Quote Originally Posted by Shout View Post
I wasn't just basing it off of green day. The whole point is that bands who only listen to others like green day will be off on the worse end and another decade will pass and bands will like that band who was inspired by bands like green day and they will be worse then them and double as worse as bands like green day. When I say a bands name I dont just mean solely them. That'd be stupid. That's the reason I included the words like.
Then what about the Manic Street Preachers? A much better band than Greenday, but also stemming from the same influence - Clash.

Same roots, different bands. Is Greenday better than Clash? No. Is Manic Street Preachers better than Clash? Well, that's debatable. For some people they might not be, but for some they might.

A band can be better than their influence. As with the Manics being influenced by Clash, just because one band is influenced by Greenday doesn't mean that they're going to turn out terrible. What you're trying to do is to judge a large chunk of the next generation without even hearing any of it yet.