I personally like the eighties compared to the stuff they play today. However if you want to know the new and popular bands of 2003, im going to have to go with, (in no particular order) stone sour, hoobistank, queens of the stone age, puddle of mudd, thoery of a dead man (my personal favorite of 2003), incubis, and system of a down. Then you have other bands which are hot and have more staying power like red hot chillipeppers, ozzy, anything by Zakk Wylde, kid rock...well kiinda....,carlos sanatana is doing **** again,

well the list can be long depending on who you talk to ... personally, with the exception of theroy of a deadman and some puddle of mood songs, i think most of the music is ****, well incomparison to the eighties of course. Kid rock is wicked..more so from a guitarist point of view as Kracker puts toghether some good riffs.