Will the music of today be remembered? - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

Roark · 07-20-2003, 01:46 PM

I was just thinking about this. I grew up listening to Classic Rock because my parents grew up in that time but my music collection has pretty much every genre out there from Cocteau Twins to Copeland.

Twenty years from now will people go Linkin' who?? and still be singing The Wall , American Pie, or Back in Black?

Which bands of today will people remember?

Dr.Who · 07-20-2003, 02:12 PM

That's a excellent question and I think some band will be talked over just like we do with The Beatles, Pink Floyd and others.

My personnal choice; Radiohead, REM, Pearjam & I think Nirvana will be remember for a long time.

hersickmother · 07-20-2003, 03:20 PM

oh cocteau twins I've recently got into them in a big way.

I doubt you can answer that, music at the moment seems, to me at least, very exciting. So many different bands re-treading and improving old genres and lots of people mixing and blurring boundaries especially in Hip hop and alt-pop (think sugar babes and nerd).
recently I was wondering what the hell people will make off the strokes and oasis in twenty years time, both who are reviving old music. Its something you can not answer without hindsight, I'm sure at the time new forms of music (things you look back on and think I’d like to have been there for that) like funk and punk and hardcore were derived at the time by critics saying it was just a rehash of old genres

unassumed · 07-20-2003, 10:06 PM

I think most of the mainstream music of today wont be remembered, but yeah Pearl Jam, Radiohead, REM, Nirvana (like Dr. Who said) will definately be there. Creed... no, Linkin Park... no, Limp Bizkit, most every rapper/rap group that's popular right now no.

I do have high hopes for The Roots, and Common... Eminem will probably stick around for a while. Sadly I can't see too much new rock sticking around very long. Queens should be there for a while. Most of the other rock I dig isn't very popular but I love it so I can't say really. I know it'll stick around with me for a long time.

Gortexfogg · 07-21-2003, 09:40 AM

It also depends on the people who are listening to today's bands and such. If they continue to like the music they've listened to for the past couple of years, then those songs will become classics. But, if they keep changing their tastes to every new artist and sound out there, chances are not many songs will make it in the future.

Like said above, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, REM, Radiohead... they'll be listened to forever.

tinfoil · 07-21-2003, 10:01 AM

Look at the bands that we remember from previous generations... We remember the groundbreaking bands.... Doors, Zep, CCR, Jimi ... the list goes on.

We don't remember those that came right after, in many cases, to copy the formula.

The same will go for todays music. Nirvana, Mother Love Bone, Metallica (shudder), Danzig, Green Day (perhaps one of the Nu-Punk founders?.... the list is fairly extensive.

crvrba · 07-21-2003, 07:17 PM

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Originally posted by hersickmother
oh cocteau twins I've recently got into them in a big way.

I doubt you can answer that, music at the moment seems, to me at least, very exciting. So many different bands re-treading and improving old genres and lots of people mixing and blurring boundaries especially in Hip hop and alt-pop (think sugar babes and nerd).
recently I was wondering what the hell people will make off the strokes and oasis in twenty years time, both who are reviving old music. Its something you can not answer without hindsight, I'm sure at the time new forms of music (things you look back on and think I’d like to have been there for that) like funk and punk and hardcore were
derived at the time by critics saying it was just a rehash of old genres

If you thiink NERD is exciting you need your head checked.

GunslingerCold · 07-21-2003, 08:07 PM

I like NERDs songs. Pharrel and Chad are good musicians. Also, they affect a ton of other music through their collaborations so Im sure you like something theyre part of.

sdkh · 07-21-2003, 10:26 PM

I think a lot of the music will be like VH1's tribute to the 80s. Like with how being ghetto fabulous is popular and how having a goatee and short dreadlocks are part of the nu-metal thing or spikey hair. whichever.

crvrba · 07-22-2003, 09:53 AM

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Originally posted by GunslingerCold
I like NERDs songs. Pharrel and Chad are good musicians. Also, they affect a ton of other music through their collaborations so Im sure you like something theyre part of.

Nope. last time I checked NERD was in the watered down shoot-you-while-i'm-wearing-diamonds world of pop rap.

And I know they haven't been collaborationg with anybody I've been listening to.

They aren't musicians, they sit in a studio and produce.

Technomage · 07-22-2003, 03:41 PM

I doubt todays music will be remembered like some of the older stuff. One reason is it has no motivation. With music of the 60's there was the peace movement, the Vietnam war, and Woodstock. With the 50's it was a complete revolution in itself. Music is not like that anymore, it never will be again. Another thing is that music is not of the quality it once was. Today it is all about $$. Back then it was about loving the music, and the cause they were fighting for. but mostly it was about the music. Artist don't care about the music anymore, most of them don't even have any say in what songs get put on their albums. If today's music is remembered, it will be for how much it sucks, not for the classic value and moving content.

Gman · 07-22-2003, 03:42 PM

I think this particular era of music will be remembered as corporate clone music. Everything sounds relatively the same, Pop artists that sell records based on a proven formula that works, and the ever loveable rap artists who don't care about the music but rather care about "Getting rich or die trying"

Heh, can anyone tell I'm jaded?

Donkeypuncher · 07-22-2003, 03:51 PM

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Originally posted by Gman
[B]I think this particular era of music will be remembered as corporate clone music. Everything sounds relatively the same, Pop artists that sell records based on a proven formula that works

I remember hearing almost the exact same words in the mid-70's, from a lot of people.

crvrba · 07-22-2003, 04:37 PM

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Originally posted by Technomage
I doubt todays music will be remembered like some of the older stuff. One reason is it has no motivation. With music of the 60's there was the peace movement, the Vietnam war, and Woodstock. With the 50's it was a complete revolution in itself. Music is not like that anymore, it never will be again. Another thing is that music is not of the quality it once was. Today it is all about $$. Back then it was about loving the music, and the cause they were fighting for. but mostly it was about the music. Artist don't care about the music anymore, most of them don't even have any say in what songs get put on their albums. If today's music is remembered, it will be for how much it sucks, not for the classic value and moving content.

You ever hear of Motown. Just look at any oldies station. That was your Top 40 station in that era.

Glory's Sun · 07-22-2003, 05:17 PM

I bet everyone will remember Avril Lavigne.. she's a talented musician...

yes I'm joking!

Will music be remembered? that's a hard question to say. I think it will go through a period of hibernation then re-emerge as a retro-trend one day. Just like everything else I guess. The true music fans remember music in style or out of style.

rockzilla · 07-22-2003, 08:02 PM

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Originally posted by hersickmother
I was wondering what the hell people will make off the strokes and oasis in twenty years time, both who are reviving old music.

It's kinda early to make predictions about The Strokes, they've released one album, which was one of my favorite albums of 2001, but it takes more than one album to be remembered through the ages. I had honestly almost forgotten about Oasis being a band and mostly remembered them as those two asshole British brothers.

Most current rap music is throwaway garbage about bitches and bling-bling and cappin' people. For every Beastie Boys or Outkast, there are a thousand 50Cents and Nellys.

I think the Red Hot Chili Peppers will be remembered, mostly for Blood Sugar Sex Magik though, same as Metallica. Along with the guys like Radiohead, REM, Nirvana and Pearl Jam. I've got high hopes for Coldplay too.

Derwood · 07-23-2003, 06:12 AM

Of course it will be. It will go away for awhile, but then become "Retro" (like 80s music is today).

There are those songs that you hear that, like them or not, will become the "classics" of the era. I mean, "Drops of Jupiter" by Train is so fucking catchy that it will be on compilation albums and stuff forever.

Gman · 07-23-2003, 09:07 AM

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I mean, "Drops of Jupiter" by Train is so fucking catchy that it will be on compilation albums and stuff forever.

And you know that Rhino and NOW are going to be all over these compilation cds in about 5-10 years time. Of course, NOW will have to change it's title to, "Now that's what I called music back in the day!"

thumper · 07-23-2003, 01:12 PM

Good question.

I agree with the "Drops Of Jupiter" statement. Songs like that tend to stay forever. Santana & Rob Thomas' "Smooth" will do the same. I'd say 3 Doors Down will be remembered. The first time I heard "Kryptonite" my jaw just about dropped. I'd been waiting for something like that for a long time. Anyway, artists with some longevity behind them will be remembered no doubt. (Hmm, No Doubt will probably be remembered as well!)

But I was talking about people like "Weird Al" Yankovic and Aerosmith.

07-20-2003, 01:46 PM	#1 (permalink)
Roark Insane	Will the music of today be remembered? I was just thinking about this. I grew up listening to Classic Rock because my parents grew up in that time but my music collection has pretty much every genre out there from Cocteau Twins to Copeland. Twenty years from now will people go Linkin' who?? and still be singing The Wall , American Pie, or Back in Black? Which bands of today will people remember?

07-20-2003, 03:20 PM	#3 (permalink)
hersickmother Upright Location: Nottingham, England.	oh cocteau twins I've recently got into them in a big way. I doubt you can answer that, music at the moment seems, to me at least, very exciting. So many different bands re-treading and improving old genres and lots of people mixing and blurring boundaries especially in Hip hop and alt-pop (think sugar babes and nerd). recently I was wondering what the hell people will make off the strokes and oasis in twenty years time, both who are reviving old music. Its something you can not answer without hindsight, I'm sure at the time new forms of music (things you look back on and think I’d like to have been there for that) like funk and punk and hardcore were derived at the time by critics saying it was just a rehash of old genres __________________ Kiss me hardly. Thirsty do no harm.

07-21-2003, 10:01 AM	#6 (permalink)
tinfoil Fucking Hostile Location: Springford, ON, Canada	Look at the bands that we remember from previous generations... We remember the groundbreaking bands.... Doors, Zep, CCR, Jimi ... the list goes on. We don't remember those that came right after, in many cases, to copy the formula. The same will go for todays music. Nirvana, Mother Love Bone, Metallica (shudder), Danzig, Green Day (perhaps one of the Nu-Punk founders?.... the list is fairly extensive. __________________ Get off your fuckin cross. We need the fuckin space to nail the next fool martyr.

07-21-2003, 10:26 PM	#9 (permalink)
sdkh Upright Location: MD/DC/VA	I think a lot of the music will be like VH1's tribute to the 80s. Like with how being ghetto fabulous is popular and how having a goatee and short dreadlocks are part of the nu-metal thing or spikey hair. whichever. __________________ "Hey, crap for brains! Good to see you!"

07-23-2003, 06:12 AM	#17 (permalink)
Derwood Who You Crappin? Location: Everywhere and Nowhere	Of course it will be. It will go away for awhile, but then become "Retro" (like 80s music is today). There are those songs that you hear that, like them or not, will become the "classics" of the era. I mean, "Drops of Jupiter" by Train is so fucking catchy that it will be on compilation albums and stuff forever. __________________ "You can't shoot a country until it becomes a democracy." - Willravel

07-20-2003, 02:12 PM	#2 (permalink)
Dr.Who Insane Location: Part Unknow	That's a excellent question and I think some band will be talked over just like we do with The Beatles, Pink Floyd and others. My personnal choice; Radiohead, REM, Pearjam & I think Nirvana will be remember for a long time.

07-20-2003, 10:06 PM	#4 (permalink)
unassumed Crazy	I think most of the mainstream music of today wont be remembered, but yeah Pearl Jam, Radiohead, REM, Nirvana (like Dr. Who said) will definately be there. Creed... no, Linkin Park... no, Limp Bizkit, most every rapper/rap group that's popular right now no. I do have high hopes for The Roots, and Common... Eminem will probably stick around for a while. Sadly I can't see too much new rock sticking around very long. Queens should be there for a while. Most of the other rock I dig isn't very popular but I love it so I can't say really. I know it'll stick around with me for a long time.

07-21-2003, 09:40 AM	#5 (permalink)
Gortexfogg I and I Location: Stillwater, OK	It also depends on the people who are listening to today's bands and such. If they continue to like the music they've listened to for the past couple of years, then those songs will become classics. But, if they keep changing their tastes to every new artist and sound out there, chances are not many songs will make it in the future. Like said above, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, REM, Radiohead... they'll be listened to forever.

07-21-2003, 08:07 PM	#8 (permalink)
GunslingerCold Banned Location: IL	I like NERDs songs. Pharrel and Chad are good musicians. Also, they affect a ton of other music through their collaborations so Im sure you like something theyre part of.

07-22-2003, 03:41 PM	#11 (permalink)
Technomage Banned	I doubt todays music will be remembered like some of the older stuff. One reason is it has no motivation. With music of the 60's there was the peace movement, the Vietnam war, and Woodstock. With the 50's it was a complete revolution in itself. Music is not like that anymore, it never will be again. Another thing is that music is not of the quality it once was. Today it is all about $$. Back then it was about loving the music, and the cause they were fighting for. but mostly it was about the music. Artist don't care about the music anymore, most of them don't even have any say in what songs get put on their albums. If today's music is remembered, it will be for how much it sucks, not for the classic value and moving content.

07-22-2003, 03:42 PM	#12 (permalink)
Gman Insane Location: Down South In Louisiana	I think this particular era of music will be remembered as corporate clone music. Everything sounds relatively the same, Pop artists that sell records based on a proven formula that works, and the ever loveable rap artists who don't care about the music but rather care about "Getting rich or die trying" Heh, can anyone tell I'm jaded?

07-22-2003, 05:17 PM	#15 (permalink)
Glory's Sun Registered User	I bet everyone will remember Avril Lavigne.. she's a talented musician... yes I'm joking! Will music be remembered? that's a hard question to say. I think it will go through a period of hibernation then re-emerge as a retro-trend one day. Just like everything else I guess. The true music fans remember music in style or out of style.

07-23-2003, 01:12 PM	#19 (permalink)
thumper Tilted Location: Po-dunk	Good question. I agree with the "Drops Of Jupiter" statement. Songs like that tend to stay forever. Santana & Rob Thomas' "Smooth" will do the same. I'd say 3 Doors Down will be remembered. The first time I heard "Kryptonite" my jaw just about dropped. I'd been waiting for something like that for a long time. Anyway, artists with some longevity behind them will be remembered no doubt. (Hmm, No Doubt will probably be remembered as well!) But I was talking about people like "Weird Al" Yankovic and Aerosmith.