Originally posted by KalsenCheck out this site for new music...it's a great idea and so easy to use.
The music of the 60s and 70s is better and will be remebered forever because modern music was invented in these years. It is hardly fair to compare new music of the same genre today to the pioneers.
The other (and perhaps more relevant) point is that most people only hear what the major record companies force on them. Music is totally controlled by cartels ...[text shortened]... ight on what one hears on the radio and music tv as a reliable representation of music in 2006.
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Originally posted by richfeetIf you'd made any serious attempt to follow music in the last DECADE, you would know.
Who the hell is radiohead i bet they are another crappy modern day rock group that sucks
You're as bad as my father who didn't know who Alanis Morissette was after 'Jagged Little Pill' had been in the charts for a year. Even my mother scoffed.
How old are you really, and are you just jerking everybody's chain? Your post reads like that of a teenager.
Most rock these days is really really bad. It all sounds the same. With exception of Rage Against The Machine, Deftones, Refused, Radiohead, The Foo Fighters, QOTSA, Ben Harper and Jeff Buckley, the last 15 years has been filled with avarage boring cr@p. The Arcade Fire are horrible, so are Bloc Party, The Kaiser Cheifs, The Kings Of Leon, The Pictures, The..... actually, any band that has come out in the last 5 years who's name starts with "The" pretty much suck.
And for the record, Emo sucks too.
And R'N'B.
You know when you have one of those mandatory 'big family get togethers' and your Dad or that annoying uncle gets completely wasted and breaks out his dusty, scratched vinyl collection. Then all middle aged people in the room sit there nodding thier head to the beats, complaining that all modern music is rubbish and is no where near as good as it was in back their day....?
That's what reading this thread is like 😞
I bought the Velvet Revolver album, and I think it's a decent effort, though certainly not a classic.
To go back to the list of 'great albums' posted earlier, I have heard: 1-6, 8, and 10. I can't see how you could classify Sleeping with ghosts as a great album, i think it is pretty poor compared to their other efforts. I won't even start on the Arcade fire album (but suffice it to say I hope they do become a one hit wonder and vanish from the music scene. The Hope of the States album is the only one I could possibly (grudgingly) call a classic.
I don't think I own 10 albums from 2000 onwards I could call great. The only ones that I can think of immediately are Origin of symmetry by Muse (and this may be 1999), and Songs for the Deaf by QOTSA. I could name countless albums from the 90's that I consider great or classic albums, however. There is definately a decline in good music, certainly good music that gets airplay.
Me- I blame NME!
Originally posted by royalchickenI have not heard of any of them. I have at least heard of Radiohead.
Ten great rock albums of the last 5 years, in the order I thought of them:
1. Amnesiac -- Radiohead
2. Is this It -- The Strokes
3. Up the Bracket -- The Libertines
4. Funeral -- Arcade Fire
5. Elephant -- The White Stripes
6. The Lost Riots -- Hope of the States
7. The Mysterious Production of Eggs -- Andrew Bird
8. Sleeping With Ghosts -- Placebo
9. Left and Leaving -- The Weakerthans
10. Takeoffs and Landings -- Rilo Kiley
Surely the greatest rock album of the last 15 years was:
1992: The love album by Carter USM (The unstoppable Sex Machine).
A close second would have to be: Casual sex in the cinaplex by The sultans of swing FC.
With such classics as: "Where's me jumper" and "Put on your flip flops and let's go shoppin' babe".
As for BEST being defined as "Best remembered", this is, of course, completely absurd.
Everyone remembers Gerry and the Pacemakers, but Captain Beefheart made much better and more innovative music. By far.
In my humble opinion, the best "rock" album ever made was the live album by AC/DC called: "If you want blood, you've got it..."
Nothing beats that for a good old fashioned adrenaline rush!