Who/What Defines This Decade's Music?

[Beaver]

I'll add Bloc Party, Dead 60s, The Killers, and Snow Patrol for the Indie/Rock genre.

Kings of Leon could inspire a southern rock revival.

If Breaking Benjamin and Trapt evolve they could become big.

"Scremo" bands Hawthorne Heights and The Used will be around.

 

[KingLouieLouie]

The defining band of this decade will probably be Linkin Park. Easily the best rock/rap band since Rage Against the Machine. Love 'em or hate 'em they're the only band of that genre that that's still going strong. The others have either faded away or changed their sound to a new style. I also can't think of another new rock band that has been more successfull so far.

I'm personally of the "hate 'em" category, but I'll give them credit with what you mentioned... They've survived....I mean... to be one of the first true "Hybrids" (pun intended) of rock/rap this decade and did inspire several after their debut release.. Okay.. I'll admit that I loved "One Step Closer" til it got played out...
So, yes... putting my personal opinion aside regarding Linkin Park, I would agree that they will be remembered/respected of being a major influence of their genre....

I'll add Bloc Party, Dead 60s, The Killers, and Snow Patrol for the Indie/Rock genre.

Kings of Leon could inspire a southern rock revival.

If Breaking Benjamin and Trapt evolve they could become big.

"Scremo" bands Hawthorne Heights and The Used will be around.

I agree about Bloc Party, the Killers, the Used, and Snow Patrol... Must admit I havent listened to either Dead 60's or Hawthorne Heights, but I should definitely check them out....

I should also add the likes of the Kaiser Chiefs, the Zutons, and Death Cab for Cutie in for good measure as well....

 

[AZ Shocker]

Well? Did you get a chance to preview Shinedown yet?
How's this "Album of the Day" work? Would love to participate. Might be tough with my work schedule though. Let me know...

 

[KingLouieLouie]

Well? Did you get a chance to preview Shinedown yet?
How's this "Album of the Day" work? Would love to participate. Might be tough with my work schedule though. Let me know...

I listened to the entire "Leave A Whisper" album earlier and I'll agree that it rocks.. The have a decent foundation put in place by having 2 vocalist that can harmonize well and a pretty decent lead-guitarist, but it's all based on whether or not they'll expand from that foundation or not... They reminded me a lot of Sevendust, Powerman 5000, a harder sounding Creed, and even some elements of Linkin Park.....

Even though the following band is mostly "love/hate"...I would have to add System of a Down as another band that has defined this decade... True. people some times cannot digest Serg Tankian's rather odd vocal range, but the music and lyrics are really superb....Probably one of the most heaviest bands out there....true..they've somewhat become too commercial, but at least they havent lost touch with what has gotten them popular in the first place....

Edit: I forgot to answer your album-a-day question:

It shouldnt be too time consuming to do album-a-day... I must admit that I go to explain lengths with mine, but you could just introduce an album and provide a brief summary about it.... Just for you to share an album that several on here (including myself) havent ever heard of before and giving any insight into it is really one of the most siginificant factors of album-a-day and also the other crucial element is to also discuss/debate over the most popular albums as well..

 

[AZ Shocker]

KLL - Cool, sounds good. Going on vacation tomorrow (yeah), but when I get back...I look forward to it. Thanks for mentioning it.

 

[KingLouieLouie]

KLL - Cool, sounds good. Going on vacation tomorrow (yeah), but when I get back...I look forward to it. Thanks for mentioning it.

I hope you have enjoy(ed) your vacation and have (had) a safe one....

Yeah... I'll add you to schedule starting 08/15.....

I guess another person that defines this decade music is still Beck (as he did in the 90s).... Just he incorporates just a solid landscape of sound and covers a wide-range of genres that just he expertly puts together... I enjoy it and look forward to his next few albums... "Guero" was by far his best since 'Odelay"...

 

[PDXChris]

I have been thinking what defines this decades music and I have been having a hard time. I think one of the biggest defining is Poppy Trendy so called punk, like Good Charlette, Simple Plan, Sum 41 and then there is political rock, System of a Down and maybe even throw the more mature Green Day in that one too, and then there is mature young people, Joss Stone, Josh Groban. Sitll trying to come up with more.

 

[KingLouieLouie]

I have been thinking what defines this decades music and I have been having a hard time. I think one of the biggest defining is Poppy Trendy so called punk, like Good Charlette, Simple Plan, Sum 41 and then there is political rock, System of a Down and maybe even throw the more mature Green Day in that one too, and then there is mature young people, Joss Stone, Josh Groban. Sitll trying to come up with more.

I encountered the same exact problem when I began posting this thread initially, but it seems over the past few months the typical musical trend that has evolved since the dawning of Rock-N-Roll (in the mid-late 50s) is starting to take place now.... Sorry.. the musical historian within me is about to surface...

I'll just start with 1965:

This was the year in which Dylan went electric and sent some shockwaves, however, several bands at the time (mainly the Beatles & the Byrds) began to incorporate more Folk elements into their sound (well..the Beatles actually started doing so in late '64) and then many bands followed suit.... Subsequently, the Beach Boys released "Pet Sounds" in '66 which inspired the Beatles to record both "Revolver" and later "Sgt. Pepper" which changed the history of music...

1975-1979:
Disco immediately became the "in-thing" around that time, however, it gradually (thankfully) started to lose momentum around '78/'79, but thru that Punk and later New Wave music all emerged...

1985-1989:
Dominated by the Hair Bands that pretty much remained popular until Grunge surfaced onto the scene and around that time Rap really went more mainstream and never lost any steam since....

1995-1999:
Grunge was beginning to fade, but Nu-Metal along with Techno/that Hybrid Metal/Rap, with Ska and Punk became popular to finish off that decade...

So here we are in '05..the midway point of this decade and right now it's that type of Punk you mentioned, with Hip/Hop, Techno, Rap, still some variance of Nu-Metal, some Industrial/Progressive Metal bands, Indie, and Britpop... But really..not one being so prominent as the other, however, I wouldnt be shocked by decades end that one will gain total supremency and when reflecting on 2000-2009 decade of music, that whichever that genre/movement is...will be the first one mentioned....