You have 10 seconds to name a rock band from the last 25 years that is both critically acclaimed and culturally relevant. Please note that commercial success is not synonymous with cultural relevance.
Impossible Mode: No Nirvana.
Oh wait, you can't.
R.I.P Rock
Please note:
>The Strokes, Arctic Monkeys, Queens of the Stone Age, The Mars Volta, Franz Ferdinand, The Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer, Oasis, Bloc Party, The Libertines, Blur, Pulp, Suede, and Interpol are not culturally relevant, all of them are fad artists associated with a certain 3-5 year timespan with no real longevity or standing cultural relevancy. You're not going to hear their music being played at a high school dance or have a large number of normies sharing them on Facebook the way you would a contemporary hip hop artist like Drake or Kendrick Lamar
>Jack White is not a culturally relevant artist. Seven Nation Army may be a culturally relevant track but having only one culturally relevant track indicates a lack of longevity and thus a lack of cultural relevance as artists.
>Muse, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Tool, Kings of Leon, The Black Keys, Pearl Jam, Green Day, My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Blink-182, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, Mumford & Sons, and Red Hot Chili Peppers are not critically acclaimed.
>The Flaming Lips, Sufjan Stevens, Tame Impala, The National, The Hold Steady, Dinosaur Jr, Deerhunter, Mac DeMarco, Porcupine Tree, Beach House, Ween, Titus Andronicus, Bon Iver, Pixies, Spoon, Pavement and Modest Mouse are far too niche to be considered culturally relevant. This is also true for all metal.
>R.E.M., Bruce Springsteen, and U2 have not been critically acclaimed in the last 25 years.
>LCD Soundsystem, Radiohead and Arcade Fire are not rock bands
probably tylo be chillin
>>63838292
charli XCX
The Frogs
Steve Earle
Metallica
>This is also true for all metal.
Cracks me up every time.
This shitpost should be fused with poseurcore shitposting. It would be grand.
>>63838292
Almost all of those bands you listed as "not critically acclaimed" are shit, but they've definitely received their share of acclaim from major publications.
Overall, you're pushing your definition of "both critically acclaimed and culturally relevant" a bit too far, or about as far as necessary to justify your shitty point, which you already contradicted with Nirvana.
4/10 got me to reply
System of a Down
thanks for this thread
i fucking hate kiss
they are sooo old
i only listen to modern music and non mainstream-shit.
Tame Impala and Radiohead
>too niche
Which is why they were nominated for Grammy? Fuck off
>not rock
See OK Computer. Fuck off
>>63838292
Oh god not this again
>>63838292
Young Thug