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Originally Posted by SpectralJulianIsNotDead
My itunes isn't working so I'm listening to Pandora. Occasionally a band with "modern rock" written all over them comes up. And the instrumentation isn't even that different than a lot of stuff I listen to.
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Yes, but that's probably because the "modern rock" band completely learned the instrumentation from the stuff you listen to, likely at the hands of a producer who then polished the sound so perfectly with pro tools that any inkling of soul in the music is completely washed away.
I know what you mean though. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs strike me as the band who is most perfectly on that very thin line. On the surface they have pre-fab third gen over-produced poser band written all over them, and yet I can't help but notice the SY/Royal Trux/Blondie/Pixies influences undercurrent to their sound at the same time.
But then I lived in Seattle up until the early '90s, so I watched the awesome originality of the Green River, Malfunkshun, Melvins sound dillute down to Pearl Jam and then beget Stone Temple Pilots and Creed. Obviously the line between the Melvins and Creed is not a blurry one, but the evolution from the one to the other is a real phenomena nonetheless.