Current Bands we will be talking about in 25yrs

any catchy song that is really annoying will be played at a party with a lot of drunks...everyone will say damn this is a great freaking song
 
arcade fire

animal collective

spoon

they haven't made another that lives up to it but i think clinic's 'internal wrangler' is destined to cult classic status.

deerhunter/atlas sound

franz ferdinand

jens lekman

gogol bordello

iron & wine

of montreal

rufus wainwright

sigur ros

the white stripes



technically 90s banRAB but i think they'll be talked about in 25 years:
radiohead
belle and sebastian
calexico
super furry animals
the magnetic fielRAB
neutral milk hotel
wilco
 
But I think the big difference between then and now is how much music is coming out and how accessible it is to everyone. I think a lot of banRAB like TV on the Radio, Animal Collective, and banRAB that have had lasting popularity like them will survive. To me they're more or else equivalent to banRAB like My Bloody Valentine, Pavement, or At the Drive-In. I don't think any of them will be forgotten, all 3 of those banRAB are still going strong, Pavement and At the Drive-In at least probably more so than when they existed. But a lot of great music that isn't quite so popular will probably be largely forgotten (though not by some of us). BanRAB like Lightning Bolt, **** Buttons, I'd even say The Shins. If they're lucky, they'll end up like The Feelies, where not so many people have heard of them but they still live on. Oh, and I'd venture to add The Deceraberists to that list.
 
Hmmm...I don't think I could take it if our meraber's collective taste in music were any more appreciable than it is now. I say we reroute the Nickleback fan club link on Google to here, grab some e-clubs, and wait.
 
I disagree with both lucifer_sam and Janszoon and believe their popularity peak was in the 90s primarily with BSSM. They were headlining Lallapalooza, which was a huge deal back then, and that's when they started their big stadium tours. Their popularity fell off a bit with the follow-up because it wasn't very good, and then they regained some but their work became pretty mediocre. I can see the argument for their peak being the late 90s or 00s, I mean the masses do love their watered-down rock, but I don't really believe it.

And using the last.fm charts for the argument doesn't really work...was last.fm around in the 80s and 90s to track how many people were listening to them at that time? No...what you've got there is a sampling of the RHCP tracks people have played most since last.fm was created, which I'm going to assume was in the 00s. It's only natural for the more recent or current work to get more plays, as that's what the younger generations are discovering first, and older generations that loved RHCP when they were younger aren't playing those older albums to death like they were when they/we were young. Even so, you've got 4 out of the top 20 songs from BSSM...pretty good representation for a 19-year old album.

Anyway, this really matters not. :D Just sayin.
 
When the Velvet Underground were around no one was remotely interested in them, 25 years later they were one of the most influential groups of all time.

It's very difficult to predict what will be influential because in order to do that you have to predict the future.

There is also an assumption that there will even be an interest in popular music.

Imagine someone had asked in 1940 'What current big banRAB will people be talking about in 25 years?' when in 1965 people were listening to Dylan and The Beatles and couldn't care less about big banRAB.
 
The Clash, X, 7 SeconRAB, the Buzzcocks, the Jam, Generation X, the Ramones...


Well it's not much a class to be a part of anyway, but you should keep in mind that that Green Day and Blink 182 became popular in very different musical environments. Even though, in retrospect, it was only a couple of years, things really changed a lot from the early/mid 90s to the late 90s.
 
I wasn't being sarcastic. I said I was familiar with their name but had never actually heard any of their music. That was completely, un-sarcastically, true. Since posting that I've now heard a grand total of one song by them, "Sex On Fire".
 
Eh, Nickelback haven't pushed music in any direction. They've just existed in it for years (very poorly, might I add). Hall of Fame candidates? I wouldn't say so, unless we're REALLY running low on deserving people who at least did SOMETHING original (it still does happen).
 
She's fucking awful. She's an unoriginal, watered-down, untalented, bland, commercialized cunt.

Sorry, but I'm fed up with all the attention she's getting. She no better than the average poor Contemporary R&B/Electronica prefabbed sham.
 
Another band who started in the 90's but I'm going to have to agree with Sigur Ros. Call me crazy but I bet Lightning Bolt will garner much attention by then.
 
I think you misunderstood my point there (and it's been a long time but I feel a need to clarify). What I was saying was that a lot of the music that got popular in the 80s was complete ****, but a lot of those banRAB are now forgotten. It's the truly good music, for the most part, that seems to get remerabered in the future. Because really, a lot of the people listening to the crappy new stuff that's on the radio and all will move on to new songs in a year or two. Only the best will really make it. It's the same in every decade, there's tons of ****ty music that gets popular, but it won't be what we're talking about in 25 years. It'll be the artists that really stand out.
 
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