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Catchiest Rock Songs of 2010?
Did you hear any new rock songs this year which had you singing/shouting along or getting the air guitar or air drums out? Please post them if you can think of any, this is what I've come up with so far:
The Black Keys - Tighten Up
The Walkmen - Angela Surf City
Surfer Blood - Swim
Spoon - Written in Reverse
Menomena - Taos
Japandroids - Art Czars
Thee Oh Sees - I Was Denied
The Black Keys - Tighten Up
The Walkmen - Angela Surf City
Surfer Blood - Swim
Spoon - Written in Reverse
Menomena - Taos
Japandroids - Art Czars
Thee Oh Sees - I Was Denied
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Anyways...
Iron Maiden - When The Wild Wind Blows
Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
Tarja - Still Of The Night
Ozzy Osbourne - Life Won't Wait
Slash - Ghost
The Pretty Reckless - Make Me Wanna Die
Bullet For My Valentine - Pleasure And Pain
I seen this in another thread. Just out of interest, what do you define as rock then?
I don't hate indie music. I just hate people calling it something it's not. Arcade Fire are not rock, they never have been and never will be. Rock is Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, and newer rock acts are ones like Sixx: AM, The Answer, Black Stone Cherry, Airbourne etc. Properly loud, aggressive, guitar driven music.
What you're describing is metal.:)
Real Rock is Rock'n'Roll, you need Chuck Berry for a good example.:)
So McFly are rock?
No, Chuck Berry is rock n' roll, the precursor to harder rock music.
None of the bands I listed there as examples of rock are metal. Metal is stuff like Metallica, Iron Maiden, Avenged Sevenfold, Pantera, Slayer etc. You're getting confused between hard-rock and metal
And of course bloody McFly aren't rock, lyrically they don't fit the mould and there's no aggression, heavy distortion, guitar solos, blues and penatonic scales etc.
Well then, I don't listen to metal.:D
I do like hard rock though, but what I meant was that indie is rock, it falls under the rock... umbrella, if you will.:D I don't quite know where I'm going with this, I was going to say something about how legendary Muddy Waters is... or something... so well... there you go.:):D
Fair enough
I forgot to mention that I don't care what type of rock music it is (indie rock, alternative rock, post rock, punk rock, rock 'n roll etc. etc.) as I don't want to get bogged down with that pointless discussion about sub-genres :yawn:). Also, I didn't want people to not post something for fear of it being the "wrong" kind of music.
Any catchy song will do that falls under the loose term of "rock music". Thanks for the suggestions so far.
Cancer bats - Sabotage
Korn - Oildale
Papa Roach - Kick in the teeth
Anyway, I've really liked:
Na Na Na - My Chemical Romance
SING - My Chemical Romance
The Only Hope For Me Is You - My Chemical Romance
Flash Delirium - MGMT
Crossfire - Brandon Flowers
Bubbles - Biffy Clyro
Miss Nothing - The Pretty Reckless
Since You're Gone - The Pretty Reckless
Pyro - Kings Of Leon
Well, how about we choose a couple of the sub-genres from that list? I say we go for Death 'n' Roll and perhaps Doom Metal? Go on, we'll throw our favourite Cuddlecore ones in too! I'm sure we've all got plenty of those to share!
But come on, 'Drone Metal', 'Math Rock', 'Melodic Black Metal', 'Nazi Punk', 'Nazi Punk?' They can't genuinely be serious, can they?!
Oh, just seen 'Medieval Metal'. Yeah, I bet old Harold Hadrada loved a bit of his 'Medieval Metal', Don't we all...
Oh, and 'Nintendocore'. Wonderful. And not forgetting 'Queercore'. I take it that's the kind of music little gay Joe McElderry makes?
And, for goodness sake! 'Viking Rock??', 'Unblack Metal' Honestly. I have no words left to say.
Apart from 'Wizard Rock'. I put my hands up. I have listened to Draco & The Malfoys.
Don't start this again
Rock music as far as the terms day to day use by the man on the street takes in pretty much anything electric guitar driven. Mcfly's first album is a rock influenced pop record, now they are more r'n'b influenced pop.
Indie isn't really a cohesive musical genre. Some Indie is rock music, some isn't.
The Libertines are a rock band but are also very much an "indie" band, some bands that are described as indie are really electro bands and some are basically folk bands. What leads people to call things indie seems basically to relate more to the bands dress sense, their fanbase, whether their name starts with a "the", and whether the nme like them than the music they produce.
Anyway on topic:
Hearbeat song by the Futureheads is catchy as hell and was criminally under played on the radio this year.
Sadly, Nazi Punk exists, and is basically hardcore punk performed by white supremists.
The like of Skrewdriver et al, who need to put up against a wall and shot, but that's another thread.
I know it seems strange to you, but believe it or not, a lot of those genres you mentioned are actually perfectly legitimate.
Drone metal is a well recognised genre that consists of heavy distortion, lack of vocals and minimal technicality. Usually only a handful of notes sustained for a long period of time. It's not my thing at all, but you'd recognise it a mile off.
Math rock is just a fancy name for prog usually, I'll give you that one. Ditto Nintendocore and Queercore!
Nazi punk was already explained.
Medievil and Viking metal are also both genres you could spot a mile off. Simply metal mixed with the traditional instrumentation and melodies of those era. Pirate metal is a comedy version of them!:D
Unblack metal is otherwise known as white metal (and no, they're not racially related terms). Essentially it's black metal in musical style but with Christian and spiritual lyrics instead of the Satanic lyrics associated with black metal.
Doom metal is arguably one of the biggest metal sub-genres. Listen to a lot of Black Sabbath and you're listening to proto doom metal essentially.
That's a great track, the whole album is awesome. Don't know if I'd call it pop-rock, maybe alt-rock, but the rest of the album is very similar to grunge.
Four Year Strong - It must really Suck to be
Futures - Boy who Cried Wolf
Paramore - Careful
30 Seconds to Mars - Kings & Queens
I'll most likely think of more, but those are the ones that immediately jump out at me.
Audrey Horne - Audrey Horne. Simply brilliant!
My Chemical Romance - Na na na
The Pretty Reckless - Since You're Gone
The Pretty Reckless - Light Me Up
Alter Bridge - Isolation
Alkaline Trio - Draculina
Alkaline Trio - Dead on the Floor
Deftones - Beauty School
Deftones - Sextape
Hole - Pacific Coast Highway
Hole - Honey
Jimmy Eat World - Movielike
Jimmy Eat World - Coffee and Cigarettes
Lostprophets - A Better Nothing
Lostprophets - Where We Belong
Stone Sour - Dying
Stone Sour - Digital
Coheed and Cambria - Guns of Summer
The Gaslight Anthem - Bring It On
The start of that song sounds exactly like Incubus.
I thought they had a new song out the first time it came on the radio.
I like my chems new stuff, its done with just enough of a wink and a smile to work. Good fun.