Will we be listening to today's music in 20 years?

People are again saying "music" instead of "pop music".

Most pop music from just now will be long forgotten in the years to come, apart from a few massive names.

Most real music will still be listened to by real music fans.

TigaSefi wrote:
StayDead wrote:Nope, I don't think so anyway. Music from the 70s/80s has lasting appeal, but music from the 90s, 00s doesn't. 90s and 00s music really does suck in comparison.

WTF? 90's music is great.. 00's onwards been utter bilge.

Mastodon, Radiohead, The Mars Volta, OutKast, Clutch, Reuben, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, The White Stripes, Deftones, Nine Inch Nails, At The Drive-In, Tomahawk, Down, The Hold Steady, Arctic Monkeys, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Danananananakroyd, Metallica, Burial, Eyedea, Dinosaur Jr...

The last ten years have been brilliant for music.

Feel like a few people in this thread might want to listen to the first 30 seconds of this;

CaptainCalcium wrote:
TigaSefi wrote:
StayDead wrote:Nope, I don't think so anyway. Music from the 70s/80s has lasting appeal, but music from the 90s, 00s doesn't. 90s and 00s music really does suck in comparison.

WTF? 90's music is great.. 00's onwards been utter bilge.

Mastodon, Radiohead, The Mars Volta, OutKast, Clutch, Reuben, Tool, Queens of the Stone Age, The White Stripes, Deftones, Nine Inch Nails, At The Drive-In, Tomahawk, Down, The Hold Steady, Arctic Monkeys, We Were Promised Jetpacks, Danananananakroyd, Metallica, Burial, Eyedea, Dinosaur Jr...

The last ten years have been brilliant for music.

I'll give you Radiohead but they are an exception.

KKLEIN wrote:Music from the 70s, 80s & 90s are still regularly listened to today

Well that's answered your question, of course people will. Do people seriously think people will just forget the noughties ever happened and not listen to it's music again? Bands like Muse, Elbow, Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys will all be listened to in 20 years. Not only because their output is largely good but because it's the music a whole generation grew up with, and they'll take it with them in the years to come.

In the future there will be no music T_T

I don't know if we will be listening to this eras music in 20 years time, but I guarantee people will be asking if they will be listening to music from the 20's in 2040.

I think Paparazzi and Let's Dance by Lady Gaga are pretty decent. :shifty:

It's all relative. Like Spinny said - there's good music about that people will still listen to in 20-30 years. People listen to music from the seventies but only the good stuff - there was plenty of shite then, too.

~Earl Grey~ wrote:I think Paparazzi and Let's Dance by Lady Gaga are pretty decent.

Neither of those are my sort of music (unless I am out of my face and then I will sing/dance to anything) but they are no worse than the early Madonna stuff and that still gets played.

Yes.

Cracked did a great article about this which would fit right in here. I'd search for it if I wasn't on my iPod. Basically they showed that most of the pop music that topped the charts in the 60's and 70's was total garbage that nobody remembers and most of the great songs that have stood the test of time charted really lowly or weren't even released as singles at all. For example, The Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter, one of the most famous songs ever, one that everybody knows, never released outside of the album it's on.

[edit] found it. http://www.cracked.com/article_18983_5- ... s._p2.html

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I'll still be listening to Maiden in 20 years. \m/

Good music will always be good music. I perhaps don't see me listening to all of my entire 50 something gig of music later on in life, but I'll no doubt carry a good number of my favourite artists with me forever.

smurphy wrote:People are again saying "music" instead of "pop music".

Most pop music from just now will be long forgotten in the years to come, apart from a few massive names.

Most real music will still be listened to by real music fans.

All those fans of pretend music must feel so stupid.

Depends what music, to be honest. I can see at least on the Metal side of things, yes. Let's face it, we've been listening to Black Sabbath for 40 years already...

There's so much music being written at any one time that yeah, surely some of it is going to stand as still being brilliant however many years into the future. In terms of chart music? Who knows. There are some massively gooseberry fool songs from the past that are still hanging around like a bad smell. A song being bad does not guarantee that it drops off the radar with time.

Deception wrote:Good music will always be good music.

Not according to Simon Cowell. He's always going on about "relevance" on XFactor.

Also, there's no telling which current bands will go on to become classic. Fun House by the Stooges didn't even chart here or in the USA, and it's now regarded as one of the best rock albums of all time.

Something Fishy

I really haven't kept up with music since my son was born so i suspect i'll still be listening to stuff up to and before the 90's whatever age I get to.

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