Fighters, etc.? There have been some good songs in the 2000's but I can't think of an act that will be considered an all time great. Sadly, Coldplay is the top album selling "rock" act to come out in the 2000's (first album was actually 1999).
Explain your metric for compiling your list. Also did you mean Mendoza rather than Maginot? The former was pretty funny.
There is a reason that the music from the classic era of rock music still is popular today, even with kids. Its because it is GOOD. The band era had actual talented musicians who wrote and performed music without the aid of technology. What you knew of the band was the product that came out of the radio.....not from the visual of seeing them sing or perform. That changed in the 80s with MTV. Then the video/visual became more or as important as the music product. Also cRap entered the field. You could just sample a real song for the music beat and then disrespect women or drop effbombs etc... in your cRap rather than learn to play and sing.
Yet, the majority of the highest grossing concert tours in the last decade were classic rock acts. I guess old farts have the time and money for expensive concerts.
Yep. That list pretty well says it all and that was just the tip of the iceberg. I will admit that I do not get Ed Sheeran. I do applaud that he breaks my fundamental rules of the current messed up music industry. He is goofy looking and plays guitar. He should have only been allowed to become a star before MTV.
That was an excellent list, but The Keys are just great.
I've seen The Black Keys twice. At the Southgate House opening for Sleater-Kinney, and at an in store show at CD Central. They are total ********. But yeah they are great
Obviously you're not a guitar player. Its OK to dislike any musical act... but calling it "overrated"? Lol...Agree 100% and I am in my 60s, listen to 2/3 stuff made in the last 20 years, maybe 3/4, I make a habit of writing down new stuff I hear on WUKY or XM Radio and then loading into Spotify. Even when I listen to the old classic rock acts, I tend to pick their lesser known songs
As previously stated above, most of these songs were/are actually great, they have just been overplayed to the zillionth degree in the last 30 years, which is why I have not listened to WKQQ (classic rock station since its very inception) in probably 20 years or more.
I will weigh in on some of the classic acts, for example, I never understood how ZZ Top, Bob Seger, or Peter Frampton ever got popular to begin with, much less have their old music still plaguing the airwaves decades later. Frampton Comes Alive drove me right up the wall in high school and has not aged well. (Naturally, I fully expect one of the next 3 posts to tell me Frampton is a musical genius)
Mav has some great takes about Bruce. On the other hand, I've got fond memories of driving through southern England and Wales listening to "Born in the USA" during summer 1984 on a cassette desk with a good buddy. British girls loved us. I might recall every track on that album. Awesome memories.
Knew someone would point out how great Frampton is/was. Couldn't listen to it in 1976, and see/hear no reason to start now
Yeah, kind of surprised it took this long to include this atrocity to the list.
ZZ turned away from their blues roots. Early music was excellent.
Now that I can buy.
My therapist suggested I emulate Jules Winnfield and try reaaaal haaaard to be the shepherd regarding Springsuck, so Iām gonna take a different tack and throw āLaylaā out there. Itās basically a 90 second song with a 5 1/2 minute guitar/piano outro stuck on repeat.
Huge?
The Doors recorded their last album (and Morrison had been dead) 20 years before Stoneās movie.Well, obviously. But in the 80s and especially the early 90s when that film came out they were regarded as one of a handful of great rock bands. Hugely popular. Ubiquitous on classic rock radio.Huge?
Still are but like so many other acts of that era I have heard all their famous songs 10,000 times each
