NICKELBACK ROOLZ. i no there songz sound the same but everyone has heard of them and look at how many bands are influenced by them. same with fall out boy and patd
anyways classics:
white stripes
strokes,
artic monkeys,
qotsa
pearl jam
smashing pumpkins
nirvana
wezzer,
green day
u2
nin
rhcp
incubus
soad
l inkin park
minus the bear
spill canvas
foo fighters
radiohead
tool
mars volta
underoath
anberlin
spoon
interpol
matchbox 20
beck
sufjan
yeah yeah yeahs

I hope TO GOD my chemical romance r has beens and The Strokes ARE GODS. i think Panic! r reali anoyin. I doubt that therell b many true rock bands from now on, everyones bcumin so generic these days

Keepers;
Nirvana (yeah, simple chords and solos, but great lyrics)
Incubus (For their experimental minds)
Jack/Meg White anything (he is the Plato of rock for today)
Foo Fighters, Peppers, Beck, Tori Amos, Cake, Yeah Yeah Yeah’s
and older bands like Aerosmith, Beatles…….. Also, Coldplay (a little overplayed but they are very artistic)
And the newbies that actually write creatively; Vent (although no longer together) Knarls Barkley,Chiodos etc

Throw outs;
Panic (irratic vocals that are way out of tune/although the stage theatrics are interesting)
The word “EMO”
The cliche raps ($$, sex/booty etc. Try rapping about more important things more often)
repetative crap like Timberlake and Spears.

The music industry has become to cookie cutter, producing clones of other bands. We need more originality (examples; Trip2go,RA Stereogram, Vent/Audiovent, Chiodos)and rawness like the White Stripes (I love the imperfections and the fact they are not over produced/dubbed).

If the music industry can not save itself, we may have to step in and show them the way.

Mr. Bull

You say bands like Wolfmother that no one has ever heard of or cares about, but yet everyone on here knows wolfmother. Your a douche

Gods:
*White Stripes!!!
*The Raconteurs
*Radiohead
*Nir.. wait, that’s dumb

Has Beens:
*Panic at the Disco
*Franz Ferdinand
*My Chemical Romance

Clasics:
My morning jacket
Mastodon
Eminem
Quee ns of the stone age
Foo Fighters
Red Hot Chillie Pepers
Tool
Fiona Apple
Radiohead
NIN
Coldpla y
Outkast

Has beens:
Emo (Panic, good charlotte,…)
The strokes
Boy bands
White stripes
Beyonce
Brit Rock - pop (Keane,…)

u actually but their cds? u pay money to buy that?

i hope u dont listen to that stuff

Have
Roxy Music
Bowie
T.Rex
Scissor Sisters

Have Nots
Knock off bands, a group of swine made up of the likes of
The Killers
Franz Ferdinand
Panic! at the Disco

first of all how can bands that are huge right now be has beens i mean most of you who are saying that ll the emo bands are has-beens and right now they ARE , maybe they will be has beens maybe they wont who knows, i cirtainly cant predict that. any one who thinks that green day has no musical talant and that nirvana sucked has no balls at all and they like pearl jam and creed and those my friends are has beens. Nickleback are hasbeens. i agree taht the al american rejects, good charlotte and stuff like that will be forgotten in the next few generations but bands suck as my chemical romance , AFI, green day, and those types of emo bands are talking to todays generation and those are the ones that will be rememberd for atleast a good generation. because they speak to people of now..most of the people commenting are prolly from the last generation and i can see how you get what you get. but give some of these bands a break there obviousely making a larger implact thn you think. RHCP kick royal ass hands down, but they are already classics and this asks what will be not what is Jack White same with him i mean any one who likes rock music should know of them. But the ones i think that will be classics in 10-20 years are green day, beck, White Stripes, and i do not think that MCR will be but i do not think that they will be forgotten i think that they will have there cult followers and sorry but i have to admit that i am one of them…well im not sorry you all suck

Icons: White Stripes/ Raconteurs
Beck
Foo Fighters
Ben Folds
Mos Def
Arctic Monkeys
Tenacious D
Has-beens:
Puffy
Fall Out Boy
My Chemical Romace
Panic at the Disco
Black Eyed Peas
Missy Elliot

Ricky, it would be offensive and unnecessary for me to post much more than I completely agree. Very well put thoughts and I agree with your opinion. With that said, my list goes something like this:

Indoor/
Jack White (meaning anything he puts his finger on)
Kings of Leon
Black Keys
Broken Social Scene/Feist (though most likely they won’t recieve the credit they deserve)
My Morning Jacket (can’t wait to see what the next album is like)
Muse (still a ? for me, but i like what i’ve heard)
The Arcade Fire
Andrew Bird (see BSS for more info)
Josh Homme (in my opinion more for Eagles than Queens, but this man is talented)
Sufjan Stevens (ahem, i believe no one has even mentioned him yet!?)…

\Outdoor
Jet
Wo lfmother
Panic
emo, et al.
Franz Ferdinand
Killers (well i certainly hope so)
Snow Patrol

Purgatory
The Strokes (i’m not really sold on if these guys are the real deal or not, i just hope MTV’s endless co-opting doesn’t leave me to alienated to see for myself)
Bright Eyes (yeah, I kind of like them, big deal.)
The National

ok i’ll stop….NOW

Classic: Foo, Green Day

Kitschy: Chad Kroeger’s name alone will induce laughter, the way we giggle a bit when we hear names like Jani Lane and Kip Winger (you know, they went platinum too, long ago).

well it is clear that within ten years all emo bands will become extinct. so icon bands? Foo Fighters, Wolfmother, My chemical romance if they keep getting away from emo.

Would everyone stop dissing Panic! At The Disco and all other “emo” bands? Just cause you don’t like them doesn’t mean they are going to be has-beens. You never know… they could surprise you with new sounds. But I do agree with Nickleback getting old. It seems like they re-release the same songs over and over again.

I’m glad the peppers and pearl jam are cosidered classics ive been a huge fan since 2000 which was pearl jams least popular period but what emo is everyone talking about.
Future classics:
Chiodos
Bright eyes
Elliott Smith
Ben Harper
Circa Survive
Paramore
Acceptance (if they didnt break up)
The Academy Is…
Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
Decemberists
The Blood Brothers
A Second Chance

Has Beens
Fall Out! at the Disco
And most top 40 pop
as history always shows

tool sucks.alot.

Oh Yeahhhhhhhhh

Jack White–D-Town!!!
Pearl Jam
Flaming Lips?
Em?
Dre & Snoop?

Wu-Tang– Vh1 honors biatch–its kinda like the hall of fame

I’ve got to agree w/ idioteqe. He said the new My Chem CD is a lot better–no more emo!
It’s a floyd/queen/G-n-R concept album. I think after a couple of listens you fall in love w/ it.

But…
Hero’s:
Radiohead
Tool/Perfect Circle
Wilco
Rage Against the Bullcrap
Neil Young & Dylan–still making classics!
there are some more

Long-Time Losers:
Fall Out Boy
Good Charlote
Pop crap(pop country, pop rap, pop radio crap)
Hinder
Nicklcrap
and much much more

OMG I forgot my morning Jacket- you are KIDDING me with this one. I went to a pearl jam concert they were opening and I literally had to leave the arena area because i was about to implode. Crappiest music ever. It’s like the Flaming Lips, oooh they are SO irreverent… whatever man. I hope to GAWD they don’t get into the R and R hall of fame.

Icon status:
Pearl Jam- already there
Beck
Foo Fighters
Queens of the Stone Age
Jay-Z
White Stripes/Racounteurs
I’m hoping Arcade Fire, we’ll see
Rufus Wainwright

Has-beens:

Stil l up in the air about my chemical romance…hmm…
Definit ely:

Panic at the disco
Good Charlotte
Fall out Boy
these fake pop/punk bands. Anybody remember the random years of 95-97? Like the band Lit? Yeah, we are in “Lit” mode, most of these bands will be blips on the music screen. So don’t fret people. And yr KIDDING about mars volta, it’s experimental garbage.

Icons:
The Mars Volta
John Frusciante/Chili Peppers
Mos Def
Primus

Has-Beens:
emo
gangsta rap

Music heroes? Too many people are putting down bands that have already got some type of legend notoriety (U2, Radiohead, PJ, RHCP, 2pac, Dr. Dre).

Out of the musicians that really made it big this decade, my money is on The White Stripes, Eminem, and Jay-Z.

A lot of the big artists that have been big this decade I think won’t last too long. 50 Cent’s new CD title is about self-destruction which says it all. Norah Jones will fade away to having a devoted fanbase but not much attention. The Strokes and Arctic Monkeys will be lessons in hype from music magazines and music snobs vs. actual impact. Gwen Stefani and Justin Timberlake? I don’t know and don’t care.

Some artists might make that status. Pete Doherty might if he quit his drug shit and concentrated more on his music. Missy Elliott has a good shot but could fall victim to too much overkill in the past couple of years and now having a long break. I think OutKast are one more excellent album away from reaching that status, but they just need to quit with the solo nonsense.

As for kitsch bin, I think the Black Eyed Peas and Panic! At The Disco are shoe-ins. They have huge fan bases now, but so did Pat Boone , The Monkees, The Village People, New Kids On The Block, and the Backstreet Boys. BEP’s stuff is disposable. I think the general public think of Panic as more of a gimmick than a band.

One thing I thought was interesting is that every generation seems to have someone reach icon status after a major death. Jam Master Jay and Dimebag Darrell had heavily publicized deaths but they already reached iconic status. Aaliyah’s death was tragic and her stuff is good but she’s reached more of a “What if she didn’t die?” status than iconic.

I posted a note yesterday about the size of the audience influencing who would be around in years to come. Mandela made an excellent point about what I wrote that I hadn’t thought about. Allow me a couple lines to clarify. I was never a big fan of acts like the Allmans, Jeff. Starship, Supertramp, etc. Some of these 70’s acts were able to last well through the 80’s and 90’s w/out any real hits and make big $ cause their audience, while diminished, was still sizable enough. I am not suggesting Panic at the Disco will be selling 10 million copies a decade from now like nothing ever happened, just that this same effect may still give them a comparable crowd. The failure to clarify was entirely my fault here.

Don’t you people understand that when you post largly unfactual shit it makes those of us who know what the hell we’re talking about want to strangle you with our bare hands??? someone wrote that Eminem and Vanilla Ice were the only successful white rappers……. okay Vanilla was a one hit wonder so if he counts as successful than so does Marky Mark, EMF, and I dont… the FUCKING BEASTIE BOYS!!!! Kurt cobain DID suck at guitar!!!! And so did his singing!!!! HIS GUITAR PLAYING HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHY HE’S IMPORTANT!!! Kurt Kobain sings horribly, but thats the point, he’s a tortured voice, and no one gives a shit about his lousy guitar playing (the solo to Smells like teen spirit is the melody to the chorus! COME ON!) because Dylan plays shitty guitar and sings crappy too, these two Icons are legends for being two of the top 5 greatest congsriters ever. oh and for anyone who claims that bands like Panic!at the Disco will be around in twenty years thanks to their ‘large’ fan base, well someone tell that to George Michael (Faith sold 7 Million copies) or the legions of fans who thought INXS was the next Doors (Kick, too, sold in the ball park of 7 million copies) Man didnt INXS seem so revolutionary in 1988, man didnt they seem so out of date three years later.

i think a few mainstream bands will be easily forgotten..like…hinder and crap…but all the other mainstream stuff like panic! and MCR wont be forgotten easily becasue they have a HUGE HUGE fan base and the success they have will keep them going a few more years. DEFINATLY ALL THE TWEENY BOPPERS SHALL BE FORGOTTEN. god…like hilary duff and lindsay lohan and them. basically the ones with no talent will have a mention on I LOVE THE ’00s…

i think the ‘classic’ bands….well…green day for sure. they have survived a decade and are still here. um…the strokes maybe if they keep doing what they are doing the best they can.

i guess no one can really predict whats gonna be remembered as ‘classic’ and ‘has-been’ in 2017 without having arguements over opinions and stuff. sheesh. people do have different tastes here. i think everyone will just have to wait and see? are we that impatient to try and say 11 years before it happens?

Anything by John Frusciante SHOULD be more popular/revered. His musical genius is unmatched by anyone right now.

Hopefully, the Mars Volta, and My Morning Jacket gain more notoriety.

Lastly, I cannot even comprehend how many people listed Jack White/White Stripes/Raconteurs as something that will stand the test of time. His music sucks. I’ve heard cats f— with more harmony.

Are you kidding?? LOL. I loved 2Pac. Well, back when he was still ‘alive’…

Jack White is the man…White Stripes will be remembered without a doubt.

But how can so many people say the Raconteurs?…i love their album…but they only have one!

i’m sorry for coming off harsh, but i just don’t see those bands being around in 20 years with any type of relevance. like i said earlier, look at the vines, the hives, and the strokes (although their last album was really good). i remember they were on the cover of rolling stone like every issue for a week (rolling stone even had them listed on the cover as ‘the bands that will save rock n roll). what happened to them? other than the strokes (and that is really pushing it even) who cares about them. i think that’s what going to happen with all of these rock bands.

and ms. rogers, jay-z is classic and not because of his retirement crap, but of his actually body of work. reasonable doubt is one of the greatest hip-hop albums of all time. blueprint, black album, i don’t need to go on. 2pac, to the hood, is a god. and maybe that doesn’t mean anything to “rock” people, but if you actually appreciate music, then you would appreciate 2pac (pre- death row).

ANd I apologize for the bad grammer. I’m an English/journalism major. I should know better.

To Mr. Bull:
Jay-Z might be a “classic” but mostly for his famous retirement/not retired status, and for his collaboration with Linkin Park. The only other rappers who will ever really be classics will be the old-school rapper (Run DMC and the like) and maybe Emeniem (I think that’s right!) because, next to Vanilla Ice, he’s the oly white boy to rap with any amount of success. As far as Wolfmother, the Muse or Mars Volta being cult bands… Hardly. Check out some Billboard lists. Or listen to a rock station for awhile. Call in and request a song from one of those bands. They’ll have it. Or play Guitar Hero II. Wolfmother is one there. Granted, I’m not a big fan of any of those groups, but they have been getting some major airplay. Now, if we want to get into cult artists who have staying power… Tori Amos. She’s NEVER going anywhere.

The Black Keys….The Hero no one Knows!

Alot of folks seem to want to scrap everything out there. The problem is that all the emo stuff will still be there but perhaps not for any musical merit. Growing up in the 80’s(youth) and 90’s(university) I used to laugh at that horrid 70’s soft rock crap and wonder how it stuck around, as I’m sure a few older writers here did. Simply put, it’s a numbers game, and this generation has it like the hippies did. A lot of that stuff sucked as well, but it lasted due to the numbers. This ain’t no puny “Generation X” thing here. Call it crap if you will(some of it is), but it will last if for no other reason than a lot of young people are attaching themselves to it.

Don’t get me started on how similar Commercial Hip-Hop is to Hair Metal. With the notable exception of acts like The Dead Prez and Company Flo that have originality and something to say there is a lot of crap out there. For every example in Hair Metal of bad taste and commercial money grubbery I can find the same thing in Rap. Bad fashion, lyrical fluff, weak musicianship, over saturation, and most importantly a complete disconnect between lyrical content and personnal experience/values in (and watch closely now) MODERN COMMERCIAL MAINSTREAM RAP. Somethings gonna give sooner or later and I hope that something sounds like Andre 3000.

Um Mr Bull? The only acts you listed that have come out in anything relating to the present are the White Stripes who are obviously in. But The Black Crowes are already has-beens. If you’re gonna include them you have to include a lot of bands that I’m sure you’d rather not inlcude like The Cult, Def Leppard, Queensryche, Poison and a lot of other bands that have had similiar success, came out roughly at the same time (85-88)and are still playing to the same size crowds as the Black Crowes. There’s a reason Chris Robinson was also known as “that homeless guy who’s with Kate Hudson” for a long time until she dumped him.

Heroes:
Pearl Jam
Radiohead
U2
White Stripes
TOOL
Nine Inch Nails

Has-Beens:
MCR
Pani c
Killers
Fall-Out Boy
anything emo basically
Nickelback
3 Doors Down
a lot of rap, with a few exceptions

The crap you people list as “gods.” Jesus. Most of you keep listing cult bands that nobody else has heard of (or cares about for that matter), and then you shun the bands that most people know and will think of as classic in 20 years. God forbid some bands that have had mainstream success will be considered classic. Oh, and however said hip-hop was the new hair metal is a complete idiot.

Classics in 2017:
The White Stripes
Jay-Z
Dr. Dre (dude is going to orchestra school to learn how to compose full symphonies)
Pearl Jam (already there)
U2 (already there)
Coldplay
2pac (already on his way)
Radiohead
Dave Matthews Band (you can’t argue this. even if you think they suck, every concert is always sold out)
Black Crowes (timeless music)

Forgetable bands:
MCR
Panic at the Disco
Fall Out Boy
Pretty much all of those pop/punk bands
The Rap-Metal Bands
Hip-Hop on the Radio
All of you cult bands no one else in the rest of the country has heard about or cares about (muse, libertines, mars volta, wolfmother, artic monkies, etc.)

and if you argue that those cult bands will be, i bet you were the same people who were crowning the hives, the vines, and all the other “the” bands gods back then. where are they now?

I can only hope Beyonce, Britney Spears, and every 1 hit wonder rap guy. BTW lets not forget Creed, Lifehouse, and those suddo rock 1 hit wonders, Hobbastank!! they shoud all die a slow and painful death. Do you expect me to talk?! NO MR.BOND I EXPECT YOU TO DIE!!!

Heroes:
FOO FIGHTERS
Rage
STP
Raco nteur s
Wolfmother
Pearl Jam
Nirvana
Soundgarden
Que ens of the Stone Age
Army of Anyone
Flogging Molly

Has-beens:
Cree d
Ni ckelback(listen to someday, and then how you remind me, they are the exact same song, only someday was “written” 2 years later)
P.O.D.
Panic! at the disco(emo sucks)
Fallout Boy(emo sucks)
MCR(emo sucks)
Dashboard Confessional(emo sucks)
AFI

ICONS:
Radiohead, Elliot Smith, The Flaming Lips, Beck, Pearl Jam (I’m a big fan, and I’m still not sure if they deserve it, but regardless they will still be selling out arenas in the next decade), Janes Addiction (they have an album in the 2000’s, so it’s relavent), The Strokes, THE WHITE STRIPES, Rage Against the Machine…

HAS BEENS:
Panic! At the Disco (ugh…)
My Chemical Romance (eww…)
Nickelback (kill me now…)
Incubus (to those who listed these guys as “Heroes” - HAHAHAHA!)
All “Boy” bands (which is still “our” generation if you think about it)
Fall Out Boy (please Fall OFF the face of the Earth…)
Elvis Costello (His Bonnaroo performance proved to me that he is infact a “Has Been”)
Papa Roach (Don’t know why they came to mind, I just know that they’re horrid, and always have been)
And finally… most any band to have headlined a Warped/OzzFest Tour in the past 5 years.

My chemical romance… Heroes?? i agree there has beens but did anyone ever like these guys. they dress like emo 17th century power rangers. just another suburb record company creation. there almost too young for the 12 year old mtv easily manipulted crowd, they’d have to be to like these jokers

Whoever said Incubus needs a reality check. One of the most entertaining radio bits that have been forced onto me at work was a game called “Gandolf or Incubus?” in which a caller had to guess if a particular line was from the decidely nerdy Lord Of The Rings or from an Incubus song. Most callers couldn’t get it right. And I’m sorry, the ability to be cool and talk like Tolkien went out of fashion with Zepplin IV. And if you’re not cool or at least so dorky that you’re unintentionally cool (so Elvis Costello) then you aren’t gonna last.

Besides, the worst quote I ever heard was from their guitar player who thought all punk musicians should “learn how to play their instruments” and then claimed that he suddenly “got it” later in life. Either you “get it” the first time you hear, and maybe still choose not to like it, or you’re a dork. End of story. Just like you can’t explain why James Dean was cool, ou can’t explain why Joe Stummer was even cooler.

The Arcade Fire have potential to be playing arenas ten years from now if they don’t screw everything up.

I hope the New Pornographers are still making records. They’re one of the better bands around.

Best American bands of last ten years: Drive-By Truckers, White Stripes and Hold Steady.

I hope people dont look back at our generation and just think of Green Day. I just dont get their appeal as anything other than fun pop songs.Thats good enough to deserve to get remembered, but not as an icon or a hero of an era.

Heros
Jay Z: time will proove that he is ritchious.
System of a Down
White stripes/Racontours

Hasbeens
Nicleback: I really really hate Nickleback.
All of those nameless rappers that are riding on the rapper band wagon.

incubus r bog average and boring.
pearl jam r only a little better

Only Nick Cave and Tom Waits are relevant. Everyone else is a future trivia question for pop-culture losers.

Classics
The White Stripes (Jack White is going to be my generation’s rock symbol)
Incubus (someone mentioned it earlier and I think its a great choice. They dont get the credit they deserve now, but I think theyll get it in the future.)
The Killers (their second album is great if you give it a chance and I think its showing a transitioning sound and that their next one will be a mindblower)

Heros:
Pearl Jam
Wilco
My Morning Jacket
Radiohead
Jack White
Kings of Leon
Strokes

Has Beens
My Chemical Romance
Korn ( already are)
Panic at the Disco
Fall Out Boy
Dashboard Confessional (also already)

some guy down the list said dropkick murphys and flogging molly lol. stupid red sox fan. anyone still listening to snow patrol, the killers, fallout boy and the like in ten years are the same people that still bleach their tips. Jeezus.

Go Dodgers

Oh, and the Arctic Monkeys fall completely into the has-been category…good band, but already the hype has sort of died, compared to the firestorm it was when their album first came out. I don’t see that much longevity with them.

Still relevant/influential:
Beck
Rad iohead
Nine Inch Nails
Red Hor Chili Peppers
Green Day
The Mars Volta
Arcade Fire
Wilco
Modest Mouse
I hate to say it, but Korn has proven to be pretty influential
And this is another unfortunate one, but for a band as generic as they are, Nickleback has had quote a long shelf life…they’ve been popular for like 5-10 years now. They suck ass, but they aren’t going away anytime soon, and will probably influence more shitty middle-of-the-road jock-rock bands to come.

Has-Beens:
Good Charlotte (already has-beens!)
Fall Out Boy
Panic! At the Disco
Hinder
you get the idea.

MCR is borderline…their new album is actually quite good, a lot less “emo” than their first two. However, they will only have a long career if they stop wearing makeup and shit when they get older, because nobody will take them seriously if they’re 50 and still doing that shit. Robert Smith is the excption to this rule. Nobody fucks with Robert Smith.

If we’re just going for bands that got big in the 00’s….

Classic:
White Stripes
Mastadon
Muse
Peach es
My Morning Jacket
Anything Josh Homme touches

Has-beens:
Nickleb ack (god, somebody kill them!)
Emo/Scr-emo/”punk”
Ba sically 96% of the shit on the radio
Oh, and 99% of rap and hip-hop. It’s totally in a hair-metal phase right now.

BTW why the hell do they call this new “punk” punk? It’s anything BUT punk. It’s corporate, it’s trendy, it’s not political…it’s just totally anti-punk. None of it stands up to Dead Kennedys, Sex Pistols, Black Flag, etc. It’s not even the same ball game.

I’m thinking the Hold Steady will be around for a bit….Decent stuff.

O and even though I know they’ll die I think Gnarls Barkley’s album is great and well live on like Joy Division’s Closer or Love’s Forever Changes they don’t live on but they leave behind one great album

Survivors:
The White Stripes and The Raconteurs and pretty much everyelse jack white lays claim to
The Strokes
Wolfmother-Come on its time to put the fun back in rock music
Arctic Monkeys if they keep their shit together and make another good record
Kings Of Leon for bringing the south back into rock

Has Beens
Fall Out Boy
Panic at the blow your ears out
My Chemical Romance
The Killers they had their chance and they blew it
and every shitty band that has to put out those awful ballads *cough nickelback *cough hoobastank

WHO CARES!!!!!

I hope I and all of u will be alive to see and that we will have long forgotten this poll.

I’m an old fart. Not much new music has turned me on of late. Green Day, Weezer, RHCP (damn I was a puppy then) are not new.

USA-ians (South and Central Americans are Americans also) are so hooked on Hip Hop nothing else “stateside” has a chance to get heard, except maybe Nickelback (ugh).

Of the bands I do get to hear I would have to go with:

-The White Stripes and The Ranconteurs got it.
-Kings of Leon have a something brewing that is going burst.
-If Gwen Stefani rediscovers the other men in her life, No Doubt will spank some butt. (No Doubt could be the best band of the 90’s)
-If Corgan can get Iha and Darcy back the Pumpkins will … be.
-My girls (16 and 13) were into Panis and Fall Out Boy and they are completely over them (the posters came down) And I love it.
-The 16 year old asked for some Elvis and Madonna for Christmas
-The 13 year old discovered the Counting Crows

And this old farts last 5 “new” purchases were:

The Beatles
Dr. John
The Boat Drunks
Brave Combo
Los Lobos

“Nothin’ Left To Do but …
Smile, Smile, Smile”

If anybody remembers Nickleback at this point in time, that person’s memory should be replaced with memory of real music. Same with Emo and pop-skaterboard punk.

Panic! FOB and all that are obviously going to go out. I don’t know about My Chemical Romance though. Their new album is fairly evolved. I think bands that take a bit of retro and mix it with their own style (strokes, white stripes) will be around not Jet or Wolfmother though. I disagree with the statement someone said earlier that it will be the most popular bands that stand the test of time. Two words - Velvet Underground. Proof that album sales don’t necessarily bring influence or immortality.

Classic:
The Strokes
all Jack White Projects
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Interpol

Has beens:
All Emo or emo related artists
(i think you know who they are)

Green Day has always sucked and Wolfmother is fun but its 50/50

Who the hell are you kidding KRW? If you paid any attention to the world of rap or hip hop, you would know that every discussion of best rapper ever has Jay-Z somewhere in the top 3. But I guess that doesn’t make him classic.

Okay, what artists from around 10 years ago are “classic” now?
Radiohead
Beck (more of a personal opinion)
Red Hot Chili Peppers (obviously, they were around since around ‘84, but for the sake of discussion)
Pearl Jam
Nirvana (emphasis on “around” 10 yeras ago)
Green Day
Weezer (possibly..their last couple albums have been kinda shaky)
and a couple that are probably escaping my mind right now…

That’s 6-8 artists. I doubt any bands these days that were a product of their genre (namely emo) are going to stand the test of time. Yes, Nirvana and Pearl Jam were considered part of the “grunge” scene, but they weren’t followers like Bush or Seven Mary Three. Just based on that, I’d say of the newer artists hitting their respective stride right now, it would be:
Definitely: The White Stripes and System of a Down (they’ve outlived the nu-metal scene, showing some staying power)
Probably: Ben Folds and Fiona Apple, assuming people begin to focus more on lyricism and not so much on image

Geewiz, your an idiot. Listen to something that doesnt sound worse than nails scraping across a blackboard, okay?
And Nomi, Jay-Z and JT are NOT universally popular. I laugh at the thought of them ever being called classics. That would be the day the world comes to a fiery end altogether.

dude the coolest bands in the world are Panic, Good Charlotte and Fallout Boy! They’re all gonna last forever!! JJ, those bands suck balls…the ones who last are the ones who make music that transcends being commercially viable, and is actually good music.

AND… the rock icons that exist from back in the day, exist from a time when rock was pop. Rock doesn’t hold a strong threshold in pop anymore. And until someone iconic (!) comes along to claim rock as a major pop culture force… there are going to be no rock icons to last.

You all must be joking. Look at who’s classic now looking back: Rolling Stones, Beatles, Madonna, etc. People who were universally popular in the day. Panic! at the Disco’s not going to make it. Neither is Franz Ferdinand. Classic in ‘17 is going to be Jay-Z, Justin Timberlake, etc.

Dropkick Murphys and Flogging Molly are the only bands of the last 10 years worth ANYTHING

ALL the Emo bands are has beens. No offense to anyone. But they all sound alike. I’m sure other people have said that about music that I enjoy as well. I like some MCR stuff and Panic! But after hearing them on the radio over and over and not being able to tell them apart… Has beens.

But to toss is my fave band… Evanescence. A gothic group with a female lead singer who also plays the piano… I think Amy Lee will be looked back on in the future the way we look back at Stevie Nicks.

Uh…guys, RHCP are pretty much secure in rock history. Theyve been around since the 80’s (in case you didnt know, duh)….they’ve got their rightfull, well-deserved, classic place in our heart already, really. But they will still be around for a lot longer…

MCR, Fall Out Boy, Panic! (god I hate them), Good Charlotte, The Killers, and hopefully Nickelback will only be a memory.

Green Day will be around, though I cant say theyre especially ‘classic’, but theyre good. Hopefully Wolfmother will be around as well…

And oh yeah, Green Day is not classic. The only people who listen to Green Day are people who were born after their first album came out. Classic bands have to actually retain some fans if they sell out and make an album that is somehow exponentially worse than their others.

Emo is the new hair metal: both genres are made up of bands who dress like Atlantic City prostitutes, make the shallowest music imagineable, and are completely afraid to sing about anything besides being horny, sad, or naive. I think this page should be devoted to matching today’s emo bands with the 80’s hair metal bands:

Hair Metal:
Def Leppard
Motley Crue
Poison
Ratt
WASP
Whitesna ke

Emo:
Dashboard Confessional
Fall Out Boy
Good Charlotte
The Killers
My Chemical Romance
Panic! At The Disco

I match DL to DC because they are the most popular and I have no idea why. Motley Crue and Good Charlotte because they both think they’re tough but they aren’t. Fall Out Boy and Poison because they have the very least number of straight male fans (not that the other bands have large numbers). My Chemical Romance with Whitesnake because they both seem to try and be dark. And WASP with PATD because they both have absolutely terrible names.

And Red Hot Chili Peppers will always be around because they fucking ROCK!!!!

Any emo band out there today (cough..Panic at the Disco! and Fall Out Boy..cough) will not stand the test of time. Bands and musicians like Radiohead, Wilco, and Beck will still be relevant in 2017 because they are making music that isn’t exactly popular, but it’s what they want to perform. Their music will withstand all the musical “fads” that take place, including stupid emo music.

Classics:

Radiohead
The Mars Volta
The Arcade Fire
Broken Social Scene
Fiona Apple

Cult Following:

Q and Not U (ask anyone who knows music…this is one of the greatest bands of the decade/millenium thus far)

John Frusciante’s solo music

Forgotten:

everyone who clear channel gets paid to put on the radio (aka everything on the radio)

Keepers:
RED HOT F*CKIN CHILI PEPPERS!
senses fail
Green Day without a doubt
The Spill Canvas
Babyshambles
Ben Folds
Zero 7
Death Cab

WTF?!
All American Rejects
Fall Out Boy
My Chemical Romance
Hinder
Gnarls Barkley
…and the rest of the radio crap.

People, Velvet Revolver are DONE.

The Mars Volta are destined to rule the world. If any band is making efforts to kill the conventional, it’s them.

It’s a lot easier to peg the has-beens. Panic! and every “new” emo band were has-beens before they even got famous. The genre itself has been horrifically played out. Every emo band now is a copy of a copy of a shitty copy. I predict that Fall Out Boy’s new album will bring about the beginning of the end. After their inexplicable double-platinum bullshit, I can only hope that what goes up must come down.

I really dont think Panic! at the disco will be a “hasbeen” I mean my ggod have you seen their fan base?!As for My chemical Romance the same I really think they both have an individual sound and will last for a while. If you dont like the whole “emo” thing then dont listen to it!! HELLO! god just stop saying they’ll be has beens because you dont like them seriously…

I don’t understand all of the Franz Ferdinand hating. Their music will easily transcend time. Tenacious D, The Darkness, Doves, and The Strokes are also the tits.

Keepers:
Green Day
Wolfmother- The fun has just begun!
The Strokes
The White Stripes
The Arctic Monkeys

Has-Beens:
Just every emo band!
James Blunt
The Killers
My Chemical Romance/Imbalance

Cult Followings:
Franz Ferdinand
Death Cab For Cutie
The Scissor Sisters
Gnarls Barkley- A cult that I’ll happily be apart of.

System of a Down, Green Day, Stone Temple Pilots, Rage Against The Machine, Radiohead, Muse, Queens Of The Stone Age, anything Jack White touches, Weezer, and yes, Linkin Park = CLASSIC IN 2017.

Avenged Sevenfold, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Papa Roach, P.O.D., Creed, Disturbed, and Staind = HAS-BEENS IN 2017 (if not already)

Green Day will definitely be classic in 2017. Panic! at the Disco and Fall Out Boy will be hasbeens.

Panic! at the Disco will definitely be has-beens in a few years. They’re just part of that trendy wannabe-artsy hipster crap that’s so popular right now. As soon as that trend (and short attention spans of fickle fans) passes them by, they’re screwed. Same for My Chemical Romance, I think.

I can’t think of any good NEW artists who have the potential to be classics. Obviously, current artists like Beck and Ben Folds are already becoming classics, but they’re not new. And there are lesser-knowns like Nellie McKay and Rilo Kiley who deserve to be classics, but they’re just not popular enough yet.

classics:
Muse
Wolfmother
W hitestripes

Has Beens:
every single poser emo band

How dare you say My Chemical Romance will be a has been! They make some of the best music out their today!!!

It’s odd…methinks that no “retro” band will survive because the gimmick won’t make sense in 20 years. it’ll be like, it’s an old band…trying to sound…older?

still, i dig the stripes, but it hurts their chances.

I disagree with the Killers as has beens, I think they’ll evolve with the current scene.

Classic:
The Strokes
Incubus (Do they count in todays class?)
I’d like to say death Cab
Wolfmother is a toss up

Has Beens:
My chemical romance
fall out boy
Panic at the disco
all american rejects
any FOB followers

Maybe by 2017 the singer for Wolfmother will decide who he wants to sound like…
Total has been’s by song 3 of the CD….shovel that shit away please.

Has Beens:

Jet (already a has been)
My Chemical Romance
Panic at the Disco

Keepers:

White Stripes
Wolfmother
Velvet Revolver (assuming they are alive in 2017)

I don’t expect Wolfmother to be around in the next nine months. Flash in the pan.

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Gods:
Wolfmother
Eagles of Death Metal
My Morning Jacket

HAs Beens
All American Rejects
Hot Hot Heat
Gnarls Barkley

panic at the disco is already over

The Scissor Sisters!

in the year 2007 we’ll be saying “Panic at the who?”

Taking the time to name the bands that will be in the “I love the ‘00″ is a waste. Lets make a list of bands that will actually stand the test of time. It will be a shorter list.

Sanchez was so close but velvet revolver just aint that good

Has:
White Stripes
Arctic Monkeys
Babyshambles
Liberti nes
Dirty Pretty Things
Velvet Revolver

Has beens:
Franz Ferdinand
Billy Tallent
My Chemical Romance
Wolfmother
The Killers
Panic! At the Disco
Nickelback

Gods:
Simple Plan
Nickelback
Scott Stapp

Has-Beens:
Everyone else

- Panic at the disco #1 future has been
- Jet
- Avenged Sevenfold

I’m already ashamed that I own not one, but TWO records by The Hives.

Anonymous pretty much summed it up

Green Day have as much musical talent as Jay Z. Billy Joe is the most overrated singer, songwriter, guitarist ever. And we thought Cobain sucked at guitar.

There are so many to chose from, but the one that really comes to mind is James Blunt. He’ll forever be remembered for that “You’re Beautiful” song. He might win best new artist at the grammies, but then again the Starland Vocal Band won that award too.

Gods:
The Arcade Fire
Kings of Leon
Josh Ritter

I Love the ’00s:
Franz Ferdinand
The Killers
Interpol

Will still have a cult following despite retro sound:
Scissor Sisters (or Jake Shears)

Gods:
White Stripes

Has Beens:
Everyone else

oh definitely Panic! At The Disco they’re not going to last a minute

President Hilton and Vice President Tinkerbell III will have outlawed all things “old.”

Has beens

Panic! at the disco.
Franz Ferdinand
Good Charlotte