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JohnnyMack
10/7/2010, 07:46 PM
...to emerge IN THE LAST DECADE?

Regardless of genre and you can include an individual or a group.

Blue
10/7/2010, 07:48 PM
Jack White

Breadburner
10/7/2010, 07:52 PM
No one....

GottaHavePride
10/7/2010, 07:56 PM
Gustavo Dudamel.

Seriously, dude comes out of nowhere, wins the first Gustav Mahler International Conducting Competition in 2003, and is now Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and he's younger than I am.

yermom
10/7/2010, 08:03 PM
Gustavo Dudamel.

Seriously, dude comes out of nowhere, wins the first Gustav Mahler International Conducting Competition in 2003, and is now Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and he's younger than I am.

no one cares about your fancy music :D

AlbqSooner
10/7/2010, 08:06 PM
If Dudamel is the guy I am thinking of he is also very big on introducing music to young kids. Kudos to hoim, or whoever I am thinking of.

GKeeper316
10/7/2010, 08:08 PM
arcade fire

Boomer.....
10/7/2010, 08:11 PM
Hinder

yermom
10/7/2010, 08:13 PM
i can't think of anyone to beat out Jack White at the moment, really

if you haven't seen one of his bands live, you are missing out.

GottaHavePride
10/7/2010, 08:21 PM
If Dudamel is the guy I am thinking of he is also very big on introducing music to young kids. Kudos to hoim, or whoever I am thinking of.

That's him. Also conducts the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela.

Veritas
10/7/2010, 08:27 PM
OMG, Justin Bieber.

JohnnyMack
10/7/2010, 08:49 PM
OMG, Justin Bieber.

Where's my Scotch, butthead?

MR2-Sooner86
10/7/2010, 09:44 PM
The Jonas Brothers

Veritas
10/7/2010, 09:52 PM
The Jonas Brothers
You show your whore mouth Beiber is so much better than those tools.

StoopTroup
10/7/2010, 09:54 PM
Aldous Snow's African Child was the best thing to happen to Africa and the World in the last 100 years. He is like a White Jesus from Space.

Veritas
10/7/2010, 10:03 PM
Seriously, my nod has to go to Ali bin Zikrullah, whose 2003 release of "Khaatamul Anbiya" (loose translation is "Ahab the Gayrab") set a new standard for queer Islamic synth-pop.

http://www.chowrangi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Gay%20terrorist.bmp

Lott's Bandana
10/7/2010, 10:04 PM
I was gonna say Joe Bonamassa, but I'm laughing too hard.

Blue
10/7/2010, 10:07 PM
Whoever he or she is, send it to the Deanarossa so it can be put out of its misery.

IronSooner
10/7/2010, 10:22 PM
I can't believe nobody's said Taylor Swift yet

starclassic tama
10/7/2010, 10:31 PM
josh homme

OU_Sooners75
10/7/2010, 10:38 PM
Hinder

Ur kidding right?

sooner59
10/7/2010, 10:59 PM
Aldous Snow's African Child was the best thing to happen to Africa and the World in the last 100 years. He is like a White Jesus from Space.

LOL! That movie was awesome. :D

PS: If someone slips you a Jefferson, pet the furry wall.:eek:

Breadburner
10/7/2010, 11:08 PM
NSFW......Cee lo Green.....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAV0XrbEwNc

Collier11
10/8/2010, 12:45 AM
Hinder

LOL


LOL! That movie was awesome. :D


PS: If someone slips you a Jefferson, pet the furry wall.:eek:

YESSIR!



Jack White and Arcade Fire, allsome

Crucifax Autumn
10/8/2010, 12:46 AM
Hannah Montana

Collier11
10/8/2010, 12:48 AM
PARTY IN THE USA!!

Collier11
10/8/2010, 12:49 AM
Is she legal yet?

sooner59
10/8/2010, 12:49 AM
Hannah Montana

Good call.

Wait! We talking about music or hawt underage ***? Oops...I've already said too much.

OUstud
10/8/2010, 06:55 AM
Kid Cudi. "Man on the Moon" is ****ing awesome.

texaspokieokie
10/8/2010, 07:34 AM
kanye west

BillyBall
10/8/2010, 09:02 AM
50 Tyson

Howzit
10/8/2010, 09:26 AM
Aldous Snow's African Child was the best thing to happen to Africa and the World in the last 100 years. He is like a White Jesus from Space.


LOL! That movie was awesome. :D

PS: If someone slips you a Jefferson, pet the furry wall.:eek:

Your brain is full of lollipops, rainbows, and cheese.

Veritas
10/8/2010, 09:26 AM
By genre:
Hiphop/rap/whatever the kids are calling it: Talib Kweli
Metal: Killswitch Engage
Rock/Pop: John Mayer
Country: Taylor Swift

Tulsa_Fireman
10/8/2010, 09:30 AM
Lady Gaga's meatrocket

JohnnyMack
10/8/2010, 09:33 AM
Country: Taylor Swift

You should not be alive.

SoonerProphet
10/8/2010, 09:41 AM
les claypool

StoopTroup
10/8/2010, 10:14 AM
Tulsa>OKC

RlBUuOM8G1o

soonerboy_odanorth
10/8/2010, 10:40 AM
Nickelback!

soonerboy_odanorth
10/8/2010, 10:42 AM
^you know, that is if you are in the mood to gouge out your ear canals^

Leroy Lizard
10/8/2010, 10:50 AM
les claypool

Awesome bassist, but he isn't a product of this decade.

soonerboy_odanorth
10/8/2010, 11:04 AM
This thread makes me realize how out of touch I have become with music. What gets airplay is garbage to a large extent, and I don't have time in my days to seek out the good stuff. So I just fall back on the music I grew up with for the most part. I think Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown is the most recent thing I've picked up, and American Idiot before that.

I are becoming dad the dinosaur.

Veritas
10/8/2010, 11:08 AM
By genre:
Hiphop/rap/whatever the kids are calling it: Talib Kweli
Metal: Killswitch Engage
Rock/Pop: John Mayer
Country: Taylor Swift
I should have been more specific.
Current Country: Taylor Swift
Real Country: Shooter Jennings

Taylor Swift is the best of the new crop of not-really-country country musicians.

Leroy Lizard
10/8/2010, 11:54 AM
This thread makes me realize how out of touch I have become with music. What gets airplay is garbage to a large extent, and I don't have time in my days to seek out the good stuff. So I just fall back on the music I grew up with for the most part. I think Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown is the most recent thing I've picked up, and American Idiot before that.

I are becoming dad the dinosaur.

Give the Dropkick Murphys a whirl.

royalfan5
10/8/2010, 12:07 PM
Jamey Johnson

Pogue Mahone
10/8/2010, 12:10 PM
Give the Dropkick Murphys a whirl.

The Dropkick Murphys are a Americanized, sanitized version of the Pogues, and I kind of like them when they're not singing about the Red Sox or hockey.

Tulsa_Fireman
10/8/2010, 12:53 PM
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Samwell.

Leroy Lizard
10/8/2010, 12:55 PM
The Dropkick Murphys are a Americanized, sanitized version of the Pogues, and I kind of like them when they're not singing about the Red Sox or hockey.

Pretty damn good band (especially the bagpipe player and drummer). "Flannigan's Ball" is outstanding -- one of the best punk songs I have ever heard.

And yes, I am familiar with the original.

Soonerntxs
10/8/2010, 01:03 PM
OLIVIA! Pig that sings and wears a TUTU!

Pogue Mahone
10/8/2010, 01:13 PM
Pretty damn good band (especially the bagpipe player and drummer). "Flannigan's Ball" is outstanding -- one of the best punk songs I have ever heard.

And yes, I am familiar with the original.

Wait, they cover an old Irish drinking song and get Ronnie Drew of the Dubliners to sing with them. Done and done by the Pogues 20 years earlier.

I'll stop now.

StoopTroup
10/8/2010, 01:44 PM
Per YouTube....the experts. :D

The Top Ten of all time. Of course this goes outside the area of this thread but this ain't the first thread I've ever jacked and won't be the last. :D

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SUCK IT TREBEK!

JohnnyMack
10/8/2010, 01:45 PM
this ain't the first thread I've ever jacked it and won't be the last. :D

FIFY

Tulsa_Fireman
10/8/2010, 01:45 PM
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Leonard Nimoy.

StoopTroup
10/8/2010, 01:47 PM
Jacked on Johnny face.

Tulsa_Fireman
10/8/2010, 01:52 PM
lul-Y8vSr0I

You guys can stop posting in this thread now.

I win. Nothing in the history of music tops this.

EVER.

jumperstop
10/8/2010, 02:10 PM
By genre:
Hiphop/rap/whatever the kids are calling it: Talib Kweli
Metal: Killswitch Engage
Rock/Pop: John Mayer
Country: Taylor Swift

Killswitch is awesome. Not greatest music, but fun to listen to. Saw them in concert and they are some of the most vile and distuting people there are. The bassest said "I love all these jailbait girls here. I just want wear all thier pu***** as gas mask." I cracked up, but then was just a bit frightened.

jumperstop
10/8/2010, 02:14 PM
To those people that said Hinder and Nickleback, me and my friends have a word for that type of music. We call it butt rock...If you like bands like those or Three Doors Down you might be into butt rock.

Mississippi Sooner
10/8/2010, 02:16 PM
Hank III is, um, different.

Mississippi Sooner
10/8/2010, 02:22 PM
And in case y'all ain't familiar with Hank Williams III, his shows are a mixture of hardcore country and rap/metal.

Here is one of his best known songs. I won't embed it because it is most definitely NSFW.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEY8ARSGHTU

Veritas
10/8/2010, 02:46 PM
Killswitch is awesome. Not greatest music, but fun to listen to. Saw them in concert and they are some of the most vile and distuting people there are. The bassest said "I love all these jailbait girls here. I just want wear all thier pu***** as gas mask." I cracked up, but then was just a bit frightened.
That would be Adam. That dude is hilarious. And yes, vile and disturbing.

Leroy Lizard
10/8/2010, 03:02 PM
Wait, they cover an old Irish drinking song and get Ronnie Drew of the Dubliners to sing with them. Done and done by the Pogues 20 years earlier.

Are they any good? Yes. Are their songs cool to the ears? Yes. Are they skilled musicians? Yes.

What else do you want? Should we throw out our Led Zeppelin albums?


The bassest said "I love all these jailbait girls here. I just want wear all thier pu***** as gas mask."

Oh wow, that is sooooo disturbing. :rolleyes:

"I kill children
I like to see them cry
I kill children
to make their mommas cry
crush them under my car
I like to hear them scream
give them poisoned candy
for halloween"

Done 30 years ago by the Dead Kennedys. But don't let that stop you from scaring us with those horrifying quotes from modern rockers. ;)

Tulsa_Fireman
10/8/2010, 03:46 PM
And she bangs, she bangs
Oh baby
When she moves, she moves
I go crazy
'Cause she looks like a flower but she stings
like a bee
Like every girl in history
She bangs, she bangs

GKeeper316
10/8/2010, 05:20 PM
Awesome bassist, but he isn't a product of this decade.

ya i wanted to say claypool, but hes a 90s guy.

Breadburner
10/8/2010, 08:18 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMtZfW2z9dw

Spray
10/8/2010, 09:06 PM
Jack White. EOT (End of thread)

Crucifax Autumn
10/9/2010, 03:48 AM
This is a very difficult question since so much of the best of the last 10 years really got started earlier. As far as totally 2000s, I have to go with the Polish prog metal band Riverside, as an entire group. Brilliant song structures, serious themes, complex rhythms, overall virtuoso playing, and tons of emotion. They are like mixing Tool, Dream Theater, and Opeth into one band, and that description doesn't really do them the justice they deserve. If you are familiar with Pain of Salvation or Porcupine Tree they kinda fit that mold.

As always when I highly recommend a band, I present you with all live material since that is the only real way to actually see if a musician is worth their reputation. The studio works have top notch production and some of the best mixing I've ever heard.


http://www.riverside.art.pl/en/

DhkKGDC74jA

RYbYqE8oPLM

cycb7qR3A_8

wl5orABnqMQ

hsNybt9mHHc

QSML9_EoBOE

PBZOO1E7l4U

And one studio track, just for good measure:

dMqd7zYkQaw

Leroy Lizard
10/9/2010, 08:59 AM
Turisas. World class accordion player, top-notch fiddler and bassist. Drummer good too.

yankee
10/9/2010, 11:34 AM
Rap: Lupe Fiasco, Kid Cudi

Rock: Jet...Uhhhh.....Coldplay? :O
Most of the rock groups I listen to have been around since the 90's or later (RHCP, Linkin Park, Foo Fighters, Incubus, Third Eye Blind)...

goingoneight
10/9/2010, 02:32 PM
Are we talking popularity or skill? I recognize that if you're really good, you'll be somewhat popular, so it seems like a total crapshoot. Especially given the success of Miley Cyrus and the Jonas Brothers.

Like a few above, most of my modern favorites aren't what you would call this past decade. Maybe just a little before... like late 90's and into the 2000s.

Leroy Lizard
10/9/2010, 04:02 PM
... and the Jonas Brothers.

Dammit. Why didn't I think of them?

setem
10/9/2010, 04:17 PM
What about bands that have been together longer then 10 years but have emerged as great ones, in this decade?

My Morning Jacket 1998 but only emerged as a good one in the 2000's
Coheed and Cambria
Kings of Leon
Animal Collective - My Girls is a great song

setem
10/9/2010, 05:33 PM
BTW it is a Jeffery not a Jefferson!

Leroy Lizard
10/9/2010, 06:09 PM
Coheed and Cambria

Noise. That's all.

Collier11
10/10/2010, 12:58 AM
What about bands that have been together longer then 10 years but have emerged as great ones, in this decade?

My Morning Jacket 1998 but only emerged as a good one in the 2000's
Coheed and Cambria
Kings of Leon
Animal Collective - My Girls is a great song

KOL is solid, the rest are bleh

Collier11
10/10/2010, 12:59 AM
This is a very difficult question since so much of the best of the last 10 years really got started earlier. As far as totally 2000s, I have to go with the Polish prog metal band Riverside, as an entire group. Brilliant song structures, serious themes, complex rhythms, overall virtuoso playing, and tons of emotion. They are like mixing Tool, Dream Theater, and Opeth into one band, and that description doesn't really do them the justice they deserve. If you are familiar with Pain of Salvation or Porcupine Tree they kinda fit that mold.

As always when I highly recommend a band, I present you with all live material since that is the only real way to actually see if a musician is worth their reputation. The studio works have top notch production and some of the best mixing I've ever heard.


http://www.riverside.art.pl/en/

DhkKGDC74jA

RYbYqE8oPLM

cycb7qR3A_8

wl5orABnqMQ

hsNybt9mHHc

QSML9_EoBOE

PBZOO1E7l4U

And one studio track, just for good measure:

dMqd7zYkQaw

Get outta here with your prog BS :D

StoopTroup
10/10/2010, 09:32 AM
Reba McEntire. Every ten years she re-emerges with a new fresh facelift and cuts another album that goes Nashville number one and leaves all the other folks in Country music sitting in the audience at the CMAs wondering when she will die and they can get a shot at maybe being remembered For more than 15 minutes. :D

Crucifax Autumn
10/10/2010, 10:12 PM
Get outta here with your prog BS :D

Yeah, prog sucks....Like that band you hate, Tool. :P

Collier11
10/10/2010, 10:15 PM
Youre a Tool...wait

Crucifax Autumn
10/10/2010, 10:18 PM
Other than a very few exceptions for different moods, I just prefer my music to be challenging, both musically and lyrically.

In other words I'm a fun-hating nerd and music snob.

Collier11
10/10/2010, 10:20 PM
Then you should listen to Soulja Boy :eek:

OUstud
10/10/2010, 10:59 PM
Modest Mouse released their first album in 1996, but really "emerged" around 2004. This song, King Rat, is from their 2009 EP, and was also a B-side on 2007's "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank". Video directed by Heath Ledger.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi7KDOAj4Xo

Leroy Lizard
10/11/2010, 12:23 AM
Rap: Lupe Fiasco, Kid Cudi

Do they know how to play a musical instrument?

StoopTroup
10/11/2010, 05:35 AM
Turisas. World class accordion player, top-notch fiddler and bassist. Drummer good too.

ROTFLMFAO


That's your take on the best new emerging artist.....lol...I knew I shouldn't have even looked. It's like Braveheart meets ICP.

oFW6IE0yWGs

yermom
10/11/2010, 09:48 AM
that's actually pretty awesome

it kinda sounds like the Dropkick Murphys and Metallica on stage together

Crucifax Autumn
10/11/2010, 10:08 AM
Turisas is actually pretty popular in Europe and have a small but loyal following here. Folk metal in all its incarnations is exploring some interesting blends of things we've heard before in all new ways. Makes that whole "it's all been done before" thing a bit more exciting.

Veritas
10/11/2010, 10:10 AM
Take the accordion and run it through a distortion pedal..wonder what that would sound like.

Crucifax Autumn
10/11/2010, 10:14 AM
I'd be willing to bet one of the "deathier" folk or battle metal bands has tried it.

Ike
10/11/2010, 11:37 AM
Of bands from this past decade, one of my favorites has been Gogol Bordello

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Leroy Lizard
10/11/2010, 11:44 AM
ROTFLMFAO


That's your take on the best new emerging artist.....lol...I knew I shouldn't have even looked. It's like Braveheart meets ICP.

oFW6IE0yWGs

Best musicians. The accordian player is Netta Skog, and she is a world-class player.

http://www.lassepihlajamaa.fi/kuvat/netta_skog.jpg






The fiddler could give Charlie Daniels a run for his money, and I mean that seriously.

Veritas
10/11/2010, 03:24 PM
Best musicians. The accordian player is Netta Skog, and she is a world-class player.

http://www.lassepihlajamaa.fi/kuvat/netta_skog.jpg






The fiddler could give Charlie Daniels a run for his money, and I mean that seriously.
I don't think I'd hit it, but I'd let it tickle me berries.

stoops the eternal pimp
10/11/2010, 03:24 PM
the sun...its her enemy

JohnnyMack
10/11/2010, 03:32 PM
STEP is probably the best musician to come along this decade now that I think about it. He plays a mean skin flute.

Leroy Lizard
10/11/2010, 03:34 PM
the sun...its her enemy

I like 'em like that.

stoops the eternal pimp
10/11/2010, 03:36 PM
Don't sell yourself short....you work my bagpipe well with that pouty mouth and your dainty hands

Leroy Lizard
10/11/2010, 03:45 PM
I don't think I'd hit it...

:eek:

Leroy Lizard
10/11/2010, 03:46 PM
Don't sell yourself short....you work my bagpipe well with that pouty mouth and your dainty hands

Please God, let him be talking about Johnny Mack!

setem
10/11/2010, 07:35 PM
Turisas. World class accordion player, top-notch fiddler and bassist. Drummer good too.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ePJVi5oNeWw/TDyfyJ2QoUI/AAAAAAAAATA/_pzwGxZslIo/s1600/Acordeon.jpg

I would hit it a couple of times!

GottaHavePride
10/11/2010, 08:43 PM
Of bands from this past decade, one of my favorites has been Gogol Bordello

o76YbAfFfJ8

They're flipping AWEsome.

Leroy Lizard
10/11/2010, 08:51 PM
I would hit it a couple of times!

I like how she smiles throughout their concerts. And not fake-o cheerleader smiles, the real deal.

sooner ngintunr
10/11/2010, 09:20 PM
The Black Keys.

sooneron
10/12/2010, 09:04 AM
I still dig Davy Knowles. He has some serious chops.

Leroy Lizard
10/13/2010, 07:43 PM
DJ Tiesto!!

silverwheels
10/13/2010, 08:24 PM
Kings of Leon? Seriously?

ratherthanlater
10/13/2010, 08:28 PM
Zac Brown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ujS1er1r0

I Am Right
10/13/2010, 08:41 PM
My wife, plays me for the fool all the time.

yermom
10/13/2010, 08:44 PM
The Black Keys.

i'd have Dan Auerbach's babies

soonerborn30
10/13/2010, 09:21 PM
Eminem. Suck it, rap haters.

silverwheels
10/13/2010, 09:23 PM
Eminem is technically from the late 90s.

soonerborn30
10/13/2010, 09:28 PM
Yeah, I know, but close enough. Debut was 99

sooner ngintunr
10/13/2010, 09:31 PM
Silversun Pickups.

JamesHale
10/13/2010, 09:41 PM
Creed.

/thread

yermom
10/13/2010, 09:46 PM
even if that wasn't the succ, it's the wrong decade

Leroy Lizard
10/14/2010, 12:34 AM
Creed.

/thread

1. They are not a product of this decade.
2. They may be the sorriest excuse for a rock band to appear since... since... well, for a long time.

prrriiide
10/14/2010, 01:00 AM
Gustavo Dudamel.

Seriously, dude comes out of nowhere, wins the first Gustav Mahler International Conducting Competition in 2003, and is now Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and he's younger than I am.

Well-deserved nomination.

moonlitblood
10/14/2010, 01:10 AM
Seriously, my nod has to go to Ali bin Zikrullah, whose 2003 release of "Khaatamul Anbiya" (loose translation is "Ahab the Gayrab") set a new standard for queer Islamic synth-pop.

http://www.chowrangi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Gay%20terrorist.bmp

:eek: :kelvin:

Crucifax Autumn
10/14/2010, 01:39 AM
And Ali bin Zikrullah is still better than Creed!

topdaug
10/14/2010, 02:22 AM
I was gonna say Joe Bonamassa, but I'm laughing too hard.

Bonamassa and John Butler would be my choices...but still, unfortunately, not enough people know who John Butler is...

Oh, and on edit, because I still haven't read the whole thread, I agree with the Gogol Bordello selection...

topdaug
10/14/2010, 02:27 AM
What about bands that have been together longer then 10 years but have emerged as great ones, in this decade?

My Morning Jacket 1998 but only emerged as a good one in the 2000's
Coheed and Cambria
Kings of Leon
Animal Collective - My Girls is a great song

Has KOL really been around that long, though? I could swear it wasn't until like 2002 or 2003 when they put out Youth & Young Manhood? So that'd put them in the this decade category...

silverwheels
10/14/2010, 06:39 AM
They're not even that good, anyway.

waynepayne
10/14/2010, 09:14 AM
They're not even that good, anyway.


Well at least some things are still familiar...

topdaug
10/14/2010, 09:55 PM
They're not even that good, anyway.

Come on...their first two albums were awesome...Because of the Times was the beginning of their downfall into mainstream, but they're still pretty solid...luckily, they haven't gone all Creed or anything on us...

silverwheels
10/14/2010, 10:00 PM
I don't know about awesome, but they were pretty solid. "Use Somebody" is total ear rape, though. They've even admitted that.

topdaug
10/14/2010, 10:35 PM
I don't know about awesome, but they were pretty solid. "Use Somebody" is total ear rape, though. They've even admitted that.

They admitted not liking that one, and I think at least one of them admitted to hating "Sex on Fire" but gotta admit, it did them wonders...a bunch of Grammy nominations and also a lot of new fans to buy their stuff...