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Which rock songs released in the last 5 years will be considered classics?

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Nothing, as has been mentioned music is too widespread for such a thing as a classic nowadays

I mean there is alot of good stuff out there, but its not original anymore in the sense that no one else is doing it... Which is what makes a classic imo

Specially concerning bands... Thats why Pink Floyd, Led Zep, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath etc are so famous now, because no one else was doing the same at the time

I could name a few original bands out there but they are so obscure that no one in this thread will know them, which means its also impossible for any their music to become a classic
 
Originally posted by: Sureshot324
I'm having a hard time thinking of any that anyone will bother to listen to in 20 years, but here are my best guesses:

Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams/Wake me when September ends
White Stripes - Icky Thump
and as much as I hate them,
The Killers - Mr Brightside/When you were young
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:laugh: More like wake me up when Green Day is DONE.
 
Originally posted by: ironwing
There was some good music then, which were you thinking about?
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Start there and move back another 20 years for the proper "classics" window.
 
It's hard to imagine anything out today living as long as classics like Journey's Don't Stop Believing
A real classic top download

Well, it turns out that the most downloaded catalog track in iTunes history is actually ?Don?t Stop Believin? by Journey. In fact, it?s the first catalog song to ever reach 2 Million in digital sales. Originally released in 1981, the song topped the Billboard charts at #8. The song, however, has made a modern day comeback and has become something of a pop culture phenomenon after being featured on popular TV shows such as Laguna Beach, and more famously on The Sopranos.
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Don't Stop Believing live 2 weeks ago Not bad turn out for a 30+ year old band. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: compuwiz1
It's hard to imagine anything out today living as long as classics like Journey's Don't Stop Believing

Well, it turns out that the most downloaded catalog track in iTunes history is actually ?Don?t Stop Believin? by Journey. In fact, it?s the first catalog song to ever reach 2 Million in digital sales. Originally released in 1981, the song topped the Billboard charts at #8. The song, however, has made a modern day comeback and has become something of a pop culture phenomenon after being featured on popular TV shows such as Laguna Beach, and more famously on The Sopranos.
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Are you trying to demonstrate that Popularity does not imply Quality?
 
Originally posted by: compuwiz1
It's hard to imagine anything out today living as long as classics like Journey's Don't Stop Believing
A real classic top download

Well, it turns out that the most downloaded catalog track in iTunes history is actually ?Don?t Stop Believin? by Journey. In fact, it?s the first catalog song to ever reach 2 Million in digital sales. Originally released in 1981, the song topped the Billboard charts at #8. The song, however, has made a modern day comeback and has become something of a pop culture phenomenon after being featured on popular TV shows such as Laguna Beach, and more famously on The Sopranos.
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Don't Stop Believing live 2 weeks ago Not bad turn out for a 30+ year old band. 🙂
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One of my favorites! They play it all the time on a new local radio station, TheBrew.
 
Basically, the music industry, much like the film industry, has become an extreme profit-producing industry. (I'm not knocking on profit, btw). Money is now driven by VOLUME. Volume is now determined by the fickle minds of pre-teens. I think there very likely is some good stuff out there. I hear great things about bands like Modest Mouse, Arcade Fire, blah blah....but I am and forever will be stuck in decades of music that existed before I was born. Whatever...

back to volume...so, while Good artists still get play, they are drowned out by the constantly revolving stream of fly-by-night groups and faces; whatever looks good and sounds decent enough coherently singing some lackluster song about who-gives-a-shit. it doesn't matter, really, b/c the Jonas brothers will make a shit-ton of money selling 1 or 2 records, then their 5 & 8 year-old fans will grow up and mature quickly, digging other stuff. The new crop of fickle-heads will need something equally vapid, but also younger. Toss the jonas brothers onto the heap.

So, it's not that good music doesn't exist, it's just that most of the industry doesn't care to promote them as they found an excellent stream of endless revenue: young girls with their parents' money (of course, if the majority of parents would take some time to educate kids on good music when they were younger, then maybe this sort of thing wouldn't continue. ....But I guess it's easier to pop some pills in their mouths, shove some dollars in their pockets, place them in front of their video games.)
 
 
Most music these days sucks ass, but you can't deny that certain groups like Green Day and such will probably live on for a while. We may not like it, but they're very popular and that's what will stick.
 
Originally posted by: gorcorps
Most music these days sucks ass, but you can't deny that certain groups like Green Day and such will probably live on for a while. We may not like it, but they're very popular and that's what will stick.
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I can't stand Green day but I can't quite pinpoint it. Some of their music has the essentials of classic rock songs yet I hate them all. I think it may have to do with that annoying kid's voice.
 
Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
whoever says there is no good music is just not looking in the right places. that is all there is to it.
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That's not what this thread is about. Popular music is no longer the "good" music as people has stated, which is going to make "classic" songs much more rare in the future. Sure there are some songs that will be remembered 20-40 years from now, but those probably aren't going to be like what we consider "classics" now. It will be more like the disco songs people remember now and/or the 80s pop music. It may not be the greatest music, but some of it is catchy and fun.
 
Originally posted by: MixMasterTang
That's not what this thread is about. Popular music is no longer the "good" music as people has stated, which is going to make "classic" songs much more rare in the future. Sure there are some songs that will be remembered 20-40 years from now, but those probably aren't going to be like what we consider "classics" now. It will be more like the disco songs people remember now and/or the 80s pop music. It may not be the greatest music, but some of it is catchy and fun.
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Well said.
 
Originally posted by: GagHalfrunt
99.9999999999% of the rock music released in the last 5 years was forgettable 20 seconds later.
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But that means some of it was good, cuz 99.9999999999% isn't 100%!
 
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