I know you people think this genre is dated or even dead, but this has been a good year for new albums. So I will make a list for the most important post-grunge albums in 2011:

Foo Fighters - Wasting Light
http://indiecaciones.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/foo-fighters-wasting-light.jpg
First week sales: 235,000
Billboard 200 position: 1
Notable songs: Rope, Walk, Arlandria, These Days

Nickelback - Here and Now
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZcDf2tn05y0/TrvL0p8riMI/AAAAAAAAAO0/USNqfUBaRKw/s320/Nickelback_HereandNow_DC.jpg
First week sales: TBA
Billboard 200 position: TBA
Notable songs: When We Stand Together, Bottoms Up

3 Doors Down - Time Of My Life
http://amoscontentgroup.com/amos/upload/2011/07/3-doors-down-time-of-my-life-artwork.jpeg
First week sales: 59,800
Billboard 200 position: 3
Notable songs: When You're Young, Every Time You Go

Daughtry - Break the Spell
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--6j_DnkfevE/TscdvAeGwtI/AAAAAAAAJgA/xop6QdjCXDs/s320/Break%2Bthe%2BSpell%2B%2528Deluxe%2BVersion%2529.jpg
First week sales: TBA
Billboard 200 position: TBA
Notable songs: Renegade, Crawling Back to You

Seether - Holding Onto Strings Better Left to Fray
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dg9adG3YNas/Th2qA0aedvI/AAAAAAAAAJE/gdY_rHHWjuY/s1600/Seether-Holding-Onto-Strings-Better-Left-To-Fray-2011.jpg
First week sales: 61,000
Billboard 200 position: 2
Notable songs: Country Song, Tonight

Bush  - The Sea of Memories
http://img.sharedmp3.net/files/pics/6652/6651345/img_1_pr.jpg
First week sales: 20,000
Billboard 200 position: 18
Notable songs: Afterlife, The Sound of Winter

David Cook - This Loud Morning
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7B0rSkEJ-c4/TanPSOqdOoI/AAAAAAAAAd4/tpjEamwGcnI/s320/TheLoudMorning.jpg
First week sales: 46,000
Billboard 200 position: 7
Notable songs: The Last Goodbye, Fade into Me

Theory of a Deadman - The Truth Is...
http://www.miomusik.com/theory_of_a_deadman/the_truth_is_CD_z.jpg
First week sales: 38,000
Billboard 200 position: 8
Notable songs: Lowlife, Out of My Head, Bitch Came Back

Staind - Staind
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-J2RHSHqa-9Q/TmHADr6uQOI/AAAAAAAAAmY/SY2ypgw9FjY/s320/Staind.jpg
First week sales: 47,000
Billboard 200 position: 5
Notable songs: Not Again, Eyes Wide Open

These are in my opinion the biggest post-grunge albums of the year.
Other important rock albums of the year are:

Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GxUVez20rJU/Tp_pJfJhvTI/AAAAAAAAAKY/CgWrhAXzeRs/s320/Coldplay-Mylo-Xyloto.jpg
First week sales: 447,000
Billboard 200 position: 1
Notable songs: Every Teardrop Is a Waterfall, Paradise, Hurts Like Heaven

Blink-182 - Neighborhoods
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-puqbSanc3Zs/TnMWcieeYeI/AAAAAAAABSs/GGsSDlWoyH8/s320/blink-182-neighbourhoods.jpg
First week sales: 151,000
Billboard 200 position: 2
Notable songs: Up All Night, Smile, After Midnight

Red Hot Chili Peppers - I'm with You
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wKyNoczbGcc/TnDRwPMbk0I/AAAAAAAAAUw/8X7aWmAtoWU/s320/I%2527m%2BWith%2BYou.png
First week sales: 229,000
Billboard 200 position: 2
Notable songs: The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie, Monarchy of Roses

Foster the People - Torches
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Il8HpKRDOss/TnW0RnKfNwI/AAAAAAAABU0/tbUW8Bii7C8/s320/00%2BTorches.jpg
First week sales: 33,000
Billboard 200 position: 8
Notable songs: Pumped Up Kicks, Helena Beat, Call It What You Want

Evanescence - Evanescence
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jIb4F8BpxtM/TpL0NG8IBZI/AAAAAAAAEYo/sD3beoeef74/s320/Evanescence%2B-%2BMy%2BHeart%2BIs%2BBroken.jpg
First week sales: 127,000
Billboard 200 position: 1
Notable songs: What You Want, My Heart Is Broken

Avril Lavigne - Goodbye Lullaby
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_52G0U01ywrw/TP6oWtyaeVI/AAAAAAAAEUk/265Fj763i5o/s320/Avril.jpg
First week sales: 87,000
Billboard 200 position: 4
Notable songs: What the Hell, Smile, Wish You Were Here

So what do you think? :D

Great taste in music, but too bad radio hates rock right now.  ::)

I would think we'd be in the post-post grunge era by now.

Have not heard any of the new stuff from Effervescence.  I'll have to check it out...

Great taste in music, but too bad radio hates rock right now.  ::)


not many are listening to rock.

not many are listening to rock.


Many are listening to rock, it's just that radio refuses to play it.

Many are listening to rock, it's just that radio refuses to play it.

That's right. To hell with radio, true fans will listen to rock. I hope when 90s nostalgia fully comes this kind of music will return. :)

A lot of good releases here. I liked most of these.

Sadly today's youth treat's rock as not their music but their parents' (and grandparents for the "oldies era" as I've recently heard a '50s-styled rock n' roll tune for a senior citizen expo commercial in my area). I myself realize that since 1995 (and especially since 2000), there's been little in the rock genre that's really been defining or groundbreaking. I don't think there's been a single Top 20 hit on the radio this year that's rock at all.

Sadly today's youth treat's rock as not their music but their parents' (and grandparents for the "oldies era" as I've recently heard a '50s-styled rock n' roll tune for a senior citizen expo commercial in my area). I myself realize that since 1995 (and especially since 2000), there's been little in the rock genre that's really been defining or groundbreaking. I don't think there's been a single Top 20 hit on the radio this year that's rock at all. It's basically where jazz was a generation ago; semi-retired (i.e. albums only and not singles), the standard elevator music on commercials of choice, and most successful artists at tours are over 45.

But there's nothing that compares like Nirvana.... :D

Sadly today's youth treat's rock as not their music but their parents' (and grandparents for the "oldies era" as I've recently heard a '50s-styled rock n' roll tune for a senior citizen expo commercial in my area). I myself realize that since 1995 (and especially since 2000), there's been little in the rock genre that's really been defining or groundbreaking. I don't think there's been a single Top 20 hit on the radio this year that's rock at all.


woaaahh that's just weird.... rock should always be contemporary.... I remember back in late 1990s and early 2000s where rock is still quite prominent in the mainstream radio's... what happen to today's culture

woaaahh that's just weird.... rock should always be contemporary.... I remember back in late 1990s and early 2000s where rock is still quite prominent in the mainstream radio's... what happen to today's culture


Same thing that happened to "rock and roll".  Rock was fine for decades, but "Rock and Roll" died in the 60s, wounded by the Beatles, killed off by Zeppelin, and the nail was put in its coffin by metal.

"Little hellions kids feeling rebellious / Embarassed their parents still listen to Elvis"
 - Eminem, Without Me, 2002.

Eminem didn't mean to suggest that Elvis wasn't important.  Nor that the "acid rock" (60s/70s term) aka "psychedelic" (80s term) aka "classic" rock (90s term) weren't important.  Doesn't mean grunge and the nu-metal/post-grunge/alternative rock that followed it weren't important.  He just meant that "rock and roll" was the music your parents listened to.  

My grandmother still watches Lawrence Welk whenever a PBS station watches a re-run.  One of my childhood memories is of being completely confused by her fascination with it, and of my parents making fun of her for still watching it.  

As soon as I heard that Eminem line, I had to call my folks and tell them "You know, I liked Elvis.  And I know neither of you guys like rap, but after hearing this line?  Now I know why you were laughing at Grandma for still listening to Lawrence Welk.  We're all old now!"

Then I thanked my dad for smuggling Iron Butterfly, Zeppelin, and Sabbath into my library when I was a kid.  (Mom never quite got "hard" rock.  Dad taught me about headphones.  He was OK with metal, but drew the "that's not music, that's noise!" line at industrial.  Haven't tried laying dubstep on 'em yet.  Hmm... it is Thanksgiving... :)

Same thing that happened to "rock and roll".  Rock was fine for decades, but "Rock and Roll" died in the 60s, wounded by the Beatles, killed off by Zeppelin, and the nail was put in its coffin by metal.

"Little hellions kids feeling rebellious / Embarassed their parents still listen to Elvis"
 - Eminem, Without Me, 2002.

Eminem didn't mean to suggest that Elvis wasn't important.  Nor that the "acid rock" (60s/70s term) aka "psychedelic" (80s term) aka "classic" rock (90s term) weren't important.  Doesn't mean grunge and the nu-metal/post-grunge/alternative rock that followed it weren't important.  He just meant that "rock and roll" was the music your parents listened to.  

My grandmother still watches Lawrence Welk whenever a PBS station watches a re-run.  One of my childhood memories is of being completely confused by her fascination with it, and of my parents making fun of her for still watching it.  

As soon as I heard that Eminem line, I had to call my folks and tell them "You know, I liked Elvis.  And I know neither of you guys like rap, but after hearing this line?  Now I know why you were laughing at Grandma for still listening to Lawrence Welk.  We're all old now!"

Then I thanked my dad for smuggling Iron Butterfly, Zeppelin, and Sabbath into my library when I was a kid.  (Mom never quite got "hard" rock.  Dad taught me about headphones.  He was OK with metal, but drew the "that's not music, that's noise!" line at industrial.  Haven't tried laying dubstep on 'em yet.  Hmm... it is Thanksgiving... :)


well put!!

yeah i remember the time when 80's rock were considered classic and 1990s wasn't noticed much... it's a weird realisation in how times have changed... today's rock are different in general... more electronic influenced in the progression but definitely not the glam sounds of the 1980s...

For me, the best rock album of 2011 was 'Ritual' by White Lies'.