Weezer and Green Day are the defining bands of my generation...

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If you want to say defining, I wouldn't argue.

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Ok, but they're widespread appeal is not nearly as high as a plethora of other bands in their timeframe. Marilyn Manson sure had a different approach, but I wouldn't exactly file him under defining a generation.

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My argument for RATM being a defining band would be that they influenced the sound of subsequent bands and were unique bands when they came out. RATM did this, bands like Korn and Limp Bizkit were most definitely influenced by RATM. Whereas Marilyn Manson was basically a modern take on Alice Cooper, and not many bands after Manson were obviously influenced by them.