Bandas como The Baudelaires, The Romantics, The Datsuns, Enuff Z'Nuff, Everclear, Extreme, Simple Plan, Foo Fighters, Fountains of Wayne, Guns N' Roses, Mötley Crüe, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, Green Day, OK Go, The Smashing Pumpkins, The Pink Spiders, Redd Kross, The Posies, Third Eye Blind, Terrorvision, o Weezer, citan a Cheap Trick como una influencia básica en su música.