Your 10 favorite newer bands of this dreadful decade of music

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  • harmless_little_f***
    harmless_little_f*** Posts: 8,005
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    I know Sigur Ros have technically been around since 1994, but they're very much a band of this decade.

    Agreed.

    Sigur Ros. I've got 1 and I've ran out of ideas. I need to hear Arcade Fire, haven't yet.
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  • Housing Jim
    Housing Jim Posts: 644
    Biffy Clyro ... easily the best new band making music today, even if they're not that new anymore.

    Brand New
    Jimmy Eat World
    Death Cab For Cutie
    We Are Scientists
    Arctic Monkeys


    .....that's pretty much it. and even a couple of those I'm sure released records before 2000. When I think about it, all my favourite records generally come from the early to mid 90s
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  • Housing Jim
    Housing Jim Posts: 644
    harmless_little_f*** wrote:
    I need to hear Arcade Fire, haven't yet.

    I don;t see what the fus is about Arcade Fire.....I've listened to them and to me they always just sound like U2
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  • Hippyvik
    Hippyvik Posts: 281
    I really like what I've heard of 'Gossip'
  • boroff89
    boroff89 Posts: 786
    Housing Jim wrote:
    I don;t see what the fus is about Arcade Fire.....I've listened to them and to me they always just sound like U2

    Wow. To me they sound nothing like U2. When has U2 ever used instruments outside of the rock standards? Arcade Fire uses accordions, violins, organs, bizarre percussion instruments, and some instruments that I have never heard of before. Also, in Arcade Fire, just about everyone sings in order to create their very unique uplifting feel. I have never heard that from U2. But more than anything, there is a sense of importance and urgency about Arcade Fire's music that hasn't existed in U2's music for a long, long time.
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  • intodeep
    intodeep Posts: 7,249
    Twatay wrote:
    isis
    mastodon
    converge
    high on fire
    baroness

    Baroness is a very cool band \m/

    Are you from Georgia? i did not know many folks new of them.

    I love high on fire
    I like isis a lot too
    converge is okay i'm not as geeked up about them as i am the others on your list.

    mastodon as i mentioned already is awesome!
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  • PJ_Phil
    PJ_Phil Posts: 84
    1. The Strokes
    2. Kings of Leon
    3. Interpol
    4. Queens of the Stone Age
    5. My Morning Jacket
    6. The Shins
    7. The Vines
    8. Death Cab for Cutie
    9. Jack Johnson
    10. The White Stripes
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  • reeferchief
    reeferchief Posts: 3,569
    boroff89 wrote:
    Wow. To me they sound nothing like U2. When has U2 ever used instruments outside of the rock standards? Arcade Fire uses accordions, violins, organs, bizarre percussion instruments, and some instruments that I have never heard of before. Also, in Arcade Fire, just about everyone sings in order to create their very unique uplifting feel. I have never heard that from U2. But more than anything, their is a sense of importance and urgency about Arcade Fire's music that hasn't existed in U2's music for a long, long time.

    I'm glad you wrote that, so I did'nt have to.:)
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  • Twatay
    Twatay Posts: 64
    intodeep wrote:
    Baroness is a very cool band \m/

    Are you from Georgia? i did not know many folks new of them.

    I love high on fire
    I like isis a lot too
    converge is okay i'm not as geeked up about them as i am the others on your list.

    mastodon as i mentioned already is awesome!


    no, from austin, tx actually.

    i saw baroness at SXSW 2006. they were awesome! IMO their first 6 songs are some of the best material for debuting a career. of course TEN, may be unbeatable :)

    but yea, i probably shouldn't have put converge since they formed in 1994 i think.

    p.s. mastodon does indeed rule.
  • fada
    fada Posts: 1,032
    Kings of Leon
    The strokes
    The coral
    Ray Lamontagne
    Declan O'Rourke
    Arctic Monkeys
    Milburn
    My morning jacket
    Razorlight
    the futureheads
  • Mike Brady
    Mike Brady Posts: 19
    The best "new" bands making great music now are...


    The Drive-By Truckers
    My Morning Jacket
    Modest Mouse
    Wilco


    ....that's about it. Music is really quite shitty these days. All those other "indie" bands or whatever they are called, have good songs but don't make great albums.

    Music isn't what it once was. Shaping up to be the worst decade for music since the 80's. (I know that will offend some people)


    There is so much great music from the past, it's a waste of money to worry about the new and far less relevant music scene going on right now. And that's a fact.
  • boroff89
    boroff89 Posts: 786
    Mike Brady wrote:
    The best "new" bands making great music now are...


    The Drive-By Truckers
    My Morning Jacket
    Modest Mouse
    Wilco


    ....that's about it. Music is really quite shitty these days. All those other "indie" bands or whatever they are called, have good songs but don't make great albums.

    Music isn't what it once was. Shaping up to be the worst decade for music since the 80's. (I know that will offend some people)


    There is so much great music from the past, it's a waste of money to worry about the new and far less relevant music scene going on right now. And that's a fact.

    That is not fact. That is opinion. You aren't connecting to the new music, for whatever reason. I strongly connect to a lot of it, just as I have strongly connected to music from the 1920s on. There are some absolutely incredible albums being made. In fact, in many ways, the stuff coming out now is superior to the music that dominated the 90s. There are bands that instead of being derivative are seeking out new ground. And they are doing so in brilliant fashion. In many ways, this is becoming my favorite decade of music. When I hear people say that nothing is relevant anymore and that they prefer just to stick with older music, it reminds of something my parents might say. I hope to never get stuck like that. I guess I'd rather not become stagnant in that way, would rather continue to grow and keep an open mind. Take a look at the thread I started about the best albums from 2000-2007. People have listed a huge number of standout albums, and many of them are listed numerous times.
    It makes much more sense to live in the present tense.
  • Zoso
    Zoso Posts: 6,425
    Muse
    Strokes
    Interpol
    Okkervil River
    Arcade Fire
    Kings of Leon
    The Black Keys
    At The Drive-IN
    Mars Volta
    Band of Horses

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  • pjl44
    pjl44 Posts: 10,593
    intodeep wrote:
    edit: I was the first to mention Mastodon i think. SHAMMMEEEE ONN the rest of you :D

    Wrong! Check out my post...#18. Tremendous band...
  • Mike Brady
    Mike Brady Posts: 19
    boroff89 wrote:
    That is not fact. That is opinion. You aren't connecting to the new music, for whatever reason. I strongly connect to a lot of it, just as I have strongly connected to music from the 1920s on. There are some absolutely incredible albums being made. In fact, in many ways, the stuff coming out now is superior to the music that dominated the 90s. There are bands that instead of being derivative are seeking out new ground. And they are doing so in brilliant fashion. In many ways, this is becoming my favorite decade of music. When I hear people say that nothing is relevant anymore and that they prefer just to stick with older music, it reminds of something my parents might say. I hope to never get stuck like that. I guess I'd rather not become stagnant in that way, would rather continue to grow and keep an open mind. Take a look at the thread I started about the best albums from 2000-2007. People have listed a huge number of standout albums, and many of them are listed numerous times.

    The album is a lost art. People don't make good albums anymore.

    I'll spend my money on digging deeper into the abundant amount of existing great music and you can buy the new albums that these unoriginal bands release. That is if you actually still buy the music. Seems to me these days everyone is illegally downloading their stuff. Don't even get the liner notes and actual disc. I don't like where music is going.
  • boroff89
    boroff89 Posts: 786
    Mike Brady wrote:
    The album is a lost art. People don't make good albums anymore.

    I'll spend my money on digging deeper into the abundant amount of existing great music and you can buy the new albums that these unoriginal bands release. That is if you actually still buy the music. Seems to me these days everyone is illegally downloading their stuff. Don't even get the liner notes and actual disc. I don't like where music is going.

    I always support the artists I love by buying their albums rather than downloading them. I realize I am in the minority here. The album is far from a lost art. Already this year, their have been three albums released that are stellar from beginning to end: Arcade Fire's Neon Bible, The Shins' Wincing the Night Away, and Modest Mouse's We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. I find it funny you call the bands unoriginal. To me, they are far more original than anything rock has seen for quite some time. That's why I am so drawn to them. They are not derivative. They are innovative. It's hard to be innovative in a genre that has been covered so thoroughly already.
    It makes much more sense to live in the present tense.
  • Drop1The0Leash
    Drop1The0Leash Posts: 954
    I totally agree that mastodon is awesome!
    intodeep wrote:
    Baroness is a very cool band \m/

    Are you from Georgia? i did not know many folks new of them.

    I love high on fire
    I like isis a lot too
    converge is okay i'm not as geeked up about them as i am the others on your list.

    mastodon as i mentioned already is awesome!
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  • reversedarwinism
    reversedarwinism Posts: 1,151
    Off the top of my head:

    Chevelle
    The Killers
    Disturbed
    Interpol
    AFI
    Staind
    others.....

    I'm liking a lot of new rock, but don't know many of the names of the bands. I like the new/emo rock. And I like that I'm not to old to like it ;) rock and roll will never die. and pop music in gereral is good, its different for sure.

    I listen to BOB FM, the variety pop station at work. its great and shows that all decades have great music. I will say that the 80s are the obviously the worst overall IMO, and I think this decade resembles that one but is much, much better.
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  • direwolf74
    direwolf74 Posts: 1,622
    boroff89 wrote:
    I always support the artists I love by buying their albums rather than downloading them. I realize I am in the minority here. The album is far from a lost art. Already this year, their have been three albums released that are stellar from beginning to end: Arcade Fire's Neon Bible, The Shins' Wincing the Night Away, and Modest Mouse's We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. I find it funny you call the bands unoriginal. To me, they are far more original than anything rock has seen for quite some time. That's why I am so drawn to them. They are not derivative. They are innovative. It's hard to be innovative in a genre that has been covered so thoroughly already.


    Couldn't agree more. Well said!
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  • Matty Boy
    Matty Boy Posts: 421
    The 1980's was fucking killer compared to this decade.
    You had Appetite For Destruction, Joshua Tree, Ride The Lightning, Blizzard of Oz, Purple Rain, Back In Black,
    1984, Born in The USA, and Thriller. All those albums I just listed kick the shit out of any albums that've come out this decade.

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