# Who is your favorite rock band of the past 10 years... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 4, 2009, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349 "2009-08-04T22:06:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349/21 "2009-08-05T04:04:57Z")
Oh…and I have a soft spot for The Ting Tings. : ) ---
**Author:** ![Steampunk\_Willie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f6c823/32.png) [@Steampunk\_Willie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steampunk_Willie)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349/22 "2009-08-05T04:36:01Z")
Rilo Kiley would be my number one (and their solo projects). Their live show is energetic, different each time, vocals and the music are as good or better than their albums, and you get the feeling they truly love their music. Few others: Franz Ferdinand The Killers Matt Pond PA Interpol I am blanking on the others I wanted to say… ---
**Author:** ![gladtobeblazed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85f322/32.png) [@gladtobeblazed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gladtobeblazed)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349/23 "2009-08-05T04:46:15Z")
> [@Idlewild](#): > > If I absolutely had to pick just one, hands down for me, it’s Metric. Clever lyrics - which I do really find essential to my long term enjoyment of a band - and a rocking sound. They’ve produced a few good albums, and songs off each of the albums are among my favorites to listen to a lot. > > I’m not claiming that they’re the best, but they’re certainly my favorite. Metric would probably be my second favorite, right behind the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349/24 "2009-08-05T05:01:58Z")
I’d have to say that the band that fits for me in the last ten years would be The Dandy Warhols… ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349/25 "2009-08-05T05:13:27Z")
Disturbed. Very hardcore, great sound, WONDERFUL backround guitar that compliments vocals, and a great drummer. They suck live however (or at least they did when I heard em. Lead singer whose name I cannot remember sounded terrible, the rest were fine) ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349/26 "2009-08-05T06:00:12Z")
Even though the Clash was founded in 1976, I’m going to run with the Mescaleros (formed in 1999), because Joe Strummer rocked! Number 2 is the Killers. Got tickets for them in September! ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349/27 "2009-08-05T06:14:20Z")
I’d have to say The White Stripes as well. And I’ve seem them live, and they absolutely kicked ass. I’ll toss in a vote for The Derek Trucks Band and Gov’t Mule as well. If we’re talking about bands that were active in the last 10 years, I’ll add Wilco and The Jayhawks. Some more: Spoon Arcade Fire The Bottle Rockets The Decemberists (for suitable wide definitions of “Rock Band”) The New Pornographers ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349/28 "2009-08-05T06:29:47Z")
I think the Decemberists have a strong claim to being the most _creative_ rock band of the past 10 years. I don’t know if they’re the “best” or not, but they never fail to come up with interesting lyrics and it’s really great to have a rock band who sings about stories in their songs and about history. ---
**Author:** ![Busy\_Scissors](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@Busy\_Scissors](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Busy_Scissors)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349/29 "2009-08-05T06:38:40Z")
**Queens of the Stone Age** are out in front for me, by a distance. After _Songs for the Deaf_ it wasn’t even close, no hard rock band produced anything like the quality of their first three albums in the last decade. Since then, their star has waned somewhat with their last two efforts being a bit ordinary. Overall, though, I’d still say they were the strongest. QotSA coming off the boil may be due to the Bez effect. Bez, if you’ve not heard of him, was the dancer / mascot / drug dealer of _the Happy Mondays_. A guy who ostensibly did fuck all but appeared to be critical to the band’s structural integrity. In QotSA, Josh Homme handles songwriting, singing and all serious guitar work, whereas Nick O took care of the hard drug use and getting one’s johnson out on stage commitments. NIck O left after _Songs for the Deaf_, and things started to go downhill. **White Stripes** also a good choice. Jack White is the most impressive rock star I’ve ever seen live, by a country mile. It was like seeing Jimi Hendrix or something, amazing performer. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349/30 "2009-08-05T07:05:06Z")
Relevant within the last 10 years: 311 Formed within the last 10 years: Gosh I can hardly think of any rock bands I listen to that were formed within the last 10 years. I guess Dragonforce just barely makes the cut, if you consider them “rock”, but I was pretty disappointed with their last album. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349/31 "2009-08-05T07:16:11Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > The Decemberists > [@Argent\_Towers](#): > > the Decemberists \ If this is rock, Sufjan Stevens is rock. So my answer is Sufjan Stevens. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349/32 "2009-08-05T07:35:11Z")
Again, if we’re talking “relevant in the past ten years”, then my vote is for **Porcupine Tree**. Steven Wilson, PT’s bandleader, doesn’t produce “neo-prog” (i.e. faux-prog) – there’s really nothing “progressive” about a band in 2009 making records that sound like they were recorded in 1971. Instead, PT produce genuine progressive rock. The highlights of the last ten years: _Stupid Dream_ (1999), _In Absentia_ (2002) and the _Nil Recurring_ EP (2007). The track “Arriving Somewhere But Not Here” from 2005’s _Deadwing_, however, is a perfect encapsulation of their current sound. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349/33 "2009-08-05T13:11:02Z")
Excellent idea for a thread, **Enniaunus**. Green Day and The Killers pop to mind immediately. System of a Down is right there, too, as is Death Cab for Cutie. Am I the only one who is a little freaked out by White Stripes? ---
**Author:** ![phreesh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@phreesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phreesh)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349/34 "2009-08-05T14:55:48Z")
Using the ‘relevent over the last ten years’ I think **Radiohead** , **Sleater Kinney** (broken up) and **Beck** have to be on the list. I’d include **LCD Soundsystem** and **Beta Band** (since broken up) to the ones already mentioned in the ‘formed in the last ten years’. But the top of the list of ‘new’ bands for me would be White Stripes, the National, Spoon, and the Strokes. ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ian_D.Bergkamp)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349/35 "2009-08-05T16:15:02Z")
Formed within the last 10 years: British Sea Power The Decemberists The Hold Steady The Rosebuds Iron & Wine Relevant within the last 10 years: Bright Eyes Okkervil River New Pornographers The Brian Jonestown Massacre Drive-By Truckers Bands I really like at the moment, but it’s too soon to tell how well they’ll hold up: Gaslight Anthem Bon Iver Los Campesinos! The Pains of Being Pure at Heart ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349/36 "2009-08-05T16:43:28Z")
Relevant over the last 10: **Beck**. Formed in… can just an artist be named? I’d say **John Mayer**. I’m afraid I’ve never even heard of most of those already mentioned. Apparently I’m pretty far out of the loop. ---
**Author:** ![Jettboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/85e7bf/32.png) [@Jettboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jettboy)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349/37 "2009-08-05T16:51:47Z")
Yeah, I know it makes me sound like an old fart, but almost everything I’ve heard in the last 10 years sounds completely derivative of stuff I heard in the 30 years before. That’s not to say I don’t _enjoy_ a lot of the music from the last 10 years, just to say there’s not many newer bands that have their own _unique_ sound. I really like _Jet_, but they almost sound like an _AC/DC_ tribute band; _Mastodon_, like Motorhead had a love child with Metallica. _Flogging Molly_ impresses the hell out of me, as do the _White Stripes_, _System of a Down_, and _Franz Ferdinand_, among a few (very few) others. These guys might sound vaguely _reminiscent_ of earlier bands, but they have found their own voice. ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349/38 "2009-08-05T17:40:05Z")
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros Franz Ferdinand The Hives ---
**Author:** ![3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/47e85d/32.png) [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_20_59_or_bust)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349/39 "2009-08-05T18:49:14Z")
Bloc Party. To me, no other band comes close in the last 10 years. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349/40 "2009-08-05T19:59:54Z")
> [@mswas](#): > > I just spent a lot of time checking out Mastodon. People told me that if I liked Tool I’d like them, but it is just derivative of late 80s hair metal to me. Nothing special. :eek: not even CLOSE to hair metal. Not even close. Not even remotely related. I mean, Mastodon cites Neurosis as their single biggest influence. You ever listen to Neurosis? It’s not even in the same galaxy as hair metal. You don’t have to like them, but geeeeeeez. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-is-your-favorite-rock-band-of-the-past-10-years/505349.md?page=3)