So one is not as the others, but I truly love that song (and miss Israel Kamakawiwoʻole)

Just wanted to join the pile-on

Let's see...good songs and potential "classics" from the past 10 years...

I don't know if any will become "classics". I just don't see them as being that great. Most of today's music, well...it sucks. I used to think it was just me, but I've seen younger people say the same thing in the comments they leave on classic You Tube videos of older music. Many of them wish they could have been around when "our" music was popular.

OK, that having been said, there are a few songs I really do like...

I'm adding that one to my iTunes! I like your first one by The Heavy, too.

That was filmed in New Orleans & that's Irma Thomas!

I saw Irma perform at a nightclub in New Orleans. My friends & I had a table in front of the stage & I was singing along with all her songs. At the end of the show she invited us into her dressing room & she was so sweet to us. I've always been a big fan of hers; love her old music. I don't know how well her music is known in other parts of the country, but it would be a shame if her music never made it outside of her hometown.

One of the finest ever. Thanks for the video!

I have a hard time listening to the new stuff.

Just about anything they do. I really like these guys and I think their rock is classic.

and judge the artist versus the individual work

Thus, I am still listening to:

Bill Nelson

& not all are what I'd term as rock & roll, but I liked these songs enough to buy the CD:

Just about that whole album had every song a classic to my mind.
The first song, "What It Is" was worth the price of the album alone.
The guest appearances by James Taylor, Van Morrison and Sting didn't hurt, either.

OK, it came out in 2000, so now it's almost 12 years old, but at our age, who's counting, right?

I saw him 3 times. I even have a studio quality version of a concert I was at in 2005! The last time I saw him he played "Hill Farmer's Blues" and "Marbletown". Two lesser known songs and he Rocked them big time!

I thought I was the only Knopfer fan out there...... Lol

Back in the old DU, there were more. In May 2008, I had to run over to America for the weekend, found
myself, completely unplanned, at a small private gathering with no less than Howard Dean and Al Gore,
and mentioned that I had to get back to Germany because my wife and I had tickets for a Mark Knopfler
concert in Köln on Monday night, and at least five posters said they were at least as jealous over the Mark
Knopfler concert as they were about hanging with Howard and Al Gore (Howard is an old friend, but I've
only met Gore twice).

Knopfler opened that night with "What it is" and we were floating from then on right up until the last encore
which was--of course--"Money For Nothing."

First of all the early 90's (I know that is more than 10 years ago) is vastly underrated in terms of great eras of rock n roll - coming out of the hair band era (thank you Nirvana) allowed for great musicians to be heard (thank you REM et al for keeping alt rock alive).

My DJ friend at work turned me on to Cheap Girls on his show last night - pretty good.

that the really good stuff died off by 1995 or so.

Sometimes I really wonder about a lot of more modern music. It just always seems so....un-melodic.

Nothing but a bunch of noise...like kids smashing their parents' pots and pans together while they screech unintelligible lyrics out in a naselly tone of voice.

yech

Holiday -- Green Day

The way mass media has shaped up in these ensuing 44 years pretty much reinforces this sentiment. I don't think there will be many, if any, "classics" that grow out of the last, say, 30 years.....everything is more evanescent - we're living in an age of temporary.

and it makes a lot of sense, actually.

It's always seemed that the music which has stuck around a long time more or less did so because it was the "anthem" for a particular generation.

My parents had the music of the 40s. Songs back then (and even into the 50s) didn't spend just a week or two on the Top Ten list. They were popular for a very long time.

The 50s had their own music...Rock and Roll was becoming popular. Kids were openly rebelling.

The 60s...well, there's a whole bunch of music that really DID become an anthem for my generation.

After that...well...I think the larger issues behind the music slowed down and it just didn't seem to express the same emotions it once did.

And....IMO anyway...it started to sound rather discordant by the mid 1990s. I like melodies, even in R & R. Lots of instrumental layering...listen and you'll hear violins here...drums over there...organ or piano... guitar.

I guess what I'm saying is that I like music that's symphonic, and I rarely hear that these days...Oh, and singers who can actually sing without sounding like they're growling or screeching like animals.

SPEARHEAD : http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=spearhead&oq=spearhead&aq=0&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=1&gs_upl=6691l8793l0l17315l9l9l0l3l3l0l180l822l0.6l6l0

take your pick.

Not so much the classic song though but more tha ll around music scene is ten times more diverse now than it used to be.

I think the 90's made a richer contribution to rock n roll. I'm a child of the 70's and I listen mostly to 80's/90's. I think rap and pop have been bigger the last decade.

Not sure if it's 00's rock, but I heard a bootleg of Lincoln Park performing Points of Authority live and was really impressed with that.