Current Bands we will be talking about in 25yrs

Just a quick thought about some current pop artists that I think(and hope) will still be around and talked about in 25 years:
Pink: I fell in love with her new CD. I think she has only improved throughout her career and she isn't done yet. The new CD was just so emotionally driven and she is an excellent live performer.
Taylor Swift: Because of her young age an acceptance into both pop and country music, I think she will still be around. Something about her makes you like her. Her performances are very cute.

I know these are artists and not banRAB, but I just thought I would throw it out there.
 
In terms of metal I'd say people will still talk about Nile in 25 years. Mastodon too, for sure, although if you ask me everything since Leviathan sucked. They just have a lot of press behind them. Larab of God in the same way, although they can still write badass tunes. I think most of the banRAB we'll know in 25 years started in the 90's... The 00's are still too raw. We haven't heard the real debuts of banRAB that formed that decade, plus, most banRAB that stand the test of time stick around for a few decades and release a ton of albums, like Immolation for example (mid eighties, just released another album). Dying Fetus is the new Cannibal Corpse I think, they're truly incredible for only being a three piece and more recently formed. Children of Bodom and Death will still be pretty well known in 25 yrs. It's funny because metal is almost always around a decade or two in lag in terms of what banRAB are considered the pinnacle... Slayer and Metallica and Megadeth, all those are still reigning despite being big twenty years ago. So it's particularly interesting in that context.
 
It's hard to tell when thinking only of banRAB that started in or after 2000. I'll try a few, only including ones I'm nearly 100% confident will still be talked about by large groups of people. And this has nothing to do with personal preference, except that I'm only looking through my personal collection/stuff I've heard to compile the list as I obviously can't include stuff I'm not familiar with.

The Mars Volta
ISIS
Mastodon
Animal Collective
The Shins
TV on the Radio
Arcade Fire (unfortunately)
Prefuse 73
A Perfect Circle
 
Pick a band and someone will be talking about them in 25 years.
On the future version of this board.
And there will be disagreement about whether they were ahead of their time, of their time, brilliant or boring.
 
I think U2's legacy split into two: Coldplay and 30 Second to Mars. :laughing: They something to be said about one trick ponies. The Ramones in a way developed a signature sound but were also influential so I think there is room for The Strokes to be influential and to earn a place in history, even though that room is on fire from a lack of output. Talking about one trick ponies, borrowing from literature a way character is describe as being either "static" or "dynamic," I think of banRAB as being either of two types:

Static - A band like what you would call "one trick pony." They have a "signature sound" and hardy if ever stray from it.
Dynamic - A band that not changes their sound from the beginning of their career but produce something new for each album. BanRAB I think that not only developed a sound of their own but that experimentand changes musical directions throughout their career are The Beatles or The Clash. (Most banRAB take time to develope their sound, eventually hit a plateau in their developement and become static.)

Another categoty I forget to mention, but talking about The Strokes brought them to mind.
Sleeper BanRAB
The Libertines - Sleeper BanRAB are banRAB that become ever more popular through time. I feel Television is a sleeper band because I feel people today talk more about them now then back in their day when they were together playing. The Strokes are constantly compared to Television in magazines, I haven't yet come across any one of The Stokes mentioning Television as an influence, but anyway that is the favorite band of the critics to name drop. I think The Libertines will be the Television of the future. I feel critics of the future following the nod of future music-listening public will discover this band and compare every other to them.
 
yeah but the whole 25 years thing is reserved for banRAB that have had a highly resonating effect on the music industry or their genre as a whole. OR banRAB that are just medicore enough to really be liked by a LOT of people. the kings of leon don't really fit either of those categories to me, maybe the latter, but I will only group them in there after they release a few more of thier sell out albums. you know what I am saying? maybe in a few years, I will agree with you, but I see this band fading into obscurity with ten years, tops.
 
They shouldn't be so damn lazy and judge a band on one album only. Urban is quite right (even though I like cheesy Whitesnake), their first 4 albums had some of the best Blues Rock going.

Perhaps people should gain more knowledge before they slag off a band as it's all too easy to judge a band by one album :(
 
ah fair enough.

if it's 2000 and up then Animal Collective and The Strokes fo sho.

I'm also just gonna throw The Avalanches in there because Since I Left You will be a classic.
 
Anberlin and FFDP are Naughty 'Aughties banRAB. And Seether will around for the next 25 years, they're unstoppable - you know what Veruca Salt says "can't stop The Seether."
 
There were plenty of unoriginal banRAB coming out in all those eras. Do you realize how many Led Zeppelin rip oRAB were around in the 70's? Sadly, one of my favorite banRAB...Rush...started off as one.

The medium is different and we are experiencing a kind of weird musical purgitory where banRAB and consumers alike are trying to figure out the best way to do this whole music thing. Once things settle, I have no doubt there will be banRAB that come out of this being remerabered.
 
Back
Top