In my limited free mental time, when I'm not worrying about Chase Utley's batting slump, I've been pondering this question...Great rock or even pop songs from the 2000s. As in, are there any? The answer, or course, is yes -- I'll hold back on a few obvious choices for now, but are there a lot of them. I used to think there weren't any great rock songs of the 1990s, but over time I've come to change my mind. (For example, this, this, and this, and of course the one that always makes every list.)
What got me thinking about the 2000s? It started when I heard yet another car ad on the radio with a blatant rip-off/slight variation on "Clocks" by Coldplay, which may not be the greatest song of the decade but is surely the most copied. Also this week, watching the Euro 2008 soccer on ESPN2 (one of the joys of working from home), I've was amazed to see a stadium full of 50,000 people over in Switzerland, chanting the famous guitar riff from this all-American classic of the 2000s (video below) -- something you would never see in the United States.
So, any great songs from the Decade That Has Not Been Named that you think I'll still be listening to in the assisted-living place 30 years from now? Discuss.
For your consideration...
Here's my choice: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-ymHdbd_tU— Some Boca Dude
Rock is nowhere near what it used to be. Even the artists from rock's glory days are not what they used to be. Anytime Springsteen, or whoever, wants to play something from the new album, you know it's time to go for a bathroom break. For me, I stopped caring about new music in the mid 1990's. On my Sirius I listen to 80's, Classic Vinyl, and Classic Rewind. I also listen to Sirius Patriot (conservative talk), but you probably already guessed that.— jmc- That New Radicals song drives me up a wall, terrible, just terrible.— RG
Comment removed.- Here's a few..........Maria Maria - Santana; With Arms Wide Open - Creed; Why Part 2 - Collective Soul; Wherever You Will Go - The Calling; American Idiot - Green Day; somebody Told Me - The Killers— legatus
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- Creed? You're joking, right?— Politburo
- It's not rock (rock is dead) but I'd say Crazy by Gnarls Barkley fits the bill; a worldwide sensation and a song that helped introduce a new, less derivitive version of soul music.— dartvader
- I know this will make me sound old, but I think this decade's pop music is awful. For example, I got my wife that "Buzz Cuts" compilation CD of recent pop songs that you see advertised on TV. Awful. Apparently, it helps to have a number in your band name. Here is the song list. Disc 1 01 Kryptonite | Three Doors Down 02 Fat Lip | Sum 41 03 I Miss You | Blink 182 04 Blurry | Puddle Of Mud 05 I'd Do Anything | Simple Plan 06 Celebrity Skin | Hole 07 Sour Girl | Stone Temple Pilots 08 Last Resort | Papa Roach 09 Running Away | Hoobastank 10 Hangingaround | Counting Crows 11 Lakini's Juice | Live 12 Hanging By A Moment | Lifehouse 13 The Way | Fastball 14 What It Is To Burn | Finch 15 The Chemicals Between Us | Bush 16 Smooth Criminal | Alient Ant Farm Disc 2 01 Higher | Creed 02 Meant To Live | Switch 03 Butterfly | Crazytown 04 Hemorrhage (In My Hands) | Fuel 05 My Own Worst Enemy | Lit 06 I Will Buy You A New Life | Everclear 07 Amber | 311 08 Somewhere Out There | Our Lady Peace 09 Bodies | Drowning Pool 10 I Hate Everything About You | Three Days Grace 11 Inside Out | Eve 6 12 Send The Pain Below | Chevelle 13 Wherever You Will Go | The Calling 14 Fly | Sugar Ray f/Supercat Now, there's some decent stuff out there, but you have to look for it.— Patrick M
- I'm fairly young but today's mainstream pop and rock music is pretty bad. I can't listen to FM anymore. I try to catch indie or alternative music on XM like White Stripes, Raconteurs, Kings of Leon, Death Cab, Spoon, etc.— RG
- I can guarantee that if Barack Obama is elected, rock music will become great again.— RG
- "Creed? You're joking, right?" Of course not. The song that I mentioned is a top notch song...which doesn't mean that ~you~ have to like it, of course. I must've missed your choices Politburo.— legatus
- If that song is considered one of the best of the decade, we're in serious trouble.— Talking point sleuth
- I totally agree, Dart, that "Crazy" belongs on the list -- I know it's not "rock" but it's the best pop song (in the spirit of the '60s-'70s) of the decade. But Creed? Not on my blog....— will
- One person's "top notch" is another person's trash, I suppose. I didn't list any because honestly, I couldn't think of any off the top of my head. In my mind, if I can't easily think of them, then they probably aren't "great". However there's obviously a bias here as I've been hearing songs from the 90s for ten years, songs from the 80s for twenty years, and so on, and sometimes hearing the same song for decades solidifies it as "great", even when it might not have been contemporaneously considered such. I also kind of soured on rock around the start of the decade (I blame Linkin Park).— Politburo
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