Your favorite popular music artist?

[bhodges]

Maybe it's because I'm old, but Rock for me started dying around 1991...

  No, say it ain't so!   

You might try one or two of the later Radiohead projects, e.g., Hail to the Thief or In Rainbows. 

I forgot about another fave, Robyn Hitchcock (with or without the Egyptians).

--Bruce

[Dr. Dread]

Maybe it's because I'm old, but Rock for me started dying around 1991...

It started for me around 1985. 

There are always exceptions of course.

[Diletante]

Well, the music that I grew up with and that holds a special place in my heart is alternative rock from the 90's/2000's, especially:

Garbage
No Doubt (especially their earlier stuff)
Billy Talent

From the 'oldies' I like Queen, and I've been flirting with the music of The Beatles.

To be honest I find most commercial rock these days is rather teenager-oriented. It seems to me like every new commercial rock band is made up of teenagers and I can't connect to the music. The last commercial band I've liked are the Arctic Monkeys.

[karlhenning]

To be honest I find most commercial rock these days is rather teenager-oriented . . . .

And then the "indie" artists have a breathtakingly easy threshold to cross:  sound just a little less juvenile than B.S.

[Dr. Dread]

And then the "indie" artists have a breathtakingly easy threshold to cross:  sound just a little less juvenile than B.S.

Excellent post.

[Josquin des Prez]

To be honest I find most commercial rock these days is rather teenager-oriented. It seems to me like every new commercial rock band is made up of teenagers and I can't connect to the music. The last commercial band I've liked are the Arctic Monkeys.

Rock has always been teenager-oriented. The problem is that teenagers today have the mental development and personal maturity of a prepubescent child. Adults of course have been an endangered species since the baby boomer generation.

[Dr. Dread]

Yes, but...

Who put the bomp
In the bomp bah bomp bah bomp?
Who put the ram
In the rama lama ding dong?

[Haffner]

Be Bop a Lula,
She's my bay-bee.
Be Bop a Lula,
I don't mean maybe.

[Dr. Dread]

I was listening to Gene Vincent today.

[Bu]

Best left in pairs, I suppose:

Sinatra & Fitzgerald
Miles, Monk, Rich
Stones, Zeppelin, Doors, Hendrix
Stooges, Ramones, Black Flag, Fugazi
James Brown, Sly & Family Stone, Chilli Peppers
Smiths

[Haffner]

Best left in pairs, I suppose:

Black Flag

"You say you don't want it
say you don't want it
say you don't want it
then you slip it right in ('in,in,in')"

[Bu]

"You say you don't want it
say you don't want it
say you don't want it
then you slip it right in ('in,in,in')"

I was soooo waaaaaaaasteed
I was a hippie
I was a burnout
I was a dropout
I was out of my head
I was a surfer
I had a skateboard
I was so heavy man, I lived on the strand
I was so waaaaaaaasteeeed
I was so f%#*!d up
I was so messed up
I was so screwed up
I was out of my head
I was so jacked up
I was so drunk up
I was so knocked out,
I was out of my head
I was so waaaaaaasteeeeeed
I was wasted

About 60 seconds to tell us that!

[bwv 1080]

In my not-so-humble opinion the best rock acts active this decade have been (in no particular order):

Angels of Light
Akron / Family
Meshuggah
Radiohead
Fantomas
The Foals

(I probably forgot a few others)

[Haffner]

In my not-so-humble opinion the best rock acts active this decade have been (in no particular order):

Angels of Light
Akron / Family
Meshuggah
Radiohead
Fantomas
The Foals

(I probably forgot a few others)

FANTOMAS "The Omen" very cool

[bwv 1080]

FANTOMAS "The Omen" very cool

This one is a hoot too:

http://www.youtube.com/v/vQtXxaC87Ks

[Brian]

Rock has always been teenager-oriented. The problem is that teenagers today have the mental development and personal maturity of a prepubescent child.

Why thank you. I think I'll sign off and go back to beating up little kids at the playground now! 

[Haffner]

This one is a hoot too:

http://www.youtube.com/v/vQtXxaC87Ks

To me this sounds extremely creative and inspired.

[Bogey]

Best left in pairs, I suppose:

Sinatra & Fitzgerald
Miles, Monk,.........

You should contribute to our jazz thread Brother Bu.   

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,2875.0.html

[Josquin des Prez]

To me this sounds extremely creative and inspired.

Abysmal taste is abysmal. Actually, this whole thread is a disgrace.

[Dr. Dread]

Abysmal taste is abysmal. Actually, this whole thread is a disgrace.

So don't post in it, Einstein.