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

[mason55]

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I would say Nirvana and Pearl Jam defined the early nineties, along with some hip hop groups that warrant mention but I don't know rap well enough to confirm.

These days it's Green Day (sigh), U2, and Eminem. Nods also to Coldplay, Radiohead, and Primus [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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Maybe we should discuss what "defining a generation" is. To me, it's bands who's sound gets copied and becomes ubiquitous. Most of the songs on the radio sound like this band. They "defined" the sound that is popular. It doesn't mean that they were the most popular necessarily. This is not a discussion of the "most popular" bands.

Nirvana and Pearl Jam, yes. After those two, how many freaking grunge bands were there?

Green Day and Weezer? Green Day most definitely. Listen to the radio. Look at teenagers these days. You think that any of the music would sound like it does? You think "punk" (aka mall-punk) would have made it mainstream without Green Day?

Weezer... Meh, not as much as Green Day, but I still think that they're not done influencing the pop music landscape. Their sound from Blue Album/Pinkerton is just now hitting the pop airwaves. It takes awhile. I think 5 more years and Weezer's contribution will become much more evident. I also think they'll release another GREAT album before all is said and done, just as Green Day did after a couple of mis-steps. And I don't know why no one has mentioned Kerplunk, that album is so much better than Dookie.