Best music artists to emerge in the past 20 years

JupiterKid

OK, I suppose I'm giving my age away here (it's a middle aged 43 BTW) and the 1990s was a pivotal decade for me in terms of growing up and coming of age so its not surprising that it is my favourite decade musically (followed by the 1970s) but it does seem that since 2000 the quality of popular music has been pretty lacking. There just seems to be so much fewer artists who produce really good material worth listening to IMO.

But there are notable exceptions, and I will list the artists who I think stand out from the dross below. Please feel free to challenge me or add to the list.

IMO some of the best music artists to emerge in past 20 or so years include the following:

Goldfrapp
Franz Ferdinand
Florence and The Machine
Muse
Scissor Sisters
Adele
Sigur Ros
Lady Gaga
Royksopp
Air
Arcade Fire
Boards Of Canada
Lana del Ray

callaway92

No Arctic Monkeys?

This will just be an opinion thread leading to people criticising each other.

irishguitarlad

Anything Jack White does, Queens of the Stone Age(the above are technically 90's but "made It big" in the noughties)Also, the Mars Volta and Mastodon.

Dakotabigone

Anything from the Nolan Sisters.

RayCon

Steven Wilson*
Opeth**
Ghost


... these would be who I spend most of my time listening that have emerged in the last 20yrs.



*although Wilson as Porcupine Tree has obviously been releasing material more than 20 yrs ago


** Ok, technically they are older than 20 , but I enjoy their output of the last 20yrs more so than the really early material.

ImARebel

irishguitarlad wrote: »

Anything Jack White does, Queens of the Stone Age(the above are technically 90's but "made It big" in the noughties)Also, the Mars Volta and Mastodon.

I've just gone who, who and who

god I'm old

JupiterKid

Artctic Monkeys are good but compared to the general output of the 1990s they seem rather average - when compared to Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Alice In Chains, Massive Atrack, The Chemical Brothers, Placebo, Bjork, Portishead, Tori Amos, Blur, Oasis, Hole, Garbage, Soundgarden, Skunk Anansie, Ice T and Bodycount, etc..

I just know I'll be savaged by posters around half my age! Yikes! :O

irishguitarlad

RayCon wrote: »

Steven Wilson*
Opeth**
Ghost


... these would be who I spend most of my time listening that have emerged in the last 20yrs.



*although Wilson as Porcupine Tree has obviously been releasing material more than 20 yrs ago


** Ok, technically they are older than 20 , but I enjoy their output of the last 20yrs more so than the really early material.

Forgot about these, great artists/bands. The dude from opeth is extremely talented, funny as well.

Ricosruffneck

Kanye West

M83

Vampire Weekend

Laura Marling

Queens of the stone age (edit: they're from 1996)

Arcade Fire

Bon Iver

Muse (edit: they're from 1994)

irishguitarlad

JupiterKid wrote: »

Artctic Monkeys are good but compared to the general output of the 1990s they seem rather average - when compared to Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Alice In Chains, Massive Atrack, The Chemical Brothers, Placebo, Bjork, Portishead, Tori Amos, Blur, Oasis, Hole, Garbage, Soundgarden, Skunk Anansie, Ice T and Bodycount, etc..

I just know I'll be savaged by posters around half my age! Yikes! :O

Those were all special bands.

The Avalanches

smilerf

Ricosruffneck wrote: »

Kanye West

M83

Vampire Weekend

Laura Marling

Queens of the stone age

Arcade Fire

Bon Iver

Muse

Love m83. Listening to Steve mcqueen right now

maximoose

Scissor sisters? Really?

Ricosruffneck

smilerf wrote: »

Love m83. Listening to Steve mcqueen right now

'Hurry up we're dreaming' is a perfect album start to finish.

RMAOK

maximoose wrote: »

Scissor sisters? Really?

Oh Christ. No:mad:

McMurphy

No Coldplay

Definitely one of the biggest bands to emerge in the last 20years.

Ricosruffneck

Johnny Dogs wrote: »

No Coldplay

Definitely one of the biggest bands to emerge in the last 20years.

1996

Ficheall

Are you looking for the best acts or the biggest ones?

Buford T. Justice XIX

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