I’ve really enjoyed the ongoing discussion about the worst songs by good bands, so I’d like to start another fight over something.

I was listening to Arcade Fire’s Funeral yesterday morning. My first thought was how well the record has worn since its release back in 2004, but my second thought—following almost immediately on that first one—was to wonder how it will sound in 20 or 30 years.

This is because, when I was 16 and getting into music seriously, I went back and latched onto albums like Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland, Derek and the Dominoes’ Layla, The Beatles’ Abbey Road, and The Allman Brothers Band’s At Filmore East as examples of what records were supposed to be. Since then, you could add Big Star’s #1 Record, Television’s Marquee Moon, and, recently, Wire’s Chairs Missing to the list of what I would consider classic albums, along with many others.

But what are the records from the past ten or 15 years that are going to have that staying power? What records are kids who start playing music over the next ten years going to look to for a sense of history?

I guess I started thinking about this because I’m not convinced that Funeral is one of those records, although it very well could be. I’m pretty sure that a lot of critically acclaimed albums will fade with time: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah’s debut, Tapes n’ Tapes The Loon, Vampire Weekend’s debut, both of M.I.A.’s records. I’m not saying they’re not good, but just that I can’t see people treating them like Blonde on Blonde.

And for all its great qualities, I honestly don’t see Nirvana’s Nevermind being adopted by future generations. Or rather, I see Cobain to be more like Jim Morrison: Teenagers will forever be going through a phase where they decide he’s a visionary and become obsessed for months or a few years, but that feeling will rarely endure very far into adulthood.

Same goes for Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, both of who were bands I positively adored and still respect. I just don’t see their records becoming touchstones.

The one rock record in recent history I can definitively see becoming one of those timeless records is Radiohead’s OK Computer. It seems like a record young musicians and fans will continue to go to to put modern rock in context. But I know there are others; I just want to know what you think they are.

Some other candidates that have occurred to me over the past day: Jeff Buckley’s Grace, DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing (I think so much music has taken direct inspiration from this, and that when all the acts that have followed Shadow have fallen away, people will return to the source, in much the same way that none of the hard rock acts in the immediate wake of Zeppelin (save for Black Sabbath) have endured the same way), and Boards of Canada’s Music Has the Right to Children. Of course, all of those, with the exception of BOC’s debut, are at least ten years old.

Be frank about it. I don’t want to hear about great records. I want to know what records will endure decades into the future for coming generations to cherish. Here’s my controversial pick from the last five: Grizzly Bear’s Yellow House.

Discuss.