What music from today will stand the test of time?

[Boobie Miles]

A post in the Grammy thread got me thinking, and I think this deserves its own thread. What music from today will stand the test of time? What will still be on the radio on some "oldies" station 30 years from now?
I can't think of a ton off the top of my head, but I'll start it with the Chili Peppers.

 

[Chef]

U2

Has stood time for 20+ years, and will continue to do so.

 

[BYH]

Pearl Jam.

(Yes, I realize I'm the one who said the 2027 Grammys would be awful because no one gives a **** about the music of today)

 

[Boobie Miles]

I'd go as far back as the 90s because that music obviously isn't "old" yet. I'm thinking about my generation, but obviously there's wide range of ages on here, so I'd say the last 10 years or so. Definitely not literrally today, as in 2007 only.

 

[shockey]

Define "today".

took the words right out of my mouth.

are u2 and springsteen from today? pearl jam and green day? anyone who hit the scene post-2000?

 

[BYH]

Define "today".

took the words right out of my mouth.

Will Meat Loaf be hyping "Bat Out Of Hell VI: The Horse Is Dead" come 2027?

 

[spnited]

The last 10 years, 1997-2007.....nothing.
Absolute ****....other than "vets" like U2, Springsteen, etc.

 

[Boobie Miles]

Feel free to use your own guidelines. I wouldn't put Springsteen in today. U2 though probably would, and Green Day and Pearl Jam definitely... like I said, last 10-15 years.

 

[sportschick]

Eminem, Green Day, Christina Aguilera, Mary J. Blige (provided she stops putting rappers in all her songs) . . . . . . .




Hinder (Hi BYH)

 

[sportschick]

U2's been making hit music for about 25 years -- how do you define their "prime"? Pearl Jam for almost 20 -- but their prime is almost certainly 1990-94.

How can you put them in the same category as "music from today"?

They don't belong there. Simple, but true.

 

[BYH]

U2's been making hit music for about 25 years -- how do you define their "prime"? Pearl Jam for almost 20 -- but their prime is almost certainly 1990-94.

How can you put them in the same category as "music from today"?

Because they're still recording for a major label and touring. They're still releasing and performing new product on a fairly regular basis.

 

[Boobie Miles]

I don't know how many rap fans are on the board, but what'll happen to it? Like I said in the other thread I don't see today's rappers still rapping and going on tours in 25 years. But I don't think the music will cease to exist, there will probably always be young people coming up and taking their place. But will today's rap be on the radio like music from the 60s and 70s are on oldies and classic rock stations?

 

[sportschick]

U2's been making hit music for about 25 years -- how do you define their "prime"? Pearl Jam for almost 20 -- but their prime is almost certainly 1990-94.

How can you put them in the same category as "music from today"?

Because they're still recording for a major label and touring. They're still releasing and performing new product on a fairly regular basis.

Paul Simon still releases on a major label and tours. Does that make him an artist of today?

 

[Boobie Miles]

U2's been making hit music for about 25 years -- how do you define their "prime"? Pearl Jam for almost 20 -- but their prime is almost certainly 1990-94.

How can you put them in the same category as "music from today"?

Man, I really don't care. You go by whatever you want. If you want to set a date and a certain percent of that groups work/best work has to be after it, that's fine. I was just trying to start a conversation, sorry I didn't draft a formal report on what constitutes music of today.

 

[EStreetJoe]

Music of today that will still get airplay 20 years from now (even if they only get limited airplay now) ... Lucinda Williams, Slaid Cleaves, Rod Picott, Old 97s, Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers, Dar Williams, Tift Merritt, Susan Tedeschi, Shelby Lynne, and Ryan Adams to name a few.

 

[BYH]

U2's been making hit music for about 25 years -- how do you define their "prime"? Pearl Jam for almost 20 -- but their prime is almost certainly 1990-94.

How can you put them in the same category as "music from today"?

Because they're still recording for a major label and touring. They're still releasing and performing new product on a fairly regular basis.

Paul Simon still releases on a major label and tours. Does that make him an artist of today?

That's a pretty liberal interpretation of the criteria. I'd expect nothing less than a liberal interpretation from you.

Paul Simon has released three albums in the last 10 years. Pearl Jam has released five albums, a live CD, a rareties double CD and a greatest hits double CD since the end of 1996.

Plus, Pearl Jam's members are in their late 30s/early 40s. Health permitting, they've got almost as much time ahead of them as artists as behind them, even if they may never reach the peak they enjoyed in the early '90s. They're in the middle of their round of golf, not clearly on the back nine.

 

[Boobie Miles]

I feel like it's kinda hard to break it down to a science. It's music. Tupac and BIG haven't made a lot of new music in the last decade (actually they kind of have, but that's another topic) but I still consider it music of today, because I grew up with it and it's still stuff I listen to and you hear. I guess that's what's making it a little hard because I have this idea of what's today, because I'm really just going by the music of my youth, not so much "today." Obviously some people here are older so it's no the same for them.

And Buck, I'm not stressin my man. I just didn't think it out enough to worry about what constitutes today.

 

[Chef]

Dickless Chicks are irrelevant, as is their music. The countdown is on until all of them appear naked on a magazine cover.........oh.
RHCP will still be very listenable in 10 years, as will DMB, Bruce, and U2.

 

[BYH]

Dickless Chicks are irrelevant, as is their music. The countdown is on until all of them appear naked on a magazine cover.........oh.

Wow. That's a little harsh.

 

[Boobie Miles]

Music of today that will still get airplay 20 years from now (even if they only get limited airplay now) ... Lucinda Williams, Slaid Cleaves, Rod Picott, Old 97s, Roger Clyne & the Peacemakers, Dar Williams, Tift Merritt, Susan Tedeschi, Shelby Lynne, and Ryan Adams to name a few.

Congratulations on going 12-for-12 of artists I never heard of. I think that's the big difference. Twenty years ago, you wouldn't find people who hadn't heard of Journey, or Zeppelin, or Michael Jackson or Prince. Twnety years ago, people of all ages listened to the same stuff.

Haha I was thinking the same thing. I think I've heard of Ryan Adams, but have no idea what he sings, and I've heard Susan Tedeschi's "Hurt So Bad" and that song is treeemendous. But that's it for that list.