relatively mainstream rock songs that didn't completely suck in the 2000s

I just remembered this shit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-mxBDuRaZ8

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7630068544993062591

audioslave - 'cochise'
muse - 'plug in baby'
kings of leon - 'sex on fire'

i hate that list threads now become so full of YouTubes that they quickly start taking forever to load, so i'm just gonna list songs

Jimmy Eat World - "Sweetness"
Linkin Park - "Faint"
Coldplay - "Clocks"
Sum 41 - "Fatlip"
Lostprophets - "Last Train Home"
Yellowcard - "Ocean Avenue"
Jet - "Cold Hard Bitch"
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "By The Way"
System Of A Down - "Chop Suey!"
My Chemical Romance - "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)"

jimmy eat world - 'polaris'
system of a down - 'toxicity'
alien ant farm - 'movies'

Limp Bizkit - "My Way"
Papa Roach - "Forever"
Finger Eleven - "Paralyzer"
Green Day - "Waiting"
Sugar Ray - "When It's Over"
Fall Out Boy - "Dance Dance"
The Killers - "When You Were Young"
Weezer - "Perfect Situation"
Nickelback - "Photograph"
Train - "Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me)"

Evanescence - "Call Me When You're Sober"
Muse - "Knights of Cydonia"
All-American Rejects - "Move Along"
Paramore - "Misery Business"
The Strokes - "Someday"
Matchbox Twenty - "How Far We've Come"
Good Charlotte - "The Anthem"
U2 - "Beautiful Day"
Shinedown - "Second Chance"
Foo Fighters - "Best Of You"

ok i'll stop, for now.

Rock Band has a bunch of these; e.g. Paramore's "That's What You Get" and Panic at the Disco's "Nine in the Afternoon" in addition to ones already mentioned.

foo fighters - generator
jimmy eat world - a praise chorus
rival schools - used for glue

er that was me

Train - "Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me)"

nooooooooo

QOTSA's alt rock radio friendly singles are tolerable (though not a patch on Kyuss).

Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out

System of a Down - "Chop Suey"
Jimmy Eat World - "Sweetness"
U2 - "Vertigo"
Coldplay - "Yellow", "In My Place"
Green Day - "Warning"

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Train - "Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me)"

nooooooooo

Yeah I was with most of Al's list aside from this

fine, fine, i'll save it for the "hot AC schmaltz that didn't completely suck in the 2000s" thread

I liked the Bravery's "An Honest Mistake" tbh, would probably never fuck with anything else by them

Lillix 'Sweet Temptation'
Fall Out Boy 'This Ain't A Scene...'
Feeder 'Just A Day'

so you only started this thread to find the most convincing "i can't believe it's not indie rock" radio hits

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Every single Coldplay song.

I'm not a Coldplay hater but "Yellow" is a terrible wet fart of a song.

Disturbed, "Stupify"
Jimmy Eat World, "The Middle"
Queens of the Stone Age, "No One Knows"
Coldplay, "Clocks"
Von Bondies, "C'mon C'mon"
Blink-182, "Miss You"
The Killers, "Mr. Brightside"
My Chemical Romance, "The Ghost of You"
Chevelle, "The Clincher"
Queens of the Stone Age, "Little Sister"
Coldplay, "Talk"
Fall Out Boy, "Sugar We're Goin' Down"
Panic! At the Disco, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"
The Killers, "When You Were Young"
Paramore, "Misery Business"
Brand New, "Jesus Christ"
Silversun Pickups, "Lazy Eye"

(Thought about including Modest Mouse, Death Cab, and White Stripes songs but didn't, though where you draw the line is sort of arbitrary.)

good call on "Stupify"

jimmy eat world was a pretty rad band huh

i was listening to the first sum 41 album last night. it's pretty good, and "fat lip" is like top 20 single of the decade material

That Hey Ya song that was everywhere for a month was pretty rockin & I never heard one person say a bad thing about it.

i've heard lots of people say bad things about Fountains of Wayne, and it's not nearly their best, but i like "Stacy's Mom".
caveat: i don't listen to commercial radio so overplay didn't kill it

50 songs by THE WHITE STRIPES

this thread is a bummer! r.i.p. rawk

^^ Thinking the same thing.

Content to admire the grave.

you realize that right now someone is naming their band that right

Can't wait for their album Implicit Abstraction of Death next year.

I think I've heard "Back in Black" in more places more times in the 2000s than any other time ever, so rawk very much alive dudes.

In 200 years that song will still be used to sell hovercraft or some such.

Some of you already mentioned Coldplay, but surprisingly no one said anything about "Viva la Vida," unless you count Geir's "Every single Coldplay song" vote.

I can't think of many, if any, mainstream rock songs from the past decade that were as well produced as that one.

Oh, and: Animal Collective - "Brother Sport"

i like "Viva La Vida," but not as much as "Clocks," and even as far as Coldplay goes it doesn't seem like a good one to single out as a 'rock song'

Coldplay *is* a rock band, so I just picked my favorite song of theirs. While I would agree that an argument could be made that "Viva la Vida" is not a strong representative of rock as a music genre, I do think it is the closest great song Coldplay has to a rock song. (I strongly disagree that "Clocks" is a better choice.) Perhaps there are aspects of "Violet Hill" that make it easier for one to categorize it as a rock song, but it is not a great song.

Either way though, I don't really care about Coldplay beyond "Viva la Vida." :-)

Actually, I don't care about most mainstream rock. An argument could be made that the post(-post-post-) grunge that dominated a lot of rock radio during the 2000s is some of the worst "popular" rock music ever made. It's still kind of astonishing to me that people still want to hear shit that sounds like impoverished, pathetic, and lifeless variations on Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, and Alice in Chains, instead of listening to the original grunge acts or, you know, listening to something that's far more vibrant and rewarding. Granted, most of the non-post-grunge mainstream rock acts of the 2000s was terrible too, but there's still the occasional good tune on "alternative" rock radio stations.

Thankfully, terrestrial radio will be dead to many of us at some point during the 2010s, if most of us have not already given it up. (I admit that I myself have not; I still like something to listen to when I'm in my car, and I find that the radio is a good way of keeping up with the pop charts, which, unlike the mainstream rock charts, generally produce great songs here and there.)

So I just went out to the supermarket, and lo and behold, heard "Clocks" over the loudspeaker for the first time in a while. Quite excellent, actually.

Also, to add to the ongoing list:

Green Day - "Boulevard of Broken Dreams"
Incubus - "Drive"
U2 - "Vertigo"
Weezer - "Pork and Beans"

Cage The Elephant - "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked"
Nickelback - "Burn It To The Ground"
Nickelback - "Rock Star"
Silvertide - "Ain't Comin Home"
Silvertide - "Blue Jeans"

damn this thread is depressing

it is, and it makes it plain why people would increasingly flock to country music in recent years to hear good rock music.

Or indie rock, amirite?

Seriously though, most of the good work in "rock" qua rock is being done in indie, right? I think so. If you look at something like the recent Pazz & Jop critics polls, the majority of the rock music they rate highly comes from indie. Not to say that something that is critically-lauded is automatically good, but I do agree with the Pazz & Jop critics generally: for good rock music, indie is where it's at.

Ten seconds until my previous post is eviscerated...

scott, do you think better rock music is coming out of country than indie? (I don't really listen to country; this is a sincere question.)

Secondary question, for everyone here, how much longer do you think it will be before, because of the internet, there will be no more "mainstream rock"? (Niches, blah blah blah.)

If mainstream rock dies, I don't see the internet having anything to do with it. It'll probably be from music fans thinking "Why should I listen to new rock when old classic rock is a thousand times better?"

Stereophonics - "Dakota"
U2 - "Vertigo"
The Bravery - "Honest Mistake"
The Killers - "Somebody Told Me"

I was into The Darkness for a second. Does that count?

^Me too. I'd go to bat for almost every song off their first album over 95% of the songs listed.

"scott, do you think better rock music is coming out of country than indie?"

yes. indie rock, or at least american indie rock, is mostly horrible. and has been for years. there is interesting stuff on the fringes. and on stoner rock labels and doom rock labels and metal labels, but country music, very very popular country music, has created more memorable "rocking" music than 99% of indie rock labels or major label rock bands. my favorite modern rock band for the past decade has been katatonia and nobody in this country knows who they are and i don't care because i no longer care about consensus or mass movements or agreed cultural acceptance. i believe in financial health for THEM, but beyond that i simply don't care about the viability of rock as a movement or a message or even if people listen to it at all. i cheer the destruction of traditional means of selling and presenting music and art. i hope it all goes down in flames.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Clhn-vI4yE

Nickelback - "Rock Star"

ewwwwwwwwwww

Louis XIV -- "Finding Out True Love Is Blind"
Kid Rock - "Wasting Time"
Kid Rock - "American Bad Ass"
Kid Rock - "Picture"
Kid Rock - "Feel Like Makin' Love"
Kid Rock - "So Hott"
Kid Rock - "All Summer Long"

Everclear - "Wonderful"
Everclear - "AM Radio"
3Oh!3 - "Don't Trust Me"

Cage The Elephant - "Ain't No Rest For The Wicked"

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i'm not someone that goes around boggling at what you like, and i respect that you have your own taste and always stand by it, but ughhh dude seriously? that song?

This thread is fucking dissapointing.

Fair enough, scott. Could you just expand on this part a little: "i cheer the destruction of traditional means of selling and presenting music and art. i hope it all goes down in flames." Why do you feel this way?

Moka, I guess the only reason it isn't very disappointing to me is because I don't expect anything from mainstream rock anymore.