What modern songs do you think will be considered classics years from now?

Maxtortion · 4 months

Everlong by Foo Fighters. Not that recent, but I'm confident that it will withstand the test of time.

bad_keisatsu · 4 months

This is just a list of everyone's favorite songs, not songs that are likely to be considered classics in the future >_<.

facebucket · 4 months

Modest Mouse - Float On

It has just the right amount of whacked indie rock and pop smarts to be a classic for it's time.

auraslip · 4 months

Santeria. When it comes on, EVERYONE FUCKING SINGS IT.

JSleek · 4 months

I'm not sure if it's old enough yet, but "Hey Yah" by Outkast gets my vote.

TheWeedChronicles · 4 months

RHCP

resurrection_man · 4 months

"Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" - Daft Punk

Tallain · 4 months

I like how some of the "best" comments are indie music. ಠ_ಠ

palindromicsquare · 4 months

Mr. Brightside - The Killers

I don't care what you say, I LOVE that song.

TheGreenBackPack · 4 months

I think "kids" by MGMT has that classic feel.

StopOversimplifying · 4 months

Everyone in this thread should try to ignore their actual opinion of a song when deciding if it'll become a "classic."

Classic songs usually need to have a pretty broad appeal, and last for decades through a changing culture.

Can't be too obscure, can't get annoying to most people after 3 months.

EradiKate · 4 months

I'm gonna say "Single Ladies" is going to make it, because the dance and video are so iconic. It'll get compared to "Thriller", just you wait.

red321red321 · 4 months

someone like you by adele. i'm a guy who listens to metal, rap, jazz fusion among other genres but her music is just straight to the point, no gimmicks, and that song is just a piano and her incredible voice and it's an amazing/heartbreaking song that will never be forgotten.

Kosmo_Kramer_ · 4 months

Thong Song for sure.

ieatcatfood · 4 months

blah blah blah radiohead blah blah blah

whisper78 · 4 months

"Do You Realize?" by the Flaming Lips!

thetrevistabomb · 4 months

anything with jack white

Jeff_Drake · 4 months

"Classics" usually aren't the "best" songs of their time, but they're usually very good and have wide-appeal.

That being said, Bad Romance is going to be popular for a long time.

BlueThundah · 4 months

Don't Look Back in Anger by Oasis will always be remembered.

YoChocola · 4 months

So many music snobs in this thread, ugh.

ilovefullmetal · 4 months

Chasing Cars - Snow Patrol

fordprefect48 · 4 months

Top 40 music like Adele will be remembered like we do pop classics such as Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, or what have you. while bands like Radiohead, Arcade Fire, The Strokes, Beck, or any band that is redditors' favorite will be remembered as we do Pink Floyd, Sonic Youth, The Velvet Underground, Nick Drake, etc. not a lot of radio plays and exposure but they will have their devoted fans and their families.

Problem solved

TheOrangatangClan · 4 months

Kanye West - Golddigger

The hip hop snob in me wants to bring up that it isn't his best, but i'd be lying if I said I didn't know all the words to it.

VTFD · 4 months

Empire State of Mind, Jay-Z

flynavy46 · 4 months

Dog Days Are Over - I think history will be very good to Florence Welch's huge vocals.

cauldcuts · 4 months

Tik Tok.

You know people will bring it up. You know people will feel nostalgic about it. Don't deny it.

LeoSloane · 4 months

Definitely Coldplay, but hopefully their earlier stuff. Their new music lacks substance.

dpm5075 · 4 months

I can't tell which one has the biggest footprint, but I'd say 'Times Like These,' 'Best of You,' or 'My Hero' by Foo Fighters.

Hakumen · 4 months

I would say the Gorrilaz album, Demon Days, is already a classic. It is just awesome, with my personal favorites being Fire Coming Out Of The Monkeys Head and November Has Come.

superAL1394 · 4 months

The Real Slim Shady - Eminem

BeefBayonet03 · 4 months

Good Vibrations - marky mark and the funky bunch

kidl33t · 4 months

That 'tub-thumping' one by whoever-the-fuck wrote it. That shit is like brain-crack.

alyon724 · 4 months

Just going to start listing stuff that will probably not be classics but you will sure as hell remember from somewhere. Not really related much to the thread... but I figure its the wee hours of the morning and you're bored as fuck also.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YxaaGgTQYM&feature=relmfu Evanescence - Bring Me To Life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzge5vY72hE m83- we own the sky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HL-N9oOjcs Tatu - not going to get us

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eimgRedLkkU&ob=av2n empire of the sun - walking on a dream

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijk4j-r7qPA&ob=av2e Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrdpliMfoAM Pixies - Where is my Mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSbBvKaM6sk&feature=related Blur - song 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9BGLtqqkVI&feature=related Weezer - Hash Pipe

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPoEA43cqKc Everlast - What its Like

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8UeeIAJ0a0&feature=related Goo Goo Dolls - Iris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmFgejWZjtg&ob=av2n Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ&ob=av2e Foster the People - Pumped Up Kicks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McRgkE_vgjU&ob=av2e Chiddy Bang - Opposite Of Adults

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pbdLqTh_x4 Darwin Deez - Radar Detector

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLUX0y4EptA Flobots - Handlebars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewRjZoRtu0Y&feature=related MIA - Paper Planes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTAAsCNK7RA OK Go - Here It Goes Again

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysGtBZX32I0 The Hives - Walk Idiot Walk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2R6S5CJWlco&feature=related Bloc Party - Helicopter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c6W27TQIlo Billy Talent - Try Honesty

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-iepu3EtyE&ob=av2e System of a Down - Aerials

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTuygg7TD6U&feature=related Starfucker - Julius

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZjpWs1h7pU&feature=related Architecture In Helsinki - Heart It Races

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBfgQvM7wtE Of Montreal - Gronlandic Edit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3JjlkfX5Gk Dispatch - The General

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0H3RlaQVrM&feature=related Coheed and Cambria - Welcome Home

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s88r_q7oufE&ob=av2n Queens of the Stoneage - No One Knows

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yvGCAvOAfM&feature=relmfu Thirty Seconds to Mars - The Kill

Tired... sleep

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVN2b0DdZAQ&ob=av2e Dashboard Confessional - Hands Down (damn, almost forgot them)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zLkB2U_hwI The Academy Is - Slow Down

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ldjbjwim4k&feature=related Taking Back Sunday - Make Damn Sure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKsxPW6i3pM&feature=relmfu Jimmy Eat World - The Middle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=punkmNPEgl4&feature=related Brand New- Okay I Believe You But My Tommy Gun Dont (Pretty sure this defined my highschool years)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XleOkGsYgO8&feature=related All-American Rejects - Move Along

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8ekz_CSBVg&feature=relmfu Three Days Grace - I hate everything about you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vSAOrpKlgY Nine Inch Nails - Closer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5fBdpreJiU&feature=related The Killers - Somebody Told Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpCcJY-rJSs&feature=related Two Door Cinema Club - What you know

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gxhLiNypVU&feature=relmfu Toro y Moi - Talamak

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oU1H-kKN8Ec Miami horror - Summersun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSxjbF18BBM Ratatat - Neckbrace

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55CH_8YOBQc Primus - Jerry was a racecar driver

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udUCjJphE-0 - Goldfinger - superman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQj--Kjn0z8&feature=related Smash Mouth - Walkin' On The Sun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDl9ZMfj6aE&feature=related Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEKbFMvkLIc&feature=fvwrel Reel Big Fish - Sell Out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIANBamMgas&feature=related Nine Days - Absolutely (Story Of A Girl)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrZ4sMRYimw&feature=relmfu The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2NGe9mLAEc&feature=related Staind - It's Been Awhile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCbuBUMMnW8 Tiger Love // Pussy Cocaine

Wow... this is turning into a 90's TRL tribute... Im done

Kaiidera · 4 months

Everlong - Foo Fighters

C'mon people. Still a classic from the 90's. It's halfway there.

ThisGuy182 · 4 months

All The Small Things - Blink-182

marmosetohmarmoset · 4 months

I genuinely look forward to the day in the future when I'm listening to a classic pop station in my flying space minivan with my children when Rebecca Black's "Friday" comes on the air. I'm not sure how I'll react, or how my kids will react, but it will probably be hilarious.

MyNameIsChar · 4 months

How to Save a Life by The Fray will be played like classic rock nowadays, in twenty years.

IamStrategy · 4 months

I hope most of these people are joking.

rabton · 4 months

Adele's 21 album. The entire damn thing will be played for decades.

JoeyJeremiah · 4 months

American Idiot.

Probably due to the fact that it's an album, and not just a list of songs, plus the broadway show helps.

frankmug · 4 months

Some of Eminems stuff, like "Stan" and "The Way I Am"

rocketparrotlet · 4 months

Tool will probably be held in a similar regard in 20 years as Pink Floyd is today.

BreatheLikeADog · 4 months

You'll be hearing Red Solo Cup in bars 10 years from now.

The_Spent_Mago · 4 months

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Papie · 4 months

Gnarls Barkley - Crazy

MrPartyPooper · 4 months

Bloodhound Gang - The Bad Touch

thetrevistabomb · 4 months

muse probably

thinkovertly · 4 months

The Cave - Mumford and Sons

70sfinallyfall · 4 months

I hope, for the sake of the future, that Chicago by Sufjan Stevens is one of them.

Also, The Suburbs by Arcade Fire

And of course Daymanstep

Edit: Some tracks off of Arcade Fire- Funeral were suggested, and I agree totally. I just thought of the first Arcade Fire song that came to my head, it comes on the TV and radio on here a lot. Which happened to be the suburbs.

scjones · 4 months

pumped up kicks

llamaspit · 4 months

Rage Against the Machine's debut. I know it's 20 years old, but to someone who's over 40, that's recent. And no, I'm not picking a song, the whole album.

As for anything new, there's just not that much that seems to stand out. The originality is just not there. So anything that will be a classic will probably be simply "what sold the most".

robvargas · 4 months

The garage rock bands of the early 2000's created some of the best music in recent memory.

The Hives, The Strokes, The Fratellis, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The White Stripes.

No bullshit. Just rock and roll.

litchykp · 4 months

In The End by Linkin Park.

brettrosey · 4 months

The xx - Crystalised

hapticity · 4 months

So many hipsters in this thread.

[deleted] · 4 months

Clint Eastwood - Gorillaz

[deleted] · 4 months

Rolling in the Deep is the only song I can bother thinking of right now.

PerogiXW · 4 months

Crazy

Rolling Stone called it the best song of the '00s and I tend to agree.

Mr_A · 4 months

Real answer: U2

randomrelevency · 4 months

radiohead - creep

and here's why..

bigger_bau5 · 4 months

Think about what songs have survived and become standards today. I'm talking about 100+ years. Maybe some classical pieces like Mozart's Twinkle, Twinkle and some gospel standards. The Beatles will probably last the test of time and turned into children songs but most of the songs that are being listed WILL NOT survive. Can anyone name a standard from 1910-1930 that has lasted?

broken_sword · 4 months

Graduation - Vitamin C

ILikeNegativeKarma · 4 months

Sabotage - Beastie Boys

samuelclark · 4 months

Harder to Breathe - Maroon 5

Sugar, We're Going Down - Fall Out Boy

I feel like those will be around in a few decades.

SadistiKitteh · 4 months

Poker Face- Lady Gaga Single Ladies (Put a Ring On It)- Beyonce 21 Guns- Green Day Lose it- Eminem Tik Tok- Ke$ha

guessing those due to memorability, not personal opinion :U

Hell, Jizz in my Pants could become a classic! XD

Brrrtje · 4 months

I fear we will never be cured of the cancer that is Coldplay.

[deleted] · 4 months

Linkin Park: In the end

Scorm93 · 4 months

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radenB · 4 months

SIMON AND GARFUNKEL!... Too old? Worth a shot.

TheRedGoblin · 4 months

99 Problems - Jay Z

Baby- Justin Bieber (You guys can hate but he can make hit songs)

lolwhuttt · 4 months

Maybe some old timers can help me here, are there any "classics" that you had never heard of when they were still new. I don't know half the stuff people are posting.

Ninja_mak · 4 months

Cee Lo Green's Fuck You.

Katyakatyak · 4 months

None of the above.

niggaragua · 4 months

Poker Face. Hate it all you want, but it gained so much international success (topped the charts in 20 countries, among the most downloaded songs of all time) that it won't be easily forgotten.

fantasyreality · 4 months

Adele? Some Coldplay songs. Since classics tend to gravitate along really popular, nonstop-playing songs in the radio, I am not surprised if some Gaga, Britney, or Jason Mraz's songs will be considered classics years from now too.

I like Sigur Rós , but I don't think many current 15-year-old kids know them.

Frankfusion · 4 months

Let Go by Frou Frou

eaturliver · 4 months

Probably the Smashing Pum.... awwww shit.

docqk · 4 months

I'm sure it has been stated many times here, the heart of the matter is this. It doesn't matter what the "best song" from an era is. It doesn't matter if the song was horrible. The songs that make the top tens are usually the ones remembered long down the road. And the way that "Mmm Bop" is remembered and somewhat glorified, other horrible songs will as well.

OregonGreen242 · 4 months

No Incubus?! Everyone knows Drive amirite? Incubus=amazing :)

xPurpleDragon · 4 months

Lonely Boy - The Black Keys.

delanims · 4 months

Rack City Bitch

TheNecromancer · 4 months

Given their size and appeal, I think Muse could well stand the test of time. Maybe Nights of Cydonia or Hysteria.

GreatMindsThinkAlike · 4 months

Like a G6 - Far East Movement

That song was on the Top 10 list in eleven other countries, and it was #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 TWICE.

It's also instantly recognizable, in my opinion.

thatis · 4 months

"Hollaback Girl" may not go down as a classic but it will be played forever for no apparent reason just like "I Love Rock N Roll"

I'll give "Sugar, We're Going Down" an outside shot.

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