R.I.P. Rock

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.

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.
>Radiohead's praise comes from the fact that they "destroyed" rock music and became a primarily electronic act. Their success is evident of rock's death, not continued relevance
>Greta Van Fleet are one of the most openly mocked artists around right now
>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.
>King Gizzard, 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 and Arcade Fire are not rock bands

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Nah i'm good

Twenty One Pilots.

Cultural relevancy outside of pop music is a meme

RADIOHEAD BITCH

>Green Day and Red Hot Chili Peppers are not critically acclaimed

That's not true though

>You're not going to hear their music being played at a high school dance
>This is how we define cultural relevancy

modest mouse has gotten radio play on top40 radio stations and plenty of "normies shares on facebook" I don't know what the fuck you're on about, just as an example.

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just to be clear, I mostly agree with what you're saying, but your criteria are fucking retarded

This. American Idiot was their most critically acclaimed record, and was the logical conclusion to Punk Rock. Literally everyone dressed up in black and red because of them, and bumped Holiday, American Idiot and Boulevard of Broken Dreams constantly.

RHCP's BSSM is considered one of the greatest Rock records of all time, and that, along with Californication and By The Way are in the top 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, both in Rolling Stone and AcclaimedMusic.

Once more, my post , Imagine Dragons, and Weezer.

mac demarco will reach the mainstream at least by 2019

>Bon Iver
>far too niche to be considered culturally relevant

The dude was featured on MBDTF for Christ's sake

Being sampled on a more popular rapper's song is not culturally relevant at all. Do you actually think people would be able to recognize that it's Bon Iver from his song?

If you're going to have to make all these exceptions your argument is already weak. Tame Impala, Mac Demarco, and Modest Mouse are not niche, I have normie sisters and normie friends who live those artists. The Strokes, Franz Ferdinand, Smashing Pumpkins, Arctic Monkeys, and Oasis were also very culturally relevant. The biggest Rock act that I think really had a place in the mainstream was Linkin Park. Their first three albums were genuinely something unique and engaging. They're not in the same artistic tier as the rock acts that dominated the 60s and 70s but they certainly made a mark and had something unique.

>They're not in the same artistic tier as the rock acts that dominated the 60s and 70s but they certainly made a mark and had something unique.

Yes, considering Kanye basically just took excerpts from his existing song

The Killers

suck nuts bitch

>R.E.M., Bruce Springsteen, and U2 have not been critically acclaimed in the last 25 years.

This is not true. Also the funny thing is, you've been spamming this pasta so long that U2 and REM's two most acclaimed albums of their career released in 1991 and 1992 were actually within that "25 year range" originally. Kind of pathetic.

what is your problem why did you type this

This guy was the last real rock star.

Making soccer moms lose their shit and all that.

Are The Beatles relevant anymore? I feel like their importance is just beginning to slip away

calm down holy shit

What did the OP conflate acclaim with relevance? Lol

I want to plow his daughter so bad

>Implying anything stays truly culturally relevant forever.
>Falling for this ridiculously autistic pasta again

people under 20 don't know who they are anymore

>Brand New
>not critically acclaimed
what rock are you living under

>name a modern critically acclaimed and popular rock band
>but you can't pick any from this list of 100 critically acclaimed and popular rock bands because I don't like them
I wanted to make a post explaining why you're wrong on each individual act but it started to give me a headache

Well I was gonna say Muse or Fall Out Boy but since you wont allow it....

>types all that shit
>cant even argue the replies

lol nerd

This is now my favourite copy pasta

NIRVANA

There are plenty of culturally significant rock bands from the past 25 years, most of them are shit like the Arctic Monkeys or Oasis but that's the result of an abundance of guitar music being so popular for so long that it affects creativity and shapes the way people play due to overexposure meaning that experimentation is rare and the public are so used to what they have that they aren't comfortable with experimental stuff while not being interested in the same thing again.
Then there are contrarian faggots obsessed with genres and shitposting.

>Arcade Fire is not rock band
post neon bible they are

>>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 Stone Roses?

these guys

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I know it' pasta, but

Queens of the Stone Age are culturally relevant

The Black Keys are critically aclaimed. Not on this autistic board, but they are

epic post XD

The Talking Heads.
The Tragically Hip.
Try taking your head out of your ass, the music is nicer out here.

Did you read the OP? He doesn't believe in rocks.

this but actually

talking heads have no place in this thread, even though I agree with you about the head ass bit

Culture isn't the same as it used to be. There's really no such thing as dominant culture the way it used to be. Today we're more of a bunch of sub cultures and that include music of course. Subculutre is the dominant culture. So your question isn't super relavent

OP no offense but you’re kind of a fucking idiot and a faggot

This but for real

The best answer to this, with OP's ridiculous restraints, is Deftones. Even though they formed more than 25 years ago, their first major release is from 23 years ago. White Pony is a universally acclaimed album, although deeper listeners to Deftones, and some critics, know that each album has something great to offer. Nu metal is one of the biggests subcultures of rock in the past 25 years, and Deftones, by developing as artists, helped spearhead it and destroy it. Today they still sell well in large venues due to their dedicated fanbase, and you can still hear songs like Change and Hole in the Earth on the radio

Weather you like it or not. U2's last album was critically acclaimed. They appeared on DAMN.
They became the first band in history to have a #1 album in teach of the past 4 decades. So pretty much just suck it OP

(OP)
Weather you like it or not. U2's last album was critically acclaimed. They appeared on DAMN.
They became the first band in history to have a #1 album in each of the past 4 decades. So pretty much just suck it OP

Wolfmother.

Bumo.

How has nobody said this yet? It's obvious

This but unironically.
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underrated post

errrr car seat headrest

is swans not well know enough?

Imagine you're on your morning commute to work and a boyband of 4 faggots blocks off the road. And then everyone joins in instead of yelling at them to get their faggot truck out of the way. That's why you keep a Remington in the trunk.

Seriously, who gives a fuck?

>>Radiohead's praise comes from the fact that they "destroyed" rock music and became a primarily electronic act. Their success is evident of rock's death, not continued relevance
actually its because their music is good but nice

Not only that, but it's so erroneous it's not even funny. The only time they explored true "electronic" music was in Kid A and The King of Limbs. Amnesiac is more Krautrock/Jazz-Rock inspired, Hail to the Thief returned their Alternative Rock style with a bit of Electronic, In Rainbows was more Indie Pop/Rock than Electronic, and A Moon Shaped Pool is Chamber Pop through and through. They only used Electronic styles to enhance their music as opposed to relying on it. Radiohead at heart is Alternative Rock.