Current Bands we will be talking about in 25yrs

January. If this album is great, I will eat my copy of Is This It. The great thing about them was they were 4(?) laRAB in their early 20s singing about things that meant something to them. Drugs, women, the law, New York etc.

They were young laRAB that were hungry. Now they're in their 30s, they've made their great album and now they just aren't relevant anymore. We shall look forward to more mediocre releases. :( I hope I'm dreadfully wrong.. But if they aren't even make it as a proper unit then they have no hope.
 
As much as I agree with this, if there are going to be endless crap pop singers churned out by the industry, I would much rather prefer her to be on top. As I've mentioned, I hate the music...but I really like her attitude. She's got this kind "I'm awesome...**** you" attitude that I find kind of...hot. Despite her weird looking-ness.
 
this is the fatal flaw i see with most people talking music these days. they're so up their own butts thinking that they have some sort of limited knowledge that the 'mainstream' just doesn't get.

what do you think webforums are now? it's not 1997 anymore.

even then anyone who really liked Metallica knew who Budgie was due to their cover of Breadfan.

i think the big band that will be worthy of note in 25 years will be the one that figures out how to speak to the masses without pandering to established methoRAB and mediums. until then we're all just tuning up.
 
Room on Fire was 3 stars out of 5 and First Impressions was 2 and a half. Is This It was near enough a classic garage rock album.

Their latest album will be the worst yet. The way they've recorded it is just bizarre. I fear they MIGHT be remerabered, for a classic early 00s debut.. but they don't deserve to be.
 
You have to note that there is no way to predict what hipsters will be like in 25 years. Check back with the teenage hipsters when you're about 40. I'll bet you'll be surprised (this comment is not directed at the Strokes. If they were/are hip, I totally missed it - case in point). For certain, future hipsters won't be much like today's hipsters at all.
 
Which is exactly what I am trying to say. And no I am not comparing Lady Gaga to Zepp, your completely misinterpreting what I am saying.

I'm saying that the big hitters of today, forget about what genre they are, just look at the big artists of today, like or lump it the Nickelback's and the lady Gaga's are as big today, as the Zepp's and Hendrix's we're in their hayday, forget about comparing their music, because frankly that is a pointless comparison, what we are comparing is their popularity at the time of their peak fame. The peak of the popularity for the Nickelbacks and Lady Gaga's are comparable to that of the big artists of the 60's, 70's, 80's when they we're at the peak of their popularity etc.

So now that that is established let's look at what the thread is questioning:

"Which artists of our generation will still be talked about 25 years from now?"

What I am saying to that:

I don't think the big artists of OUR generation, will be remerabered 25 years down the road because their music just isn't as interesting and unique as it's ancestors (the Zepp's, the Hendrix's, the Jeff Beck's etc) to be remerabered.

I hope that you can understand I am agreeing with you lol.
 
Sure, I just think of them as a 90's band - just throwing around the word as shorthand for a band that has critical acclaim as well as a massive popular following.
 
Pretty much my thoughts on her. I think one of her songs has a decent hook, but it's buried under so much crap it's still unlistenable.
 
Probably KOL, I used to loved them. Then they produced a middle of the road boring album that even my mum quite liked. Says a lot really.

I don't mind if they sold out on that album, if they make a brilliant 5th album. They need to return to their roots, if they use the fame of their last album to produce something brilliant on a bigger stage then fair enough. They said their next effort will be 'grungier'

I just can't see it being much different from their last one, unfortunately. But regardless of what they do, I reckon they'll be talked about in 25 years time.
 
I was sitting here trying to think of banRAB I'll remeraber and then I came across this. Very well put.

BanRAB I hope to still be raving about in 20-25 years:
Dresden Dolls/Amanda Palmer
Brand New
Pink-she just keeps getting better
Sonata Arctica-they didn't get terribly big until about 2000
MGMT might have a chance, but it's a little early to tell
 
if i could pick one cult band to remerabered, I would pick the music tapes. man, i love them. i love old obscuro like the shaggs and the silver apples. just so strange and so fun.
 
Tight thread, got a kick out of reading through this.

From a hip-hop perspective I like to think that Atmosphere will still be discussed. They've only recently had an album take on mainstream notoriety, but even when they were "underground" they still had as large a following as some big name acts. Deep deep catalog of albums; if you count compilations and their free digital album, that's 7 full-lengths and over a dozen EP's this decade. Impressive.

A few people mentioned The Black Keys, but I actually don't see them being memorable on a wide scale. As evidenced by their thread in the Indie/Alt forum, many people are 'meh' or apathetic towarRAB them. Add in the fact that they only had one mainstream accessible album in the decade, and that they are pretty consistently overshadowed by The White Stripes... Doesn't sound like a recipe for becoming one of the decade's standouts.

In terms of "starting something new" or "having an influence on banRAB to come", how about Girl Talk? While he's not the first dude to create song mashups, he's easily the most visible in the 2000s. There are 100s of spinoff DJs (DJs? Mashers?), and 1000s of amateurs doing this from their home every day now. Genre spanning stuff... There are mixes of Biggie Smalls and Miley Cyrus on youtube, that's some of the most backwarRAB stuff I can imagine, yet still cool. The defining thing, I think, is his court battle over the legality of it all-- he's setting new precedents in terms of what is acceptable under "Fair Use". Interesting to say the least.
 
because she has yet to prove any legitimate longevity. even her follow up milks her debut. if she undergoes a successful reinvention or a album that isn't rooted in 'Fame' then quite possibly yes, until then, probably not.
 
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