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#4339962 - 02/24/17 12:07 PM Straight up rock music  
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Around what time would you say that just straight up rock music (not necessarily hard) fell out of favor with the mainstream? Can anyone here name a rock band that started after 2000 that still has some level of mainstream/commercial appeal?


Yes, I know there are quite a lot of rock bands that are active in the underground/indie realm but I just find it fascinating to see how fickle the mainstream market is when it comes to what kind of music it prefers.


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#4339985 - 02/24/17 01:56 PM Re: Straight up rock music [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Well I'd say mid-70s when disco hit. But it really depends on how you define straight up rock. Does U2 qualify? Nirvana?


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#4339988 - 02/24/17 02:06 PM Re: Straight up rock music [Re: DBond]  
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Originally Posted by DBond
But it really depends on how you define straight up rock. Does U2 qualify? Nirvana?




That's a great question since it is indeed a subjective term to some extent. And yes, I would consider both U2 and Nirvana to be straight up rock even though the "signature sound" of those two bands were very different.


If you look at what is popular now with the mainstream it's pretty much all Pop and R&B.


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#4339990 - 02/24/17 02:22 PM Re: Straight up rock music [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
Can anyone here name a rock band that started after 2000 that still has some level of mainstream/commercial appeal?



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I would consider both U2 and Nirvana to be straight up rock


Well then I say U2 biggrin

I get your point though and agree. There is little produced these days that I would rate as 'my' kind of music. I struggle with deciding if I'm just an old fogey or if new music sucks. Probably a little of both. But the stuff the kids listen to is, for the most part, terrible in my opinion. They love it though. Was the same with my parents. They thought Waylon Jennings, Englebert Humperdink and Kris Kristofferson were the pinnacle of musical achievement.


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#4339991 - 02/24/17 02:23 PM Re: Straight up rock music [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Music taste is most definitely heavily influenced by age and what generation you are part of. No doubt.


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#4339994 - 02/24/17 02:24 PM Re: Straight up rock music [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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I think Kelly Clarkson and Pink did some straight up rock early in their careers, although they now are also firmly in pop territory.

Cage the Elephant is rock, but they're hardly mainstream anymore after they made a brief splash with their first album. "In One Ear" and "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked" were distinctive but still rock.

Arctic Monkeys? "Do I Wanna Know" is both hard and slow, but I can't really call it anything but rock. I'm not sure how big they are, but that video has over 400m views on YT, so that's pretty popular in that respect.

There was the White Stripes, but they're done and Jack White has sort of disappeared after his Quantum of Solace duet.



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#4340000 - 02/24/17 02:28 PM Re: Straight up rock music [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Oh, and my U2 nomination is a fail as they started back in the 80's. I guess I misread the question as having success since 2000. Not started since 2000.


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#4340008 - 02/24/17 02:41 PM Re: Straight up rock music [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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I guess I'm a bit out of touch with current music since I've never even heard of either "Arctic Monkeys" or "Cage the Elephant". old_simmer


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#4340015 - 02/24/17 02:48 PM Re: Straight up rock music [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Yes you have. You played Borderlands. You couldn't miss Ain't No Rest for the Wicked.



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#4340020 - 02/24/17 02:50 PM Re: Straight up rock music [Re: Jedi Master]  
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Originally Posted by Jedi Master
Yes you have. You played Borderlands. You couldn't miss Ain't No Rest for the Wicked.



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Just like with classical music, there are a ton of songs I know but I just have no clue who the composer/artist was who wrote it.


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I love the Borderlands 2 opening. Cool stuff and cool song.


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It all depends on how you define stuff.

The Gaslight Anthem is to me a straight up rock band - they launched in 2006 and their last two albums in 2012 and 2014 reached #3 and #4 on the US Billboard 200 respectively.
But they have sadly gone on a hiatus frown

Poets of the Fall is another great rock band I know, but they are mostly only known in Finland and nearby countries. But all their albums have topped the finnish record charts.

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I preferred BL1's opening to BL2's. However, I forget which game closes with The Heavy's "How You Like Me Now". Whichever one that is, that's the one I prefer. smile



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I'd call the Black Keys straight up rock and they formed in 2001. Their music is everywhere. Commercials, sporting events, TV and movies. I bought their latest CD about a year ago (eight albums released) so they're still putting out new music too.

When I listen to the Black Keys on Pandora, a lot of Arctic Monkeys is also played and I dig them too.



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#4340350 - 02/25/17 11:29 PM Re: Straight up rock music [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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I'd heartily recommend Audrey Horne for good rock music. Think they are from Norway.

Singer has a great voice too.


#4340386 - 02/26/17 02:48 AM Re: Straight up rock music [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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I try but cannot connect with the newer stuff.

I don't believe that old music is better than new, it's just different. I think real Rock has died, much like Big Band and Doo-Wop before it, probably morphed into something else (like Blues to Rock).

Same with most Top 40, always appeals to teenagers. I still listen to some Pop/Top 40 from my teenage years purely out of nostalgia, but not anything recent since I'm no longer a teenager, it's not suppose to appeal to me.

However...

I do frequently see 20-somethings rocking out to live 70's and 80's. I don't remember my peers ever enjoying our parent's 50's music (live or recorded) like I see these guys rocking to live Zep, GnR, VH, AC/DC, etc. covers so there must be *something* special about 70's/80's Rock, right?

Of course there is!

And BTW, in general, there's just not very much good fun Hard Rock anymore, like those about getting laid...

Van Halen - Feel Your Love Tonight / Everybody Wants Some
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You forgot KISS, where pretty much every song was about that or rock itself.



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Originally Posted by Jedi Master
You forgot KISS, where pretty much every song was about that or rock itself.


One of my guilty pleasures, I've got a couple more on my Shuffle...



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7isxoTIeYM



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#4341200 - 03/01/17 01:09 AM Re: Straight up rock music [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Well, Avenged Sevenfold and Sick Puppies were formed in the late 90s and are still pretty popular. Then there's Five Finger Death Punch, Volbeat, Alter Bridge, etc.


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#4341769 - 03/03/17 03:18 PM Re: Straight up rock music [Re: MarkG]  
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There's definitely something odd going on these days. Teenage guitar students still want to learn Iron Man and Smoke on the Water as their first riffs. Some of them might have a go at Seven Nation Army, but then it's back to Nirvana, Metallica (but only up to their Black album), Guns 'n Roses as if 2000 never happened.

It sort of makes me hope my boy will turn to hip hop once he hits puberty, because generation conflicts just aren't the same if a parent cannot yell to 'turn that noise down' once in a while. cool

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