OK, we've had the endless debate about the "Top Ten Bands" of all time. Let's toss some chum into the water and see what kind of a debate we can have.
Name the best ten musicians or bands that first recorded in 2000 or later. We'll settle this by going to Amazon and using their dates as the definitive release dates...
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(In no particular order):
Silversun Pickups
Keane
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Wolfmother
The Killers
The Go! Team
Snow Patrol
Maroon 5
Iron and Wine
The Fiery Furnaces
Doubt it's the type of music people that visit WoC would be into but a few contenders for me would be Funeral for a Friend, Thrice and Senses Fail. Fairly niche choices but all have progressed their sound on each album and between them I have 13 albums/EP's I can listen to with barely a skipped track.
Hah! Shows what a fossil I am. I cannot come up with even one.
Funker Vogt
God Module
Assemblage 23
Helium Vola
VNV Nation
Apoptygma Berzerk
Project Pitchfork
Blutengel
Here are my picks:
Lovehammers (2004)
Coldplay (arguable: they had an EP in 1999, I think, but no albums before 2000's "Parachutes" that I know of)
Clock (2006)
Laura Viers (2005, especially listen to Galaxies)
Jaiya (2003, probably only meaningful if you're Pagan, but they're excellent)
Bonnie "Prince" Billy (2001)
Blue October (2000?)
The Killers (2004)
Evanescence (2003)
Conspiracy (does that count as Yes or as a new band? Anyway, it's 2004 as Conspiracy and 2000 as Billy Squire and Chris Sherwood, with an album called Conspiracy — you know, prog bands can be really hard to sort out)
3 Doors Down (2000)
I think that White Stripes is older than that, so they don't count. Bummer that. But hey, I can throw in Raconteurs. Also, when did Smash Mouth start recording? They must be older than 2000.
Erk, I forgot Wolfmother and Snow Patrol (thanks, Robin) and Neverending White Lights. And wow, Mark, that's quite the industrial heavyweights, yeah? But didn't Funker Vogt have an album (Execution Tracks or Survivor?) in the late '90's?
The Triangle Four
Regional Chain
Access Some Evil
HighSpace
Adam Has a Vagina
N1NE
Obama's First Mixtape
and who could forget
The Ring of Evil
Redemption at Fenway
or my new favorite,
Mars Needs Women!
Amy Winehouse, though let's see how the next album goes
Leona Lewis, though let's see if she can continue
Gnarls Barkley
Sugarland
John Legend
N.E.R.D
Silversun Pickups
Black Mountain
TV On the Radio
Snow Patrol
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, comes and goes
And definately not for all...
Jonathan Coulton , Still Alive (start at ~1:00
Some others, but I can't think of any right now. I haven't been able to find many good rock bands. =/
Mariza
Amy Winehouse
Pink
Doves
Mars Volta
Coldplay
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Goldfrapp
Kasabian
Wolfmother
Audioslave
The Music
The Coral
I'd nominate Snow Patrol but they put out Songs for Polar Bears in 1998.
Which also bumps Idlewild.
And Placebo, and Porcupine Tree, and...
Ooh, forgot:
Arcade Fire
Black Mountain
Cool, a bunch of new music for me...
My picks:
Shelby Lynne
BRMC
Linkin Park (I know, I know...I just enjoy them)
Brad Paisley (another guilty sin - comedy albums or country albums?)
Alycia Keyes
Evanescence
Sufjan Stevens
Arcade Fire
The Strokes
Danger Mouse
I keep wanting to add White Stripes (and how about Loretta Lynn/Jack White for Van Lier Rose?), but I know I can't.
A.L.
AL, I think Danger Mouse was doing CDs before 2000. Is your criterion "CDs from a big label"? Edit: Ah. I see. Until there's a release Amazon has listed, the band isn't "real" as far as this list goes. Well, OK then.
#5 Mark: Excellent picks but with the possible exceptions of Blutengel and Helium Nova, they all had albums out prior to 2000--in some cases way before 2000.
For mine:
-Thievery Corporation (their first album scraped by in 2000--DJ-Kicks and Abductions and Reconstructions don't count cause they're just DJ mix albums)
-Hank Williams III
-BT (but his first album may have predated 2000, whoops his second one was barely there so I guess he's out)
-Lamb of God
-Killswitch Engage
Since I woke up feeling a little PoMo this morning, I'd like to make a metacritique of the contest that it allows only for nominations based on albums. Unknown Hinson has a phenomenal live act. Aside from very high quality guitar chops, his live act is also done entirely within his vampire-hillbilly persona and the supporting band also stays in (albeit much lower key) character. Although I have no idea when he started writing or performing, I think he's post-2000. And asking what're the best bands since 2000 is like asking what's the best religion started since 2000. Is this some conspiracy to cheat the Reverend Horton Heat out of his fully deserved glory?
Nice call with Killswitch Engage!
arcade fire
maroon 5
guilty pleasure pink (feel free to kill me now)
The killers
the kooks
arctic monkeys
Crystal method - though not really a band)
Linkin park - who I do not apologize for
oh and coldplay sucks giant monkey balls
I' m most excited by kooks, arctic monkeys right now
Still I thought that 90's had more breakout music, in a lot of ways.
Nirvana and grunge, beck started doing his thing, sublime was doing their hodgepodge of styles, primus was taking hard bass as far as you can take it, the heyday of the red hot, RATM, flogging molly started their thing - good times . Not to mention the wave of great rap, whether party rap like snoop, or 2pac ( prefer the early) or NY stuff like brand nubian.
Does anyone else other than me just think radiohead is wildly overrated?
Just can't get into it.
It is annoying when the 'greatest rock bands' stuff r artists that are receiving social security and whatnot. That is fracked up
White Stripes
Strokes
Foo Fighters
Buckcherry
Shins
Arcade Fire
Wolfmother
Arctic Monkeys
Muse
Silvertide
Raconteurs
Amy Winehouse
Gnarls Barkley
Puddle of Mudd
Flogging Molly
Fratellis
Subways
Vines
Tiger Army
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Mars Volta
Darkness
Los Lonely Boys
.... I left out some bands like Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam because, even though they have both had AWESOME albums during this decade, I still think of them as '90's bands. Bands like the Foo Fighters and RHCP started off in the '90's but have had as much or more success in this decade.