Posted on 12/31/2019 1:46:59 PM PST by DoodleBob
Somewhere around the middle of the decade, Gene Simmons famously declared to all who would listen that "rock'n'roll is finally dead". Pointing the finger at file-sharing for what he called the "murder" of the genre, he railed against modern technology and what he perceived as the decade's lack of talent, decrying the absence of a "next Bob Dylan" in modern music's landscape.
But pay no attention to uncle Gene. Firstly, he's been saying this sort of thing since 1993, and we all know how the 90s panned out in terms of rock's legacy. Just because Kiss failed to make a great record this decade doesn't mean everyone else did. Secondly, a quick scan of the albums below will show you that rock music's been plenty busy over the last 10 years.
Rock'n'roll mainstays AC/DC released Rock Or Bust, an album we felt "placed its faith at the feet of rock‘n’roll, both as a restorative force and also as a vaccine against all ills" when it was released in 2014. Fellow veterans ZZ Top and Rush joined them in releasing stone-cold belters at various points throughout the decade.
But – as we've discussed in depth elsewhere – there's been plenty of new blood making their mark on the decade, too. The Struts cemented their profile with two swaggering albums – 2014's Everybody Wants and 2018's Young & Dangerous – their success helped in no small part by the impossible charisma of vocalist Luke Spiller. Who says we don't have any rock stars anymore? Idles, Fantastic Negrito and Royal Blood all furnished us with future classics.
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So, here we present the best 50 rock albums of the decade – as voted for by you.
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This is when you know you’re old.
There IS great new music out there. It simply happens to require getting off yer azz and paying $10 at a local club to hear 5-6 unsigned acts. Yea, 2-3 of them will suck, 2 of them will be ok, but one of them will make you realize Rock Isn't Dead. If you're a free marketer, you will buy their CD and tshirt because theft/"borrowing" is the Democrat way.
If you can't bothered, listen to Underground Garage on XM. Or simply search online for new music.
I have CDs and shirts of bands that may go nowhere. But they renewed my hope in the youth of America (who aren't all pod-eating snowflakes). I refuse to sound like my Dad who lamented the "horrible noise" of The Who, Hendrix, and Frank Zappa.
Take a chance...you won't be disappointed.
And a day later I will have forgotten them all and won't think of any of them again for the rest of my life.
A lot of classic jazz has tremendous compilation sets remastered and affordable. There are some interesting new artists and new movements.
Try some electro swing, combining sampling of hot jazz from before the depression with some pretty good modern musicians. I am partial to Caravan Palace because one of their percussionists is a Lionel Hampton fan and plays some good vibraphone
Melody Gardot has put out some good albums this past decade.
Her recent Currency of Man album sounds like detective show themes used to sound like in sixties and seventies when hardboiled private eyes were the thing.
And as usual, Postmodern Jukebox continues to impress.
That’s why you gotta buy the CD and shirt.
I like quite a lot of the new music I hear on LSUG but I don’t see any of them on this list.
Thanks for posting. I haven’t listened to much much music in the last 20 years. I’d heard the Brits voted Bohemian Rhapsody the greatest rock song of all time. IMO this is the greatest American rock song of all time...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54BCLYNkFKg
I’ll check some out on the list.
Would Van Halen classify as an American Band?
“Would Van Halen classify as an American Band?”
I would think so. Some great rock music there.
“1. Rush - Clockwork Angels”
Hell, I spend more time listening to Rush Limbaugh now than I listened to my rock and roll in the mid-60’s all the way up to about 1980. Rock is dead...Long live Rush!
Love Postmodern Jukebox. I was so disappointed when I heard they were playing here where I live but didn’t hear about it until the night of the concert.
ANYthing by Kate Bush rocks (in an odd, eclectic way).
Kate Bush? Seriously? That impeaches the whole list.
The King of Limbs - Radiohead
Didn’t care for it at first, compared to Ok, Computer/Kid A/In Rainbows, but it grew on me.
Some Girls was the last great Stones album.
Yup. Tons of great music being made. But they’ll never find it. Sadly people tend to lose interest in exploring, especially music, as they get older. People generally get “set” in their 20s, that’s what they like and that’s that. Luckily in my 20s I got “set” on “keep exploring”. Now I’m 50 and still finding great stuff. From now and before.
Kids. Yeah, kids :)
going back to the 80’s but fitting for the current situation going on in iraq involving “iran”, which hopefully will be known as “iwalk” with a limp...
seek and destroy by metallica...
Ditto for Country too (disco with boots)
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