>60s: The Beatles
>70s: Led Zeppelin
>80s: The Police
>90s: Nirvana
>00s and forwards: none, as rock was no longer the mainstream genre

>>126740420 (OP)
Green Day probably defined the 2000s or maybe A7X.
The 2010s I guess it would probably either be Cage The Elehant or Lame Impala.
2020s has nothing though.

>>126740420 (OP)
>>00s and forwards: none, as rock was no longer the mainstream genre
MCR was desu. As far as actual kids go. Not Pitchfork dweebs.
2010s is more when rock fell apart.

>>126740420 (OP)
80s is GNR
00s white stripes
10s [spoiler] imagine dragons

>>126740420 (OP)
>00s and forwards: none, as rock was no longer the mainstream genre
cite needed on this. pretty much all pop music since the 60s has existed in the framework laid down then and that's not likely to change any time soon.

>>126740420 (OP)
60s one direction
70s sleep token
80s imagine dragons
90s green day

>>126740420 (OP)
puddle of mudd was pretty good

>00s: The Strokes
>10s: Tame Impala
>20s: ???

>>126740420 (OP)
White Stripes was the rock band of the 2000s

>>126740420 (OP)
>80s: The Police
Bait
It was GnR

>>126740420 (OP)
>Police
Show me another band from the 80s that sounds like the Police

>>126740471
Green Day was in the 90s, jackass

>>126740420 (OP)
70s is Black Sabbath

>>126740638
Retard

>>126740631
Cool goalpost move

>>126740640
This
And 80s is Metallica

>>126740655
??? They released shit in the 90s, retard

>>126740544

>the 80's
It was Van Halen.

>>126740763
They're a 70s band technically but not better than Zep

>>126740679
Green Gay is one of the shittiest bands of all time
>dude POWER CHORDS
fuck off

>>126740420 (OP)
00s - White Stripes and The Strokes shared the top spot of paradigm shifters

All the bands after them tried to copy that sound in some way.
Meaning they were all mostly retro. Emo bands were also retro, MCR had alt-rock, indie and Queen influences.
The Killers sounded like U2 done better, with 80s influences like The Pretenders.
Overall rock got lamer and larpy

>>126740833
music recognition fell off after grunge, your grasping at bands that cut integrity for actual media favor, not just sonic appeal

>>126740820
By that standard the Police are a 70's band since their debut album released the same year, 1978. Nevertheless, Van Halen is the band that defined 80's Rock. Also, VH (1978-84) is a better band than Zeppelin. Just is.

>>126740420 (OP)
Coldplay

>>126740857
Well when the main recipe for rock in the 00s was going meta and larpy, it became a poser/hipster thing that 'not everyone would get it'.

So no wonder rock lost mass appeal once it went retro for that 'no you don't understand dude, it's supposed to sound like it's from the past, it's a new sophisticated thing, ok'

There was something smug and in-crowd about rock in the 00s

>>126740827
That’s not my point.

>>126740420 (OP)
>>70s:
It was the Stones. They and that decade were made for each other.

>>126740909
>main recipe for rock
if it didnt make the cut, it doesnt qualify as rock, whatever general sympathy you have for failed contributions to culture is eithet misplaced, malevolent, or uninvested

>>126740448
>MCR
Lol no

MCR trannys need to be fucking euthanized

>>126740458
>GNR
acdc tier band
same with aerosmith, kiss and bon jovi
very unserious music
>>126740640
great band, but one step below Zep in terms of impact and importance within the rock genre as a whole
it's still bigger on the metal niches
>>126740833
it's not a matter of being paradigm shifters, it's a matter of being the largest rock act of their era
>>126740931
the stones were a beatles runner-up in the 60s, and a led zeppelin runner-up in the 70s
always second to much better and more succesful acts

>>126740420 (OP)
00s is Coldplay or Arctic Monkeys

>>126741707
>but one step below Zep in terms of impact and importance within the rock genre as a whole
Black Sabbath literally invented Heavy Metal. How were they less impactful and important than Led Zeppelin?
Rolling Stones is also more deserving to be a representative of the 70s than Led Zeppelin.

>>126741863
no way man
zeppelin rules

>>126740420 (OP)
2000s is White Stripes and I fucking hate them. 2010s and 2020s are the decades with no definitive rock bands.

>>126741863
The Stones didn't have songs on the same level of musicality as the Zep
And they never had the balls to be so experimental as Zep was often and to still get away with it

The Stones tried to be rock for the pop music charts, using gimmicks like Jagger's frontman antics to draw attention. Instrumentally they were the most boring band of all 'great' bands

>>126740827
What chords should they be playing faggot? Its all just window dressing if the riffs aren't good, and green day has good riffs
>>126741707
>acdc tier band
You say that like it's a bad thing

There was only that couple of years in the 60s-early 70s of super-raw hard rock until the record labels figured out how to make it into polished product and rock never got that raw again.

>>126740420 (OP)
2000s was definitely MCR

>>126743519
Kill yourself nigger

2000's was Rilo Kiley

80s was Aerosmith.

>>126740420 (OP)
>80s: The Police
Arguable. There's still 7 years left

>>126741863
>Black Sabbath literally invented Heavy Metal. How were they less impactful and important than Led Zeppelin?
Because nobody gave a shit about them, retard. They didn't define the decade at all. Zeppelin, Queen, Rolling Stones and Pink Floyd are the only serious candidates.
>Even trying to put Sabbath in there
Fuck me, metalcucks are dumb

>>126740420 (OP)
>A boyband defined the 60s
lol
lmao

80s is aerosmith and queen

>>126743736
70s*

>>126743728
Show us your music chart

>>126743705
Rock split in the 80s into at least two major branches:

- those influenced by punk (post-punk, new wave, hardcore punk, thrash metal, post-hardcore)

- those influenced by hard rock and van Halen (heavy metal, glam metal)

Others were holdover older acts like the Stones that kept doing their own thing. Or rock bands who went pop-rock to find success in the charts (Fleetwood Mac, Queen).

The Police was the biggest band in the early 80s, they were punk-influenced, but with poppy tunes and reggae rhythms.

>>126740420 (OP)
>00s and forwards: none, as rock was no longer the mainstream genre
The Strokes

>>126740420 (OP)
00's - Slipknot

>>126740420 (OP)
success-wise:

60s The Beatles
70s Pink Floyd
80s U2/Queen
90s Nirvana
00s Linkin Park
10s rock left the mainstream

>>126745117
>70s Pink Floyd
bigger than zep? nah

Is this thread about the most popular from each decade, the best or the most "definitive"?
Should the band have been founded in that decade or been in their prime?
If they debuted or were in their prime during a prior decade does that cut then from the next?

>>126740833
>Overall rock got lamer and larpy
60s and 70s rock was larping blues and black rock and rollers

rock has always been about larping

>>126746233
I think it's about who commanded the rock zeitgeist during that decade

>>126745686
Yes, actually. Led Zeppelin is extremely overrated, bro.

How can anyone dispute that 80s isnt Metallica?

>>126746412
Because there were much bigger rock bands during the 80s? Queen, Van Halen, AC/DC, and yeah probably even The Police were all much bigger in the 80s than Metallica.

>>126746364
That's perfectly vague and subjective to cause a shitshow
>60s
The Beatles
>70s
Led Zeppelin
>80s
Van Halen
>90s
Nirvana
>00s
My Chemical Romance
>10s
The Black Keys
>20s
Sleep Token

>>126746575
>That's perfectly vague and subjective to cause a shitshow
perfect for a /mu/ post

30s - the Mississippi Sheiks

>>126745686
by far, Eagles are #2 and also way above Zeppelin (whose first albums were in 69)

>>126746586
see also "most influential", "most impactful"

>>126740661
Metallica didn't become mainstream until the 90s.

>>126740420 (OP)
Beachboys were more important.

>>126740420 (OP)
My Chemical Romance
>>126740833
>Emo bands were also retro, MCR had alt-rock, indie and Queen influences.
MCR wore their influences at their sleeves but their music could only be made at the time it was made. It's quintessentially 2000s.
Without 9/11 they literally wouldn't exist.

>>126742914
>dude I IV V vi power chords! every song bro!
a child could write their shit music

>>126740896
sad but true

you can hate coldplay all you want but at least they play instruments and have a singalong chorus like the earlier decades did

>>126743550
>>126741203
>>126741181
samefag

Radiohead didn't define the 00's?

>>126752647
Radiohead didn't create any current.
They were kind of like Sonic Youth, doing their own thing even way after they peaked.
Like at some point they went 'electro'. Who was influenced by that? Nobody important.

Whereas both White Stripes and Strokes pretty much created the blueprint for rock going retro in the 00s and after

late 50's early 60's
>Elvis/Chuck Berry
late 60's early 70's
>Beatles/Stones/Zeppelin
late 70's early 80's
>Fleetwood Mac/Genesis
late 80's early 90's
>U2/Madonna
late 90's early 2000's
>Green Day/No Doubt

Blink 182? Green Day? Foo Fighters? Surely they have a claim for the 2000s. 2010s I'd say The Black Keys

Red Hot Chili Peppers in the 00s? Metallica?

You can hate Coldplay all you'd like but they probably are the 2010s rock band. 2000s they have an argument too

serious question: what about Tool? 1995 Aenima to 2002 Lateralus era.
i lived it and people of all musical backgrounds were into or respected the former and then waited with abated breath for the later, which truly redifined live arena shows. even the alt rock by numbers 1999 APC debut was considered a mesmerizing stopgap between those records. Maynard could have been a Freddy Mercury tier singer... maybe he is...

>>126754028
Tool is awesome but they didn't DEFINE any decades.

>>126754010
based on sales or influence? nobody is influenced by Coldplay. at best you can say their source inspiration (U2, Oasis and Elton John) is acceptable.

>>126754059
Sales. Coldplay in America may be looked at as a joke but they're like The Beatles when they play stadiums in other countries.

>>126754049
retrospectively they certainly did. 95-2005. even the mighty Metallica (Lars especially) can be seen hanging their head in defeat during SKoM trying vainly to ape their brutal yet accessible time signature prog revival sound.
anyone and their grandma could imitatethe Vines/White Stripes/Strokes and before that you had the Jam/Bu and before that you had the Kinks/Troggs/Sonics....nothing new under the sun. find me a popular Lateralus equivalent and i will only acquiesce to KC - Discipline and even then.....it's more new wave than prog.

>>126754120
Jam/Buzzcocks/Stooges

>>126754120
I agree with you about Tool's quality of music but they've never been a super mainstream act and they've never wanted to

>>126754101
so we are limiting the argument to the definition of regional inspiration? your goalposts of Boaz and Jachin are immovable. next.

>>126754059
The musical landscape has become so void in the last two decades that older milquetoast acts like Coldplay could fulfill normies' need for upbeat easy-listening tunes and appear like they're a massive band of the times.
Same thing for Swift. These people are filling a void. Their achievements are a reflection of a showbiz industry that keeps rotating its wheels by inertia.

Normies come home from work and need to go to a concert and hear happy lalala shit they can jump on and have a ball. Even if it's mediocre crap they won't complain, they're easy

And some people like Swift and Sheeran have become very good at exploiting this, finding that sweet point of averageness in musical tastes that you could serve them blandness forever

>>126740458
>>126740544
GNR didn't really define anything though, they were just really solid. motley crue would be a better pick.

>>126754147
buddy Lateralus was number 1 on arrival and the tour was sold out in advance. i was there. everyone had that album and could hum Schism's bassline... wiggers,fags,metal heads,rockers,mods,moms,local gutter drunks. especially old boomers were in love they said it was 'Pink Floyd' for our generation. same thing happened when 10,000 Gays was released. in retropect that album was a comical misstep/retread that cost them but they had a much wider audience than you remember.
essentially Tool was the 'silent majority' band from 1996-2006.

>>126754210
Love Guns N Roses and I agree. They just brought the attitude back to rock more than the watered down party 24/7 that was normal

>>126754202
thanks for the normie essay, normie.

>>126740420 (OP)

my rock band progression sketch - I'll start with The Beatles also:

> The Beatles
> Rolling Stones
> Led Zeppelin
> Black Sabbath
> Steely Dan
> Talking Heads
> REM
> Guns 'n Roses
> Nirvana
> Radiohead
> Tool
> Arcade Fire

there's obvious divergence, so it gets difficult

>>126754049

I have been on the Internet long enough to remember when "Tool or Radiohead or both" was almost the defining meme of comon taste, so at the very least here on /mu/ we come from a lineage where Tool is in that category

>>126754278
T-thanks

>>126754304
Sex Pistols before Byrne and Co.
Steely Dan is retrospective elitist crap. Genesis fits that slot like a glove.

by the time of the Beatles Anthology rock (guitar bass drums music) was terminally folding in on itself.

>>126752672
>>126740458
>>126740517
>>126740534
>>126740833
White Stripes/Strokes barely made a blip on the broader culture, unless you happen to be an Italian football fan. You're talking about bands that barely scratched the Hot 100. OP was right, rock was mostly dead as a mainstream force and the exceptions were shit like Nickelback.

>>126740420 (OP)
The Beatles are the only ones who defined a full decade. The others you mentioned only defined half a decade at most.

>>126755139
The Beatles didnt release an album until 1963 and didn't hit big time America buzz until 1965
The first half of the 60s was surf rock and novelty trite

>>126755365
buddy i hate to be the one to tell you but every fucking American kid between the ages of 9 and 15 wanted or bought a drumset because of Ringo the day after their first Sullivan show.

>>126755467
Lol
No
Theyd want a guitar

>>126754253
>retarded Tool fan
many such cases

>>126755529
Rickenbacker and Gretsch were unaffordable but cheap japanese Ludwig clone drums with oyster pearl wraps were prevalent. you'd bes urprised what other lies and half truths you were led to believe since the holocaust myth.

The Yardbirds > Led Zep

>>126755584
i go on Yardbird tangents but as soon as as Zep tune comes on it breaks the spell and flys out of the speakers it's uncircumsized thrust of a sound gnarling at the roots of what came before it while those roots bow and beg for mercy.

>>126740661
Metallica wasn't a popular band until the black album

>>126755113
So what
The OP was about what were the defining rock bands for each decade
Not if they were popular with the mainstream crowd.
Nickelback sure as fuck was not a defining band for anything

>>126755647
I get it. Zep was better recorded, that's all.

Yardbirds flew so Zeppelin could soar.

>>126740420 (OP)
>>80s: The Police
they started in the 70s and broke up by 83. do they really qualify?

>>126740420 (OP)
for the 2000s maybe any of the strokes, radiohead, the white stripes or my chemical romance. depending on how you view it.
2010's and 20's is harder. 2010s is probably imagine dragons or some shit. maybe mac demarco to represent the underground/indie direction that took over rock as a whole; that brooklyn captured tracks indie scene was the last time it felt like a rock scene was ever even sort of relevant, that or the socal burger records type scene.
i can't even think of a single one for the 2020's so far. it might genuinely be sleep token. fucks sake.

>>126740458
>>126756695
imagine dragons isn't a rock band

80s: The Mekons
90s: Everclear
00s: Neon Trees
10s: can't think of any

>>126757059
gotta put Hootie over Everclear just slightly

>>126740420 (OP)
I don’t think rock was ever the mainstream. Look at the top tens of those “rock” decades.

>>126742308
I don't know how you can think that with records like Beggars Banquet and Exile on Main Street. Also, Their Satanic Majesties is pretty damn experimental, especially coming after what the Stones were doing prior with Aftermath and Between The Buttons. While it was attempted as a Sgt Peppers clone, it was still pretty damn good.