What service do you use to create playlists?
mazag08 said:
Green Day is playing the NHL all star game.
Have to admit, it's 10x better than whatever pop star plays the Super Bowl.
Green Day still sucks though.
Matchbox Twenty puts on a GREAT live show. Rob Thomas is such a dynamic front-man. They are one of the late 90's early 2000's bands that get better with age and will stand the test of time.Philo B 93 said:
Collective Soul and Green Day are both great bands with a lot of great songs IMO. They kind if bleed into Matchbox Twenty, Hooty and the Blowfish, and Everclear. I haven't heard any of these bands on modern rock in a while. But the playlist I'm building as a result of this thread is growing.
Philo B 93 said:
I'm old school. I use the iTunes music app (not the iTunes music subscription) and songs burned from cds a few decades ago. If I don't have it, I drop the $1.29 on iTunes.
I own around 15,000 songs after scrubbing out what I consider to be trash. I buy maybe 40 or 50 songs a year to feed the beast.
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many of the records of mainstream rock charting is from post 2000 bands. Three days grace with most #1s, disturbed with most consecutive #1, breaking Benjamin with longest charting song, etc.
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many of the records of mainstream rock charting is from post 2000 bands. Three days grace with most #1s, disturbed with most consecutive #1, breaking Benjamin with longest charting song, etc.
I don't think you can read too much into this at all. They happen to be charting in an area with extremely limited competition.
So, a more rock version of My Chemical Romance?KidDoc said:
Link for my favorite Eclipse song:
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There definitely needs to be a revival of rock music. But the music market is so saturated, I don't know that anything like that can happen. It's almost impossible to break through the noise unless corporate decides to make it happen.
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Rock is 100% in a decline in popularity but there are hundreds of new bands doing great work right now and its literally never been easier to find them. Spotify is something I would have killed for as a teenager who was saving up all the money I made to drop on 20 dollars on a CD that if I was lucky had a radio single and if not I was going off blind faith when I bought it. Finding new music now takes so very little effort
There are TONS of female lead bands now. I think that category actually blew up more. You don't hear it with generic rock as much anymore because most of the females front indie rock (Echosmith, Mistwives, ChVrchs, Florence) bands or metal bands (Nightwish / Epica / Lacuna Coil / Amaranthe). There's even a ton that are in hybrid folk/indie bands (Pretty Reckless / Honey Honey) as well as on the electronic side (Sleigh Bells, Phantogram, NERO). Most of these categories were so small or non-existent in the 80's and 90's that you saw all female bands practically exist in the same sphere. Notable female led bands in the modern era..Cibalo said:
I had a similar thought the other day. I have realized that the point when you know you are old is when you give up listening or trying to find new music and just go back to the era you enjoyed the most. I listen to a lot of Lithium since that music was the soundtrack to my high school and college years.
One observation I made was there were are lot of female lead band back then compared to now; Hole, Garbage, Verruca Salt, 4 non blonds, No Doubt, Cranberries, etc. that had a lot of hits.
I also feel that if bands like REM or Smashing Pumpkins came out now they would be largely unknown. The level of lyric writing has declined so much in the last 30 years as things get pushed to general cords/beats and lyrics for the lowest common denominator.
Around the end of college I started moving towards metal as I found that to have a more unique sound, complex lyrics, and full of raw energy. Some of it can be generic but there are lot more out there that do their own thing and are not trying to suck up to corporate radio.
I've discovered tons of bands way after the early 90s that are high on my list of favorites and have lots of rotation in my listening. Even in my 30s, I have continued to come across stuff that really grabs a hold of me.Cibalo said:
I had a similar thought the other day. I have realized that the point when you know you are old is when you give up listening or trying to find new music and just go back to the era you enjoyed the most. I listen to a lot of Lithium since that music was the soundtrack to my high school and college years.
arch enemy was a supergroup with male singer in the beginning. Easy to swap in a good looking female(s) and keep or boost popularity when you're dealing with death growl vocals. (Meaning you cant even tell it's a chick)Cibalo said:
I'm sure you can find lists of all kinds of bands lead by female singers today, but as far as the music that was played on the raido in the 90's by female leads that were mainstream hits there are less now. I didn't even get to Ace of Base, C&C Music Factory, and Technotronic as I wouldn't consider them to be 90's rock.
Evanescence was formed in 95 and their biggest hit was in 2003. they are probably the only band on your list I would say reached the same popularity as the bands I mentioned.
And if you are going to list metal bands with female leads they you have to start with Arch Enemy, and put Otep on the list.