Whats popular right now???
 

I dont listen to very much rock. What is popular right now and what new bands are making there way to the top of the charts.

If they are going to the top of the charts , then I probably don't want to hear them.

the foo fighters are really popular night now and they are one of the few bands on the top charts that actually have talent

lolol, good one. :rofl:

right........... now


I am not sure if you are mocking me but really the foo fighters are a great band


I was really impressed with there newest cd

Really? I thought it was pretty terrible TBH. The only album of theirs that I like is THE COLOUR AND THE SHAPE. Some of their music is so bland.

Just an idea

Why not look at the charts?

The Foo Fighters like to "suck Satan's ****."

Their first album was the best. The only thing off TCATS I thought was good at all was Everlong.

the new foo fighters album is good but they have but a few songs that i actually like.

A: bet you haven't heard it
B: that doesn't even make sense. how can the album be good, but you only like a few songs? that would make it average from your standpoint at best.

I have the new album, its allright, some songs are really good, some are so bland and boring, and i hate dave grohls song writing....but id say they are one of the best rock badns out there on the charts right now by far

I agree with you there. And that's precisely what's so fackin' sad.

Because they are for entertainment, not real music.

I really don’t get why you people are blind to the greatness of the foo fighters there new cd is amazing…..
Every song on there Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace is a strong song. Each song is different and shows the wide range of talent they have. You get a great fast song with pretender and a glamish song with Long Road to Ruin and a southern rock song with Summer ends .



Let it Die is by far one of the best songs written by a current artist………..which starts with careful acoustic probing ("In too deep and out of time/Why'd you have to go and let it die?"), then blows up into a full-metal cross-examination.





Liz or whatever if you don’t like dave Grohls lyrics I would suggest picking up In Your Honor the acoustic side is amazing above amazing…..

Um.... he was asking about popularity and the charts. :rolleyes:

If you read the first post in the thread you'll see he wanted rock music that's in the charts.

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I also have in you honour, which i think was a far better album,( loved the acoustic disk) and i do think he is great at writing tunes and melodies, but his lyrics are definatly pretty weak. i mean, the new album is good, and the pretenders is probably the best charted rock song of 2007 by far, but the ablum does have lots of weak song (Statues, but honesly, stranger things have happened)

Ya, he's one of the worst lyricists I've legit ever heard. I'd actually go as far as to put him on par with Chad Kroeger in the lyrics department.

I thought In Your Honour was quite bland. And that's a shame because I don't mind the old Foo Fighters. Not something I'd listen to regularly, but back then, they had a real identity.

I did read it. There is no good rock music in the charts. That's what I'm saying.

No. The guy asked for popular music. UH asked him why he doesn't just check the charts (as is the logical way to proceed). You responded "because the charts are for entertainment and not real music", or something. That doesn't make any sense at all, given the context. The guy was ASKING about what you call "entertainment and not real music", and hence was directed to it.

popular music = bad. It makes plenty of sense.

Yeah. Along with having had absolutely nothing to do with anything at all.




Anyway. Since the topic is chart music, no discussion of mainstream rock could take place without mentioning the Chili Peppers. There is another thread on them, but while we're at it, I think they pretty much embody the crapness of the current commercial scene. What makes them suck quite so bad is that they have some really great musicianship there, but just churn out redundant rubbish like it's saliva.

What's popular, you say?

Trust me, you dont wanna know. Most popular music sucks now.

The main reason you won't appreciate their lastest album is because you tend to focus heavily on the lyrics of artists/bands

I agree with everything lucy said in her post above yours

yes i suppose i do, but they are important. and it wasnt only that, some of the songs were just not very good. i mean overall i did like it, but it wasnt there best album at all.

it's nothing wrong with focusing on lyrics but I tend to do the opposite......with some bands/artists their lyrics aren't as important to me

Well yeah, the music is of course very very important, just as importatn as the lyrics, but i find that i tend to not like the song if it has really bad lyrics.
unless of course the music is so incredably good that it doesnt matter

The Foo Fighters quit trying after One by One (and I'm by no means trying to say the albums before that were great.) Maybe it was just Grohl realizing he didn't have to try or maybe he lost his steam but that album showed the beginning of one of the most mediocre and boring rock bands to have gotten hype in the past decade.

They're not impressive, creative, or great. They're poppy and polished even when they're trying to be a 60s pop-rock group or Lynyrd Skynyrd. Every thing they've is essentially this: a standard rock album with 2 or 3 obvious singles, they've been doing the same old shit for a long time. This is what happens when a band realizes they can make money making boring music. They refuse to evolve or experiment and I didn't think anyone would even kid themselves that this bands mainstream intentions weren't obvious with every album they release. They're a radio rock band that makes songs for the radio, that's all the Foo Fighers are. Greatness? christ.

As for the lyrics, Grohl plays the Linkin Park game to much. He uses a bunch nondescript nouns to create some of the most boring lines ever. It strikes me as lazy and inarticulate, but intelligent lyrics go perfect with uninspired music, so power to him.

^ he always says things so perfectly....

its because he's now canadian

What is everyone's problem with bands wanting to make money? are they supposed to living on the streets all of their lives with their kids being bums just so they can experiment and create fabulous music for you to enjoy and download?

Theres nothing wrong with making money, but in the FF's case it's blatantly obvious they're barely trying.

Hell, Dave Grohl has got the talent but they're just dwelling around playing out the more vibrant, less serious, not-quite-as-crap-as-Nickelback card though essentially doing the same thing by releasing the same sounding song on the radio for the last 5 years.

The Foo Fighters really bug me, Dave Grohl especially. Mind you, bigger bands have gone pear shaped.

I think this still applies...

Making music to earn money is a crime against humanity. Money should, in no way, decide how your music should be. I mean I am all for good artists getting paid for their work, but when they throw originality out the window then that is when I have a problem.

Try arctic monkeys.
I liked them.

They can make money out of their music. The objection is to making music for the SAKE of making money. Which is just what these twerps are doings.

Let's not forget that Led Zeppelin hit the charts again recently...