Current Bands we will be talking about in 25yrs
 

What bands do you guys think will people be looking back and giving credit
to starting something new or having a big influence on bands to come? Does not have to be 25yrs..

Id like to hear ideas from 2000 and up.

Not any that I like except maybe Daft Punk, but yet again, they're not all that mainstream anyway.

It's hard to tell when thinking only of bands that started in or after 2000. I'll try a few, only including ones I'm nearly 100% confident will still be talked about by large groups of people. And this has nothing to do with personal preference, except that I'm only looking through my personal collection/stuff I've heard to compile the list as I obviously can't include stuff I'm not familiar with.

The Mars Volta
ISIS
Mastodon
Animal Collective
The Shins
TV on the Radio
Arcade Fire (unfortunately)
Prefuse 73
A Perfect Circle

I think Mastodon have the ability to release an album that will melt the sun.

Dunno who else if your asking only after 2000... Arctic Monkeys

Lady GaGa (she is too wierd to forget and her music doesn't suck)
Owl City (Just see music heading to a one man show)
Kings of Leon (Music Kids and parents can both agree on...go minivan moms)
Any American Idol Winner or runner-up (Face it talented or not they dominate the charts)

The only American Idol I've been consistently hearing about is Kelly Clarkson. Even though I don't like that "Already Gone" song, it constantly plays on the radio...and she's still out there. I know there are a couple of artists recently having their stuff play on pop radio, but Kelly seems to be the only who's had long-term success.

I kind of agree with Lady GaGa, though. I think she'll continue to just make even weirder, catchier songs.

The Mars Volta
The Kings of Leon (sad but true, music lovers will fondly remember them "before they sucked" the rest of the world will be busy buying tickets for their second farewell/reunion tour, I call it the Black Sabbath effect)

There's a lot of bands I hope we'll be talking about for a long time, but they've yet to hit the mainstream, which is kind of a pre-requisite.

Arcade Fire
Arctic Monkeys
KOL
The White Stripes (formed in 97 but meh, first album came out on the turn of the millenium)

I hope The Courteeners and Twisted Wheel :D but I doubt it

Oh god I fucking hope not, this person's music is a blatant rip-off, let's hope his popularity dies off. Oh who am I kidding. :rolleyes:

The Strokes
Queens of the Stone Age
System of a Down
The Black Keys

I consider all of these "2000s bands" even if some of them formed in the late 90s. I can envision The Strokes being one of those bands hipsters of the distant future worship. Queens and System have the ability to influence heavy music for years to come. And The Black Keys--along with The White Stripes--have kept the garage rock revival thing going...

Seriously? The hipsters TODAY have already forgotten about them. How do you expect them to remember the Strokes years from now?

...which is why there are entire little communes devoted to Julian Casablancas's ears?!

There are so many variables that come into play when speculating about a question like this. It only takes one bad album, or a hugely successful one for that matter, to bury a band, and one great album to set an artist's career on a new and improved trajectory, but my predictions are:

TV on the Radio
Fleet Foxes
Animal Collective
Dirty Projectors
Arcade Fire

You have to note that there is no way to predict what hipsters will be like in 25 years. Check back with the teenage hipsters when you're about 40. I'll bet you'll be surprised (this comment is not directed at the Strokes. If they were/are hip, I totally missed it - case in point). For certain, future hipsters won't be much like today's hipsters at all.

The Strokes were loved by both the underground and critics so the hipsters were just waiting for a reason to hate them. Now that hipsters don't like them, their kids will. It's just how it works... :)

Sigur Rós
Hammock

A pretty lengthy list but I'm confident in them

A Perfect Circle?

Lifehouse?

I dunno...

Hammock are one of my favorite groups ever, and I don't mean any exaggeration by that, but I seriously doubt they will be the first thing that comes to very many people's minds when you say "2000s".

The things that will likely be most remembered, unfortunately, are the pop artists who actually stay around for more than one hit and are active in the tattered remains of the music industry. ex. Kanye West, Justin Timberlake, etc.

I think a lot of the lesser known or "indie famous" (like Animal Collective, that are hugely well known and hyped but unknown to the average music listener) bands that a lot of people on last.fm and forums and stuff listen to will be pushed a bit to the way side; waiting to be rediscovered by the Musicbanters of the future.

Franz Ferdinand
The Killers

You know it's true.

People will still be talking about Nickelback in 25 years...

"They were absolute sh*t"

Yeah I was more talking about the future MBers than the average person. For the everyday person I'd assume some random pop artists.. but who knows! I definitely don't

No one knows. TBH it's usually some obscure band doing something a little bit different that will rise above the dross. I have seen very few names that inspire me to think that they will be talked about in 5 years time let alone 25. Let's be brutally honest. Arctic Monkeys released an album this year and who talks about that? (not my own opinion justs a statement)

I won't remember them in 25 years, despite how bad they were/are.

Don't even know if they're still making music..

Yeah that was part of my reasoning as well.. and I've never heard of the Arctic Monkeys :confused:

Another band who started in the 90's but I'm going to have to agree with Sigur Ros. Call me crazy but I bet Lightning Bolt will garner much attention by then.

I definitely agree with all of these bands and I guarantee that Songs for the Deaf will be considered one of the quintessential 00s albums 25 years from now. I also think people people like Jay-Z and 50 Cent will loom even larger over this decade as well, unfortunately.

I listed ther reasons first, because if the band isn't remember 25 years from now I'm sure there will be some other band that will be remember for the same reason I mentioned above.

• Fastest Selling Debut Album
  The Artic Monkeys, they had the fastest selling debut album in the UK, and there are plenty of bands in the US and UK that sound like them now, whether this a good thing, that bands imitate them, only time will tell, I guess we have to wait 25 years to know for sure.
  
• Mutlilingualism
  The Brazilian Girls, they have a cool sound of melting pop and the singer, Sabina Sciubba, can sing in six different languages, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
  
• Intercontinetal, multi-genre bands
  Extra Golden, it a band that blends Kenyan Benga music and Rock, with members from America and Kenya.
  
• Franchising
  Art Brut AB2035 will keep the torch burning for indie fans of Art Brut. The lyrics to Emily Kane will be changed to "35 years... 9 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, 6 hours, 13 minutes."
  
• Mama Mia, another Swedish Musical/Movie
  The Hives following in the footsteps of their fellow countrymen/women, and will turn their songs into a musical and later turn the musical into a major motion picture. If The Hives don't do it, I'm sure there are plenty of Swedish Death Metal bands that will.
  
• Geriatric Rock
  Chicken Foot These Veteran Rockers will be rocking out well into their 90's.

Mars Volta those guys are musical geniuses.

Mastodon
Clutch(i'll be talking about them in 25 years at least :o:)
The Mars Volta
Muse
Kanye West, but sadly not for his music that was actually good :(

i ****ing hope not. i'm already sick of hearing about it. yes, we know they suck. no ones saying otherwise. shut up already.

I've heard of three of those bands so far, let's hope that the general public is far more informed than I am.

I've noticed most of you people are overthinking things. Bands that are still going to be talked about in 25 yrs are the ones that simply made their mark before breaking up. The ones that will be actually be remembered: Muse, Coldplay, Kings of Leon, Radiohead, Queens of the Stone Age, The Mars Volta, Red Hot Chili Peppers, etc. etc. There just isn't room in history books for the losers.

I don't think the Chili Peppers will be a band people will associate with the 00s at all. When you think of the 80s, are the Rolling Stones one of the first bands that spring to mind?

It's when they hit their stride. Admit it or not, their popularity peaked AFTER Frusciante rejoined the band in 1998.

When you think of the Beatles, do you think of the years 1960-1962?

Arctic Monkeys, The Hives, and Chickenfoot? Never heard of Art Brut?

Never heard of Chickenfoot. Which is why I'm confused that they're labeled as "veteran rockers"...

OMG, if people start talking about The Hives and Arctic Monkeys in 25 years, I will kill myself...

Some people, like me, think they were at their best in the 80s. Others think the BSSM early 90s era was their peak and I'm used to debating 80s vs 90s with those people. But I think you are literally the only person I've ever encountered who thinks they hit their stride in the 00s. Do you think U2 hit their stride in the 00s too? :p:

Apples and oranges. First of all, the the Beatles lasted only one decade as band while RHCP are going on their third. Like I said before, the Stones the 80s would be a more accurate comparison. Or maybe Aerosmith in the 90s, Pink Floyd in the 80s, something along those lines. Also, the Beatles didn't release any albums at all during the time period you're talking about, unlike the Chili Peppers, who prior to the 00s had already released 7 LPs, most of which sold extremely well.

Haha, just looked up Chickenfoot, what a fucking joke.

Yeah, they won't see the light of day in five years, let alone twenty-five.

I didn't say they were at their best. But that's when they got the enormous stadium venues, headlined major festivals, broke into the mainstream and generally took in the most money. It's like how people associate Pink Floyd with their Wall era rather than the prog rock they performed before that arena crap got thrown into the mix.

I actually agree with lucifer_sam here, Janszoon, and you know me to prefer RHCP BSSM and earlier. But their popularity peaked a couple years ago with 'Dani California' and 'Snow'. If you ask anyone from my generation about the Chili Peppers, you are much more likely to hear about songs from their last three albums than their first three, possibly even more famous than their biggest hit, 'Under the Bridge'. The proof is in the pudding:

Red Hot Chili Peppers’s Charts – Discover music, videos, concerts, & pictures at Last.fm

Other than 'Higher Ground', after quickly glancing over that list I don't see another 80s Chili Peppers song until 'Knock Me Down' at #83. The majority seems to be from the last ten years...

I think SoaD are all done frankly. The spilt that Serj is currently taking, and the perceived domination of the writing by Darian? (whoever the guitarist is) really brought them down the "pain, brain, insane" path that is generally the aching deathrattle of a bands last hurrah.

The jury is out on the Strokes, for me anyhow. I like what they do, but what they do is starting to come off like a one-trick pony. Thats fine, but its like Ac/Dc where they have a couple songs people really like and then its just filler for the live show.

Your other three suggestions; Black Keys, White Stripes, and QotSA are likely contenders for endurance. I think most will be recalled by the dedicated few as i don't see any becoming the next U2.