Who is our generation's Rolling Stones or Dead or u2?
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My dad asked me who my generation would consider as our long standing band, long standing in terms of popularity and longevity, the way the Stones and Dead or Dylan have continued on, long long since the 60's.
I said of course PJ, but he was right because he said, they arent really popular now, and havent been since 1994.
I couldnt think of any other band. Anyone think of any band?
What about from the new generation? Has any band maintained popularity from our generation, and lasted for 6, 7, 8 years? 10 years? 15 years?
I said of course PJ, but he was right because he said, they arent really popular now, and havent been since 1994.
I couldnt think of any other band. Anyone think of any band?
What about from the new generation? Has any band maintained popularity from our generation, and lasted for 6, 7, 8 years? 10 years? 15 years?
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Your dad got the answer wrong and you agreed with him? Pearl Jam may not be everywhere like the Jonas Brothers, but they're still very, very popular.
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Pearl Jam are definitely the Beatles of our generation.
I would just say Pearl Jam is the best band of our generation. People always get pissed when you compare bands to the Beatles or the Dead.
Metallica (27 yrs)
Red Hot Chilli Peppers (25 yrs)
Who are the Jonas Brothers?
But since you asked
Well, every album they release goes gold at least and they still pull 20,000 to shows all across America, South America, Europe, Australia...so i'd say they are still quite popular. They have sold a lot of records and are considered icons for their era of music.
In terms of rock n roll, it has to be Pearl Jam...
Headlining Lollapalooza and Bonnaroo in back to back years over Metallica, Kanye West etc... isn't popular? something is wrong here
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Seriously, Pearl Jam is our generations greatest rock band. If Kurt stayed alive, Nirvana would have gone out the same way as Soundgarden or Alice In Chains. The 90's was the last time quality music made it main stream, you won't find bands like that now a days. At least not main stream.
Nirvana were the Beatles. (blow up big, then burn out when the singer dies)
But yeah, as everyone else is saying, Pearl Jam is popular, they headline festivals and play huge venues everytime out. Their albums always go top 10, even without radio playing their singles.
Radiohead is probably the defining band of the past 15 years in terms of popularity, innovation and longevity(the combination of the three). They never had the smash hit success of the early PJ albums, but their always always sell ridiculously well and they sell out any venue they play.
Other than that, I'm not sure. Oasis always seems to do well in the UK even today, but they aren't relevent in the states anymore. Beck is probably the closest thing to a Bob Dylan we have today, only in the sense that he keeps putting out solo albums that are consistently good and he sells and tours well.
Overall, mainstream radio sucks too much to create a Stones or U2 today, they play crappy music that nobody likes once they turn 15, so building up huge fanbases is impossible through radio now. At best you will turn a hit song into a few year run of radio play, but there just isn't a band out there now that can produce a top 10 single and still be relevent 5 years from now.
I gave you a fair disclaimer.
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i along with everyone else on the board wishes this was true, and I think the band wanted it to be true in 2006 when they released the last cd, but alas nothing came of it. They had more exposure with the new album, gave more interviews, did more press, than I have ever seen them do, with the exception of during the heydey of grunge. They were on SNL, they were on, or ed was on the cover of Rolling Stone, they signed to a new label, and Mike and others seemed to suggest for the first time maybe ever in the bands history, they wanted the record to do really well commercially.
I dont think PJ is popular. I dont think teens now, know who they are. I think to many people they are a band who existed during the early 90's. its sad but true.
They are popular in their niche, they have a cult fan base basically. Just like when Chuck Palanhiuk releases a new book or something. he has a rabid fanbase.
i really dont think you guys are right on this. yes pearl jam can still sell out venues across the world, and yes, their albums are never ever complete commercial flops, but anyone who suggests they are in anyway "popular" is insane to put it lightly.
This band built their careers around pissing off commercial and scene fans. ed admits that no code was basically an attempt to lose fans. the ticketmaster thing lost them millions of dollars and millions of fans. and I dont think those fans have come back.
The Era's you're comparing is like apples vs. oranges.
The Beatles hype and popularity of yesterday would be similar to what we had with N'sync / New Kids / Backstreet Boys
The Grateful Dead were never commercially popular and you're using them as an example?
Pearl Jam is definately comparible to the Grateful Dead. They have a huge following. The fans will go to many shows when they are on tour the way the Dead fans did.
Pearl Jam is better than the Rolling Stones. The Rolling Stones were way overated.
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Dave Matthews isn't on Mtv anymore, but, his live shows still sell really well.
I would also have to go with U2 because they still sell a shit load of albums and people go to their shows in large numbers. But, I guess that's expected when Jesus Christ is the front man.
Ya, I said it.
But really, music today is so different. The internet, ipods, myspace, mtv, the millions of bands out there, illegal downloading, etc....I don't think any real, talented, original musicians will get that big anymore like they used to. The only people getting big these days are commercialized pop shits whose sole purpose isn't making good music, but to sell-$$$.
It'll be interesting to see what this new idea of giving music out for free (radiohead, nin), only available online, etc, will do to the music industry in the next few years.
I think you are wrong here...I mean I live in Australia and they easily sold out 2 x 20,000 seat arenas in Sydney and a third show that was probably 3/4 full. That's roughly 55,000 tickets sold in Sydney alone. This happens pretty much every time they come here! I don't consider this a cult fanbase. Foo fighters would probably be hard up pulling the same!
Not to mention a couple of sold out shows of comparable size in Melbourne and Brisbane and 1 big show in Perth probably 25,000.
Like another poster said, you are comparing them to the Grateful Dead...
List some other bands capable of doing the same in Sydney or any other major metropolis in the world...then ask yourself the question, are these bands considered popular?
Well, at the height of their fame, using the Sydney model that I have referred to, they had three shows in Sydney (1995) and played to about 30,000 at a place called Eastern Creek Raceway in addition to 2 shows at the Sydney Entertainment Centre (15,000 capacity). So it seems they have managed to hold on to quite a few fans!