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Originally Posted by initialsBB

Your list spans the 60s & 70s so I think it would only be fair to make another list that spans the 80s and 90s and in my opinion it would be just as long if not longer.

Actually it really only spans the LATE 60's, like 68 to the end of the 70's. That is not a whole list of all of the 60's, and to be fair, it was really off the top of my head. The more I thought about it there were probably another 50 or so bands I missed.

I was really up on bands up to the mid 90's, there was a time when I could name just about every musical act that had a chart hit from the late 60's to like 89.

I really doubt there is any other 12 year period that has this many artists who's songs, love'm or hate'm are still around today..... And let's not forget there were a ton of late 60's and 70's songs that were huge covers in the 80's and 90's. To me that is still music created in that same 12 year window.

The '00s are kind of hard to judge because we're too close to them but I have my own ideas. It's kind of pointless for me to list them though without turning this into a big argument over the merits of each individual artist or comparing everything back to the Beatles & Zeppelin.

That's cool man... just in case I have not said it enough, my WHOLE point is not to say the Beatles are better than the White Strips, I like both bands. My point is that CULTURALLY the Beatles had a much bigger impact.

Again, that isn't because the Beatles are BETTER (I do admit I like them better but I don't think they were "better" because that is an indefinable term). The reason the bands from the 70's had a larger impact on society was because they fed off of each other, society and artists.

In today's musical environment there is very little excitement about music, we all know it's true. The artist does not feed off the fan feeding off the artist. It's just not like that now.

The grandchildren of the kids who are wearing Led Zeppelin hoodies will be wearing Metallica hoodies or something like that. And at least Metallica wrote their own songs

First, I hate when people say that about Zep but it's all good. Many of their songs were derivative works but so were the works of Mozart, I don't hear people complaining much about him.



Second, I see the 80's as a crossover period. There were still MANY quality acts up to the mid 90's but they were just not as many as there were in the 70's.

I LOVE Metallica (saw Cliff from the 4th row 2 weeks before he died). I think Metallica IS a band that will have staying power. I do see 14 year olds wearing Metallica shirts all the time. Let us not forget that Metallica is a 25 year old band, they didn't start 12 years ago which is the scope of my reasoning.

I am talking about TODAY'S music.

I could imagine seeing a kid in 20 years wearing a Tool logo on his hoodie but I don't think that will be the case for the Fall Out Boys. And Tool is also almost a 20 year old band.