are the bands like depeche mode,duran duran or crash test dummies rock bands?if not wht is theyr music kind?

Answer 1

Shorter answer ... yes. Rock has so many different genres within the genre. Depeche Mode is more Alt/techno, Duran Duran is more New Wave, and Crash Test Dummies are more Canadian one hit wonder.

Answer 2

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Depeche Mode are an influential alternative rock band, formed in 1980 in Essex, England. They are one of the longest-lived and most successful bands to have emerged from the New Wave and New Romantic era; they were part of the 'futurist' scene, alongside the likes of Soft Cell, OMD, The Human League and Gary Numan. Many of their videos have been in heavy rotation on MTV.
As of 2006, it was estimated that Depeche Mode had sold over 73 million albums worldwide and have had forty-four songs in the UK Singles Chart. They have had more top 40 hits in the UK without a #1 hit than any other artist. They have influenced many of today's popular recording artists, in part due to their recording techniques and innovative use of sampling. Although very influential in the modern electronic dance scene, they generally remain classified in the alternative genre.
Duran Duran are an English Rock band notable for a long series of catchy, synthesiser-driven hit singles and vivid music videos. They were the most commercially successful of the New Romantic bands, and a leading band in the MTV-driven Second British Invasion of the United States, where they are considered New Wave. They are still often identified as an "Eighties band" despite continuous recording and chart success over their twenty-eight year history.
The band has sold well over 50 million records worldwide, and has had eighteen singles in the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and thirty in the Top 40 of the UK Singles Chart, including "Rio", "Hungry Like the Wolf", "Is There Something I Should Know?", "The Reflex" and the James Bond theme "A View to a Kill" in the 1980s, "Ordinary World" and "Come Undone" in the early-1990s, and "Sunrise" and "What Happens Tomorrow" in the 2000s.
Influence:
Although they began their career as "a group of art school, experimental, post punk rockers",[3] the band's quick rise to stardom, polished good looks, and embrace of the teen press almost guaranteed disfavour from music critics, and the British music press was particularly venomous. During the 1980s, Duran Duran were considered the quintessential manufactured, throw-away pop group – not too different from boy bands created by behind-the-scenes managers. However, unlike those bands, Duran Duran wrote and played their own music, and were driven by their own ambition, long before there were managers or record companies involved. As Moby said of the band in his website diary in 2003: "... they were cursed by what we can call the 'bee gees' curse. which is: 'write amazing songs, sell tons of records, and consequently incur the wrath or disinterest of the rock obsessed critical establishment'." [13]
Over the years, the band's contemporaries (The Bangles, Elton John, Kylie Minogue, Paul Young) have lauded their efforts towards pure, uplifting pop which rebelled against the cynicism of punk and the doom and gloom of Thatcher-era Britain. Le Bon himself described the group as "the band to dance to when the bomb drops".
Successors like Barenaked Ladies, Beck, Jonathan Davis (of Korn), the Deftones, Garbage, Gwen Stefani and No Doubt, Gavin Rossdale and Bush, Wyclef Jean, Marilyn Manson, Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit, The Orb, OutKast, Coldplay and Pink have all cited Duran Duran as a key band in their formative years. Numerous bands have covered their music on record and in concert.[14] Mark McGrath of Sugar Ray has called himself one of their biggest fans, and he said he "wanted to be John Taylor". Sugar Ray's videos have included affectionate parodies of Duran videos. Justin Timberlake has also praised the band.
The newest crop of performers to name Duran Duran as influences include Dido, Franz Ferdinand, Panic! at the Disco, Lostprophets (who took their name from the title of a Duran Duran bootleg tape), Goldfrapp, The Killers ("Nick Rhodes is an absolute hero of mine - their records still sound fresh, which is no mean feat as far as synths are concerned," said Brandon Flowers), the Scissor Sisters ("the reason we got into music") and The Strokes.
The band's music has also been used by several hip hop artists, most notably Notorious B.I.G., who appropriately sampled Duran Duran's 1986 single "Notorious".
Nick Rhodes has directly lent his production techniques to the bands Kajagoogoo (White Feathers) and The Dandy Warhols (Welcome to the Monkey House).