Originally Posted by Heavy Jack

With the amount of music coming out today and the attention span of the consumer becoming less and less, I think it is going to be difficult for bands from our generation and especially the current generation to leave a big enough lasting impression on the world to be remembered 25 years down the road.

e.g. I really don't think a band like Nickleback is going to be remembered or held in the same regard as a band like Led Zeppelin was and still is today, even though both bands had the same sort of peak in popularity. I think a lot of that has to do with how music is being created today and how the music was back then; today it seems like a lot of the music coming out shares a lot of the same characteristics as it's competition - a lot of the stuff sounds the same - where as in the 60's, 70's and too an extent the 80's and 90's the music that was coming out was unique and organic, every band seemed to have an element that set themselves aside from the next guy which is what makes them memorable.