Knott-
08.21.09 | by no means the only popular albums, but somewhat |
Knott-
08.21.09 | Fair enough. I know it's a very vague question, but given where music currently is (popular music, indie music, even metal) where do you think music has a chance of going. Like, what expansion possibilities do you see / would you like to be explored? |
Knott-
08.21.09 | Albums listed are just records that had an impact on the genres they fit into. Basically wondering what people think will be the nature of similar albums. More electronic? More stripped down? Will there be a backlash against polished production? etc. |
IndieGuitarist
08.21.09 | artists will use more fx and stuff to cover up their sucky song writing |
MassiveAttack
08.21.09 | Kinda like Transformers 2 Indie? :) |
IndieGuitarist
08.21.09 | havent seen it yet :( |
KTV
08.21.09 | this is such a deep question you are so deep |
breesuschrist
08.21.09 | this is such a deep question you are so deep |
IndieGuitarist
08.21.09 | yea i still dont really understand his question
maybe cuz im a dumb american boy |
Knott-
08.21.09 | ok, basically in the last decade
hip-hop has become more watered down and mainstream
music has become more electronic-influenced
metal idk
indie has come to mean 'pop with guitars'
You know - there have been innovations galore this century. I'd just like to understand where people have conceived music could go next - don't care if it's stupid or bad, crunkcore would have seemed similar but it happened. |
Prophet178
08.21.09 | I think its impossible to tell. I posted something similar in the In Rainbows thread but whatever. The Beatles were considered the music of the future for people back in the 60s, and now Radiohead is considered our Beatles. No one back then could have predicted what Radiohead would sound like. So who knows what the next generation Radiohead will sound like, but it will be cool to find out when it comes around. |
kitsch
08.21.09 | hip hop is going to turn back into disco |
mothergoose
08.21.09 | I foresee metal getting better and further challenging convention, parting from the flock and expanding the boundaries of current genre stereotypes. This has already happened to a great degree in the 2000's, but who knows... Agalloch is putting out a new album next year. And regardless of whatever Akerfeldt thinks, they are already pushing the envelope. Also, I hope to god post-rock evolves. I love post-rock, but the genre is at serious risk for stagnation. World's End Girlfriend is a great step forward as its become more organic, but I believe there's room for further innovation in the genre. |
Lions
08.21.09 | Well, at this point, it's much harder for an underground album to make an impact because the underground and the mainstream are so separate and far apart. I honestly think that the mainstream will progressively get shittier and the underground won't care and a lot(but not all) of that will get progressively shittier and then eventually when everything sounds the same and is so shitty that it's unbelievable, we'll have an artistic revolution and things will start over again. |
Romulus
08.21.09 | Nu-metal will make a glorious return when Fred Durst, Jonathan Davis, Coby Dick and Chester Bennington form the supergroup Angry White Guys. Angry white guys across the world rejoice.
In all seriousness this a pretty sweet list idea, and I'm only joking because I have no idea what to answer. |
mothergoose
08.21.09 | ARE YOU REAAADDDDYYYYY? |
JacobsLadder
08.21.09 | There's gonna be a new genre called Progressive Death Indiecore. |
AngelofDeath
08.21.09 | Did Mikael Akerfeldt slam Agalloch? Did I really miss that memo? |
mothergoose
08.21.09 | AngelofDeath, I'll have to dig it up, but basically Akerfeldt was saying that Agalloch was just doing what they did 10 years ago. I think he was responding to someone saying that Agalloch didn't like Opeth, which isn't even true, they just say they don't understand why they're compared to them when they weren't one of their influences. |
Lions
08.21.09 | Metal has made some great advances, namely with bands releasing albums that are pushing the envelope so far that non metalheads love it. Bands like Isis, maudlin, and Cynic have certainly bettered the genre in my opinion. I think there will always be bands that keep doing new incredible things. And for every band that does, there will be 100 that will continue to produce shit. |
IndieGuitarist
08.21.09 | judging from all the young musicians in my town with thir a7x shirts, the future of music looks bad |
Prophet178
08.21.09 | Metal seems to be the genre pushing the envelope the most. I mean, you wouldn't even hear anything close to Opeth or any of the advant garde metal bands 20 or even 10 years ago. I think metal will continue to evolve and branch out into more and more genres.
Akerfeldt isn't know to like many modern metal acts, so his little comment about Aggalloch isn't something that surprises me.
I can't even really being to fathom what music will sound like 10 years from now. Judging from the jump form the previous decade in music, the jump we're in for could be smaller or larger depending on countless variables. |
Lions
08.21.09 | ^ eh, it's possible. But I think our culture's so different now than it was 20 years ago that another Nirvana seems unlikely. Maybe in 15 years we'll need one band to pick up the pieces, but I think we've got a bit further to go the way we are right now. |
Lions
08.21.09 | Well right now we've got a fucking terrible mainstream. There is such a lack of decent top 40 bands out there. But in the underground, things are thriving because we have the internet to keep spreading word and getting music out. Most of the sputnikers don't listen to the radio or watch MTV; we go on Sputnik instead and find new music listen to it and love it. Because the music lovers moved to the underground to peacefully enjoy music, the idiot culture has taken over the radio. So yeah, we're going to have bullshit taking in the mainstream for quite a while now. |
IndieGuitarist
08.21.09 | you guys make it sound like new music is bad...and i hope there isnt going to be another nirvana |
Lions
08.21.09 | New music isn't bad. It's actually better than it's been in a long time. It's the mainstream that's worse than ever. And yeah, I'd rather not have a new Nirvana, either. |
AnotherBrick
08.21.09 | romgsoms comment wins....and ya i got no idea lol |
Geist
08.21.09 | On the topic of Coldplay, I find it very interesting that their drummer is taking them into 'Nu-Rave' territory according to current news, so electronic influence- and certainly mainstream/indie crossovers- are going to be more than likely in the coming years.
Also, need to get this off my chest- Them Crooked Vultures are making me very, very excited in a very, very unhealthy way. |
Prophet178
08.21.09 | Instead of "fuck the government" we have "fuck the record labels". |
Lions
08.21.09 | chambered: it will happen, but maybe in 5-10 years and I don't think it will be one band. I think it will be almost every band, and not just in music but all over. |
Lions
08.21.09 | No shit. Give it a few years and people will it. God, I've been posting too much in the past 30 minutes. |
AnotherBrick
08.21.09 | we'll never find out since the world ends in 2012....
hahaha but anyways chambered i've been thinking that too (2 comments up) i really dont see any bands that could compare at all to led zeppelin and the beatles, ya we have radiohead but i dont think that really compares...it'd be way cool if a new band came out and had the same effects that those guys did |
charlesfishowitz
08.21.09 | more solos
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Captain North
08.21.09 | the music of the future will contain shitloads of fads and innovations, just like today and the past. Just what it will sound like is impossible to know, I mean, that's the entire thing with innovations. They hadn't been thought of before.
It's the same with technology, every so often something pops up that nobody forsaw and it changes everything. Aka the internet. |
Titan50
08.21.09 | I don't know what will happen, but we need another Sex Pistols or Nirvana to shake things up and say "fuck you" to the mainstream |
Captain North
08.22.09 | But they became the mainstream. I prefer bands who do that without ever being insanely popular.
Also, Sex Pistols were a commercial band from the get go anyway. |
Titan50
08.22.09 | I know the Sex Pistols were commercial (even though I have a lot of respect for Johnny Rotten), but they still took the neck of the music industry, and Britain in general, and throttled it into submission. We need another band like that |
Asiatic667
08.22.09 | I forsee Brokencyde claiming Radioheads crown |
