Rock is dead

You have 10 seconds to name a rock band from the last 25 years that is both critically acclaimed and culturally relevant. Please note that commercial success is not synonymous with cultural relevance.

Impossible Mode: No Nirvana.

Oh wait, you can't.

R.I.P Rock

Please note:
>The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, Queens of the Stone Age, The Mars Volta, Franz Ferdinand, The Smashing Pumpkins, Oasis, Bloc Party, The Libertines, Blur, Pulp, Suede, and Interpol are not culturally relevant, all of them are fad artists associated with a certain 3-5 year timespan with no real longevity or standing cultural relevancy. You're not going to hear their music being played at a high school dance or have a large number of normies sharing them on Facebook the way you would a contemporary hip hop artist like Drake or Kendrick Lamar
>Jack White is not a culturally relevant artist. Seven Nation Army may be a culturally relevant track but having only one culturally relevant track indicates a lack of longevity and thus a lack of cultural relevance as artists.
>Muse, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Tool, Kings of Leon, The Black Keys, Pearl Jam, Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Blink-182, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, Mumford & Sons, and Red Hot Chili Peppers are not critically acclaimed.
>The Flaming Lips, Sufjan Stevens, Tame Impala, The National, The Hold Steady, Dinosaur Jr, Deerhunter, Mac DeMarco, Porcupine Tree, Beach House, Ween, Titus Andronicus, Bon Iver, Pixies, Spoon, Pavement and Modest Mouse are far too niche to be considered culturally relevant. This is also true for all metal.
>R.E.M., Bruce Springsteen, and U2 have not been critically acclaimed in the last 25 years.
>LCD Soundsystem, Radiohead and Arcade Fire are not rock bands

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what's the point of this shitty thread? you've been pushing this meme with that same faggot picture since january.

Why does cultural relevance matter in the slightest?

I've missed this pasta

> Radiohead and Arcade Fire aren't rock bands
sure buddy

weezer

I don't care if it's a pasta, this is the most retarded garbage I've ever seen in my life.

>le numale maymay

because neo-Sup Forums doesn't like underground music and unironically jerks off top 40

Unironically this

[spoiler]also daily reminder that Pinkerton > Blue Album[/spoiler]

forgot about everything between maladroit and white?
try again

Recommend me some patrician electronica if you have such great taste newfag

>2017
>thinking pinkerton > blue album
i seriously hope you guys don't think this

stop forcing this shitty meme
now I'll have to turn it into a dubs thread, instead

queens of the stone age

>i-it's just a meme! I CANT HEAR Y-YOU LA LA L-LA

Point taken, rockfags. Hit me up w/ an argument if you even can.

oh i just read the second half of your post. anyway i know this is bait but qotsa is not a "fad" artist and have been consistently putting out good albums for nearly 20 years. also you haven't explained what "cultural relevance" means but ...like clockwork was acclaimed and got them a lot of new fans

No one wants to argue with you. We know youre trolling and if you arent then youre so dense i dont care to try and reach you

>Radiohead and Arcade Fire aren't rock bands

>R.E.M., Bruce Springsteen, and U2 have not been critically acclaimed in the last 25 years.
False. And this was even more true in 2016 too.

Slint

>calls all those shitty assumptions and opinions "arguments"

yeah nah you need to get better at this, my little virgin friend

Who the fuck wants to argue with an autistic kid? Go outside, or discover music, or hell even discuss music but this is just a plain low quality bait.

>Impossible mode: no nirvana
yeah go fucking kill yourself with your overrated angsty shit that overshadowed a lot of important, original stuff going on in the 90s

bait pure and simple OP put yer balls to the wall

Half of those niche artists aren't that niche
Radiohead is absolutely a rock band what the hell

I like Slint, but they're pretty fuckin niche at the moment. It's kind of impossible to say what is culturally relevant, because you never really know what sticks until you're half a century down the line and still hearing it.

>name a rock band that fits my extremely arbitrary criteria
Fuck off

Hahaha I'm with you OP. It's been delightful to see rock disapear from the cultural discourse.

Please continue your work.

Back to /bleep/ shitters

>Jack White is not a culturally relevant artist
>Red Hot Chili Peppers are not critically acclaimed

Also Wolfmother lmfao

QOTSA

Damn the denial is strong in this thread.

The brutal truth ? Nobody gives a fuck about what white males have to say in rock music, everything's been done and has become too niche.

I truly believe that the rise of Eminem signed the death of the rockstar. He sparked controversy with outrageous lyrics, was arguably talented and got insanely famous. You expect people too care about all these bands and their generic music which contributes to the pussyfication of the genre? Kek.

Yes rock is dead just like the rest of traditional America.

The new America considers guitar driven music of that nature to be "white" so it will never be culturally relevant again.

>Nobody gives a fuck about what white males have to say in rock music

No one gives a fuck about what black or brown sacks of shit say in rock music either.

Choke to fucking death on your next meal.

>name one band other than these 53 bands

you can literally do that to any genre

>implying that rock no longer being mainstream is bad
Normies need to leave

Ed Sheeren

Big Country

youtube.com/watch?v=Kx_qZb8txGA

Smash Mouth

Nickelback

Hella

Define "relevant"

seeing as all the bands listed in the OP are utter shit, it doesn't really matter whether they're relevant anyway :^)

>You have 10 seconds to name a rock band from the last 25 years that is both critically acclaimed and culturally relevant

>except for all of these ones that don't count because I say so

>Radiohead not a rock band

why not?

>all the bands listed in the OP are utter shit

t. retarded bleepfag

>Muse, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Tool, Kings of Leon, The Black Keys, Pearl Jam, Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Blink-182, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, Mumford & Sons, and Red Hot Chili Peppers are not critically acclaimed.
kek what the fuck
7/10 decent bait

red vox

What exactly do you consider critically acclaimed? Several of the bands you listed as not have all kinds of awards.

That's easy. GY!BE

Gorillaz

>implying 'cultural relevance' and fads aren't the same thing

The Allman Brothers Band-

Culturally relevant?- check
Criticall acclaimed?- check

robertchristgau.com/xg/music/allman-13.php

The Allman Brothers: Shining at the Beacon

A next-gen 21st lineup sustains the Deep South rockers' star power..

Except for the "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" finale and the "Whipping Post" encore, the set featured few first-rank crowd-pleasers: the upfully hippieish "Revival," a few slow ones like "Come and Go Blues." But to me the music sounded awful strong, and my guides as well as the audience agreed....There were highlights aplenty, including the surprise covers these shows are famous for: a first-ever "Long Black Veil" done acoustic, and Haynes' diddleybeat rendition of Ann Peebles' "I Feel Like Breaking Up Somebody's Home Tonight," which none of my friends recognized. The surprise guests the shows are famous for were limited to an up-and-coming Texas guitar hotshot, David Grissom, on a "You Don't Love Me" that Haynes called to a somewhat premature halt. There was the standard "Elizabeth Reed" passage when Burbridge finished his unassumingly virtuosic solo and took over Butch Trucks' chair so the old man could rumble on tympani for a roiling four-drum fusillade. But it was Derek Trucks who got the fans going loudest....Trucks is also a bluesman first, but like Duane, he's much bigger than that, prone to sudden jazzy licks and a master of the difficult trick in which he slips off his slide and flexes through a verse or two of startling fluidity. At least half the moments that left us all gasping and then cheering came on his solos. It would be facile as well as sacrilegious to say he's Duane reincarnated with all the extra chops, range, and maturity another eight years on earth have afforded him. They're both too singular to equate. But it's not too facile to be glad to hear the dead live on in the spirit of what they created.

this is what he was talking about:

youtube.com/watch?v=Rx_UaQx5eZQ

What ? They were at their popularity peak in the 70's.

or Tedeschi Trucks for that matter

youtube.com/watch?v=OJJXNJo-c3Q

Mayhem

>Please note that commercial success is not synonymous with cultural relevance

They are a 45yr old band with significant cultural relevance...and current critical acclaim- hence Christgau review from 2013

Why is it so important for rock musicians to be critically acclaimed and famous?

>Radiohead is not a rock band

Haha, friend. :^)
Yeezus wasn't hip-hop either, right?
You're so funny!

Your bait is so bad that nobody checked those

Alice in Chains

So is the white stripes not a rock band? Or do you just dislike them

The Beatles.

why have you not been gassed yet

Lol I love all the dumb generalizations you make about "critical acclaim"

>*long list of bands, at least 70% of which are critically acclaimed* are not critically acclaimed
nice alt facts

the cure :~)

ghost lmao

So metal is now "too niche" to be "culturally relevant" Who gives a shit user

>tool "not critically aclaimed"
>2 Grammies
>every album has reached platinum status
>regarded as one of the most influential rock bands of the last 30 years
>"not critically acclaimed"
Either you do not understand what critical acclaim is, or you are just trolling. Shove your retarded baity thread up your arse op

m83

You're dense to believe that the rockstar image was killed by the rise of rap music, it died because of the rise of the internet and social media and realizing that rockstars are either degenerates or are putting on an act.

Rap flourishes now because the only progression for rock is for it to become no longer viable for mainstream success, too niche. Rap was a blank slate at the same time that the rock genre tree was hitting it's last peak with grunge therefore rap filled the void that rock left after grunge turned into derivative trash overtop cobain's grave.

Fugazi

>name one band that meets these requirements
>and you aren't allowed to name all of these bands that meet the requirements
Pretty funny troll honestly

Refused
do i win?

King Crimson

It's funny because black people invented guitar music

Kid Cudi, of course.

Nick Cave is like the 3rd most famous artist in Australia

This pasta is stale. Get a new one poptimist scum

>You're not going to hear their music being played at a high school dance or have a large number of normies sharing them on Facebook the way you would a contemporary hip hop artist like Drake or Kendrick Lamar

This is the shittiest definition of cultural relevance I have ever heard. Who gives a fuck what normies and children listen to?

Imagine Dragons

pretty much this. OP is butthurt about rock for some reason.

Wat about Silverchair m8?

>shitty nirvana clone that turned into a pop rock band
lol

>name rock band that proves my point wrong, except all the rock bands that would prove me wrong
ok

Oi m8 Silverchair r good there first 3 albums anyway i pretend th other two never happened. You never heard sucidial dream or emotion sickness, good songs m8.

What is The 1975?

"We are not a pop band".

>But you fags arw

Kanye, the new rockstar

fuck yeah, this is absolutely pathetic.
>name a critically acclaimed artist
>all these artists who are critically acclaimed are not critically acclaimed

>critically acclaimed
This type of idiocy explains why you would say shit like rock is dead, critics just circlejerk what is hot right now

I wouldn't call tedeschi trucks band culturally relevant. Only middle aged dads know who they are.

get new pasta my dud

How do you define "cultural significance"
That's pretty important to have an actual conversation about this
What artists from other genres would you call culturally significant

>LCD Soundsystem, Radiohead and Arcade Fire are not rock bands

This is where your meme falls apart pal

unironic actually answer:
Deftones

Ever heard of Phish? You'd have to be a pleb not to like them. Too weird for you? Grow balls.

i dont understand

yeah there are zero rock musicians that have been critically acclaimed AND culturally relevant since Nirvana, thats a fact

what are you getting at?

PLACEBO