The only artist I can stomach from the list cited by Curve Dominant is PJ Harvey. I love PJ Harvey, but that list is truly frightening to me. It's all inconsequential commercial drivel to my ears. None of those bands will mean anything in ten years time. Of course that's opinion and speculation.
So I suppose further discussion along these lines could send this thread down a needless rabbit hole of hopelessly subjective discussion of artistic merit. Ultimately, music is always a "to each his own" type of thing.
But, man, Linkin Park
? You and I have REALLY different tastes...
--- c