Best rock band that started within last 20 years ?

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Vic

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No, seriously, the best rock band in the last 20 years is the Black Crowes. Their first 2 albums, Shake Your Money Maker and The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion, are 2 of the finest pure rock n' roll albums in the history of rock. Tight, casual, and intimately comfortable. The Stones better than they ever were.
 

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Call me a purist, but I have a hard time labelling as rock music that has no "swing," or "back beat" syncopation. To put it simply, if it sounds like rock but you can't dance to it because it has a strict military beat (i.e. Metallica), then that is metal by definition, not rock.
 

Vic

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But.. but.... Vic... the insanely complicated and layered intro of Guns n' Roses "Anything Goes" proves they are the greatest rock band of the last 20 years...

<hint: you better have at least a moderately mid-end soundsystem to even hear it>
 

Vic

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And don't get me started on "Rocket Queen," possibly the greatest and most underrated rock song in the history of rock n' roll...
 

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Originally posted by: Vic
Call me a purist, but I have a hard time labelling as rock music that has no "swing," or "back beat" syncopation. To put it simply, if it sounds like rock but you can't dance to it because it has a strict military beat (i.e. Metallica), then that is metal by definition, not rock.

Who says you can't dance to Metallica?

/moshes around the thread

:p
 

Vic

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Oh fsck... Frampton's "Do You Feel Like We Do"... my playlist is designed to fsck my drunken mind tonight... ;):p
 

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Nirvana is sh!t.... I still remember when I first saw them live at the Satyricon in '88, my buddy saying how great they would be, me thinking that the singer was too deeply in a nod...
 

Captante

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My first inclination was Stevie Ray Vaughn, but his first album missed the 20-year cutoff
by coming out in 1983, so I'll have to go with Nirvana even though they were really poor in concert.

"When Stevie was playing.. everything was alright" [ rip ]