Which classic rock bands are losing favor among zoomers, and which ones are maintaining or even growing in popularity?Queen and Fleetwood Mac have obviously soared in popularity among normies. The Doors seem to be gaining more and more of cult following in music circles, but this hasn't (yet?) penetrated the normie sphere.On the flip side, I've noticed that the Who has very poor streaming numbers on Spotify. I'm not sure why they've been so forgotten compared to their contemporaries. They have nearly half as many monthly listeners as even ELO, which was a far smaller band during the 70's.
>>124577263It's because The Who fuckign sucks compared to other british bands of the 60s (Kinks, Byrds, Beatles)
>>124577278The Byrds aren't British you retard. They're *literally* known as the American Beatles. They have about 1.5 million monthly listeners on Spotify though, so they'd be another great example of an important boomer band that's been forgotten.Also...>not mentioning the Rolling StonesThey're the best British Invasion band.
The Who is a singles band, but so is Queen and Fleetwood Mac
The Who only has one or two great albums, the rest is pretty meh. They're good but one can only listen to My Generation or Baby O Riley on repeat so many times
Genesis's numbers are pretty low considering how huge they use to be
>>124577393I really do not understand why zoomers like the Beach Boys but ignore the Byrds. They're both very dated, but the Byrds at least have some cool guitar riffs.
>>124577467beach boys influence is felt on todays modern indie scene the byrds influence is felt too but its praise is given to bands that the byrds influenced like rem or the smiths
>>124577452It's kind of flipping with the 80s stuff falling out of public consciousness and the 70s stuff getting rediscovered by young people online
>>124577542>remAnother band zoomers ignore for some reason. Why don't zoomers listen to Murmur?
>>124577578theyd rather listen to cringe gay people (morrissey) then based gay people(stipe)
>>124577542>todays modern indie scenesoooo shit it makes my ears bleed. aaaaaahhhh my ears!! oww>>124577601exactly
>>124577263I feel like Pink Floyd are still kinda big with zoomersKing Crimson are relatively popular with them. Still more a music geek thing but they have a good amount of zoomer fans due to the Jojo anime connectionI agree with The Who. They seem more known as a name than with big youth fanbases
>>12457726320th century artists who gained the most Spotify followers this year:Michael Jackson 3.69mQueen 2.85m2Pac 2.60mMetallica 2.46mSnoop Dogg 2.14mNirvana 2.05mAC/DC 2.03mThe Beatles 1.99mGuns N' Roses 1.91mDr. Dre 1.81mABBA 1.69mRadiohead 1.67mThe Smiths 1.61mIce Cube 1.47mFleetwood Mac 1.42mDeftones 1.38mOasis 1.37m (0.3m thanks to the reunion)The Notorious B.I.G. 1.35mElton John 1.31mBon Jovi 1.24mKorn 1.24mRed Hot Chili Peppers 1.23mPink Floyd 1.20mGreen Day 1.18mCéline Dion 1.11mThe Rolling Stones 1.02mElvis Presley 1.01mMariah Carey 1.01mLimp Bizkit 0.97mBob Marley & The Wailers 0.95m
>>124577578REM deserves credit for basically inventing the sound of college rock (and therefore US indie) but when you're the "Everybody Hurts"/"Shiny Happy People" band I don't think kids want to go back and explore your catalog.
Seems like every zoomer that is genuinely interested in music likes TVU. In my day mainly the banana album was well-known, but it seems like the zooms I know who are into music beyond the surface level also really like White Light White Heat, self-titled, and Loaded.
>>124577714>RadioheadThey didn't even make their best stuff until the 21st century, though? I'm glad to see that Radiohead is getting explored by zoomers more than before. Somewhere along the line all the lazy bait threads about RH being bad started getting zoomers to actually have the view. Also, Radiohead are really the last great rock band, very important for understanding pop music development history. It's still insane to see zoomers parrot lazy "Kid A bad" bait posts, but with sincerity. Then they inevitably get into OKC and then the rest of their discography
u2 hurt their popularity with the youth with that iphone stunt and mediocre 00s output. they'd probably be looked at more fondly if it werent for those
>>124577817They're the shittiest meme band of all time and they never did anything important. When will they finally be forgotten?>>124577837They suck.
Van Halen
>>124577817>They didn't even make their best stuff until the 21st century, though?wrong, the 21st century started in 2001, also the criteria is "had most of their success pre-2001" and their early guitar slop sold way more than the subsequent albums
>>124577715>you're the "Everybody Hurts"/"Shiny Happy People" bandREM is the "Losing My Religion" band, zoomers don't know about the other songs
>>124578455I know about those 3 and It's the End of the World as We Know it and all 4 of them suck prompting me to not want to listen to any more of them
>>124577714I'm sick of this poster.
>>124577817>It's still insane to see zoomers parrot lazy "Kid A bad" bait posts, but with sincerity.Lol nigga. Clearly it's all bait. Zoomers are truly a strange species with no opinions of their own.Ok Computer: 6.5/10Kid A: 4/10In Rainbows: 5/10That's all I've listened to. I concluded this while I was in the RYM echo chamber where these 3 were universally praised without the levels of contrarianism on /mu/
Kid A fucking sucks compared to OK Computer and The Bends.
>>124578635>RYM echo chamber where these 3 were universally praised without the levels of contrarianismi don't get it. what's the appeal? where's the riffs? Radiohead is not all that. Radiohead is barely even rock music
>>124578556You're really not missing much. Music journos tried to fleece the world calling Murmur a masterpiece for the last 40 years. It's not gonna happen.
>>124578706Sorry you hate good music.
>>124578736Sorry you like languid, plodding twang pop.
boomer rockers outside of the spotify top 1000:1029 Van Halen1145 Eric Clapton1222 Santana1418 Def Leppard1518 Jimi Hendrix1557 Deep Purple1788 Genesis1951 Boston2656 Meat Loaf
>>124578597great post
>>124578674The appeal is often in the slow buildup and repetition of slightly musically interesting patterns creating a deep ambience to the album. Besides Electioneering and Bodysnatchers I wouldn't call them rock. I really can't stand the singer's voice, it's one of the worst I've ever heard (REM's is bad too but less so). But some songs have enough of a melody and vibe to latch onto that I can stand it, and I likeClimbing up the WallsExit MusicKarma PoliceLet DownNo SurprisesTreefingers (though the Minecraft song based on it improves it)All I NeedReckonerWeird FishesBurn the WitchDecks Dark
>>124577263the grateful dead
>>124578802And what do you suppose is better?
Blue Oyster Cult is making a comeback.
>>124579067that tracks desu
>>124577263If you got laid more you wouldn't care as much especially given the age that most of you guys are at. Any Sane 20 something would see a 40 Year Old Man desperately posting about how "Zoomers no longer like The Who you're le weird pothead" and instantly think "Wow what a fucking loser" even if they don't approve of or like classical rock music in general. It's just sad. Nobody cares about your shitty 2000s Incel Chungu Reddit Post Rock Bands anymore. You need to let it go.
>>124579877Why are you so obsessed with people getting laid? It's so fucking weird
>>124577263I can definitely see the Doors becoming a new zoomer phenomenon, they have the gothic tinge to them, Jim Morrison has sex appeal, and they have a lot of classics. The thing with artists like the Who and Jimi Hendrix not lasting is because they don't have that many "hookish" songs, they have that 1 or 3 hits they released that people will be playing eternally, but nothing really else. Don't think there's like even up to 10 Who songs the public could name, the number is probably more like 5. Same thing as bands like the Kinks or Beach Boys, if you have a bunch of catchy hits you will last longer pretty much. 1 or 3 doesn't cut it so pop bands like Queen, ABBA, Fleetwood Mac make the transition into later generations easier than let's say rock groups like the Who
Aerosmith kicks Radiohead's assMama Kin >>>>> every radiohead song
>>124577578REM feels like it's going back to underground, because the "Everybody Hurts" band isn't cool but it's becoming more hipster to like REM when they are ignored by the Spotify type crowds
>>124579931I too love comparing Apples to Oranges
>>124579894Very insecure guy, the biggest achievement he has (or will have) in his life is being some lolcow/pop figure on /mu/ derailing threads and calling everybody manlets when they are probably like 10-15 years younger than him lol taking drugs and schizo posting on /mu/ is all his life amounted to i guess
>>124577837U2 hurt their popularity because Bono eats too much fried chicken and farts a lot.
>>124577714I fucking hate the smiths.
>>124579894Lol sure
>>124579956>Some tard who's biggest acomplishment is a low level tech support job saying this
>>124579956>TheySo that wouldn't be you,would it? You just said "they".
>>124581749U2 hurt their popularity because they suck
>>124581817and eat too much fried chicken. and they fart too.
U2 is easily the greatest of all rock or rock and roll bands, not counting heavy metal or hard rock
>>124579931aerosmith is another examplethey went from being america's biggest band to kinda forgotten
>>124581967not by me. never by me.
>>124577410>>124577435Every album up till and including By Numbers is fantastic, retards.
So anyway,I will continue to listen to cool and based 60s/70s Shit and you can brainwash yourself into pretending to enjoy whatever contemporary goyslop you "like".
zoomers love steely dan. I think they don’t care about led zeppelin much
One band no one cares about anymore is Midnight Oil
>>124577263Don't care, I will always have my TurboNegro. The name alone keeps zoomies and other retards away
Nicotranny, having sex with an ugly girl doesn’t count. You’re still a virgin
>>124581982t.2001 zoomerI spin king crimson's power to believe everyday :)
>>124583111sorry mate don't know why that replied to you
>>124579067Damn. Hate to see Jimi and Meat Loaf fall so much out of favor. I love Clapton, but that is no surprise.
>>124582775Didn't they have like one really big hit and that was it? At least in the US, I've never heard anything besides Beds Are Burning.
>>124577410Who's Next, Quadrophenia and Tommy are all great.
>>124583649some of Meat Loaf's albums are missing like his last two decent albums from the 2000s. and his 2010s albums were no good unfortunately and those were final albums so not a great way to go out. people just listen to the first two Bat Out Of Hell albums and ignore the restalso his biggest song I'd Do Anything For Love has lower streaming numbers because there are a few different versions on Spotify, the 5 minute single edit has 232,000,000 streams and the 11:58 minute album version has 47,000,000 streams
>>124583674So are My Generation, A Quick One, The Who Sell Out and By Numbers.
>>124584771For sure, I'd even argue Who Are You has some solid tracks.
>>124581967Their ride is getting replaced with Muppets and the last of their potential relevancy to a younger audience is going out with thatNow Aerosmith is about to tank entirely
>>124577263AC/DC is dead through oversaturation in advertising.
>>124579067>1557 Deep PurpleFucking diabolical
>>124577263>and which ones are maintaining or even growing in popularity?A band that will literally never be enjoyed by normies are The Beach Boys. God only knows why.
>>124577410>The Who>Singles bandOkay retard
>>124586385they did sell 130 million albums thoughbeit
>>124583674Tommy is shite
>>124582775true, among Australian acts they're 55th on Spotify (Nick Cave is 25th)
>>124582165>zoomers love steely dan.#1754 on Spotify, behind Neil Diamond and Lily "Check Out My Feet On Onlyfans" Allen
>>124577263Allow me to help, I spend all day with under-20 Zoomers, and Alphas.THEY KNOW (roughly from most popular):The BeatlesFleetwood MacSteely DanQueenABBATears for FearsLynyrd Skynyrd (Freebird and Sweet Home Alabama are well-memed)Pink FloydBowieBee GeesBeach BoysAC/DCThe Eagles (mainly just Hotel California)ELONirvana (most just know who Cobain is)SOME KNOW:ChicagoLed ZeppelinRushVan HalenBilly JoelBostonGuns 'n' RosesU2The PoliceHeartCCRTHEY'VE NEVER HEARD OF:The Rolling StonesDoorsGenesisRadioheadToolZZ TopThe WhoThe ClashThe DoorsJourneyThe BandThe JamThe Grateful DeadPearl JamThe StoogesSoundgardenREM
>>124577837I'll never forgive boomers for letting U2 become so popular while XTC couldn't even get a hit in America >>124577578I prefer the albums where it's easier to make out what Stipe is singing, I don't get why Murmur is held up so high compared to their other 80s albums
>>124589918zooms and alphas don't know lily allen but they def know neil diamond and steely dani don't think lily allen is really known outside the UKcertainly not known in Canada or the USA, just like Robbie ...fucking blanking on the name, Robbie someone looks like a poor man's Morrissey and used to be in a UK boy band we also don't know
>>124590227>Fleetwood MacWell they don't know the stuff that came before Buckingham
>>124590378robbie williams
>>124590227I don't buy any of those bands in the never heard of section except ZZ Top, The Clash, The Band, The Jam (I don't know who that is), The Stooges and REM
>>124577263I'm a zoomer and I like the Who
>>124590574>The Jam (I don't know who that is)You should check em out, they're great mod revival rock.
>>124577263What the hell are you talking about? >the doors have a cult followingThey are like considered the most important American band to come out of the 60s besides the beach boys. 4chan users have this odd inability to gage how popular things are. Everyone likes the doors dude.
>>124590748>Everyone likes the doors dudeWTF you are talking about. They are one of the most divisive/Hated bands in rock.
>>124590574>The Jam (I don't know who that is)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AE1ct5yEuVYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3xnsbJdhZwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKcc_I9NXvMhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eih2xkvvNpI
>>124590227>zoomers and alphas (!) know Chicago and Heart more than Radiohead or Journeykill yourself
>>124577263Elton John is pretty popular
>>124592480>1013 Chicago>1124 Heart>1640 The Whodamn OP wasn't kidding
>>124579067>PEAK position for Deep Purple was #1331guys WTF happened? is it not having songs in marvel movies?
>>124593618Too much filler and way too many lame later era albums. They never had a comeback like Sabbath, or ended before they could really tarnish their legacy like Zeppelin. Blackmore was smart to move onto Rainbow and make more peak material with a fresh lineup, though it wouldn't be long before he ran out of steam too.
>>124590227Are we really pretending zoomies don't know Radiohead
>>124593873>They never had a comeback like Sabbathsure they did. they've outlasted Sabbath by a decade and have had way more longevity overall
>>124577263The doors haven’t had a “cult following” since Jim Morrison was alive.
>>124593929Oh yeah, Perfect Strangers. That happened. Anyways, they needed a Sharon as Sabbath obviously did to pull strings once Ozzy entered back into the fold since the band was flopping around and gasping for air once Dio initially left.
>>124578802There's nothing languid about IRS REM, faggot
>>124579149If someone says they don't like Let Down after giving it an honest listen doesn't have a valid opinion on music in general.
This thread is ignoring the fact that Led Zep reigns supreme over all of these boomer bands. A zoomer can throw on LZ1 for the first time and still be as blown away as a kid from the 70s if they have some loose understanding of analog music. AND they have more great songs than any band mentioned in this thread besides maybe Radiohead >>124581919Led Zeppelin
>>124594988Listen to more music. Zeppelin have about 60 good songs, The Beatles, The Who, The Kinks, The Stones, easily all have double that.
>>124590227Dude you are fucking retarded. I just graduated college and the only band people wouldn't have known was the Jam, and that's just because I'm not in England. Plenty of young people know who these fucking bands are and you are living in some weird miserable fantasy where you are king of shit mountain
>>124594931I included that in the ones I like
>>124594931t. Coldplay fan
>>124577263I've never seen anyone hype up Led Zeppelin since like 2009. People used to say they were like the beatles yet absolutely no one gives a fuck about them anymore. It's amazing really.
>>124577263Zoomer here. I like their earlier stuff better, that real garage heavy blues sound. Once they started becoming a gay art band is when they start sucking.
>>124595014Quality>quantity. A good Beatles song is like a good nursery rhyme. You can maybe smile at it quaintly for a couple minutes and then never think about it again
>>124593873still doesn't really explain it because a lot of bands are higher just because they've got one or two hitsfor them to be this low it's because even their big songs that everyone used to know aren't that big anymore
im 21 yo zoomer from nebraska and i listen to creed, thousand foot krutch, stone temple pilots, staind, nickelback, reo speedwagon
>>124595296EVERY SINGLE BEATLES SONG IS LITERALLY LIFE CHANGING AND 10/10
>>124593618Zeppelin aren't that popular either, one difference with Black Sabbath is metalheads who revere them while Deep Purple is just another hard rock band
>>124595363Gross
>>124595363go away
>>124590748The Doors only has like 14 million Spotify listeners.>>124594988From my observation, it seems like most zoomers have trouble 'getting' Led Zeppelin. I've met many that like them, but it's usually not as immediate as you'd expect.
>>124595387my Replayify ("all time") shows Deep Purple at #40, Black Sabbath at #46 and no Zeppelin at all.i'm just one person of course. it looks like i'm one of the bigger deep purple fans at the moment. i didn't think they were that underrated but i guess they are. i think hendrix and deep purple should have more streams and i'm surprised they don't Deep Purple especially has a huge catalog to listen to, tons of live albums which i love. there's a couple albums missing but nothing major.
>>124595458I and most Zoomers really just know Deep Purple as the band who made the most basic guitar riff of all time that you play first time you pick one up. I have heard that they've got a great catalogue though I've never listened through
>>124595369Maybe if you're on shrooms unc
>>124590227I shall now give my very clearly valued zoomer consensus on all these bands.>The BeatlesSeem to mog all other 60s pop bands, probably my favorite from that decade>Fleetwood MacBarely aware of them although I've probably heard their songs a million times on the radio without knowing it was them>Steely DanI like them a lot but they're a little too soft rocky for me>QueenWere my favorite band when I was 10>ABBAThey're cheesy but I like Waterloo>Tears For FearsExtremely good and contributed to my obsession with New Wave>Lynyrd SkynyrdDon't care for southern rock>Pink FloydI like them but don't have any strong feelings about them>BowieMy favorite solo artist ever>Bee geesKitschy meme band>Beach BoysI'm more interested in watching a 2 hour long video essay about their history than actually listening to their music>AC/DCFormulaic boomer rock>The Eagles Ruined for me by radio overplay>ELOI love Time but have little interest in their other albums>Nirvana Very nice but I like Pixies better
>>124596074>I have heard that they've got a great catalogue though I've never listened throughYou 've never heard Hush, Space Truckin' or Child in Time?
>>124590748>They are like considered the most important American band to come out of the 60s besides the beach boys.Which one of these had the album with the banana on it?
>>124591248>They are one of the most divisive/Hated bands in rocksource?
>>124596110>Chicago My Dad likes them a lot for some reason idgi>Led Zeppelin I like the Immigrant song but otherwise haven't touched them much>RushI used to think Geddy Lee's singing was annoying but I got used to it and enjoy them quite a bit now>Van HalenI know nothing about them>Billy JoelHeard him on the radio way too much and am sick of him>Gun 'n' RosesI know a couple of their songs, they're ok>U2Only tried getting into them recently and was disappointed to find most of their songs are slow paced ballads>The PoliceOne of my faves. I remember not knowing what Don't Stand So Close To Me was about when I was a kid and then being creeped out when I listed to the lyrics more closely >HeartNo clue>CCRTop tier pop rock
Nirvana are like the new misfits in terms of being a t shirt brand. But misfits shirts are still really popular. It’s weird because the nirvana logo isn’t even that interesting or cool
>>124596110>I'm more interested in watching a 2 hour long video essaywtf is wrong with zoomers? holy shit
>>124596321>The Rolling StonesThey're ok>DoorsAre they different from The Doors???>Genesis One of the progressive rock bands the I get the least>Radiohead Dey ight>ToolDon't know them>ZZ TopSort of know them from cultural osmosis but couldn't name a song>The WhoHeadier than average dad rock >The ClashI like their white boy funk>The DoorsI like some of their songs >Journey I think Journey is the band I think of when someone mentions "corporate rock">The BandNot familiar with them at all>The JamOnly learned about them after I started paying more attention to music, they're pretty cool>The Grateful DeadI saw tribute band for them at a fair, not my thing>Pearl JamHaven't heard much from them >The StoogesDon't know much about them but I like some of Iggy Pop's solo albums>Soundgarden Don't know anything about them>REMI like them quite a lot
>>124577263I've noticed that the Ramones filter zoomers for some reason.
>>124596166Which ever one is less relevant and shittier
>>124597165Meant for >>124596156
>>124596321my son likes the police a lot too, what is it with zoomers and the police?
>>124595296It sounds like you've never actually listened to them. Songs like Happiness Is a Warm Gun, A Day in the Life, Strawberry Fields, Tomorrow Never Knows, Rain, Eleanor Rigby, In My Life, I Am the Walrus, Something, Here Comes the Sun, Let It Be, Hey Jude, etc are all life-changing songs.
>>124597500>Here Comes the Sun, Let It Be, Hey Judebad examples. those three are for kids
>>124597323I think the juxtaposition between how upbeat their songs are vs their creepy and sad lyrics is inherently attractive. Plus they didn't really sound like any of the other bands that the classic rock stations would play.
>>124590227what about Yes?
>>124577769IMO, I don't think zoomers like the Velvet Underground as much as millennials and Gen X did. IDK why though.
>>124578455i hear Sidewinder Sleeps Tonite at grocery stores a LOT
>>124597618They are songs that can be enjoyed by children, but the themes can really only be understood by people past the age of puberty, even if the lyrics (specifically for Hey Jude and Here Comes the Sun) are relatively simple.
>>124598267they SOUND like songs for children though
>>124598327Yellow Submarine is 100% a children's song. the rest are debatable
>>124589742No it isn't it is great and underrated
>>124595387>#294 Led Zeppelin>#465 Black Sabbath>#1331 Deep Purple
>>124599238should be in reverse order
>>124577263Pulp. Suede, Manics, Oasis and Blur still all have some amount of presence but Pulp and Jarvis Cocker barely get a mention these days despite Jarvis always being the most well-liked person out of the lot.
>>124582165Led Zepplin being super mid is probably partially why.
>>124598365It's basically music for children and young teens that necbeards latched onto much later,versus The VU who were what you guys *(no longer even normies anymore desu) think The Beatles were.
>>124599238monthly listeners is already a misleading stat ("1 user listened to <30 sec. of 1 song in the last month") so peak monthly listeners even more so, especially with multiple artists having been #1, #2...etc, anyway here's followers gained yesterday:Queen 11,838Metallica 10,671Guns N' Roses 10,110AC/DC 8,363Nirvana 7,735The Beatles 6,877Radiohead 6,255 Bon Jovi 6,043Red Hot Chili Peppers 5,160Pink Floyd 5,148Green Day 4,942Fleetwood Mac 4,827Elton John 4,655Korn 4,415Aerosmith 4,244The Rolling Stones 4,211Iron Maiden 3,876The Smiths 3,750Deftones 3,743Led Zeppelin 3,635Oasis 3,585Eagles 3,543The Police 3,503Limp Bizkit 3,495Kiss 3,484U2 3,372Scorpions 3,276out of the top 500:Black Sabbath 3,271Creedence Clearwater Revival 2,975Billy Joel 2,897David Bowie 2,846Ozzy Osbourne 2,776Bryan Adams 2,745Pantera 2,647Dire Straits 2,547Foo Fighters 2,513The Cure 2,432Pearl Jam 2,421The Doors 2,309Bruce Springsteen 2,181Journey 2,171The Offspring 2,154The Smashing Pumpkins 2,153Blink-182 2,101Creed 2,101Depeche Mode 2,021Weezer 2,014The Cranberries 2,001Alice In Chains 1,942Papa Roach 1,882R.E.M. 1,882Rage Against The Machine 1,869Megadeth 1,848Van Halen 1,835Toto 1,796Simon & Garfunkel 1,796Goo Goo Dolls 1,782Eric Clapton 1,776Mötley Crüe 1,735Lynyrd Skynyrd 1,667Jimi Hendrix 1,632out of the top 1000:Marilyn Manson 1,612Tool 1,607 Rod Stewart 1,607John Lennon 1,563Lenny Kravitz 1,456Def Leppard 1,436Bob Dylan 1,429Chicago 1,420Rob Zombie 1,405ZZ Top 1,362Soundgarden 1,357Foreigner 1,349Jeff Buckley 1,305Pixies 1,296Van Morrison 1,278Paul McCartney 1,269Slayer 1,261Blur 1,224Motörhead 1,203Deep Purple 1,202Sting 1,180 Roxette 1,174Bob Seger 1,158The Who 1,111Supertramp 1,110
out of the top 1500:Duran Duran 1,045Boston 1,035Stevie Nicks 1,034Santana 1,032Europe 1,020Dio 1,004Stone Temple Pilots 999Twisted Sister 977The Beach Boys 977Tom Petty 975Judas Priest 959The Clash 954Kid Rock 936Sepultura 934INXS 933Billy Idol 911Talking Heads 910Mazzy Star 908Heart 907Bonnie Tyler 889Type O Negative 882 George Harrison 877Blondie 848Electric Light Orchestra 825Godsmack 820Alice Cooper 812The Verve 804REO Speedwagon 803Simple Minds 802Steve Miller Band 800Neil Young 794out of the top 2000:The Doobie Brothers 769Joy Division 752Whitesnake 744America 741Kansas 734Survivor 732Genesis 725The Cardigans 718James Taylor 714Men At Work 712Cocteau Twins 709Yusuf / Cat Stevens 708Nine Inch Nails 700Leonard Cohen 690Sublime 689Cream 681Poison 674Skid Row 652Ramones 650The Bangles 646New Order 636Tracy Chapman 630Quiet Riot 609Joe Cocker 608Slowdive 605Joan Jett & The Blackhearts 597out of the top 2500:Steppenwolf 586The Mamas & The Papas 583The Kinks 581Paul Simon 577Starship 575Jim Croce 575 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 572Duster 564Bread 549Alanis Morissette 545Janis Joplin 535No Doubt 534Cannibal Corpse 521The Animals 519Anthrax 518Misfits 517Steely Dan 509The Allman Brothers Band 508
>>124577263Fleetwood Mac<<<ELO<Queen<The Doors<The Who. I'd still say the Who is more of a singles band
>>124602970Then why did you put the Who first?>>124600581Listen to it again. And louder this time.
>>124603198Because they have more good singles than the rest. And Fleetwood Mac sucks.
>>124603297Are there any classic rock bands you rate highly that you don't consider to be singles artists?
>>124592301Pretty sweet, I'm not a big punk guy but I did enjoy these
>>124603339Creedence Clearwater Revival, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Led Zeppelin, The Beatles, Aerosmith, Boston.
>>124603198I'm not going to do that but sure. Way better bands to spend my time on.
>>124597500I've listened to>Something, Here Comes the Sun, Let It Be, Hey JudeAnd they're all just perfectly fine songs. If I heard them alot as a kid I'd probably have nostalgic enjoyment in the same sense as No Surprises by Radiohead or something by They Might Be Giants Kids. Let it Be is probably my favorite, and something like I Play the Road by Zac Brown Band has a similar feel but executed better https://youtu.be/4w_x_iknqqI?si=nxcEO7eHlMy9CDG4And frankly I really like the Jacob Collier cover of Here Comes the Sun. It does actually improve the original without overloading it with chords and stuff and if the original sounded like that maybe I would've been a bit more willing to pursue the Boomer claims of "GOAT." It might be my favorite Collier song toohttps://youtu.be/dXf1nUVdVuM?si=q3H-TPhfTPoIJlIFI swear I can't remember how Hey Jude sounds no matter how much I listen to it
>>124603902CCR is the definition of a singles band. All of their well known songs are good and none of their unknown songs are good except for Effigy and Ramble Tamble
>>124603902>Boston
>>124595414Beatles are like Taylor Swift but the boy band edition; lots of cute lore, melodrama and goings on in a short time frame. Unlike Swift there's also the added bonus of dozens of catchy pop songs, tie in films, a meteoric rise from humble/impoverished beginnings, a legendary split, a literal assassination, scorned wives, etc. The beatles story has everything you could ever want in a band.Zeppelin were heavily masculine and more about the music, drinking, drugs, groupies and the 'on the road' 70s lifestyle than the psycedelic soap opera backstory that shores up the Beatles. There's less for zoomers to cling to and romanticise.
>>124600569Pulp don't have a relatable image anymore. They're not timeless.Manics = tragic rebellious glam rock four peice become trio when tortured poet vanishesSuede = glam androgynous gay shizOasis = soaked up the football lad crowd and 30 million normies who just wanna drink and have funBlur = soaked up all the people who were too normie for the Manics/Pulp/Suede but considered themselves too smart for Oasis. Jarvis was the smartest of the lot lyrically, but his social and sexual commentary and his gawky student image is a relic of the 80s. Straight guys like that don't exist in 2024, which is why Morrissey continues to own that 'loser' niche as his feminine melodrama is more relatable. Pulp were just a little too on the nose and of their time to become a legacy act in the same way.
>>124600569No one cares about these British meme bands. Britpop sucks. England is lame.
>>124590342They had Senses Working Overtime
Not a zoomer and it seriously fucking kills me that more of you guys don't listen to David Lee Roth era Van Halen. They were basically everything that Hair Metal should have been. Talented but goofy as shit and unbelievably fun to listen to and never took themselves too seriously (at least on stage).I recommend, in no specific order:Dance the Night AwayHot for TeacherSomebody Get Me a DoctorEruption / You Really Got MePanamaJumpEverybody Wants Some!!Ain't Talkin' 'Bout LoveBeautiful GirlsBonus Solo DLR Tracks for the Curious:Yankee RoseI'm Just a Gigolo
>>124608863zoomers don't like rock that sounds anything like that
>>124610440like what? they like GNR/Bon Jovi/ACDC
>>124608863People do
>>124610717van halen has more guitar wanking than that
I don't know what weird zoomers you guys are talking to. Are we living in the same world? In my area and based on what I see online, male zoomers listen to rap and maybe some RnB, and female zoomers listen to bedroom pop/general pop.
>>124607746That wasnt a huge hit in the US desu. XTC's biggest hits here were Mayor of Simpleton and Dear God. They were an alt radio thing mostly
>>124612009Making Plans For Nigel is their catchiest song from what I've heard. if i were picking an XTC song to play on the radio it would be that.
>>124612004We're talking about the ones that are at least moderately into music, not the normies. The normies obviously just listen to modern pop, rap, and/or country garbage.
>>124612106OP specifically said normies, so I think he's just a schizo or something. I agree for non-normies who actually care about music.
>>124612196Anon, I literally am OP.
>>124578706They were right. Murmur is better than Thriller.
>>124612225Ok, you specifically said normies in your post. No normie zoomers are listening to Queen or Fleetwood Mac lol
>>124612004It's called living in a red county
>>124612361Queen has about as many monthly listeners on Spotify as Michael Jackson. They both have more than XXXTentacion does. I would say that implies Queen is pretty normie, doesn't it?
>>124612361>>124612415Oh, and Fleetwood Mac has about as many monthly Spotify listeners as Juice WRLD does.
Elvis is becoming more popular. So is Jeff Buckley.
>>124612415>>124612470>spotify monthly listenersAnon...you do know that boomers and soillennials and gen X still exist right
>>124612415>>124612470x and juicy were fads that's not timeless music.
>>124612060Senses working overtime is way catchier
>>124577467stupid yet true reason: zoomers love lore and backstory. The Beach Boys have a fuckton of that, the Byrds do not (that I’m aware of)
>>124610440I would second this, none of my friends have any interest in any rock that's hard or blusey>>124612060Making Plans For Nigal was a top 20 hit in Canada so it's surprising to me it didn't catch on in America at all
what are we considering "classic rock"? if we mean pre-80s, then Queen, Fleetwood Mac, Beach Boys, pretty much anyone that was included in the GotG soundtracks, anyone featured in the JoJo manga, or songs that were sampled by big pop artists today get traction. if we include up to the early 2000s (garage rock revival, nu metal, 90s grunge and britpop) then there's still a thriving demand for that kind of guitar music in the underground. singer-songwriter stuff like elliot smith is still extremely popular, i actually just saw my niece at thanksgiving listening to elliot smith and NMH, which she said she heard at school from some girl in her class. "rock" or guitar-based, distorted music is definitely still around and i honestly feel that zoomers are getting into bands a lot more recently. spotify's algorithm also regularly exposes me to bands I would've never really gave a chance. anything vibes based also will do some numbers with a certain garden variety of "aesthetic poster", like duster/helvetica.
>>124613538It's sad how zoomer men act like girls now.. they can't even handle anything with a little testosterone to it. Really sad state of affairs isn't it. Thank God im already 40 and can prob just fuck younger girls because zoomer men are pathetic
>>124577263Thread has been up for three days now, nice
>>124620013The Beach Boys are actually a high testosterone band to listen to since Mike Love is the pinnacle of masculinity, idk about The Byrds
>>124620448Oh yeah the beach boys are amazing. More talking about modern garbage pop and whore pop that zoomer men pretend to like
Weezer are a cringe meme but popular
>>124612574boomers represent 1% of streams, and if you think zoomers don't like Queen or Fleetwood Mac you're extremely retarded
>>124620448He's a pencil neck tho
>>124620914this, I'm an extremely masculine man myself and the Beach Boys is my favorite band, and yes I've also noticed that straight zoomer men are mostly into stuff like Sabrina Carpenter and Dua Lipa
>>124612584>fadsJuice is #18 on Spotify rn, X #37 (and they do better on Apple like most rappers)
>>124577263>losing favor among zoomersAre you zoom shitters aware that you have genetic garbage taste in all forms of media?
>>124583649hendrix is shit
>>124595014Stones dont even have 20 lmao
>>124583649>Meat LoafKek, did you really think zoomers would listen to this shit? That was already uncool by the time you get to Gen X.
>>124620947>source: my assI'm convinced you only talk to a select few zoomers (if any at all) and have no clue what you're talking about. Most zoomer normies have never even heard of Fleetwood Mac. And the ones that have, don't actually listen to them.
Growing up in the 90s and early 2000s, the boomer nostalgia circle jerk over the music (and TV and movies) of their youth was so strong that it convinced me that, even though most of it wasn’t my cup of tea, it was timeless and would be valued forever. In 2024 a lot of it has faded almost completely and most of the interest in it will obviously die out with the boomers themselves. The artists who have fallen off hardest in terms of esteem and interest from that era to today seem to be Janis Joplin, Van Halen, and the Who (the latter of whom I actually have grown to really like).
>>124612361queen has more spotify followers than post malone and olivia rodrigo
>>124624005See: >>124612574
>>124621650Horrendous opinion
>>124622449I mean I'm not too surprised with Meat Loaf, but I can't think of much music cooler than a 10 minute epic rock song like Bat Out of Hell.
>>124622969Very true for Janis Joplin. Love her music, but I have never seen a Zoomer talk about her.
>>124621184>do better on Apple like most rappersexplain this phenomenon
i'm old, everybody i know is old and we all use spotify i don't know why you think it's just little kids
>>124622969I'd rather have that than this Fleetwood Mac and Kate Bush push
>>124625765>I have never seen a Zoomer talk about herThat's because she's shit.>>124625755Are you like 75 yo, gramps?
Can't tell if Sade is dying in interest
>>124595262This
>>124626168Zoomers can't comprehend good bluesy rock. Shame. The 100 Gecs thread is down the hall and to the left anon.
>>124577648Pink Floyd and King Crimson I thought were always more popular with the millennial crowd
>>124626454That isn't GOOD blues rock though. Zeppelin, the Doors, Hendrix, that's good blues rock.
>>124577263Desu no-one cared or knew who The Who were in the 90s
>>124628207Yes those are are all good bluesy rock too, but I can't see how a blues rock fan wouldn't enjoy this bliss. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A24JZkgvNv4
>>124628330She sings like a shitty soul singer. Not even a good one, but a shitty one. And I already do not like soul singers. Why the fuck would I like this? This was honestly even worse than I expected.
>>124625766Apple = urban users, similarly country artists do better on Amazon Music (only way to stream Garth Brooks' music)
>>124628207>the Doors>Blues rocknot too sure about this one. sure, they had a bluesy backbone but its not like they were canned heat or something. a bit too quirky and arty.
Psych-rock had a MASSIVE comeback in the 2010s and will rise againhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXydZtoHq0EBut blues rock probably is very dead
>>124628422>a bit too quirky and artyThat's why they're better than the other blues rock bands.
>>124626184Sade became zoomer-compatible in the last 2 years or so (Smooth Operator and to a lesser extent Like A Tattoo), in this list >>124602860 she'd be around Springsteen's level
>>124622758so tell us genius, how many Spotify streams are from boomers? and why did Fleetwood Mac became ultra popular on TikTok in 2020? was it boomers too?
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>>124628646Probably not too many, since they still use CDs and vinyl. That's why I also mentioned Gen X and Millennials in the same post. Maybe if you could read, you would've seen that. >tiktokThe platform where half of the userbase is over 30? Yeah, thanks for reinforcing my point.
