Remembered in 100 Years

The three artists Graham Nash says people will remember in 100 years
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-artists-graham-nash-says-people-will-remember-100-years/

Dylan, Joni Mitchell (Hey Riffy) and The Beatles, do you agree with Nash?

Who do you think will be remembered from "Popular" music in 100 years.

Very tough to say. Elvis will be remembered as a 20th century figure, but his songs likely won?t be. The Beatles are the obvious ones. Queen have a lot of hits and have the Broadway Show Tunes sound which leads to crossovers between genres. Dylan has a huge repertoire of songs and was a key figure in early rock music, but will he be remembered in 100 years? Zeppelin or the Stones, really depends on people?s tastes at the time.

I could see rock music coming in and out of fashion as people discover art from decades prior. There may be a time in 2125 when some kid hears the riff from Kashmir and thinks that?s pretty damn cool.

All the greats are going to be remembered in 100 years time.  Some of those artists will be even more respected and admired then than they were in their lifetimes.  This is why people are paying so much money for these artists' back catalogues.  Over time they will prove to be very good investments.

The Beatles
Rolling Stones
Led Zeppelin
U2
ABBA
Pink Floyd
R.E.M
The Police
Prince
Michael Jackson
Madonna
Bruce Springsteen
David Bowie
Elton John
Joni Mitchell
Kate Bush

and so on.

Another way to think about this is to ask yourself what your favorite music artist are from the time period of 1850-1925. Can you even name a music artist from the 1850-1925 time period? It was a time of no radio and TV, and very little in the way of recorded music. The purchase of sheet music determined who the most popular music artist of the era were.

We have a big beautiful cat named Elvis.  I think he will be remembered for a long time considering he is often referred to as the King of Rock and Roll

Another way to think about this is to ask yourself what your favorite music artist are from the time period of 1850-1925. Can you even name a music artist from the 1850-1925 time period? It was a time of no radio and TV, and very little in the way of recorded music. The purchase of sheet music determined who the most popular music artist of the era were.

It?s difficult to answer this question precisely because we can?t look to the past to answer it.

The modern era of recordings, celebrity, and this level of shared national/English language world/international culture is all recent.

We seem to consistently start the clock in the late 60s, Elvis aside. And I agree Elvis as a celebrity figure - his looks, hair, dancing, and snippets of his voice including speaking voice - have already overshadowed his song recordings (and I don?t know if he even wrote any music).

It could go one of two ways, I think.

Either only The Beatles music is remembered in 100 years, and new generations stop discovering or caring about Chuck Berry, The Rolling Stones, Prince, and all the rest.

Or, pretty much everyone who has already stood the test of time will continue to do so as coming generations include a subsegment who seek out past culture (music, film, shows).

Why would that be different now? Mainly due to quality of recording. Really old recordings sound/look bad. Music and film production came up to a level we can appreciate today sometime in the late 60s and early 70s.

Kids today are better able to appreciate Dark Side of the Moon or Rocky Horror Picture Show better than folks our age could appreciate the equivilent works of the 1940s.

There are a few things from that era that still remained when we were young, but fewer than the stuff from the 70s that remain today.

We have no idea. In 100 years, I would assume all music will be AI generated. It's possible that our great grandchildren will find human-generated music to be lame or ancient. It's also possible that there will be a romantic connection with the human-generated music era. We just don't know.

In a hundred years, music from Mozart, Bach and others classical masters will still be appreicated. Same with Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, etc.

As for popular music as we know it today, don't see much being remembered in a 100 years. Maybe The Beatles...

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Well, how about we turn the question around.  What music from a hundred years ago - ok, what popular music from a hundred years ago - is remembered today?

The first jazz and early recorded blues, primarily.  Some country and gospel certainly.  The seedbeds of rock and roll.  Ok, there were the songwriting standards, the kind of stuff that a young Bing Crosby sang, but even there, Sinatra was a significantly more modern stylist who kind of stole the limelight by the fifties.

Music that was already classic at the turn of the twentieth century can speak for itself.  Or not. 

In a hundred years, music from Mozart, Bach and others classical masters will still be appreicated. Same with Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, etc.

Appreciated by who though? I don't think Mozart or Bach have set any album sales records or streaming records on spotify and youtube. This is music that is appreciated by musicologist, other academics, historians. But if you randomly ask 1,000 people from the general public, I would say only a very small percentage would know who Mozart, Bach, Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin are, beyond
simply recognizing the name. Few would be able to listen and identify any music correctly.

I suppose if you tested the knowledge of people born AFTER 2000 on say music from the 1980s or another decade you might be able to come up with a rate that shows how quickly such music is fading into the background in terms of peoples overall interest.

On Terrestrial Radio, 1980s music does really well. But how many people born AFTER 2000 listen to terrestrial radio?

Quote from: MPare1966 on January 08, 2025, 03:43:13 PM

In a hundred years, music from Mozart, Bach and others classical masters will still be appreicated. Same with Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, etc.

Appreciated by who though? I don't think Mozart or Bach have set any album sales records or streaming records on spotify and youtube. This is music that is appreciated by musicologist, other academics, historians. But if you randomly ask 1,000 people from the general public, I would say only a very small percentage would know who Mozart, Bach, Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Irving Berlin are, beyond
simply recognizing the name. Few would be able to listen and identify any music correctly.

I suppose if you tested the knowledge of people born AFTER 2000 on say music from the 1980s or another decade you might be able to come up with a rate that shows how quickly such music is fading into the background in terms of peoples overall interest.

On Terrestrial Radio, 1980s music does really well. But how many people born AFTER 2000 listen to terrestrial radio?

Poor, wons. I expect more of you.

?-> https://www.classicfm.com/composers/mozart/outsells-beyonce-adele-drake-cds/

Mozart and Bach have no Grammy awards, therefore they suck.  Pretty simple.

Ask any hostess at Hooters, even they know this fundamental truth.

Yeah, well I guess I have more faith in the musical nous of my fellow humans than Wons.

I'm pretty sure than even Wons's musical hero, Sting, would readily acknowledge that he is not fit to kiss the feet of the likes of Johann Sebastian Bach.