Of course they sell more than current bands. Current bands suck and do nothing but recycle - poorly - things their grandparents’ generation did with more style and edge.
Show me ANY current band with the guts and talent to put together something like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1xrNaTO1bI
... and I’d thank you profusely as I ain’t heard one in a very long time
Yeah, I’m not surprised they are a big touring hit this year. They aren’t exactly Slayer or Motörhead as far as talent during that era goes, but I remember their music growing up the 80s, and I didn’t really hate it like I dig other popular bands such as Wham! and miserable junk like that. Depeche Mode was always acceptable in some odd way for this metalhead along with Violent Femmes and The Smiths to some extent.
U2 came in at #1 with $316MM, followed by Guns N' Roses, ($292.5MM), Coldplay ($238MM), Bruno Mars ($200.1MM), and Metallica ($152.8MM).
DM's haul of $141.1MM bested 7th place Paul McCartney's $132MM though Macca played fewer shows and charged almost twice per ticket on average.
As for anyone who declares that today's music sucks, I would ask: when was the last time you listened to a contemporary music channel on the radio like Underground Garage on XM or LEFT YOUR HOME and went to a local bar and paid $10 to see 6 unsigned bands? Yea most of them will suck, but you WILL see some good talent and if you can part with $15 for a shirt and CD you'd be engaging in the destructive waves of capitalism. Othwerise we are doomed to Lady Gaga being piped over the sound system of your local grocery store in 10 years.
There is a type of music out there today that is insidious and prevalent. It appeals to pre-teen and teen girls, I guess. I don’t even know what genre it would be called. It’s so awful I don’t think it has genre. It is ubiquitous, though. I hear it at the gym. In restaurants. In stores. There’s no escaping it. (I don’t want to put any on this thread as this music to follow are things I enjoy.)
Still there are people out there, IMO, that are putting out new and interesting things. Things that one can sing to. Things with original lyrics. People that are actually playing instruments.
I don’t know any “new” band too extensively, but I have things from the 2000s+ that I definitely like. Save for one or two below, most of these musicians below have several offerings that I enjoy.
New Slang by The Shins (2001):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LclWam53uuo
How it Ends by Devotchka (2004):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ewCzb-HLM4
Sometime Around Midnight by Airborne Toxic Event (2008):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSMuyI6XPv8
Uprising by Muse (2009):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KQmps-Sog
Dog Days are Over by Florence and the Machine (2009):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMuCME6Oewk
Papillon by The Editors (2009):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7u2ui7EOis
Cough Syrup by Young the Giant (2010):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9E3p9mzkj9M
Dirty Paws by Of Monsters and Men (2011):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imgImaBleNw
Sail by AWOL Nation (2012):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tgIqecROs5M
Hero by Family of the Year (2012):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fynl_6Havpw
Flapper Girl by the Lumineers (2012):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4du5yIhkMLc
All the Little Lights by Passenger (2012):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkxVxox—Io
Kansas City performed by Marcus Mumford and friends (2014):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X3hdFWmerQ
Mess is Mine by Vance Joy (2014):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJDB0FDJDDU
Hollow Tune by Brick and Mortar (2014):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgoAD0PhpME
Black Sun by Death Cab for Cutie (2015):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrX6zARaIHY
Heathens by Twenty-one Pilots (2016):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UprcpdwuwCg
Sign of the Times by Harry Styles (2017):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN4ooNx77u0
And last by certainly not least, Radiohead isn’t exactly brand spanking new, but they are genius, IMO:
All I Need (2007):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioPDGJIf2QI
For intensity and feeling, I’d put this up there with Depeche Mode.
And this one by them is frickin’ brilliant:
Man of War (1997 and 2017)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXP1KdZX4io
Same with this:
I Promise (1997)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sFvFVkeGVg
Anyway, I could go on for **way too long**. I think I already did. ;)
Never listened to much Depeche Mode but listened to this for the first time. A fair song, but seems to be more of a call to faith. Are they a Christian band?