Rock Today
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- The Basics
There are those who say modern rock is too reliant on the past, that it's a hit-or-miss mish-mash of everything that came before, lacking magnificence and power . . . but we couldn't disagree more. Post-millennial rock has smashed up all former pigeon holes and reformed the remnants into something far more eclectic, trail-blazing and glorious, from the hard, emo-driven Welsh rock of Lostprophets ("Where We Belong") to tuneful Scots noise-mongers Biffy Clyro ("Mountains") and stateside alt superstars 30 Seconds to Mars ("Kings and Queens"). And supergroup Them Crooked Vultures harnesses the past (Led Zeppelin's John Paul Jones on bass) and the present (Dave Grohl and Josh Homme) to shape the future.
Steel Panther will split your ear drums and your sides, in Next Steps.£20.37 The Basics
Parental AdvisoryName Artist Time Price 1 Rope Foo Fighters 4:19 £0.99 View In iTunes 2 Undefeated Def Leppard 4:40 £0.99 View In iTunes 3 Stay Down Revoker 3:27 £0.79 View In iTunes 4 ExplicitGet Up! (feat. Skrillex) Korn 3:42 £0.99 View In iTunes 5 The Ancient Covenant The Faceless 4:01 £0.79 View In iTunes 6 I Know How to Die Motörhead 3:19 £0.99 View In iTunes 7 The Path The Soulless 3:25 £0.79 View In iTunes 8 Cocaine Duff McKagan's Loaded 4:13 £0.79 View In iTunes 9 Free Twin Atlantic 3:26 £0.79 View In iTunes 10 Steal Your Heart Away Whitesnake 5:19 £0.79 View In iTunes 11 Shed Title Fight 2:16 £0.79 View In iTunes 12 Warning Skindred 3:50 £0.79 View In iTunes 13 The Hating Lake of Tears 4:37 £0.79 View In iTunes 14 Obsessions Now Effigies While Heaven Wept 4:37 £0.99 View In iTunes 15 Pandemonium In Legend 3:44 £0.79 View In iTunes 16 Standing On the Edge of the Noise Beady Eye 2:53 £0.99 View In iTunes 17 Within My Heart Dead By April 3:24 £0.99 View In iTunes 18 Hear Me Now Hollywood Undead 3:34 £0.99 View In iTunes 19 Help Is On the Way Rise Against 3:57 £0.99 View In iTunes 20 Dear Insanity Asking Alexandria 3:09 £0.99 View In iTunes 21 Mountains (Live from Wembley Arena) Biffy Clyro 3:25 £0.99 View In iTunes 22 Out of My Mind WhoCares, Jason Newsted, Tony Iommi, Jon Lord, Linde Lindström, Nicko McBrain & Ian Gillan 5:18 £0.79 View In iTunes 23 Willing Times of Grace 3:23 £0.79 View In iTunes Total: 23 Songs - Next Steps
At the casino of modern rock, you roll your dice and you ride your luck — with one throw you might come up with revered leviathans like Kiss (who made 2009's flamin' "Modern Day Delilah" their first single release in 11 years) or Bon Jovi (still rattlin' stadium walls with "Superman Tonight"); the next might deliver American Idol old-boy Chris Daughtry (fronting the band that bears his surname on "No Surprise") or hard-hitting rock/electronica hybrid specialists Kasabian (celebrating "Vlad the Impaler"). Steel Panther, a product of the Sunset Strip like so many of their hair metal forebears, walks the line between homage and parody with supreme assurance on "Community Property", and Plan B plants a flag somewhere between soul, rock and rap on the bone-crunching "Stay Too Long".
New bands make a bid for your loyalty, and their currency is rock . . . in Deep Cuts.£18.77 Next Steps
Parental AdvisoryName Artist Time Price 1 ExplicitAfterworld CKY 4:38 £0.79 View In iTunes 2 Santo Domingo Jon Fratelli 3:01 £0.99 View In iTunes 3 For He's a Jolly Good Felon (L'Amour la Morgue Rinse and ReFix Edition) Lostprophets 5:33 £0.79 View In iTunes 4 Teenager Mona 2:55 £0.99 View In iTunes 5 Ain't Fit to Live Here Graveyard 3:05 £0.99 View In iTunes 6 Learn to Live Architects 4:01 £0.79 View In iTunes 7 Spoon Boris 4:16 £0.79 View In iTunes 8 Darkest Hours Stratovarius 4:10 £0.79 View In iTunes 9 Overexposure Sick of Sarah 3:25 £0.79 View In iTunes 10 Arecibo (Long Distance Calling) Long Distance Calling 5:53 £0.79 View In iTunes 11 Bang Benedictum 4:30 £0.79 View In iTunes 12 Breaking Through Cauldron 4:55 £0.79 View In iTunes 13 Whales Scale the Summit 6:28 £0.79 View In iTunes 14 Serenade of Flames Serenity 4:55 £0.79 View In iTunes 15 Shades of Grey Mercenary 5:34 £0.79 View In iTunes 16 Live to Rock Sideburn 3:26 £0.79 View In iTunes 17 The Great God Pan Blood Ceremony 7:30 £0.79 View In iTunes 18 Katrine Live Fire & Ken Hensley 4:31 £0.79 View In iTunes 19 Sing My Chemical Romance 4:30 £0.59 View In iTunes 20 ExplicitSick Bubblegum Rob Zombie 3:44 £0.99 View In iTunes 21 All Fired Up The Beautiful Sleazy 2:23 £0.79 View In iTunes 22 KISS Tried to Kill Me Black Spiders 4:26 £0.79 View In iTunes 23 Pure Radio Cosplay ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead 5:26 £0.79 View In iTunes Total: 23 Songs - Deep Cuts
By now, your ears should be ringing like the devil's own air raid sirens to the fire-stormin' sounds of today's rock, but who's going to activate your hyperdrive and send you hurtling at warp velocity into the future? How about Midlands metal warriors Voodoo Johnson, whose assured EP Into the Red, featuring "Seven Years", anticipates great things to come, or perhaps Black Spiders: early work has drawn favourable comparison to the likes of Black Sabbath and AC/DC, and their motto is "Eat thunder, s**t lightning" . . . which accurately captures the experience of listening to "Stay Down". Manchester's Hayabusa, on the other hand, threaten to move the inside of your brain to the outside, with promising volt-crankers like "78".
£21.36 Deep Cuts
Parental AdvisoryName Artist Time Price 1 A Danger to Myself and Others Most Precious Blood 3:11 £0.79 View In iTunes 2 Colour of the Bear Mojo Fury 2:35 £0.79 View In iTunes 3 So Quarrelsome Can't Bear This Party 3:17 £0.79 View In iTunes 4 The End of It All Sirenia 4:31 £0.99 View In iTunes 5 Shake Me Down Cage the Elephant 3:31 £0.79 View In iTunes 6 Pyro Kings of Leon 4:10 £0.99 View In iTunes 7 Road Zombie Social Distortion 2:21 £0.79 View In iTunes 8 All American Nightmare Hinder 3:17 £0.99 View In iTunes 9 Run and Hide Maker 3:32 £0.79 View In iTunes 10 Sleeping Witch Royal Thunder 5:58 £0.79 View In iTunes 11 ExplicitUsed to Be a Cop Drive-By Truckers 7:05 £0.99 View In iTunes 12 ExplicitSet the World On Fire The King Blues 2:43 £0.99 View In iTunes 13 Black Thorn Flatfoot 56 3:21 £0.99 View In iTunes 14 Undertow Mr. Big 4:48 £0.79 View In iTunes 15 Deadliest Catch Lower Than Atlantis 3:40 £0.79 View In iTunes 16 The Waiting Room We Are the Ocean 3:34 £0.99 View In iTunes 17 Effigy Urge Overkill 3:43 £0.79 View In iTunes 18 Torture Rival Sons 3:35 £0.79 View In iTunes 19 Young Summer Paige 3:10 £0.79 View In iTunes 20 Apartment Young the Giant 3:55 £0.99 View In iTunes 21 Just Tonight The Pretty Reckless 2:48 £0.99 View In iTunes 22 Bittersweet Memories Bullet for My Valentine 5:08 £0.99 View In iTunes 23 We've Got a Situation Here The Damned Things 4:26 £0.99 View In iTunes 24 Closer to the Edge 30 Seconds to Mars 4:33 £0.99 View In iTunes Total: 24 Songs - Complete Set
As the 21st Century picks up a fearsome head of steam, rock continues to evolve with mind-blowing sophistication, driven in part by retro rocket fuel, but never a slave to its groundbreaking ancestry. Sure, you'll find flecks of the current decade's predominant rock movements — emo, digital rock, metalcore — embedded in the sonic wallpaper we've called Rock Today Essentials, but the common thread here is the ear-draining, brain-melting eclecticism of our selection. You'll find faith-based Paramore ("Brick by Boring Brick") emoting passionately alongside nasty old Rob Zombie ("What?"); the grand gestures of Muse ("Uprising") next to the tangled asides of Vampire Weekend ("Cousins"); and weirdo Belgian experimentalists (Creature With the Atom Brain) alongside punchy Australian pub rockers (Hell City Glamours). You want today's rock now? Don't put it off till tomorrow. Or it'll be yesterday.
£60.50 Complete Set
Parental AdvisoryName Artist Time Price 1 Rope Foo Fighters 4:19 £0.99 View In iTunes 2 Undefeated Def Leppard 4:40 £0.99 View In iTunes 3 Stay Down Revoker 3:27 £0.79 View In iTunes 4 ExplicitGet Up! (feat. Skrillex) Korn 3:42 £0.99 View In iTunes 5 The Ancient Covenant The Faceless 4:01 £0.79 View In iTunes 6 I Know How to Die Motörhead 3:19 £0.99 View In iTunes 7 The Path The Soulless 3:25 £0.79 View In iTunes 8 Cocaine Duff McKagan's Loaded 4:13 £0.79 View In iTunes 9 Free Twin Atlantic 3:26 £0.79 View In iTunes 10 Steal Your Heart Away Whitesnake 5:19 £0.79 View In iTunes 11 Shed Title Fight 2:16 £0.79 View In iTunes 12 Warning Skindred 3:50 £0.79 View In iTunes 13 The Hating Lake of Tears 4:37 £0.79 View In iTunes 14 Obsessions Now Effigies While Heaven Wept 4:37 £0.99 View In iTunes 15 Pandemonium In Legend 3:44 £0.79 View In iTunes 16 Standing On the Edge of the Noise Beady Eye 2:53 £0.99 View In iTunes 17 Within My Heart Dead By April 3:24 £0.99 View In iTunes 18 Hear Me Now Hollywood Undead 3:34 £0.99 View In iTunes 19 Help Is On the Way Rise Against 3:57 £0.99 View In iTunes 20 Dear Insanity Asking Alexandria 3:09 £0.99 View In iTunes 21 Mountains (Live from Wembley Arena) Biffy Clyro 3:25 £0.99 View In iTunes 22 Out of My Mind WhoCares, Jason Newsted, Tony Iommi, Jon Lord, Linde Lindström, Nicko McBrain & Ian Gillan 5:18 £0.79 View In iTunes 23 Willing Times of Grace 3:23 £0.79 View In iTunes 24 ExplicitAfterworld CKY 4:38 £0.79 View In iTunes 25 Santo Domingo Jon Fratelli 3:01 £0.99 View In iTunes 26 For He's a Jolly Good Felon (L'Amour la Morgue Rinse and ReFix Edition) Lostprophets 5:33 £0.79 View In iTunes 27 Teenager Mona 2:55 £0.99 View In iTunes 28 Ain't Fit to Live Here Graveyard 3:05 £0.99 View In iTunes 29 Learn to Live Architects 4:01 £0.79 View In iTunes 30 Spoon Boris 4:16 £0.79 View In iTunes 31 Darkest Hours Stratovarius 4:10 £0.79 View In iTunes 32 Overexposure Sick of Sarah 3:25 £0.79 View In iTunes 33 Arecibo (Long Distance Calling) Long Distance Calling 5:53 £0.79 View In iTunes 34 Bang Benedictum 4:30 £0.79 View In iTunes 35 Breaking Through Cauldron 4:55 £0.79 View In iTunes 36 Whales Scale the Summit 6:28 £0.79 View In iTunes 37 Serenade of Flames Serenity 4:55 £0.79 View In iTunes 38 Shades of Grey Mercenary 5:34 £0.79 View In iTunes 39 Live to Rock Sideburn 3:26 £0.79 View In iTunes 40 The Great God Pan Blood Ceremony 7:30 £0.79 View In iTunes 41 Katrine Live Fire & Ken Hensley 4:31 £0.79 View In iTunes 42 Sing My Chemical Romance 4:30 £0.59 View In iTunes 43 ExplicitSick Bubblegum Rob Zombie 3:44 £0.99 View In iTunes 44 All Fired Up The Beautiful Sleazy 2:23 £0.79 View In iTunes 45 KISS Tried to Kill Me Black Spiders 4:26 £0.79 View In iTunes 46 Pure Radio Cosplay ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead 5:26 £0.79 View In iTunes 47 A Danger to Myself and Others Most Precious Blood 3:11 £0.79 View In iTunes 48 Colour of the Bear Mojo Fury 2:35 £0.79 View In iTunes 49 So Quarrelsome Can't Bear This Party 3:17 £0.79 View In iTunes 50 The End of It All Sirenia 4:31 £0.99 View In iTunes 51 Shake Me Down Cage the Elephant 3:31 £0.79 View In iTunes 52 Pyro Kings of Leon 4:10 £0.99 View In iTunes 53 Road Zombie Social Distortion 2:21 £0.79 View In iTunes 54 All American Nightmare Hinder 3:17 £0.99 View In iTunes 55 Run and Hide Maker 3:32 £0.79 View In iTunes 56 Sleeping Witch Royal Thunder 5:58 £0.79 View In iTunes 57 ExplicitUsed to Be a Cop Drive-By Truckers 7:05 £0.99 View In iTunes 58 ExplicitSet the World On Fire The King Blues 2:43 £0.99 View In iTunes 59 Black Thorn Flatfoot 56 3:21 £0.99 View In iTunes 60 Undertow Mr. Big 4:48 £0.79 View In iTunes 61 Deadliest Catch Lower Than Atlantis 3:40 £0.79 View In iTunes 62 The Waiting Room We Are the Ocean 3:34 £0.99 View In iTunes 63 Effigy Urge Overkill 3:43 £0.79 View In iTunes 64 Torture Rival Sons 3:35 £0.79 View In iTunes 65 Young Summer Paige 3:10 £0.79 View In iTunes 66 Apartment Young the Giant 3:55 £0.99 View In iTunes 67 Just Tonight The Pretty Reckless 2:48 £0.99 View In iTunes 68 Bittersweet Memories Bullet for My Valentine 5:08 £0.99 View In iTunes 69 We've Got a Situation Here The Damned Things 4:26 £0.99 View In iTunes 70 Closer to the Edge 30 Seconds to Mars 4:33 £0.99 View In iTunes Total: 70 Songs
Customer Reviews
Rock is LIFE!
This is an awesome compilation! From quiet heart-warming pieces to loud crashing anthems!! This is one of the best!! :) Love it!!!!!!!
it's alright!
there's some really good songs on this, but there's also some rubbish on here; but maybe that just reflects what 'rock' today is.
YES!
I'd reccomend this to anybody, my favourite genre of music includes a wide range of mostly awesome songs definitely worth the money if you love rock like I do! Includes all kinds of sub genres too such as Indie, Punk, Pop Rock and metal so it will please a variety of people. Good music right in this selection!
