Top 10 Rock songs of the past 15 years

Blisterman · 28-02-2004 11:58PM #1

I was just trying to make a list of the top 10 rock (Not just metal) songs between 1989 and now. i'm looking for pretty popular mainstream stuff. (Nirvana, Guns and Roses etc.). It's for a story I'm writing. So post your lists.

mike65 · 29-02-2004 12:08AM

I can hardly think of any songs from the last 15 years
worth mentioning -

Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden.

Mike.

Fobia · 29-02-2004 02:02AM

here be a few good ones from different genres

Children of Bodom - Lake Bodom

Nightwish - she is my sin

Nightwish - Over the hills and far away

Pixies - Hey

Pixies - Where is my mind

Pixies - River Euphrates

Muse - Time is running out

Senor_Fudge · 29-02-2004 02:14AM

nirvana - smells like teen spirit
metallica - enter sandman
pearl jam - black

Chucky · 29-02-2004 02:49AM

No particular order:

Metallica - Wherever I May Roam
Placebo - Nancy Boy
Placebo - Pure Morning
Nirvana - Come As You Are
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Sepultura - Inner Self
Creed - My Sacrifice
Alien Antfarm - Smooth Criminal
American Hi-Fi - Art Of Losing
System Of A Down - Chop Suey

....and if you dare.....Andrew WK - PARTY HARD!!

Senor_Fudge · 29-02-2004 02:52AM

party hard was a good song i thought

Civilian_Target · 29-02-2004 03:13AM

Easy

1: Rage Against The Machine - Killing in the Name of
2: System of a Down - Chop Suey
3: Metallica - The Unforgiven
4: Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet with Butterfly Wings
5: Nirvana - Lithium
6: Placebo - Nancy Boy
7: White Stripes - 7 Nation Army
8: Primal Scream - Jailbird
9: Therapy - Screamager
10: Manic Street Preachers - A Design for Life

That's mine anyway, I'm sure people will argue, not least about the lack of Smells Like Teen Spirit. All of G'n'R's best stuff was written pre-1989...

Redleslie · 29-02-2004 03:15AM

Not in any particular order, not sure if they all pass mainstream muster and I've left out loads of bands.

Facet Squared by Fugazi.

Stop by Jane's Addiction.

Born In 69 by Rocket From The Crypt.

Bring The Noise by Public Enemy/Anthrax

Debaser by The Pixies.

Look What I Stole for Us, Darling by Fatima Mansions.

Stranger Than Fiction by Bad Religion.

Riding On The Rocket by Shonen Knife.

Touch Me I'm Sick by Mudhoney.

I Don't Want To Grow Up by The Ramones.

Chucky · 29-02-2004 03:17AM

Smells like teen spirit is overplayed.

...but while 'A Design For Life' is a magnificant song, Manics' best song, by far, is 'Motorcycle Emptiness'.

Deadwing · 29-02-2004 03:20AM

Originally posted by Chucky
No particular order:

Metallica - Wherever I May Roam
Placebo - Nancy Boy
Placebo - Pure Morning
Nirvana - Come As You Are
Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
Sepultura - Inner Self
Creed - My Sacrifice
Alien Antfarm - Smooth Criminal
American Hi-Fi - Art Of Losing
System Of A Down - Chop Suey

....and if you dare.....Andrew WK - PARTY HARD!!

No offence intended dude...but if those are some of the best songs of the last 15 years..it must've been a pretty dull decade and a half.
If Alien ant farm's smooth criminal is ever voted as one of the best songs of the past 15 years, im going to take my guitars, burn them, throw my CD collection into the flames, buy myself a nice tracksuit, get 'Neilo' tattoed in chinese characters across my forearm and start listening to DJ Darndale. Possibly while 'Yoked outta me bin!!! rapa!!!'.

Chucky · 29-02-2004 03:27AM

ok, the whole Alien Antfarm was a bad idea.

All the other stuff is all mainstream which is what the guy in the original post asked for though so.....

give us your list

Redleslie · 29-02-2004 03:36AM

Originally posted by Chucky
Smells like teen spirit is overplayed.

...but while 'A Design For Life' is a magnificant song, Manics' best song, by far, is 'Motorcycle Emptiness'.

Yeah I prefer Sliver to Teen Spirit. Never liked the Manics much but ta for reminding me of Design For Life. One of my favourite songs that is. I shoulda given a mention to Enter Sandman by Metallica. It's rocktastic.

AngelofFire · 29-02-2004 03:36AM

U2-until the end of the world
Foo Fighters-Everlong
Ash-ooh yeah
RHCP-Californication
Rival skools-So down on
Incubus-Pardon Me
Linkin park-With you
Lenny Kravitz-are u gonna go my way
Green Day-Basket case
Nirvana-Drain you

Creamy Goodness · 29-02-2004 03:57AM

oooh wiee ooh i look just like buddy holly

where;s that?

weezer - buddy holly

Civilian_Target · 29-02-2004 12:52PM

Rival skools-So down on
Incubus-Pardon Me
Linkin park-With you

Are you mad? I've never even heard of Rival Schools, and with a name like that I don't think I want to. And if you don't mind me saying so, neither Linkin Park nor Incubus have performed anything that would qualify in the top 10 tracks of the last 14 years. I thought Screamager by Therapy may have been pushing it but apparantly not...

Deadwing · 29-02-2004 01:28PM

Originally posted by Chucky
ok, the whole Alien Antfarm was a bad idea.

All the other stuff is all mainstream which is what the guy in the original post asked for though so.....

give us your list

Ah well i guess if its mainstream stuff then AAF are passable

Anywho seeing as how i dont listen to much mainstream stuff ill do my best to think of ten..*L*

G n' R: Sweet child o' mine.
Metallica: One.
Nirvana: Teen spirit (I know its not thier best song but were going for mainstream songs here)
Feck...i cant think of anything else..*L*

Chucky · 29-02-2004 02:18PM

Ya Guns 'N' Roses had some brilliant songs:

like you said, Sweet child o' mine
Mr. Brownstone
It's so easy
Welcome To The Jungle
November Rain (Of course!)
Don't You Cry Tonight
Out Ta Get Me
Back Off Bitch

All fairly mainstream.

krattapopov · 29-02-2004 02:33PM

in no order

foo fighters - everlong

smashing pumpkins - muzzle

bon jovi - my guitar lies bleeding in my arms (i dont care what people may say, that song is great)

bush - little things

nirvana - lithium

guns n roses - dont dam me

metallica - nothing else matters

manic street preachers - a design for life

greenday - basketcase

the darkness - love on the rocks with no ice

Creature · 29-02-2004 03:07PM

Pearl Jam - Black
Alice In Chains - Them Bones
Soundgarden - Burden In My Hand
Radiohead - Just
Nirvana - All Apologies
Weezer - Say It Ain't So
Red Hot Chilli Peppers - Under The Bridge
Manic Street Preachers - The Masses Against the Classes
Queens of The Stone Age - No One Knows
The Pixies - Debaser

Placebo · 29-02-2004 03:43PM

Placebo - Nancy Boy
Placebo - The Bitter end
Nirvana - Smells like teen spirit
LinkinPark - In The End
PapaRoach - Last Resort
Marlyn Manson - Beautiful people
Marlyn Manson - Mobscene
Evanescence - Bring me to Life
LostProphets - Shinobi Vs Dragon Ninja
Glassjaw - Cosmopolitan Bloodloss
The Used - Maybe Memories

Not my top 10, but definatley a top 10 to mention, not in any particular order.
Top 11 acually :rolleyes:

Civilian_Target · 29-02-2004 06:09PM

Originally posted by Civilian_Target

That's mine anyway, I'm sure people will argue, not least about the lack of Smells Like Teen Spirit. All of G'n'R's best stuff was written pre-1989...

And it was, November Rain, Paradise City, Welcome to the Jungle, Mr. Brownstone and Sweet Child of Mine were all released in 1987.

May I say that 1996-1999 was a pretty dire streak for Rock.

Bungalow Bill · 29-02-2004 06:17PM

Blur- Song 2
RHCP- Under the Bridge
Nirvana- Teen Spirit
The Cure- Lovecats
Oasis- Live Forever
The Strokes- Reptilia
White Stripes- Seven Nation Army
The Frames- Revelate
Radiohead- Just
Where the streets have no name- U2

Just what I can think of off hand.

cournioni · 29-02-2004 06:42PM

1. Pantera - Mouth For War
2. Megadeth - Tornado of Souls
3. Alice In Chains - Would?
4. In Flames - Episode 666
5. Down - Stone The Crow
6. AC/DC - Thunderstruck
7. Fear Factory - Replica
8. Metallica - Unforgiven
9. Morbid Angel - Where The Slime Live
10. Decapitated - The Eye of Horus

cournioni · 29-02-2004 06:44PM

Originally posted by Civilian_Target
And it was, November Rain, Paradise City, Welcome to the Jungle, Mr. Brownstone and Sweet Child of Mine were all released in 1987.

May I say that 1996-1999 was a pretty dire streak for Rock.

November Rain was released in 1991.

Blisterman · 29-02-2004 10:55PM

Wow, lots of replies, keep em coming.

Chucky · 01-03-2004 04:44PM

Originally posted by Bungalow Bill
Blur- Song 2
RHCP- Under the Bridge
Nirvana- Teen Spirit
The Cure- Lovecats
Oasis- Live Forever
The Strokes- Reptilia
White Stripes- Seven Nation Army
The Frames- Revelate
Radiohead- Just
Where the streets have no name- U2

Just what I can think of off hand.

hehe. Forgot about Oasis, and Live Forever is indeed teir best song. Can't forget these either by Oasis:

Roll With It
Don't Look Back In Anger
Whatever (or is it called free????)

Civilian_Target · 02-03-2004 07:44PM

Originally posted by PORNAPSTER
November Rain was released in 1991.

Was it not on Appetite for Destruction? If not, I apologise and sit corrected.

wiped · 02-03-2004 07:55PM

I can't believe in a thread asking for the Top 10 mainstream rock songs of the last 15 years .. The Ramones got a mention .... obviously someone out there thinks the Ramones were a lot bigger than they actually were .... that is of course unless you're only basing it on the fact that ****in wanky shops like Urban Outfitters have deemed their shirts "cool" and have started selling them .... ****in sad , sad , sad .

Civilian_Target · 03-03-2004 05:45PM

Here's one I missed out on actually, and I haven't seen it mentioned.

AC/DC - Thunderstruck

Wasn't that fantastic a track but it was quite a hit.

Deadwing · 03-03-2004 07:11PM

Originally posted by wiped
I can't believe in a thread asking for the Top 10 mainstream rock songs of the last 15 years .. The Ramones got a mention .... obviously someone out there thinks the Ramones were a lot bigger than they actually were .... that is of course unless you're only basing it on the fact that ****in wanky shops like Urban Outfitters have deemed their shirts "cool" and have started selling them .... ****in sad , sad , sad .

I hate that soooo much..all these nacker girls who never heard of the ramones in thier lives wearing thier shirts because rock "is like soooooo in this season!!"
Ditto AC/DC shirts (even tho i dont like AC/DC), and KISS t-shirts too.

cournioni · 04-03-2004 10:40AM

Originally posted by Civilian_Target
Was it not on Appetite for Destruction? If not, I apologise and sit corrected.

Nope, it was on Use Your Illusion 1.

Top 10 Rock songs of the past 15 years

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