History of Rock & Roll - The 2000s
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The long awaited installment in the History of Rock series, JT and his crew are back to discuss the History of Rock & Roll: The 2000s. The emergence of Indie Rock (The Strokes, The Killers, The Hives), the endless chain of Emo artists (Fall Out Boy, Panic At the Disco, My Chemical Romance), and an unexpected classic from Green Day.
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0:00 Introduction
3:23 The Music Industry vs Napster
8:07 The New Millennium
9:36 Radiohead - Kid A
11:33 Experimental Albums
12:37 The Strokes - Is This It
14:02 Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
15:38 Nu-Metal
16:36 Coldplay
18:26 What We Were Listening To
20:03 American Idol
21:20 Nickelback
23:02 America: A Tribute to Heroes
24:26 Bruce Springsteen - The Rising
25:23 George Harrison
25:52 2002 / 2003 Rock Explosion
26:59 Garage Rock
28:23 Indie Rock
29:41 The Killers
31:01 Metallica - St. Anger
31:25 Avril Lavigne
32:12 Emo
34:15 Fall Out Boy
35:48 My Chemical Romance
36:32 Evanescence
38:28 Panic! At the Disco
40:16 Artificial Manufactured Rock
42:13 Audioslave
43:24 Reunions
45:11 Iraq War Protest Songs
46:53 Green Day - American Idiot
48:28 The Mood of a Wounded Country
49:31 “Guitar Solos are Too Retro”
50:21 “I Stopped Listening to the Radio”
51:12 Rock and Hip-Hop Collaborations
53:29 The Late 2000s
55:20 “Gollum” Interrupts
56:02 Paramore
57:14 Female Rockers
59:40 Muse
1:00:37 Christmas 2009
1:01:29 Did the 2000s Rock Hard?
The 2000s (2000 - 2009) were a strange decade to say the least. The Record Companies were at a loss as internet file sharing programs like Napster were changing the way the public listened to music. Because of this change, the landscape for popular music became much more superficial as pop-oriented artists like Britney Spears and The Black Eyed Peas were given all the industry's attention and rock artists had to struggle to get airplay. However, it also opened the door for indie rock bands to flourish. The New York scene gave birth to bands like The Strokes who paved the way for indie rockers like Interpol, Franz Ferdinand, Arcade Fire and of course The Killers who were immensely successful. Even Wilco self-released their classic Yankee Hotel Foxtrot album and later on in the UK, The Arctic Monkeys would become one of the fastest selling bands from the internet. Even musically rock and roll was going digital, exemplified by Radiohead's divisive Kid A album which was very much an electronic experiment. Bands like Coldplay also followed this trend. Garage Rock also emerged during this time with bands like The White Stripes, The Black Keys, The Hives and The Vines. Nu-Metal combined elements of hip-hop and rap with Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory becoming one of the best selling albums of the decade. They were followed by Disturbed, Godsmack, System of a Down, Papa Roach, and even veteran bands like The Deftones and Slipknot continued to make hits. In the mainstream, pop-punk continued to gain airplay with artists like Avril Lavigne, Blink-182 and Good Charlotte. A similar genera emerged called Emo rock with Bleed American by Jimmy Eat World (Best known for their hit song "The Middle") along with Saves the Day. They were followed by a seemingly endless string of bands like Fall Out Boy, The All American Rejects, My Chemical Romance and later the All Time Low Classic "Dear Maria Count me In". Panic! at the Disco became very popular on new social media platforms MySpace and "I Write Sins Not Tragedies" became one of the first viral music videos on UA-cam. At the same time, veteran bands like The Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Foo Fighters continued in popularity (Dave Grohl also played drums on the Queens of the Stone Age album Songs for the Deaf). Supergroups like Audioslave and Velvet Revolver emerged and reunions of Cream, Led Zeppelin, Alice in Chains and a much anticipated performance by Pink Floyd at Live 8 were welcomed. 9/11 set a dark tone for the decade which Bruce Springsteen explored on his album The Rising. The political unrest split the country, but it was the Green Day album American Idiot which truly captured the anger felt during the Iraq War. In the later half of the decade, female artists like Pink and female led bands like Paramore really took the reins trying to pull rock out of the corporate hole it was falling into. Rage Against the Machine challenged the X-Factor Christmas single mandate and Muse released The Resistance to leave the decade on something of a high note.
You should definitely do 2010s even if it would only be 15 minutes long
Arctic Monkeys, Black Keys, Cage the Elephant, Paramore, Halestorm/Pretty Reckless, Greta Van Fleet, Tool. Over.
@@caesarorzell600 Also Badflower, King Gizzard and Tyler Bryant.
Neck deep?
@@caesarorzell600 Royal Blood, Nothing but Thieves, Jack White, The War on Drugs, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Foals, Ghost, Bring me the horizon, The National, Palaye Royale, White Lies, Japandroids, The Kooks and a lot of indie bands. Not much but something.
The Story so Far, Tame Impala, HAIM, Harry Styles, Sam Fender, The Aces... that's the thing about music through the decades it grows and transforms.. in a way that's the beauty of it too. But I think rock and pop-punk and alternative are coming back to the mainstream especially in the early 2020's with Olivia Rodrigo, The Hunna, Machine Gun Kelly and Willow Smith (with the help of Travis Barker producing).
The hardest thing about the 2000s and 2010s is that rock in it’s true form has fallen from the mainstream. And there’s so much crossover within sub genres that it’s hard to classify anything. I would love to see you put together the puzzle of the 2010s cuz it’s another decade that’s all over the place!
It could be worse, we could have lost the genre entirely in relevance if not in part because of the internet
@@jackthorton10 that was a great album.
I listen to modern rock and I could say the same about the 2020s.
2000s was still a GREAT decade for rock, it's the 2010s when it fell off
@@jackthorton10Jazz is a genre over 100 years old and its still alive and well
Can’t wait to see some Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, Red Hot Chili Peppers, White Stripes, Strokes, Nine Inch Nails!!
I feel like Red Hot Chili Peppers should have been mentioned more. Stadium Arcadium was one of the hardest rocking albums of the mid 2000s, was a number one album worldwide, and featured many Top 40 hits. THAT rocked hard
Fax and By The Way in 02 that had some dope singles and even better deep cuts
Arctic Monkey's two early albums are so iconic here in the UK. Although this is US-focussed (they only broke into the US with "AM"), I was a lil' surprised not to see a nod to Silent Alarm (although Franz Ferdinand suitably mentioned)
Absolutely agree! I’m from Germany, those first two albums were huge here as well!!
Agreed! Arctic Monkeys definitely deserved more attention, especially since they rose out of myspace. I also get a very classic Beatles vibe from them, I guess mostly from their first album (four British kids from a working class town with thick accents, high energy, reviving an earlier, back to basics rock sound, etc.)
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I've been listening to the first album for years and years over here but never gave the second one a chance until this year. So fucking good
LCD Soundsystem's self-titled was big in the indie scene, as was Andrew WK's blend of bubblegum and arena rock
The 2010s would have to address seismic shifts in Rock and the Music Industry in general:
1) The proliferation of social media and streaming platforms like Spotify, UA-cam, Soundclound, Bandcamp etc made it easier than ever for musicians to share their music independently without going through the big label machinery. This also saw many small/regional labels able to extend their reach without necessarily having to use the big labels for distribution. Rock, being an anti-establishment genre flocked to this new method of distribution, but it meant that many great rock bands stayed at a local/regional level. There were a million bands getting 10 sales rather than 10 bands getting a million sales, and only like-minded listeners would get the same algorithm recommendations -- so there are pockets of the internet/cities/regions where certain bands are massive, and yet virtually unknown anywhere else.
2) A lot of notable rock acts (or acts that had moderately successful rock songs) from the 2010s were female voiced and fronted, like St. Vincent, The Dead Weather, HAIM, Courtney Barnett, Phoebe Bridgers, Soccer Mommy, Beabadoobee, Alvvays, Beach House, Best Coast, The Beaches, Crumb, Khruangbin, Angel Olsen, Sharon Van Etten, Marika Hackman, Alabama Shakes etc. The male-dominated major labels could be circumvented and as a result more people were able to hear a larger number and variety of female voices in rock music.
3) Because of the democratization of music distribution, the big labels started pushing catch-all, mono-genre music that incorporates elements of hip-hop, rock, and pop. This makes it more difficult to distinguish where rock, pop, and hip-hop all start and end in the traditional mainstream media arena. For example, lets look at acts like Imagine Dragons, Twenty-One Pilots, and Machine Gun Kelly which are all marketed by big labels as "rock" and are referred to as being "rock" by traditional mainstream music institutions like Billboard, Rolling Stone, and the Grammys. Each of these acts definitely has elements that we'd characterize as being "rock" , such as rhythm electric/acoustic guitars, maybe acoustic drums, a 2-4 downbeat, and lyrics about teenage angst; however they ALSO have hip-hop elements like electronic bass & drum heavy production, trap hi-hats, rap-like vocal sections and delivery; and pop elements like quantization, auto-tune and bright, super compressed mixing/mastering. As such it's difficult to classify these acts. I hear Olivia Roderigo and Billie Eilish played on both rock and pop radio stations, which traditionally had very little if any overlap in formatting. Where do these artists belong? Both places? Neither? It's hard to say. We're in a weird transition period with music right now.
The 2010s still had a number of interesting rock groups that would be worth mentioning however, (in addition to the ones I've already listed): Cage the Elephant, Jack White's solo projects, Tame Impala, Gary Clark Jr, Mac Demarco, Black Midi, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Thee Oh Sees, Michael Kiwanuka, Royal Blood, The Black Pumas, Tinariwen & Mdou Moctar (both of which are artists from the Western Sahara region of Africa that incorporate blues/rock timbres and traditional music of the area into their songs. They both existed before 2010, but saw steady a steady growth of a Western listening audience during the 2010s). Brothers, The Suburbs, King Animal, Wasting Light, Hardwired to Self-Destruct, and ...Like Clockwork were fantastic albums from older rock groups.
I think the 2 biggest rock related bands you missed out on are LCD Soundsystem and Radiohead's later albums like In Rainbows. I believe in Rock and Roll the 2010s, since this is the age of Spotify, you should take a deep dive into more obscure bands and not only what makes it big (enough). I feel this has huge potential
Yes! LCD Soundsystem should've been definitely been mentioned
I agree i love sound of silver and this is happening
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YEP 13 MILLION CHILDREN? No wonder they are clueless too.
5 million J.T Curtis fans can't be wrong!
Hello, actually it was in the 2000s when i start discovering rock n roll and metal music during my highschool period, and to be honest i still have some nostalgia to that time, but watching this video made me sad somehow , how much rock n roll fade and no intresting music was made even though I like some bands you've mentioned, i love rock n roll and it makes sad seeing dying , but the good thing i guess we still have more and more to discover from it's golden years ,
Thank you JT curtis and the cast for the whole work you have done , i really appreciate it ,
The coolest movement in the 2000s were retro garage bands like the Strokes and White Stripes. The Black Keys' success in the 2010s was amazing too.
The 2000's when it came to music was more of a decade of hidden gems. Mainstream music (Especially Pop Music) was awful in the 2000's but if you searched hard enough you would find some great interesting albums. For examples albums like Burial - Untrue, Unwound -Leaves Turn Inside You, Daft Punk - Discovery (With the fantastic anime film Interstella 5555 that was based upon the album) and At The Drive-In - Relationship Of Command are just of the albums that came out during the 2000s.
The 2000s was the decade where I gave up on mainstream media and went primarily, if not solely, on underground and deep cuts. I have not regretted that decision since.
I went in the different of going back to the classic rock genre and seeing what I could get from there
I would die in the cross for 2000's rock for Linkin Park, System Of A Down, Avenged Sevenfold, MCR, Flyleaf, Bullet for my Valentine, P!ATD and Paramore.
Dont @ me.
Sad you couldn’t mention “Where Oh Where is Reptar,” really is a masterpiece of music. Thanks for having it as a cameo at 42:13, though!
That would be the 90s, but yes, it is a masterpiece!
@@JTCurtisMusic thanks for agreeing!
In all honesty, if you are going to make an extras video or an expanded version, I’d recommend talking about the indie rock of the late 2000s (MGMT, Phoenix) that lead to the indie pop boom of the early 2010s.
And if you really are ending with a 2010s, check out Gary Clark Jr…no doubt you’d absolutely love him.
@@simpbartson2426 I saw Gary Clarke Jr at MSG a few years back, he was amazing.
Built to Spill, Stephen Malkmus, The Shins, Broken Social Scene, Fleet Foxes, The Fratellis, Phoenix, The Postal Service, SuperChunk was still going.
The 2000's had good indie
One of the most underrated channels on UA-cam.
Gonna be honest not a big fan of the 2000s but I’m still pumped
Was kinda hoping Steely Dan’s reunion would be mentioned, but that’s just me being a super fan of them. Very cool video nonetheless, even though it’s probably my least favourite decade for music lol.
Do you prefer this or the 2010's?
@@breadzeppelin2165 tough choice, neither are great lmao. Still some good stuff but not as much.
I'm very glad that Nick mentioned Nightwish. Love that band, but I would say that I'm more of a Lacuna Coil fan! Definitely one of the best goth bands of all time! Epica and Within Temptation are other bands with front women that totally rocks! I love some of the other bands with women in the 00s more than Fleetwood Mac and Heart personally!
been years since I last checked on this series. Then, the day I check, the next one's premiering in a week. Can't wait!
yes im in the credits! thank you for this whole journey guys. you have educated me on an artform i have fallen in love with. i wouldnt bother making another vid for the 10s. 2000s is a good end point.
Thank you so much James!
I love this series but have to disagree about not making one for the 2010s...it might take a bit more effort to find it, but good forms of rock were out there! Not all music was autotuned to death 😁 I love JTs analysis of each decade and would love to see one more!
I'm glad he got to Muse at the end there. As for a band doing their own thing I would put Coheed and Cambria on the list. The idea of not just a concept album but an entire world building exercise over multiple albums and comic series is pretty unique.
This series has always helped me discover new songs to fall in love with
Honestly, I think that a full length video of the 2010’s could be done, there’s many bands that come up that can easily be discussed such as Greta Van Fleet, Five Finger Death Punch, Ghost, etc. However the last years of the decade would be a very depressing time especially 2017-2019 when many artists died such as Tom Petty, Chester Bennington, Chuck Berry, Chris Cornell, Ric Ocasek, Ginger Baker, etc. I do also want to see the growth of nostalgia in rock with reissues of albums selling very well and some artists having successful comeback albums such as Paul McCartney, The Who, etc.
You make a really great point. The deaths in particular would be interesting to put in the video. It's sad to see these stars go. But we still will listen to them. Even if they are not here with us, their music will still live on forever.
This is probably the best written episode of the series, I absolutely love it! Even if the 2000s doesn't have a lot of content for rock, you did a great job with the content you had to work with. Did the 2000s Rock Hard? Well, from my memories it did rock really hard, but that was because I started with metal... which is kind of the point of the genre: To rock hard. Gojira, Mastodon, Opeth and Meshuggah were metal kings of the 2000s in my book and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't excited to see them get mentioned. Alas, this is the History of *Rock*, not the history of metal. That said, I only have one word! Or... three, rather: Coheed and Cambria. They are positively awesome! They rock hard and the whole concept of the band is so unique. The idea of adapting a comic book story into such an abstract medium like music is almost unheard of! With each album telling the story of this very interesting sci-fi political war drama. While you're at it, you should definitely check out Ayreon. They're doing a similar thing, with having an interconnected story throughout their albums. It's a little less original however, but the story is exclusively tied to the music as a means of communicating the story, which is even cooler.
And if you ever come around to doing the 2010s, I beg of you: Talk about post-Rock!
Thanks for coming to my TedTalk, I'm excited to see your next project, JT!
"Too many protest singers, not enough protest songs." (Edwyn Collins) Thanks for the video. Enjoyed it very much. Back in the early 2000s I listened more to pop: Nelly Furtado, Pink, Moby, etc. So this video is all new stuff for me. Except the Gorillas - love them.
One modern band that has been keeping rock alive and well is Rise Against! Ever since Siren Song of the Counter Culture, they're been consistently releasing awesome punk rock albums and releasing a ton of awesome songs like Give It All, Swing Life Away, Prayer of the Refugee, Ready to Fall, Injection, Re-Education (Through Labor), Savior, Satellite, Broken Dreams Inc, and Nowhere Generation. They're released 9 albums since 2001 and have been very much consistent, not having a single bad album. Alkaline Trio is also another punk band that has been making awesome albums from Goddammit (yes, that's the name of their debut album, not kidding all the way up to Crimson. Agony & Irony, This Addiction and My Shame Is True aren't that great, but came back with a punch with Is This Thing Cursed? in 2018.
In your history videos, you've talked about many different subgenres of rock. I'd like to see a video on what makes these subgenres distinct. How are heavy metal and hard rock different? What makes punk sound like punk? And so on.
Metal has gone extreme with the 1980s, starting with Venom's Welcome to Hell in 1981. Black metal band that would make a big impact on extreme metal. Celtic Frost was another black metal band from the 80s and Possessed (Larry LaLonde's first band before Primus) started the death metal craze that would be around in the mid-late 80s early 90s.
anyone who says they're not a fan of the 2000s hasn't looked deep enough into the music being released during that time. Women, The Microphones/Mount Eerie, Scott fucking Walker, Animal Collective, Boris, Aphex Twin, Sun Kil Moon, Godspeed You! Black Emperor. all fantastic bands that sound completely different to each other.
you could say this about just about any era. if ya just skim the mainstream or sub mainstream well knowns youll likely have heard of all the acts in any of these videos; I think that intentional cause if they dug into the pits to find all the best music it wouldnt really translate as a general experience of a rock fan in the era. and of course an old emo postcore type would prolly know all the cool bands they generally skimmed over but id be lying if I said everyones heard of from first to last or at the drive in, hell Im 90% sure that a good chunk of people who know who from first to last is is because Skrillex was their singer before literally defining an electronic style of music called Brostep and off shoot of dubstep.
none of them are rock tho (except for Boris). And Mount Eeerie sucks.
I mean, there was good stuff, I like Arcade Fire, Animal Collective, Vampire Weekend, Bright Eyes and Borken Social Scene. But they weren't really the cultural zeitgeist of that era.
@@diegopaimsouza >Mount Eerie sucks
>I like Arcade Fire
I'm not trusting your opinion dude
Wow, Radiohead's Hail to the Thief album was totally missed out on. It was Radiohead's return to guitar rock with Kid A's experimentation. It was a more subtle protest of Bush and the Iraq War and it contained some of Radiohead's best songs such as There, There and 2 + 2 =5. I highly suggest you check it out if you enjoyed Kid A.
Around 2005, I sorta veered from all this rock stuff, but still was into Killers, Vines and Hives. That year was sad for me, because my idol from the 1970's had passed away. He was the reason why Texano music was slowly emerging, though he was born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, he lived in Houston and he started a new genre of music that fusioned rock, cuban, and Colombian beats to his style, eventually becoming popular in 2971. His name was Rigo Tovar. He was the reason I started wanting to sing, play drums and guitar. Anyway yeah, mid 2000's was pretty much the end of music for me.
as a person who was deeply influenced by 2000s rock Im glad ya took a look at my favorite decade of music even though it was far outside your lense of appreciation. it is kinda funny to see some of my main influences like modest mouse and mcr kinda glossed over snese I could gush for literally days on just one of their albums. and my favorite band of all time not even mentioned; Coheed and cambria which Im sure youd appreciate since theyre stylistically all over the rock spectrum sonically. I could gush about them for years so Ill save your eyes from that.
it was a wild ride Im so glad I subscribed to you ever since my other favorite decade the 70s was covered. and even if theres not much to talk about going forward I cant wait to see any new series' you can come up with. be proud of this series ya did really fucking good work and I consider this channel Deeply underated. caio for now JT and keep rockin
I grew up in this era of rock, and while I did listen to a lot of these mentioned bands, honestly none have stuck with me as much as Muse, their first 6 albums(Showbiz-The 2nd Law) are incredible, especially Origin of Symmetry, one of my favorite albums of all time.
For me, the best band of the 2000's was Porcupine Tree. All 4 of their 2000's albums was incredible. Criminally underrated
Fear of a blank planet is a masterpiece
100% agree, I think lightbulb sun was their best actually
There was a severe lack of mentioning Anthrax’s superb album We’ve Come For You All following the Anthrax name controversy with 911 and the rebirth of Thrash metal. Honorable mention for amazing albums in the 2000s, Dream Theater’s Octavarium with Panic Attack and Porcupine Tree’s Fear of a Blank Planet with Anesthetize. Both incredible prog metal albums. I can’t help but wonder what a History of Rock: The 2010s would look like.
Me, too! Surely it's time for the next installment now that we are well into the 2020s!!
Good video as always. You forgot to mention about the recent resurgence in the ‘00s pop punk/emo aesthetic being due to current big acts adapting it like Olivia Rodrigo having a #1 hit this year with “good 4 u” which people noted sounded so similar to “Misery Business” that she wound up giving the band songwriting credits even though she didn’t use anything from the song which is another music business fuckery that would deserve its own video. In fact, “good 4 u” is considered the first full on rock song to hit #1 on the Hot 100 since probably “How You Remind Me.”
That bit was done before “Good 4 U” came out. I believe “Good 4 U” was made because of the pop-punk resurgence.
Top 10 Bands of the 00s
1. Green Day
2. Sum 41
3. Linkin Park
4. Yellowcard
5. Avenged Sevenfold
6. Queens of the Stone Age
7. Red Hot Chili Peppers
8. Lacuna Coil
9. Trivium
10. The White Stripes
Qotsa, well played
i will include the strokes too
Your comments were interesting as I was in bands from 1980 until around 88 and really missed most of the music presented in your 80s history. It would have been interesting to see what we could have done had we been 20 years later when it was easier to do it yourself. Ive always been good at that. Ive made my own guitars for decades.
Another great history of rock doc!
My fav albums from the 2000s:
Ash - “Free All Angels” (2001)
Incubus - “Morning View” (2001)
Incubus - “A Crow Left of the Murder” (2004)
Fountains of Wayne - “Welcome Interstate Managers” (2003)
New Found Glory - Self-Titled (2000)
Nerd Herder - “How To Meet Girls” (2000)
Goldfinger - “Open Your Eyes” (2002)
Reel Big Fish - “Cheer Up!” (2002)
Phantom Planet - “The Guest” (2002)
Superdrag - “In the Valley of Dying Stars” (2000)
Someone else on planet Earth isn't a Justin Timberlake fan. Thank you JT! You restored my faith in humanity.
Imagine having the same initials...
I really love this series, you can tell how much effort you guys put into these. I love the way that theses videos have all been done, they are insightful, you can learn from them and they are also really funny. Thank you.
These videos are so well made. Thank you for putting so much effort into these. They're incredibly entertaining
Thank you so much, JTCurtis & friends. What a good work!!!
Been waiting for this one! Great work man and thank you for putting in the time to do this. These videos need to be in the Library of Congress.
I have been waiting for this one for a long time. Great show guys 👏👏👏
Just finished watching all the episodes back to back (even the extra episode and introduction ) I really liked all the episodes and learned about bands I never heard before , thanks for the episodes
Subscribed very early with your channel and all I can say is it just gets better and better. Great show!!!
Good summary. This show reminds me of those music shows on VH1 in the early 2000s. I might need to subscribe soon. Keep it up!!
just finished watching your whole series. Awesome job! you deserve more subs and views. I'll be spreading the videos around to my music students and my social media.
I just discovered the series this week and will also be sharing them. Fun and entertaining!!
Nicely done!!! Great production and loved the segments. Reminded me of bands I hadn’t thought of in a while. Nice Avril spot Ashley!
Thanks Amanda!
Avenged Sevenfold is definitely one of my favorite metal bands of the 00s! City of Evil is a fantastic album! They actually started out metalcore. Sounds of the Seventh Trumpet isn't that great of an album compared to their other albums, but their second album Waking the Fallen is awesome! After that, they were just heavy metal. However, my favorite metalcore bands are Trivium, As I Lay Dying, Dillinger Escape Plan, and Underoath.
I just finished binge watching all your "History" videos by the decades. I am unchanged in my opinion that nothing has been worth listening to since the mid eighties, however, I will say that your presentations were first rate. They were informative, entertaining and although a bit contrived at times, definitely worth watching. Two thumbs up.
You should absolutely do the 2010s. There are still a lot of great bands, even if you have to branch out to the roots rock revival guys like the Bellfuries, Nathaniel Rateliff and the Nightsweats, the Rhythm Shakers, and the Alabama Shakes.
It's still difficult to gauge their popularity in relation to the decade. Alabama Shakes definitely had some attention a few years back, but I haven't really from them since. And The Rhythm Shakers and Bellfuries I've never heard of at all. In fact they haven't even broken 1 million views on any youtube video or have any wikipedia page. It's basically the problem I run into in getting into more of these indie bands.
@@JTCurtisMusic fair enough. It's a shame though, because there's definitely a lot of talent out there, but it's so hard for any rock bands to break out these days. Anyway, I love the stuff you put out. Though I can't help, but be disappointed it the lag of Devo and Aerosmith, but I get it.
@@pettyofficerwelch Devo was a copyright issue. In retrospect Aerosmith might have gotten overshadowed by so many other artists in the 70s. Great band though, no doubt about it.
Cant wait bro. I love this series so much. Love from indonesia
Oo really? I am indonesian too
I Love these videos, it’s so obvious that you guys put a TON of effort and time into them! Keep it it up!
Damn. This gives me childhood nostalgia. Fallen by evanescence and life for rent by Dido or two albums that my mom would play to help me fall asleep when I was really young
One thing from the 2010s that’s good is astronoid. They’re a post metal band from Massachusetts and the their Air album was awesome
Even though I'm not really the biggest fan of the early 2000s music really I think this still so be interesting to look at as kind of a Time castle and they were some good bands in the early 2000s who this could be like what we should take from the decade and what we shouldn't
Another band you need to talk about from the 2010s is King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, they’re really one of the only popular prog band still putting out albums today, and Nonagon Infinity is one of the best prog and psychedelic albums ever
I love these videos 'bout the history of Rock & Roll. There are a few gems in the 2000s until now: The Black Keys with their great Blues for example.
It does feel like heavy metal was slightly under-represented. Great video as always. I say do the 2010s just to cover all bases. It will probably be more like a retrospect last decade's music, and perhaps if there's any hope. A fee suggestions. Lady Gaga, Foo Fighter's documentary, Beyonce's protest song, Weird Al mandatory fun, Imagine Dragons... Billie Eilish? Okay, good or bad, I am struggling to think of acts/topics.
I would agree! Heavy metal doesn't really get the respect that it truly deserves from the mainstream media unfortunately! Sad but true! Metal actually has gone extreme already since the mid to late 80s-early 90s, starting with black metal and death metal.
thank you so much for this!!
Your 2010s video should definitely include Royal Blood and more Muse.
This series is just awesome
Great video love the effort
Love your videos, I've shared them all in my FB groups (I own a couple of Dozen) for different genres
A 2010 history of rock and roll would be very nice, but I would also love to see you do a history of music series or if it's too broad a subject, maybe a history of pop? Basically, I love what you're doing and I want more :)
The 2010s should be talked about even if rock didn't flourish as much.
Saying Coldplay sounded like U2 on valium had me dieing. 😂funny as hell, im stealing it!
Kanye West actually didn’t use auto tune as much people think he did. Even when he did it was done pretty well with him adding some 808s. Good video Kurtis. Big fan
Hit me with the 2010's and DO NOT FORGET the Legendary mordecai and the rigby's.
The very brief mention of Nightwish was nice and unexpected, they're my favorite all-time band
I wasn’t paying attention to the music being released during the 2000s, but still, I enjoyed this video.
Looking at this video in retrospective, I don’t think rock had died, more so, mainstream rock was dying, with pop punk already being popular in the late 90’s, some indie, underground acts started to gain momentum in the 2000’s.
Despite that, these artists didn’t have the public’s attention or the sudden legacy some of the more popular artists gained.
Which is why I think we should check artists like: The Microphones, Have a Nice Life, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Flaming Lips and even others you mentioned like Interpol, Queens of the Stones Age and Modest Mouse.
Another thing I’d like to mention is that you said that all of the rock doesn’t sound bluesy anymore, a characteristic spotted in the early years of rock and while I too myself love blues rock, the genres change overtime and what once was a part of the genre might be totally scrapped by others because they simply want to create their own sounds, worlds and music. I also think hip hop has been going through drastic changes, what once was popular in the 90’s like gangsta rap and hardcore hip hop is now reduced and we hear more trap influenced music, things just change!
another great episode! Can't wait for the 2010s
Brian Setzer had some kickass stuff during this decade
Brian Setzer did 2 Christmas albums and a tribute album to Sun Records, which is extremely awesome!
If you ever do a 2010's episode, I think you should consider including Tyler Bryant & the Shakedown. Even if it's just a 10-second clip from a music video I think they're worth a mention.
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Thank you JT for your history of Rock & Roll clips. I just binge-watched all of them (50s to 2000s) - really a very nice compilation and well produced!!!! I would have appreciated it if you had honored one of the best bands ever (or a least in the 2000s in my view) a little more: SYSTEM OF A DOWN. Best regards from Switzerland
Great video JT! Totally worth the wait! I do point out a few omissions from 2008 like
“Don’t Stop” by Innerpartysystem (a sleeper hit that’s seeing a big re-evaluation as of late)
the Death Magnetic album by Metallica
“You’re Gonna Go Far Kid” by The Offspring
2009 could be about Green Day’s 21st Century Breakdown
Now, if there are rock albums from the 2010s worth talking about...
- Wasting Light (Foo Fighters)
- The Next Day / Blackstar (David Bowie)
- Battle Born (The Killers)
- Infestissumam / Meliora (Ghost)
- Seal the Deal and Let’s Boogie (Volbeat)
Perhaps you could talk about the trend of Zeppelin aping bands such as Rival Sons, The Temperance Movement and of course, Greta Van Fleet
On a darker note, you could talk about the rockstar deaths of 2015-2018: Scott Weiland, Lemmy, David Bowie, Glenn Frey, Prince, Leonard Cohen, then Chris Cornell, Chester Bennington and Dolores O’Riordan.
There would definitely be a memoriam section for the 2010s. 2016 alone was an awful year.
I grew up in the era and discovered my love for alternative and nu metal. Man I miss Lincoln Park that music got me through my younger years and man I was emo as hell back then 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
If I would have added a record to this list, it'd have been Bee Gees' This Is Where I Come In. It was their last release and had a much more stripped down, acoustic sound that someone I know likened to Three Doors Down.
I absolutely love your videos and have watched all of them from the 50's to you last video! However, (and i know I'm the outcast for saying this) but I disagree with you on your views on how you say "the 2000's in rock sucked". Now i know the 2000's weren't alot of peoples cup of tea and that you are of course entitled to your own opinion but 2000's rock music was very special for a lot of people and take us back to very fond memories of the past through the music! I am also aware that alot of bands were super corporate as well, but isn't that what it was for bands through the decades as well? With that being said, i think you should absolutely work on a video about the 2010's and if you wanted I could even help you! Thats the beautiful thing about music, it's subjective. It changes and isn't that exciting to see where it all goes? Even now, with rock in the 2010's, you can see loads of singers and bands influenced by musicians and bands from the past, using those influences in their projects and making it into their own style! Harry Styles solo music for example (he uses early 70's influences) or current music in the early 2020's, a lot of bands are taking pop-punk and skate-punk influences from the early 2000's and using it in their music (with the help of travis barker producing almost everything in sight lol) Anyway, i LOVE your videos, keep them up and i hope you see this comment because I would be so happy to have a conversation with you and where music is going, from one music obsessed person to the next! Have a good one!
Thank you for the compliment and offering a unique POV. It's interesting, the public opinion about 2000s rock seemed to change instantaneously AS we were doing this video. As I said, if this was for your generation what Nirvana was to mine, it's totally understood. At the end of the day, I have to give my two cents and it's still just not for me. And like I said, it's VERY hard to be subjective when this was the era I had the most interaction with the music industry and saw the "Corporate" nature of everything.
@@JTCurtisMusic for sure! i completely understand where you're coming from and respect it! I hope you do a 2010's video (whenever that comes up, lol no rush!) because i'm interested in your opinion on where you think the music industry is heading? Anyway, thanks for the reply!
Here's a crazy fact that I didn't know until now! Tim Armstrong of Rancid won a Grammy with Pink. The song was called Trouble. It was supposed to be Rancid's song on Indestructible, but it didn't make the cut, so Armstrong gave the song to Pink. There were some changes here and there, but it ended with great success. However it only hit 68 on the Billboard Hot 100. If Pink were to release a rock album, that would be very interesting 🧐. Just saying that because Dolly Parton did a rock album. Kelly Clarkson doing a rock album would be interesting too.
As someone born in 2003, I wanna at least give my take on 2010s rock, even if I'm not an expert on what's super popular/influential, or what specifically constitutes rock (as you mentioned in this, the lines defining what "is" or "isn't" rock got kinda blurred for my generation). My parents were also teens during the 70s/80s, so my tastes have probably been influenced by them, to some extent, which you can take as you will. (I actually watched this series with my dad, because he wanted me to understand his definition of “rock”) Because of that confusion, some of these artists/songs I list might not actually be rock, and I’m sorry about that, I genuinely don’t know how to distinguish it at this point, if such a method even exists.
Anywho, I could start with all the big pop artists but I figured those would be kinda obvious (not to mention more likely to go off topic), so I’ll mostly just stick to ones I like/would be sad if they didn’t get mentioned. I also tried to look up specifics of album/release year for the songs I remembered, but for full transparency, most of these I just remembered in isolation tbh, since I don’t usually follow artists, I just find a few tracks I latch onto and stick to those usually sorry.
*Fall Out Boy* - _Save Rock And Roll_ album (2013), my personal favorite was _Phoenix,_ but I know _Light Em Up_ was really popular. _American Beauty/American Psycho_ (2015), main songs that stick out in my memories are _Centuries, Uma Thurman,_ and _Immortals_ (i think i mostly knew that last one was bc it was in Big Hero 6, tbh).
*Twenty One Pilots* - I did a ukulele cover of _Can’t Help Falling In Love_ for my school talent show bc they did. Other than that, I think _Blurryface_ (2015) is the main album I know of, it had one of the 4 songs I ever actually bought off iTunes back in middle school, _The Judge._ That was probably my favorite song of theirs, although I also liked _Tear in My Heart,_ but I think the main two most popular at the time were probably _Stressed Out_ and _Heathens._
*Panic! At the Disco* - Need to mention because #2 of the Four Only Songs I Bought Back Then, _This Is Gospel_ from _Too Weird to Live, Too Rare to Die!_ (2013).
*Marina and the Diamonds* - Spot #3 in that list, _Are You Satisfied_ from her debut album, _The Family Jewels_ (2010). Honestly you should do a 2010s video for her sake if nothing else tbh. The other two from that album I really liked were _I Am Not A Robot_ and _Oh No!._ _Electra Heart_ (2012) also had _Bubblegum Bitch_ (iconic song in general imo).
*Mitski* - Lesbians will riot if you don’t mention her. _Retired from Sad, New Career in Business_ (2013) had _Strawberry Blonde,_ although admittedly I think that song mostly got popular through TikTok in 2020. I think the first I heard about her was when her song _Francis Forever_ (from the 2014 album _Bury Me at Makeout Creek)_ featured in an episode of Adventure Time, and I feel like she kinda took off in popularity after that iirc. _Be The Cowboy_ (2018) also had _Nobody,_ the song that basically carried me through 8th-10th grade.
It also might seem a bit silly, but its probably worth mentioning _Gangnam Style_ from 2012, if only as a segue into the popularity of K-pop as a whole later in the decade, although unfortunately all I can give you on that are a couple names like BTS or Blackpink, I didn’t really follow it myself.
I’m gonna use this as an opportunity to segue into J-pop/J-rock, popularized in the west in large part thanks to the growing popularity of anime. This is mostly for my own sake though, idk how popular this stuff Is outside my own circles, so you can ignore everything from here on out if you want. I’d appreciate it if you at least gave some of this stuff a try though.
If nothing else, I wanna mention *Eve.* Please watch his music videos they’re incredible. _Dramaturgy_ (2017) is the first one I watched, and probably his most popular I think. However, that one I personally consider is best watched in a particular order with a few of his other videos, specifically _Nonsense Bungaku_ (aka _Literary Nonsense,_ 2017), _then Draumaturgy,_ then _Outsider_ (2018), then finally _Last Dance_ (2018). They all connect in a way, and it's fun to watch (although admittedly not at all necessary if you don’t want to, I just think it's cool). Besides that, some of my other favorites of his (not counting the ones after 2020) are _The Secret About That Girl_ (2017), _As You Like It_ (2017), _Tokyo Ghetto_ (2018), _We’re Still Underground_ (2019), and _Raison d’être_ (2019). All the ones I mention have english subtitles on their official videos, btw, so its real easy to watch and get into any of em (although _Literary Nonsense_ only displays as japanese characters, at least for me, so just look out for the thumbnail of the b&w monochrome ink drawing of a one-eyed man in a hat and scarf looking at the screen if you’re having trouble finding it).
Besides that, a couple of other Japanese artists I like:
*Mafumafu* - High energy, sometimes lighthearted, sometimes really intense/serious. Also has fun MVs, though not quite to the extent of Eve’s. I recommend watching his songs _Merry Bad End_ and _Hello Dystopia_ (both 2018) in that order, they both work together in the story they tell.
*FAKE TYPE* - Electro-Swing mostly, but they like to experiment. I discovered their music because their composer, Dyes Iwasaki, also composed some of the music for Mad Rat Dead. They don’t have their own wiki page though so idk if I can justify talking about them any more tho rip. Trust me they’re good tho, I wanted to mention them at least.
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I laughed way too hard at this.
Such a dark but great bait and switch, brilliant.
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Forgot to mention, you should've mentioned "In Rainbows" as well, I think that's a bit more rocky than "Kid A", as well as the high praise it gets by music review publications...
Also, just as a suggestion, I recommend you to create a separate playlist that only houses the "decades episodes", along with the current playlist for "History of Rock & Roll". The current playlist for "History of Rock" just has too much side videos that it just becomes annoying to look through just to find the actual episodes.
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@@JTCurtisMusic There's still the "70s Extras" in that playlist though?
@@Urlocallordandsavior I consider that an episode (abeit a very short episode) simply because we did a full shoot for it.
Nice to see your own band perform here on your videos.
I would love to see History of Rock & Roll - The 2010s. I don't know if I can think of any artists for rock music from that decade, but I'm sure hoping I will find out what artists will be in that video.
Billy Talent is my personal favourite band of that era. Maybe you had to be there in Canada at the time? Anyway, Ian D'Sa is great at crafting memorable and intricate Drop D parts, and it's kinda cool how they fused elements of At The Drive-In with a more poppy sound for the first album, and then for the next couple albums they branched off even more to make some really melodic stuff.
Controversy alert; I really don't mind The Jonas Brothers at all. I think that they were better than a majority of the radio rock bands, except for some alternative rock, metal and pop punk bands of the 00s. And I think that they are considered power pop, and I'm a sucker for that genre! My favorite power pop band is easily The Who (1965-1970). They're around at the 6th spot since I gave more credit to The Dave Clark Five, who was on the top of their game during the British Invasion. Other than that, great stuff! And I like them more than Nickelback, but I don't really mind them as well! And I was a kid when The Jonas Brothers were around, so there is some bias on that!
I don’t even mind 1 direction tbh lol so overhated
You forgot a few bands. Shinedown, Alien Ant Farm, Crossfade, and Saliva to name a few. Great rundown overall but the previous mentioned bands were instrumental in my 20's.
For the 2010's you can talk about)
Rival Sons
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Black Country Communion
Northlane
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs
Daft Punk - "Get Lucky'
The Black Keys - Brothers/El Camino/Turn Blue/Let's Rock
Artic Monkeys - AM/Tranquility Base Hotel and Casino
The Pretty Reckless
Daughters
Ape Machine
Slash
Myles Kennedy and his Conspirators
Paramore - Paramore
Fleet Foxes
Ne Obliviscaris
Beartooth
Gojira
Kids See Ghost
Highly Suspect
Alcest
Neon Trees
Alt J
Pilot Red Sun
Nine Ice Kills
Mitski
Cold War Kids
Power Trip
Anathema - Weather Systems
Fever 333
Mayday Parade
Poppy
Mark Ronson - "Uptown Funk"
K Flay
Dirty Honey
Knocked Loose
War on Drugs
Peach Pit
Queens of the Stone Age - Like Clockwork/Villans
Foo Fighters - Wasting Light/Sonic Highways/Concrete and Gold
Melt Banana
Palaye Royale
Linkin Park
Two Door Cinema Club
Idles
Red Sun Rising
Swans - To be Kind
Foster the People
High on Fire
Badflower
Father John Misty
All That Remains
Twenty One Pilots
Iron Maiden - The Final Frontier/Book of Souls
Avenged Sevenfold
Blue Pills
Lines in the Sky
Crowbar
Wintersun
Royal Blood
Elder
Greta Van Fleet
Pineapple Thief
Bring me the Horizon
Wilderun
Rivers of Nihil
Alter Bridge
Starset
Kamelot
Rush - Clockwork Angels
Sons of Apollo
Asking Alexandrea
The 1975
Vampire Weekend
Walk the Moon - "Shut Up and Dance"
Tame Impala
Courtney Barnette
Young the Giant
Architects
Dirty Projects
Mac DeMarco
Snail Mail
Weyes Blood - Titanic Rising
Cigarettes After Sex
Gotye - "Somebody I used to Know"
The Neighbourhood
Haven
Ty Segal
Car Seat Headrest
Negative XP - Heads up his music is very controversial
Pale Waves
Echosmith - "Cool Kids"
Florence Plus Machine
Kasabian
Protest the Hero
Gary Clark Jr.
Portugal the Man
St. Vincent
Vektor
Mitski
Gorillaz
John Newman
Lovely the Band
Glass Animals
Steven Wilson
Waterparks
Neck Deep
Baroness
Radiohead - Heart Shaped Moon
Fleet Foxes
Halestorm
Cage the Elephant
Beach House
LCD Soundsystem
Hollywood Undead
Fun
Code Orange
Kasabian
Chickenfoot
Tesseract
Hozier - "Take me to Church"
Awolnation - "Sail"
Phoenix
Nothing More
Biffy Clyro
Sleep Token
Of Mice and Men
Piece the Veil
Issues
Alabama Shakes
Foals
Parkway Drive
Iceage
Holding Absence
Black Angels
Parquet Courts
MGMT
Swans - To Be Kind
Nothing But Thieves
Deerhunter
Thank You Scientist
Ninja Sex Party - They Were UA-cam Vial Sensations
Animals As Leaders
Loathe
The Fray
Black Veil Brides
Lil Peep - "Come Over when your Sober"
Motionless in White
Sleeping with Sirens
Falling in Reverse
In this Moment
Babymetal
Lana Del Ray - "Ultraviolence"
Kaleo
Oliver Tree
Ghost
Don't forget Tool - Fear Inoculum
Starcrawler
FIDLAR
And here's a list of hip hop artist to cover)
Hopsin
Ghostmane
Tyler the Creator
Ski Mask The Slump God
XXXTentaction
Mac Miller
Kendrick Lamar
Death Grips
Tom McDonald
Odd Future
Run The Jewels
Post Malone
Chance The Rapper
J Cole
Earl Sweatshirt
Joey Bada$$
Vince Staples
Frank Ocean
A$AP Rocky
Danny Brown
Childish Gambino
Flying Lotus
Bedroom Pop was another indie movement in Rock n Roll with a unique sound here's some bands to cover)
Boy Pablo
Cosmo Pyke
Gus Dapperton
Ghost Monument
Clario
Still Woozy
Cuco
Other indie rock bands to touch on)
Xui Xui
Godspeed You And The Black Emperor
The Story So Far
NCH
John 5, The Creatures
Becko
Ayron Jones
Spiritbox
Atreyu
Boygennius
Black Veil Brides, Asking Alexandria Falling In Reverse, Pierce the Veil, Sleeping With Sirens, Bring Me the Horizon and Motionless In White kept scene music alive. Out of all the bands I listed, Black Veil Brides are easily my favorite. We Stitch These Wounds is one of the best rock albums of the 2010s. An all killer, no filler record that has some influences of punk, metal, and a little bit of classical from guitarist Jinxx, who is actually classically influenced and he even plays violin. Jinxx and Jake Pitts are definitely talented guitarists.
The Hives are the best band to come out the 2000’s. The Interpol debut is a must for any post punk fan . A few bands you missed , and I realize you’re staying fairly mainstream, but here are some of my favs , Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, LCD Soundsystem,The Kills, Editors,The Walkman, Eagles of Death Metal, Doves and perhaps the best post punk album ever The Horrors 2009 release “ Primary Colours”
Most definitely do the 2010’s , best decade since the 80’s!
Cannot wait :)
1 week ago!? Feel like I been watching these things for 60 years? lol
If you need a band to talk about in the 2010s, talk about Ancient Bards, great progressive metal band with a great female vocalist
Finally it's out :)
Evanescence is my favorite 2000's band😂😍👌🏻 Y'all cannot deny Amy's hauntingly beautiful voice, and now that they have become independent artists, they are rocking more than ever!🥸
Your musician's observations about mainstream music over a 50 year period have been an interesting series to watch. There is a decidedly millennial perspective presented; which I don't share. Words stated in the video above "I stopped listening to the radio in 2005" resonated in a familiar way, since I stopped listening to the radio in 1985 for similar reasons, and agree that 2005 marks the end of any substance in commercial music production. I think you missed a lot of notable non-mainstream artists in your assessments of the 80's through early 2000's however. What we now call Alt/Indie has always existed if you knew where to look.
The industry transition away from record labels holding all the cards is a good thing. That transition actually began in the 80's but was sped up by the internet. Independent producers now have more control than ever.
The thing is this series has generally looked mostly at popular rock tunes of the day. Once you go down the rabbit hole of independent music from the 80s on, it becomes a question of "What do you include?" We did include a number of those in the 80s video that have become culturally significant. But as you said, most millennials were too young to be aware of these things in the 80s and have no basis to discuss it or even know about it. The 2010s might be the time we'll dive heaviest into the underground / internet scene (even I was a part of that) but then again it just becomes a question of "What do we include in this hour-long video?"