Damn American Idol generation and their "GOATs" and "Best Evars". Music is not a competition young lads.
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Is "Dance Macabre" by Ghost the greatest rock song in the past 10 years?
- Thread starter Bubukill
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Personally I find the song pretty boring. Nothing really going on with the guitar I haven't heard before and the solo is pretty lame. Vocals don't do anything for me and there's really nothing interesting going on with the drums.
Yeah this sounds like several songs I've already heard ten times before.
If this is the best rock song in the last 10 years then rock is in a pretty dire state. But what do I know. My favorite "rock" song from the last 10 years comes from a video game.
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I feel like if you want to look at music that's really pushing what "rock" (i.e. electric guitar-driven music) can be in terms of aural texture, composition, and/or production you have to look into metal sub-genres. Hell, the only reason Ghost became notable in the first place was because they were taking the black metal aesthetic and making pop music with camp and bombast.
Bands like Deafheaven, Kvelertak, Krallice, Myrkur, Pallbearer, Violet Cold, and A Pregnant Light are making some of the most interesting music in decades, but barely anyone brings them up when they complain about how stale rock has gotten. Like, if you just tried to listen to shit besides QOTSA and Foo Fighters on repeat, there's a whole world of really compelling, diverse music out there.
Bands like Deafheaven, Kvelertak, Krallice, Myrkur, Pallbearer, Violet Cold, and A Pregnant Light are making some of the most interesting music in decades, but barely anyone brings them up when they complain about how stale rock has gotten. Like, if you just tried to listen to shit besides QOTSA and Foo Fighters on repeat, there's a whole world of really compelling, diverse music out there.
Omg I listen to this almost daily. It's definetly my favorite QOTSA song. My dude you have excellent taste. Glad to see someone mention it lol.
rock and roll
This is also rock and roll
I guess I liked Queens of the stone age back when I was a teenager so I'm not too keen on revisiting them. Then again I haven't heard anything from them since songs for the deaf so maybe they are for me again I dunno
Anyway. That song in the OP is pretty bad and the vertical YouTube video is cringey
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i guess this is a few more than 10 years old, but still the best rock song in ages
TV on the Radio - Wolf like me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1-xRk6llh4
TV on the Radio - Wolf like me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1-xRk6llh4
anytime this song plays or gets referenced i always hope for the day QOTSA does a Bond intro song. This song i picture with one of those cool ass opening silhouette sequences
Kvelertak is another band that sadly peaked on their debut album imo. I feel like something was lost after that, not sure of what exactly.
They won a Grammy, if that amounts to anything.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Heh, I'm not knocking anyone for liking them, but it seems absurd to say "post a better song, COMMERCIAL SMASHES ONLY!!"
I don't even like this band and don't see what everyone else seems to hear in this album lol. Different strokes and all but still.
Ayyy now we're talking.
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Another strong contender is this one imo. Great message, one of the most powerful songs I heard in ages. Raw energy.
You really should listen to that posted QotSA song if you haven't already. It's more "mature" if you will than most of their older stuff. Still some attitude but it's..more moody, so to speak.I like that album even more than Songs for the Deaf.
Thanks my dude, same haha. That song has pretty much everything. Could write a way too long text about what I like about it. I also love John Frusciante but he stopped making music, sadly. :(
You really should listen to that posted QotSA song if you haven't already. It's more "mature" if you will than most of their older stuff. Still some attitude but it's..more moody, so to speak.I like that album even more than Songs for the Deaf.
Mier has "Nekrokosmos" so I dunno. Nattesferd was cool; it felt like they were trying to write more melodically interesting songs instead of just more kvlt party metal. I'll still pay attention to whatever they put out next idk.
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I didn't say that means they're good, but that they are mainstream enough. The post suggested that "don't post some underground thing from a unknown artist" from the OP could apply to Ghost as well.
First time I've heard of them or the song and christ that is god awful. Also not what I was expecting to hear given the images in the OP lol.
Seriously this shit sounds like the jonas brothers trying to look like King Diamond but they're unable to gain the type of edge needed for that kind of music.
Seriously this shit sounds like the jonas brothers trying to look like King Diamond but they're unable to gain the type of edge needed for that kind of music.
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I gave Ghost a try but they don't really do anything that Misfits and Mercyful Fate didn't do better. Pretty toothless to be honest.
I'm seeing them live in December in Laval and I can't fucking wait!
It's the worst song in that album hahaha It sounds like one of my father's 80's rock tapes, horrible.
Now, Life Eternal, now that's a GOAT ballad.
Now, Life Eternal, now that's a GOAT ballad.
Today was the first day I really absorbed Life Eternal and it's also pretty good.
This is just a modern 80s rock song
Its not different or new, so no
Do I Wanna Know by AM
Or
Nuclear by Mike Oldfield
Its not different or new, so no
Do I Wanna Know by AM
Or
Nuclear by Mike Oldfield
I can get behind this.
Dance Macabre isn't even Ghost's best song
Fuck this song and "Champions." I've been a FOB fan since 2004, even have one of their lyrics tatted on me, and this song is utter shit. I like their new album, though.
Simplistic, no; safe, yes, at least in my book.
Some of my friends are into them and I've tried to understand why, but it just doesn't resonate with me emotionally; there's no bite to it.
No its an average song at best, rock or otherwise. Prequelle as a whole seems like a disappointment.
In the last ten years there has been some amazing rock. All of Ghosts albums fall into that period and I wouldn't even consider that song to be in the running as one of their best songs.
In the last ten years there has been some amazing rock. All of Ghosts albums fall into that period and I wouldn't even consider that song to be in the running as one of their best songs.
What no. I've never heard of it before this thread. And it doesn't compare to other songs from bands that are better known. Even bands I don't like have better songs and better known ones.
I know right??
Like we all know Get In The Mine Shaft is the best song ever
Real talk the beat "rock" song of the last 10 years is "pride" by Manchester orchestra.
There are much better quality videos out there but I chose this one because I dont want to debate whether this band is "big" or not.
Also cope is the second best rock song of the decade:
There are much better quality videos out there but I chose this one because I dont want to debate whether this band is "big" or not.
Also cope is the second best rock song of the decade:
Your thread asks " is Dance Macabre the best rock song of the past decade". While what music one enjoys is subjective, you're asking for people to weigh it against other music that's released in that time frame. I could post entire albums, even bands discographies that are all far stronger than Dance Macabre. There are elements of songwriting and instrumentation that one can critique and form a critical opinion around.
From a lyrical standpoint, the song is pretty uninspired, it's use of wordplay is that of a middle schooler and has had less effort put into it than the majority of modern day pop music, which is already generally considered to be bottom of the barrel. While there isn't anything wrong with simple music, you want it to at least look like you spent more than 15 minutes writing lyrics.
The instrumentation is fine, it does what it needs to do, but it 80's arena rock revival isn't lushing boundaries or doing anything that hasn't been done before, and far better by the likes of Judas Priest and their contemporaries. Rock music of the past 10 years (30 years really)has made an attempt to evolve and diversify beyond that sound and era and as a result there are hundreds of artists and bands, new and old doing things far beyond the abilities of anything Ghost has put down.
Some examples include:
Alice in Chains
Arctic Monkey's
Iggy Pop
Mastodon
Tame Impala
Weezer
Glass Animals
Cage the Elephant
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizzard
Queens of the Stone Age
All of the above and many more have released far more interesting, well written, critically successful music deserving of praise in the past decade moreso than anything Ghost has done.
And don't get me wrong, I like Ghost (at least prior to Prequelle), I've seen them live. But anyone that frequents rock music should know that they hold no candle to anything that's being done in the genre right now.
It's probably some foo fighters song if we're talking commercially. I think the best newish rock band out there has to be royal blood though.