In 20 years...what modern day bands do you think will still have a huge influence in music?

Question

hahahahah the first answerer...
hahaha... wow....

steve I didn't ask for mainstream i said modern.

huge difference.

tons of "underground" music of the 80s have huge influence on music today...maybe not mainstream but underground is still listened to by the thousands its just not in the public eye aka radio/mtv... i don't see why underground can't be influential.

Answer 1

Probably the Alternative and Indie scene. Radiohead already is an influence on the new bands, so they deffiently will be remembered and probably some of the underground progressive rock like Porcupine Tree, Opeth and Dream Theater. Maybe some Indie such as the Shins and Beulah will also be very influential.

Answer 2

I don't think any will make a huge influence in 20 years, just for the simple fact that record companys have started supporting bands that no, don't have talent, but have a marketable image and can be sold to those fake *** people that do nothing but watch MTV REALITY shows. No band like that will ever make a musical influence on the future, it will only be showing people to try to act like an emo and where black clothes from Hollister and wear black eyeliner. That is all, just how to be marketable. About the only bands I think that might and I do mean MIGHT have a chance of influencing the future would be the genre of NU-METAL aka rap metal. Your Linkin Park's KoRn's, and your SlipKnoT's will be your influences. I believe that these bands have been pushed so far out of the spotlight and underestemated so much that they can have the freedom to make the music they want to and record labels still sign them and help put out their music.

Answer 3

To be perfectly honest, I don't think any of them will.

Why?

Because they are created now days to make hits; not to make good music. There is a huge difference. The groups/performers of old created great loyalty from their fans - you didn't just get a song or two; you bought their albums. I used to buy albums from Nirvana and Van Halen without really hearing a song from them. Very few bands of today even have fans such as that. And of those bands, I don't really hear anything that is "groundbreaking" or "earth shattering" that gets everyone talking, and sets the music world on its ear.

I am hoping this phase in music ends really soon, and record companies go back to marketing BANDS/PERFORMERS, instead of the latest single.

Answer 4

Wolfmothers 1st and 3rd album (the second one was their attempt to make more modern sounding music and it's completely **** except the song cosmic egg in my Opinion) also radio Moscow shows some elements Of old psychedelic rock (check out their new album magical dirt). The white stripes has an old school vibe to it (check the song Ball and biscuit). And lastly, check out biffy clyro's 1st album blackened sky, it has an Early 90's feel although it came out in 2001.

Answer 5

Wilco
Spoon
Arcade Fire
My Morning Jacket
Decemberists
TV on the Radio
Broken Social Scene
Björk
Sufjan Stevens

They are thought of very highly critic wise and from there fans. Critics also write the best of the 2000's lists!

Answer 6

The White Stripes
Modest Mouse

Green Day and the Smashing Pumpkins (Wait, they've both been around for almost 20 years already )

Any great band with a sensitive, good looking male lead that kills himself will go down in history (Nirvana, Elliott Smith)

Answer 7

spoon will be around for a million years

i would hope our decemberists will live forever :)

and even though i liked the last album much better.. i dont think the white stripes are going away.

i will pray that the new pornographers stay intact but something tells me its just not going to happen

and kevin barnes is too smart to let of montreal fall off the map... theyve already been around for 10 years.

oops my brain stopped working and forgot to mention the obvious 'arcade fire' they'll be around for 1000 years

Answer 8

Which kind of bands? Supermainstream or kind of underground? I could answer different ways.

Answer 9

LOL..good_vibration: i honestly don't think any mainstram bands will have influence in 20 years, because there will be some other bands...

record companies changing them like underwear

ok then IMO these bands will leave some footprints
opeth
pain of salvation
sonata artica
the devin townsend


that are few from my list
because to be influental those bands have to have record deal with companies. and Sometimes record compoanies sacrifice talents of bands for $$$$$.
How many bands you know that have deal with record companies w/out sacrificing their music for $$$

Answer 10

Linkin Park
Madina Lake
Taking Back Sunday