KrazyKris
10.11.14 | Read the description and give me a load of suggestions, pretty pretty please. Thanks |
Shuyin
10.11.14 | my first album was the fat of the land by the prodigy |
KrazyKris
10.11.14 | You know how damn hard that is, mel? I'd love to die, just so f****** difficult to get there |
SharkTooth
10.11.14 | Tool-Lateralus |
oisincoleman64
10.11.14 | My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade, Blink-182 - Enema Of The State, Muse - Black Holes & Revelations |
Friday13th
10.11.14 | um how is Tool not big enough commercially? Lateralus went #1. |
SharkTooth
10.11.14 | Yeah I'm quite sure that Tool is a mainstream band |
KrazyKris
10.11.14 | Yeah, actually I was surprised by that. The thing is in Europe they aren't even close to that success and I need exactly that. Forgot that. I mean, they are known, but far less than for example the White Stripes or the Killers.
Just thinking about Gorillaz and RHCP |
SharkTooth
10.11.14 | "The thing is in Europe they aren't even close to that success and I need exactly that"
didn't know that, when Lateralus came out here in the States it was a REALLY big deal, so I figured some of that hype would've crossed the ocean...
Kid A/OK Computer would prob work for this list |
ExplosiveOranges
10.11.14 | Slipknot, Avenged Sevenfold, Disturbed, any of those other bands. |
Negator
10.11.14 | considering linkin park - meteora was the first album id ever bought id have to say hybrid theory or meteora defined my generation. also prbly my chemical romance, they were huge back in the day. |
Tunaboy45
10.11.14 | Blackwater Park maybe? |
KrazyKris
10.11.14 | @Shark
Yeah, I think they sold more in the US alone than in Europe. It still was in the Top 10 everywhere, but wasn't that big of a thing. Already thought bout Radiohead, should work since every casual listener thinks they're really digging music listening to them.
Sadly got to consider Britney or BEP too, since they were as big as it gets back then. Lavigne should probably get a spot too. |
Tunaboy45
10.11.14 | "Lavigne should probably get a spot too."
Unfortunately you're probably right. Oh well there was more good than shit. |
KrazyKris
10.11.14 | Actually, out of all the pop girlies Avril is definitely up there with the best for me. Not too much of a competition, but "Under My Skin" was really good work I think. |
oltnabrick
10.11.14 | Balloon Journey's first album captured this generation like nothing before it. It deserves a spot. |
Tunaboy45
10.11.14 | Could NIN be on there with The Fragile? I suppose The Downward Spiral was before our generation. |
Snake.
10.11.14 | rise against |
Tunaboy45
10.11.14 | Or Antichrist Superstar. |
FrozenFirebug
10.11.14 | chocolate starfish and the hot dog flavored water is love chocolate starfish and the hot dog flavored water is life |
KrazyKris
10.11.14 | NIN is difficult to judge for me, since I was only exposed to them through Johnny Cash's Hurt cover and still haven't listened to them. Don't know how big they were round here with The Fragile to be quite honest.
Rise Against is still not enough, though they are well known. It's just nothing like a hype about them or endless airplay. |
Tunaboy45
10.11.14 | I'd say NIN are pretty big and well loved on this site. |
KrazyKris
10.11.14 | Oh god, Limp Bizkit. Just listened to the record for the first time last week. Surprised it probably has their best track. Still, it's Durst...
Thankfully LP overshadows them in the nu metal area |
KrazyKris
10.11.14 | On Sputnik for sure, gonna have to check Downward Spiral someday.
Though I can't say I remember everyone wearing some NIN stuff back then (like Green Day) or any tracks being constantly played (RHCP, LP, Eminem). |
Tunaboy45
10.11.14 | Yeah I suppose. I always see people wearing NIN merch now. |
Tunaboy45
10.11.14 | The Downward Spiral is one of the greatest albums of all time. |
ZombicidalMan
10.11.14 | three days grace, alexisonfire, and billy talent (at least in Canada) |
Lord(e)Po)))ts
10.11.14 | no |
InFlamesWeThrash666
10.11.14 | master of reality |
Shuyin
10.11.14 | wow, none of you guys grew up in the 90s.. not a single the prodigy album on this list, smh |
Tunaboy45
10.11.14 | fat of the land man |
Shuyin
10.11.14 | fat of the land was fucking everywhere, night clubs jamming remixes of smack my bitch up all the time. almost every one i knew had a copy of that album and they all fucking loved it |
KjSwantko
10.11.14 | Sad day when American Idiot is considered a generation defining album ROFL. |
KrazyKris
10.11.14 | It's pretty much the most defining album of the last decade. That thing and all those singles were everywhere and BJA suddenly was a rock star (that is in fact sad).
And actually it is a great album, my Green Day fav. |
zakalwe
10.11.14 | Snow Patrol with some drivel
Killers with piffle.
Adele with wobble
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KrazyKris
10.11.14 | Snow Patrol < Coldplay when it comes to soft rock
Killers nope outside the UK
Adele is already the next generation |
Tunaboy45
10.11.14 | Killers were massive after Hot Fuss, or at least in the UK. |
KrazyKris
10.11.14 | Yeah, pretty much like Arctic Monkeys, but they never made it to continental Europe in that way. |
zakalwe
10.11.14 | I'd definitely have the Strokes in there.
They were probably the last of the 'big' printed media bands.
Hyped beyond belief, headlining festivals, that 'Is This It' cover and Casablancas everywhere.
Arctic Monkeys the first big band of the digital age. |
KrazyKris
10.11.14 | Really got to include AM. Not too sure about the Strokes though. |
KrazyKris
10.11.14 | Oh, completely missed I've finally hit the 1000 comment mark... |
zakalwe
10.11.14 | Off goes the solitary party popper, as I hold a deflated ballon and break into a half-smile to mark the momentous occasion. |
Artuma
10.11.14 | arctic monkeys may be more popular but arcade fire were the band that made indie rock so huge. they definitely deserve a spot here. also never heard 8 or recall a single song by the band |
KrazyKris
10.11.14 | Thanks zak, a half-smile must be one hell of a challenge for you miserable bastard. I appreciate it |
KrazyKris
10.11.14 | You're right about all that, but it's not really about their importance for a genre. It's more the general popularity, they airplay and how it maybe affected teens at that time.
MCR wasn't huge musically, but it was the time when that huge pseudo-emo scene was at its peak and that was to quite some extent their fault |
ExcentrifugalForz
10.11.14 | lift your skinny fists
GY!BE |
Snowdog808
10.11.14 | Tool- Lateralus [2]
Arch/Matheos-Sympathetic Resonance
Dream Theater- Scenes from a Memory
Death- The Sound of Perseverence
Symphony X- The Divine Wings of Tragedy |
Artuma
10.11.14 | "Arch/Matheos-Sympathetic Resonance"
what the hell is this |
Rice303
10.11.14 | Needs Deftones |
KaNe00
10.12.14 | what about korn? |
SharkTooth
10.12.14 | I have an individual song to suggest:
U2-Beautiful Day
that song was EVERYWHERE in the early 2000's, I swear you couldn't walk 10 feet from your house without hearing Bono wail "IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY!!!" |
ArsMoriendi
10.12.14 | Nine Inch Nails - With Teeth, since "The Hand That Feeds" "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" and "Only" all hit the hot 100. |
mxbrady
10.12.14 | I don't like to say it, but someone like Lil Wayne probably deserves a spot. Whatever his most successful album was |
Artuma
10.12.14 | i'd probably add relationship of command and choirs of the eye, not that they were that popular, but roc's influence on 00s punk music has been unmatchable and choirs shows the experimental side of the 00s with its eccentric genre fusions yet having a modern sound to it |
Keyblade
10.12.14 | Get Rich or Die Trying |
Archelirion
10.12.14 | Slipknot's Volume III, although Iowa could maybe fit as well.
'I have an individual song to suggest:
U2-Beautiful Day'
THAT BLOODY SONG. One of the first songs I recognised as being absolutely everywhere (born in '95, so I must have been 5), and I detest it to this day. |
KrazyKris
10.12.14 | Yeah, that song was in fact everywhere. Alsways thought it has to be their most successful since you heard it about 10 times every day back then.
Actually the song that instantly pops up, when thinking about overplayed tracks is Gnarls Barkley - Crazy though. That song was not just everywhere on this planet, it invaded every goddamn dimension back in 07 |
NightProwler
10.12.14 | I remember that the following albums were pretty damn important as I grew up (not necessarily albums I liked, some I did) - born in '92:
Eminem - The Slim Shady LP/The Marshall Mathers LP/The Eminem Show
Green Day - American Idiot
Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory/Meteora
The Killers - Hot Fuss
My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade
The Offspring - Americana (I prefer Smash, but to our generation, "Pretty Fly" apparently is a classic)
System of a Down - Toxicity
The White Stripes - Elephant
And yeah, Gorillaz and RHCP should be there too (as you've listed). Arctic Monkeys as well, although they didn't get going until 2006, same year that Muse - Black Holes and Revelations got released.
Finally, I'll say Radiohead - OK Computer, but that's just because my parents bought it back in '97 |
zakalwe
10.12.14 | Prowler born in '92
t'was a fine year as mother shouted at me to turn down my generation, personifying life changing, defining album 'Nevermind'
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KrazyKris
10.12.14 | Yeah, grandpa, tell us some more stories, how was it back then fighting gainst those damn commies?
I don't know, but I really hope I wouldn't have jumped on the bandwagon back in the "Nevermind" days, so overrated guys. |
Archelirion
10.12.14 | As for a while I listened to that album erryday, I can say I almost certainly would have done. |
zakalwe
10.12.14 | The impact that thing had on the youth was a 'thing' that one didn't ride the hype of. it was the first time rock connected to the disaffected, confused, bored angsty teens of the day on a massive scale.
It's the last time it happened. |
KrazyKris
10.12.14 | Actually "Dookie" did the same three years later only in a more humorous way. Not that I'm too much of a fan of it, just sayin. |
zakalwe
10.12.14 | Your insane Kris.
MTV music awards, '94 introduced onto the stage as 'punk lives' Green Day were great but that was that.
They didn't change the fabric of youth culture.
In the UK, Oasis are the biggest band I've witnessed circa '96 that band was an absolute behemoth devouring headlines, playing to quarter of a million people, What's the Story cementing a place in the album charts for literally a generation and yet even they weren't the same as Nirvana because the initial impact of seeing a scrawny fella screaming with a guitar doing mind melting feedback opened the eyes to those who weren't looking for anything in particular and changed lives.
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KrazyKris
10.12.14 | ~because the initial impact of seeing a scrawny fella screaming with a guitar doing mind melting feedback opened the eyes to those who weren't looking for anything in particular and changed lives.~
Pretty poor generation I'd say |
zakalwe
10.12.14 | You're probably right but I wouldn't have changed it for anything except maybe the early 70s |
KrazyKris
10.12.14 | Also, if Green Day counts as 'punk lives' than the genre official lost every bit of integrity it ever had. They are a great band, but "Insomniac" was a nice reminder why they are everything but a good punk rock act. |
KrazyKris
10.12.14 | Yeah, well not that the early 00s were better by any means (thankfully I wasn't really influenced that much by most of its artists). It needed a stupid white rapper constantly mocking gays and his wife as a 'role model'. How crappy is that. |
zakalwe
10.12.14 | Yeah even then I thought the 'punk lives' thing was pushing it.
Here's my defining artists that have shaped the musical times throughout my years on the planet and changed things not necessarily for the better, some are outright shite.
Wacko Jacko
Madonna
Ice-T
U2
R.E.M
Nirvana
Metallica
The Prodigy
Blur
Oasis
Limp Bizcuit
Eminem.
Killers
Adele
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zakalwe
10.12.14 | Take That
Britney Spears
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KrazyKris
10.12.14 | Wouldn't disagree with any, though Ice-T probably wouldn't have been my first guess. Maybe missed Britney Spears and Take That or some crap like that. |
KrazyKris
10.12.14 | Just posted it the exact same time. Great minds think alike... |
Chrisjon89
10.12.14 | Straight Outta Compton/The Chronic and Doggystyle. probably before most Sput user's time but you can trace oodles of crap back to those. replace funk samples with crappy MIDI synths and handclaps, but the lyrics are right out of that textbook.
Coldplay probably rate a mention. since the CD and digital age, a lot of the era defining artists don't really have a defining album? Adele aside. most would agree that Rihanna is a defining artist of this decade and the last, immensely popular and lasting appeal, but she has no Thriller equivalent. not talking so much in terms of quality - just an outlier with enormous success. maybe cos a lot of the consumers of popular music aren't album people now? they're singles, music vids, streaming playlists, pick and choose on iTunes kinda people. |
Artuma
10.12.14 | oh yeah adele is a good call |
KrazyKris
10.12.14 | Yeah, Coldplay actually made the final list, simply cause they started the whole piano pop/rock thing and are in fact huge. Thought about Rihanna too, only problem is as you said that she's really a single artist more than having some really big LP. And Adele comes a little too late, it's pretty much the next generation already. |
Masochist
10.12.14 | Coldplay's 'A Rush of Blood To The Head' would almost certainly be on the list. Also, Maroon 5's 'Songs
About Jane' |
JokineAugustus
10.12.14 | Arcade Fire - Funeral |
