Current Events > A lot of bands I liked in early 2000s released albums in 2022 and I didnt notice

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Some released in 2021. I dont get why rock isnt popular enough to be in the mainstream like Bad Bunny, Doja Cat, Nicki Minaj, Sam Smith, etc.

Some of the bands include Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse, and Arctic Monkeys. Only reason I found out was I wondered what happened to them. I was thinking they were all like The White Stripes and broken up or something.

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SodomInsane posted...

Some released in 2021. I dont get why rock isnt popular enough to be in the mainstream like Bad Bunny, Doja Cat, Nicki Minaj, Sam Smith, etc.

Who knows? I just use streaming services now. The radio is basically dead to me.

Kombucha posted...

Who knows? I just use streaming services now. The radio is basically dead to me.

I use Youtube. One of the newest Yeah Yeah Yeahs songs has 1.9 million views.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckM_TklU_AQ

Compared to Post Malone/Doja Cat having 46 million views from video released around same time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aekxC_monc

I guess Im into a dying genre or something.

Coheed's new album is fuckin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmMI6fEpxns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tb_v8MFbF8

SodomInsane posted...

I use Youtube. One of the newest Yeah Yeah Yeahs songs has 1.9 million views.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckM_TklU_AQ

Compared to Post Malone/Doja Cat having 46 million views from video released around same time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aekxC_monc

I guess Im into a dying genre or something.

I don't know, maybe. Does it really matter if it's out of the mainstream if you're still enjoying it though?

And yeah I preordered when I found out about it, it's a rather short album but a good one.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/8/5/AABOVBAADvbN.jpg

Kombucha posted...

I don't know, maybe. Does it really matter if it's out of the mainstream if you're still enjoying it though?

And yeah I preordered when I found out about it, it's a rather short album but a good one.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/6/8/5/AABOVBAADvbN.jpg

I probably would have realized sooner the bands were still alive and making music if they were mainstream. Just feels so weird since back when I found them out the genre was so popular and you heard their songs everywhere. Like Franz Ferdinand's Take Me Out was everywhere. Now its kind of rare to hear them or even see people mention their existence.

SodomInsane posted...

I probably would have realized sooner the bands were still alive and making music. If they were mainstream. Just feels so weird since back when I found them out the genre was so popular and you heard their songs everywhere. Like Franz Ferdinand's Take Me Out was everywhere.

Yeah I guess that's true. I have to favorite artists now on Apple Music, subscribe to them on YouTube or follow them on Bandcamp to be sure I'm getting updates. It's admittedly not as easy as just being exposed to certain bands constantly.

Error1355 posted...

Coheed's new album is fuckin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmMI6fEpxns
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Tb_v8MFbF8

Yea it is so weird. It isnt even like they are bad albums critically either. Wonder what killed Rock off the mainstream. Was it this song that killed rock?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKopy74weus

SodomInsane posted...

I probably would have realized sooner the bands were still alive and making music if they were mainstream. Just feels so weird since back when I found them out the genre was so popular and you heard their songs everywhere. Like Franz Ferdinand's Take Me Out was everywhere. Now its kind of rare to hear them or even see people mention their existence.

not sure how early were defining early 2000s, but I feel like modest mouse and arctic monkeys both hit peak popularity over the past decade

i sure do wish early 2000s modest mouse was their most popular stuff though

The new mars volta is alright

It's easier to just make your own music as a solo artist. Less overhead. Epitaph was signing mumble rap at one point.

Popularity means nothing to me. I posted actual honest thoughts about Hayley Williams in that other joke topic.

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not sure how early were defining early 2000s, but I feel like modest mouse and arctic monkeys both hit peak popularity over the past decade

i sure do wish early 2000s modest mouse was their most popular stuff though

2000-2006. Some others I liked was Muse they had an album callled Black Holes and Revelations that was pretty good. Arcade Fire also put out Funeral in that time.

SodomInsane posted...

2000-2006. Some others I liked was Muse they had an album callled Black Holes and Revelations that was pretty good. Arcade Fire also put out Funeral in that time.

i see, Im only really a fan of modest mouse and the yeah yeah yeahs out of these bands but arctic monkeys absolutely exploded with the AM album around 2013/2014 and modest mouses biggest hit is probably around 2007ish and they were headlining big venues off their early stuff throughout the 2010s

I remember though when I heard Party Hard somewhere the other day and it did remind me of the mid 2000s Madden. Had that Franz Ferdinand song too hehe I mean it is easiler for rock bands to get their music out now too without a label dictating their look and style but I doubt you'll ever see a major new rock band again blow up to such mainstream levels.

Kamil posted...
I remember though when I heard Party Hard somewhere the other day and it did remind me of the mid 2000s Madden.

andrew wk is incredibly underrated and hes made a whole bunch of genuinely cool and moving shit outside of the initial party shtick

Did he? Good for Andrew then heh

I've noticed this in the last couple of years and was happy to really enjoy the new Mogwai album last year
but for the most part I've found I don't really care for the music I was obsessed with back then. seem to have aged into listening to ambient only

dang, mogwais actually good again? I gave up when they started being incredibly boring after rock action

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VQjtxAfpq8

Interpol has never taken a break to produce music. They release one album every 3-4 years.

JuanCarlos1 posted...

Interpol has never taken a break to produce music. They release one album every 3-4 years.

But they arent in mainstream.

SodomInsane posted...

But they arent in mainstream.

Uhh yeah they are. Evil used to get lots of play back in the day and I'm sure that video creeped out plenty of people just slightly older than me when it played on MTV. I was just at a show they did with Spoon a month or so ago which was well attended. A lot of the dudes were showing beginning stages of balding though :(

There have been a LOT of bands that have put out albums in the past 2 years, partly due to delayed albums in 2020 and early 2021.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_2022_albums

That list will catch you up to speed on many well known musical acts, a lot of which you'll notice are rock or derivative of rock. Just change the year in the URL to get anything prior to this year. It's still not that comprehensive though, as there are still a lot of bands, like many European metal acts, that I wouldn't know about having new albums if not for following them on Spotify.

On one hand, I do miss hearing new songs that actually interest me on the radio, and I really just stopped listening to pop radio altogether (and rock radio for the most part unless I can't use my phone). On the other hand, I don't want to see another Fall Out Boy or Imagine Dragons being pushed as some stale example of how rock is still relevant to the corporate music world. If rock were still making the big bucks, we'd have a lot more label-tailored bands to sift through to get to the good stuff.

Some old band from your granddad's LP collection did too, or at least a single.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/5/2/3/AAEhCpAAD0Bj.jpg

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It was to give an idea of what age range their general fanbase tends to be in. Also because I'm at an age where I start looking at the back/top of other dudes' heads a lot more.

SodomInsane posted...

Some of the bands include Interpol, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Modest Mouse, and Arctic Monkeys.

I don't think Modest Mouse released anything in 2022 but I don't keep up with it much either. I wish I enjoyed Strangers to Ourselves or Golden Caskets more but they didn't do anything for me.