Metal Musician Reacts to Spotify's Top Rock
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- Metal musician explores what rock music is now.
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The thing with the songs and names these indie bands have is that you never know which one is the band name and which one is the track name
Poop and Cry - Cying In My Bathroom
@TimPool.BeanieCivilWarlord is that real song ?
Never thought of that but damn its true
Spotify never fails to dissappoint🗣️👏
Spotify never disappoints to disappoint Nik
Disafy never fails to spotifoint
@@lippi2171 thanks for the aneurysm 🙏
real
yeah, never fails to fail
I'd seriously recommend checking out Royal Blood. There is no guitarist in the band by the way. Just a bassist and a drummer, but the bassist splits his signal and uses octave and fuzz pedals to effectively play bass and guitar at the same time. It's really impressive!
I was surprised that he doesn't know Royal Blood, they're pretty big in the modern rock scene and do write some killer music
Royal Blood has fallen off.
So they’re The White Stripes?
@@chasekemp6915 also a duo, yes. But completely different music.
Totally agree. There are so much good british bands apart from Muse and Bring me the Horizon. For example Royal Blood, Nothing But Thieves, Palaye Royale
1:54 That moment of self awareness was gold lmao
I’m a gen z, but sometimes i don’t understand today’s rock scene. I grew up listenin’ to Linkin Park
Me too 😊
@@BenelliAkimbo btw, i love your parkour videos you did on your channel. Very cool stuff
@@GusJay oh thank you
@@BenelliAkimbo you’re welcome
Yea i am Z too but now i live in the 80s lol
Yeah, I don't think that you can call this rock. This is Pop.
With two O's.
Is this some kind of zoomer/late millennial thing? Sheryl Crow was labeled as Rock when she first took off. Counting Crows, too. Wrap your head around that. Whatever the genre label may have originated with, it has been long ago tossed to the wayside. Neil Young is considered rock despite a large volume of his music being heavily focused on folk stylings.
@@balderedda doon't? yoou? roock? oh, now I get it.
Na it's is a disgrace to Rock
no pop is harry styles or olivia rodrigo (no hate) this is pop rock or like he said indie
I feel like the play is to find a song on this playlist that is fine and then do a little bit of a deep dive through that band's discography to find some actual good stuff, cuz anything that is considered mainstream is probably pretty blah, at best.
valid, 98% of my fave tracks from bands that have a few big mainstream hits are NOT the mainstream hits.
Less blah more BLEGH
Yeah... I've noticed that the powers that be in the music business seem to purposely want rock to be as bland, soft and underwhelming as possible. That Soundgarden song they did for thst Marvel movie is probably the best example I can think of. TheTom Cruise movie Rock Star is another good example, st least in the sense that it shows what those in hollywood and the music insiders think rock should be.
Bush has a new album out, and one of their music videos showed up on my feed; its the video where Rossdale gets some weird surgery to look 30 years younger... And it is just indescribably mediocre. I truly cannot put into words how boring, bland and nondescript it is. I guess thst the best way I can put it, is that the song is like the rock version of Muzak or elevator music.
Another word to describe rock ever since the late nineties is "wimpy". Pip punk and emo were basically just N'Sync or Backstreet with guitars. Then came post grunge and buttrock, and rock has been a forgotten after th in the zeitgeist ever since.
This is pure speculation (and a conspiracy theory to be honest) but it really does seem like it was planned and coordinated with the music labels, radio, hollywood (with soundtracks) and MTV to give rock a planned obsolescence and sunset it by the mid to late 2000s.
Growing up (before finding music on the internet was a thing), we had 2 rock radio stations in my city. One that was slightly more metal/nu-metal/butt rock oriented, another that was slightly more punk/alternative oriented (though there was a lot of overlap). I mostly stopped listening to the radio when Myspace became a thing.
I say all that to say... the first time I listened to the radio in probably 10 years because my phone had no service, one of the first things I heard was something like "coming up nExT, ROCK so HARD you'll shit your dick off ~" and they played Imagine Dragons. I changed the radio station. I'd much rather listen to straight pop music.
The bait and switch is insane
I'd take Imagine Dragons over MGK any day. At least they have good songs.
I'm jealous you had two. Where I grew up the only rock station was the 'oldies' station, so Rock was anything at least a decade old, usually two.
Did community radio for a year where we got a little bit of respect/bewilderment by the local metal scene by closing out for the night with things like Dream Theatre and anything else that was both heavy and went for more than 5 minutes, lol.
You're referring to Alternative Radio for Punk/Alternative and Rock Radio for Nu Metal/Post Grunge
@@lethybridtheorygolucastheo2191 Sure, but they both played Korn, Limp Bizkit, Incubus, Nickelback, Disturbed, Nirvana, Foo Fighters, etc etc etc. Like I said, there was a lot of overlap.
The Killers new music = Rick Astley Core. 😂
They went full 80's and I actually like it. Committing to a sound is 100% the play.
Royal Blood
Highly Suspect
Cleopatrick
Dead Poet Society
Best "new" rock bands for sure. Hope to see them continue to grow
DPC underrated
Badflower deserves a mention too, I think
Fountains dc
Idles
Soft play
Viagra boys
Hell yeah Cleopatrick slaps
wait highly suspect still do music?? i used to love them in 2016 or so
One OK Rock slaps. I grew up with j-rock music from all the games and anime I used to watch. I still like them a lot, but I also like melodic metal/rock kind of stuff. My favorite artists right now are Bad Omens and Save Us. They are probably not for you, but to me they make my day. Especially Distance from Save Us. :D
ONE OK ROCK absolutely slaps. I saw them twice in Japan and they’re just so good. Taka’s vocals are amazing live. Of course, the rest of the band, Toru, Ryota, and Tomoya are phenomenal, but Taka’s vocals are otherworldly.
I saw them open for Muse and they were so good. Maje it out alive is a banger too
I’m glad you liked Royal Blood. I’m seeing them soon! I discovered them when they opened for QOTSA! I definitely recommend checking out their self titled debut, every song is a banger!! That album gave me hope that rock is not dead yet!
They are a killer band!
Yeah i saw them after their second album and they were great. I do feel the first album is by far the best though. Not a huge fan of their new style
Saw them headline the O2 Arena during the Typhoons Tour definitely a great live band
I think a big thing people miss is: there were tons of bands that sounded the same back in yesteryear, it’s just a few bands really pulled through. In twenty years, there will be a few bands that pull through from now. People complaining about music now, I really don’t think they understand the scope of how many musicians there are and have been. You also might find a new genre that fits this new chapter in your life more than what you once adhered to.
Nah quit lying, no bands will "pull through" rock is dead
THIS, it's the good music that stands the test of time to represent an era, it always has been like that
Bro, in the 2000s alone we had Slipknot, Linkin Park, System of a Down, A7X and so many others. Now we have a couple of great deathcore bands and that's about it.
@@102ndsmirnov7 so many used to scoff at slipknot and mushroomhead. Linkin park was memed out of existence for a minute. Korn’s first three albums are still the best, and godsmack is legend. I love them all still, but that doesn’t mean they were never criticized. Angel Vivaldi is amazing, Yellowjacket is good, there are amazing musicians out there. Everything has always been an iteration of something else within a decade. You’ll become that guy singing “give me that ol’ time rock n roll, the kinda music that just soothes the soul” while missing the talent of what’s happening now.
Royal Blood's a very, very enjoyable rock band imo. Back To The Water Below, the new one's worth a listen imo, even if it gets a bit experimental in places, too.
I was going to say this. Them, highly suspect, cleopatrick, Frank Carter and the rattlesnakes and the pretty reckless are such good, newer rock banda
@@josepedroteixeira3120dead poet society is up there too
Dude Queens of The Stone Age still KILLING to this very day!!!!🤌🏼
Now That's What I Call Music, Apocalypse Edition
LMAO - I feel like this is the bullshit you play when some little girl is looking for her dog.
lmfaooo
fun fact about royal blood: in band are only 2 members. bass & vocals and drums. But the bass sounds like a guitar. They're too good
I love me some of The Gaslight Anthem. Brian Fallon is so amazing at conveying such emotional depth, with the rough simplicity of his vocals, and story-telling lyrics. Also, Bruce Springsteen is one of his major influences - so cool to see them do a song, together.
I randomly stumbled upon 45 ,years ago and still listen to it on occasion. Nice to see them getting praise.
Brian Fallon is the greatest songwriter/lyricist of our generation. I’ll die on this hill.
I'm so happy the boys got back together. Positive Charge got dropped right around the time I quit a really toxic job that was destroying my mental health and it made me cry the first time I heard it.
Fun fact: Mike Shinoda had the drummer from Polaris playing the drums for “already over”
Even Youngblood itself describes his music as Pop lol
We do UNFUN ROCK things here
Royal Blood is peak new rock music, best two piece band i've heard
Måneskin get a lot of crap, because of the Eurovision and Tik Tok thing, but I really like them. I saw them live a couple weeks ago, and they’re a fantastic live band-all kinds of crazy, chaotic energy, without losing control of the music.
too bad they stream bot and have fake spotify streams. My spotify acc was used for it.
@@CakeyWay I’ll never know for sure who does and who doesn’t do that. I don’t pay attention to it, anyway. I like their music and they put on a great live show.
I Got Heaven by Mannequin Pussy is actually a top tier song. they're a very underrated band
Most Epitaph bands have a good quality standard
I seriously wanted to see them at louder than life this year, just because of their name 😂
There's a lot of good modern rock bands but you have to dig for them. Some of my favorites are
Rival Sons
Black Pistol Fire
The Blue Stones
The Struts
Green Lung
Durry
King Gizz
Des Rocs
Blues Pills
Just off the top of my head
Crown Lands too😉😅
Nobody tryna dig for that, the point is we SHOULDN'T have to dig. use your head
Apple music helped me find quite a few more rock bands.
Groundbreaker
Blackwater Conspiracy
Greta van fleet
Mammoth WVH
The music is out there but just buried and takes a while to find it
@@GreatestGenIsTheBestGen I don't think it's that hard lol. Now, you don't have to though. Lots of good suggestions
Don't forget Royal Blood, Graveyard, The Black Keys, Nothing But Thieves, Badflower, Highly Suspect, Movements, Trophy Eyes, The Wonder Years, Viagra Boys and Parquet Courts as well as those. Upvote for Des Rocs and Green Lung
"Sounds like it all would be played in Old Navy"
Spotify never fails to bring you the latest and (probably not) greatest im14andthisisdeep sad girl music and JCPenny's Summer Sale! songs.
I’ve been listening to heavy heavy shit since like 04, everything else now a days just sounds like coffee shop music. Like I would be hearing these songs in a Starbucks
Is there even generic rock music that would replace the rock we grew up with? Because i dont think there really is. Every core sound evolves into something new every like, 20 years. The rock played on GenericRockRadioStatuon when i was growing up is considered old now. Just like "classic rock" was just rock at one point. We got rockpop now.
I think it’s just the same bands on loop. Nu Metal is bigger today than in the last 20 years, but that doesn’t mean there is big new mainstream bands in the genre. Same with butt rock, it’s still all Three Days Grace and Shinedown, no new big ones.
Royal Blood and Manchester Orchestra are two of the best modern rock bands IMO
Not necessarily the Royal Blood song I would have put on that playlist but I do still very much enjoy it. The bass takes more of a back seat in it than most songs and lets the vocals and piano do the majority of the work in a good way.
If I were to pick another RB song for this it would either be Shiner In The Dark, Triggers or maybe Tell Me When It’s Too Late.
The Killers do synthpop now I guess...
They had synth on their second album.
Hardly any of these even qualified as rock songs, I think spotify's definition of rock music is just "has a guitar in it"
It's basically car commercial music: The Playlist.
hearing a phrase "they got sad" said about blur was extremely funny because "13" came out quarter of a century ago. not that they were particularly happy even before that
Yay! The gaslight anthem! ❤ great band! With a solid discography!
Almost choked on my tea at 2:35 when he mimicked the tiny dragon doing "sss" and I was instantly reminded of Mushu from Mulan hahaha
6:26 the face of a man on the verge of an aneurism
9:35 the aneurism finally kicking in
It's bit funny how people only know Blur for Song 2... They have made "sad songs" since they started, like a lot of britpop. But they also got super happy poppy songs and some heavy ones, also truly experimental ones. You should check out more of Blur even if they're not exactly your genre.
7:03 You skipped Crosses. One of the few bands I would listen to on this list. Chino Moreno is still killing it.
Blur was huge in the UK... Like rivaling Oasis in their heyday kind of huge. And Song 2 isn't a representative on their actual music. If I remember right, they wrote it as a joke song to be loud and obnoxious.
Alternative Rock, Indie - that's what they used to call it, But I listen to Metal or Classical mainly. That's it. Immortal, Mozart, Mahler and Iron Maiden are all on my playlist right now.
Weirdo. i like metal & classical too but i like more genres aswell. 2 genres is boring
@@GreatestGenIsTheBestGen Troll. Lighten up, get laid, just a random comment. Classical is optional, metal is never boring.
In the 80s and 90s alternative rock and indie rock were separate from mainstream rock but at some point in the 2000s the music industry decided that alternative and indie were mainstream rock. I think it happened in the 2010s.
Plush, Liliac, The Warning or for a bit softer Rock Platinum Moon or Dirty Honey are Bands i recommend to people who are also disappointed by whatever that was...
I know you weren't a fan of the Yungblud/Ollie track, but I was pleasantly surprised by its inclusion. It has a charming, electropop-esque emo nostalgia quality to it that just hooked me on first listen. I think hyperpop (especially with little bits of drum n' bass like this) has potential to bring a lot of new people into rock and metal through genre blending songs like this. Great video as always!
Saw Royal Blood at Louder than Life. They're crazy good.
“Smoked too much acid” 💀
They looked like Skeletons for Halloween
Definitely recommend checking out more Royal Blood its just two guys the singer plays bass and the drummer is really good, you should react to their glastonbury performance from a couple years ago
Try The Kills “No Wow” it’s a bit better
Spotify never fails to disappoint in the rock category😂
There's definitely some good rock and metal still coming out, but a lot of it that I listen to is relatively small. I'd recommend the following:
lor2mg (not entirely rock but has some relatively screamo stuff)
MAXIMUM THE HORMONE (dropped a single last year so it counts)
Glare
fromjoy
An Author, A Poet
fallfiftyfeet
Liturgy
Boris (still dropping music so it counts)
Pink Øctopus (i don't even know if they're still together but they have a great 2020 ep)
I Hate Sex (broken up but still very good)
Trawl
Destroy Boys
The Garden
Spotify should hire nik as a consultant for their rock and metal playlisting...
Do you have "We Do Fun Metal Things Here" merch?
I listen to the rock that is Three Days Grace and STARSET. Most of these here were pop rock and indie rock lol. Like bleachers is literally indie, he's Jack Antonoff - the producer who works with Taylor Swift, Lorde and Lana Del Rey
Spotifys playlist suck, however the algorithim for recommendations based on what you listen to has introduced me to so much new and differernt music. It's the only reason I still subscribe!!!!
Bro doesn't know The Gaslight Anthem? Were huge in the scene back in the day, especially amongst the more indie-driven scene girls. Definitely a rock band! But I gotta admit, I never kept up with them and now all of a sudden they have a song with Springsteen? LMAO. I now know what it's like not being into BMTH for 15 years and then finding out they have a song with Ed Sheeran
Gaslight Anthem was started by Rise Against's guitar player during the Sufferer & the Witness days, they are most definitely rock
Their first album in 10 years just dropped today, I think. What a coincidence haha.
The older you get the more you hate everything. Such is the circle of life
The indie ones in latin america are known as "aesthetic music for bisexual boys"
everyone wants to be a "rockstar" even if theyre not rockers lol
Glad I grew up when rock and metal wwere good
7:40 Bro, you skipped Crosses and that's fricking Chino Moreno's side project, you know, the guy from Deftones, who moans into the mic
I didn't even know rock was something people made anymore.
Rock will always exist
Royal Blood Is the best rock band in the world right now 🫶🏻 new album was Fire
I always find new rock through Montage Rock. I've found a lot of great rock through them.
“Forza horizon core”
As someone who is watching this while playing Forza, I feel very called out
Dude I respect a lot of Nik's opinions but i gotta admit, I laughed a little when "S'old" by Taking Back Sunday started playing, bc its literally the same melody from "Stay" by Kid Laroi (I know TBS did it first, don't come for me lmao, it's just funny because that song is SOOOO popular now). Very sorry if I ruined either song for you by pointing that out, but it just really was the cherry on top when Nik said that the melody was "something he'd been waiting for" haha
A great new rock band that I recently discovered is Return to Dust, the singer’s voice is amazing. They only got a few songs so far, my faves being Black Road and Belly Up, I really love the guitar in these but really all of their songs are pretty good. Highly recommend
Good rock music is harder to find than a Nik Nocturnal video where he hasn’t changed the title
Not gonna lie, but Rock as a genre became a general term for “has guitars and real drums, oh, and the lyrics can be a little sad with some angst.” It’s kinda sad now 🥲. Miss the 2000’s. Now I feel like a boomer too 🤣.
70s was peak
4:05 from now on I will call Loathe the fucking demonic monstertruck band
Why do I feel like 90% of these are only in the "rock playlist" is because they have a guitar in them? Doesn't matter where or whether it's a good melody, there's just an actual instrument somewhere in the track
So Gaslight Anthem went from being the most Springsteen (kinda) punk band to working with the Boss? Good for them! Always great when you can work with one of your influences.
Now if only Corey Monster-senpai would notice me
I've been jamming Already Over on my playlist since it came out. Nice peppy pop punk song, less than three minutes so it doesn't overstay it's welcome.
Gaslight anthem is awesome. I have loved their whole disco. I'm psyched stuff is coming out. Gaslight anthem is punky, especially on their earlier stuff. Did you skip over the Maine?
Favorite "rock" band is "Nothing More", really sick band. But idk if they're even what Spoopify considers "rock" bec they're more like Prog Rock except heavy and then go breakdown metal mode then into wacko noise mode, but also clean singing generally... sorta.
Lol.
i grew up with a lot of older siblings who listened to the og rock. im gen alpha and im so glad i didnt grow up on this new stuff cause the beatles are always gonna be the best rock band. also it kind introduced me a little more to death/metal core
“Smoke a lot of acid”
Anyone else notice at 1:17 how Nik’s percentages equal 101% 😅
some great bands on this list, one ok rock, royal blood, qotsa, nothing but thieves etc
Nick Do the Funny Clown Noise 😂
I actually really love the new Rolling Stones album! Them, Queens of the Stone Age, and The Killers were my favorite on this list!
Time to write a guns n roses song nik 😂
BET
It hurt me to see Nik pronounce it "mane-skin"
Yeah, most of the stuff from one to five years ago that I listen to were first heard on Pandora at work. Got into Sleep Token, Foals and Spiritbox that way and I'm glad that there are still some people making good stuff. You also got people here on RUclips releasing stuff, like Nathan Sharp, AKA Natewantstobattle, Jonathan Young and Richaadeb, among others. Good Rock and Metal are out there. You just gotta know where to look.
I used to work at old Navy back in like 2009 just got flashbacks of hearing the same "Lights" songs 18 times in a day
That was a pretty decent list lol Olivia's music shows up to your reviews every single time Nik. 😂.
As I am not a dumb-ass internet music robot, one actually good modern rock bad I can recommend is Those Damn Crows. Their album this year (Inhale/Exhale) absolutely slaps. Good shit.
Fun fact: Blur wrote song 2 as a 'generic grunge song' to try to poke fun at the genre and made their only song to 'break America'. The new stuff sounds really depressing but Parklife isn't so they've not always been like that.
lol WWE Core, accurate
"Their all high! John's already a ghost because of all the weed he's f***ing smoked!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Gj Caleb! Ending=Funny
Dude! You’ve never listened to the gaslight anthem???? The 59’ sound is such an incredible song dude. I’m def a metal head, but I’m also just a fan of good music. I mean, the wallflowers are a top 5 island band for me, along with periphery. 😂 the gaslight anthem rocks.
Gotta say I love Barns Courtney
Best rock band ive found in recent times is Band Maid. Dont even listen to most english speaking bands unless its metal
I was expecting to see Loveless or Hot Milk somewhere here.
That's on me for having expectations to begin with though.
Who needs Netflix when you have this video?
Teen Jesus and the Jean Teasers have some really great stuff, Salt is one of their more low-key songs. I honestly don't know why they put that song on the list, try listening to Girl Sports and See You in a Bit (I Still Care)
At some point we need to ask ourselves, "what kind of world are we leaving for Keith Richards?" Because he is going to outlive us all.
Teen Jesus actually goes crazy as a femme punk band
Spopofo is always wrong