Baby boomers are nostalgic for the days of Bob Dylan and the Beatles.
Gen-Xers are probably nostalgic for Nirvana and grunge.
What music will our generation hold up as being better than the stuff our kids are listening to?

My vote goes to Fergie and her lovely lady lumps.

3/2/2008 2:11:49 PM

tell me you're joking.

3/2/2008 2:15:33 PM

I already fill nostalgic for 90s alternative like Marvelous 3 and Collective Soul.

3/2/2008 2:19:52 PM

^^ Well, who would you pick instead? Maroon 5?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnbBVWDtYm0

[Edited on March 2, 2008 at 2:20 PM. Reason : ``]

3/2/2008 2:19:54 PM

fergie would probably be someone id point out to my kids that they should be glad they didnt have to live through to hear her music.

but in actuality i already get nostalgic for a ton of bands/music (90s stuff that i always talk about like old jimmy eat world, get up kids, texas is the reason, sunny day real estate blah blah blah). but ive also kept finding new music over the years that i love...

hopefully when im 35 im still finding out about new bands that i love, even if im nostalgic about the old music.

[Edited on March 2, 2008 at 2:24 PM. Reason : ]

3/2/2008 2:21:22 PM

3/2/2008 2:24:45 PM

Nothing. I'm proud of the music i listen to, and it won't be dated when i'm 35.

3/2/2008 2:30:51 PM

a post in which bob dylan and the beatles are mentioned with a picture of fergie below

genius

3/2/2008 3:04:14 PM

on the internet anything is possible.

3/2/2008 3:09:44 PM

I'll probably be nostalgic for the days of Bob Dylan and the Beatles. But I won't miss it thanks to my digital music library!

3/2/2008 3:42:30 PM

no music today can hold a candle to the classics so i really don't care about ANYTHING MADE OVER THE LAST 8 YEARS ANYWAY.

3/2/2008 4:12:59 PM

when I'm 35, I'll probably think that fergie, gwen stefani and christina augilera were the same person

3/2/2008 4:22:07 PM

^^ silly

3/2/2008 5:18:27 PM

I was discussing with my gf the other day how it is kinda sad the past decade has been defined by rap/hip-hop

I'm so envious of my parents who grew up listening to really great music and can describe how many memories are associated with that music playing on the radio etc.

Popular music of my "youth," fucking stupid music that consists of nothing but product references and fucking women.

3/2/2008 7:59:31 PM

sure it may be the popular thing but i lived and breathed music through middle school, HS, college. still do to some extant (not as much as before.) and thus it definitely defined my life and most my best memories are associated with it etc. and none of it has to do with rap/hip hop.

3/2/2008 8:04:26 PM

rage & sublime

3/2/2008 8:24:43 PM

^^

good point

3/2/2008 9:11:08 PM

i will agree tho that the 'popular' music that will be used to describe our gen in the future disgusts me for the most part. at least ill know i had no part in supporting it

[Edited on March 2, 2008 at 9:14 PM. Reason : ]

3/2/2008 9:14:44 PM

Bob Dylan was pioneering rap before rap was cool.
Check out his Subterranean Homesick Blues.
The rhyming scheme is at least similar to early rap.
And he essentially "sampled" from Chuck Berry's "Too Much Monkey Business".

Kanye West is his long-lost grandchild.

[Edited on March 2, 2008 at 10:44 PM. Reason : ``]

3/2/2008 10:41:25 PM

the problem with the hip-hop/rap is that the songs that actually have social significance and a legitimate message (beyond making money, bling, and sex) are few and far between. The groups doing this haven't really been able to achieve large scale, mainstream success.

3/2/2008 10:49:50 PM

^^you're fucking laughable and you don't even know it.

and for the record, when i'm 35 i'll probably miss going out to shows until 2 am on a weeknight with my friends because i have other responsibilities. but as far as mainstream music, who gives a damn, really? if it's good it'll still be around (if not on the radio, then on my computer/turntable/ipod)

[Edited on March 2, 2008 at 11:10 PM. Reason : .]

[Edited on March 2, 2008 at 11:24 PM. Reason : .]

3/2/2008 11:09:14 PM

I'll be nostalgic for Hannah Montana.

3/2/2008 11:36:38 PM

xplosivo,

Well, I wouldn't say that's 100% true. Public Enemy, Tupac, etc are all rappers that have "something to say" about current events (15+ years ago anyways). A more current example would be the Black Eyed Peas (featuring the lady of the hour), who write songs about the war in Iraq and Obama running for President.

But since when did pop music need "something to say"?

I'm willing to bet that 80% of the songs in your Itunes are love songs. And that's low balling it. What can you say about love that hasn't been said before? Even most of Bob Dylan's songs (if we're gonna put him on a pedastal) are about relationships--mostly lost love or break ups or women that did him wrong. Heck here's just a list of love songs from The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan: Don't Think Twice, It's Allright; Girl of the North Country, Corrina, Corrina; Honey, Just Allow Me One More Chance. And that was BEFORE he refused to stop writing "finger pointing songs". He only wrote more love songs as time went on.

To be honest, compared to most of Dylan's stuff, "Blowin In The Wind" just sounds kinda preachy. You want some real good Dylan, go after "Nashville Skyline". The most underrated Dylan album ever (with the best version of Girl of the North Country, btw).

[Edited on March 3, 2008 at 8:56 AM. Reason : ``]

3/3/2008 8:35:07 AM

if fergie's music is better than what my kids listen to then they will be banned from listening to music around me

3/3/2008 8:46:38 AM

Rage, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Stone Temple Pilots.

3/3/2008 8:52:35 AM

I'll be nostalgic for music written by humans.

3/3/2008 9:04:24 AM

what about robots in disguise?

3/3/2008 9:23:22 AM

Bon Jovi is still selling out concerts so im sure when im thirty i'll still have to deal with people telling me how great (insert shitty band) is.

3/3/2008 9:35:47 AM

3/3/2008 9:38:56 AM

Socks``,

I completely agree on Public Enemy. Groups like PE, BDP, Tupac, NWA (to some degree) and others have certainly been significant. And I am not putting down hip-hop at all. I listen to it and love a lot of it. The question was whether we will be nostalgic for it. Me, I get nostalgic for cheesy 80s pop songs that I listened to as a kid and 70s light rock songs that are just fun to sing along to. But when I try to think of bands that are important, I have a lot of trouble coming up with too many from this generation. (not saying there aren't any, just saying I am not seeing them.)

3/3/2008 9:58:22 AM

Quote :

"Gen-Xers are probably nostalgic for Nirvana and grunge. "

I fall squarely in this category.

3/3/2008 10:43:23 AM

me too

i guess my response has already been decided for me

3/3/2008 10:50:16 AM

Cif82 and spöokyjon know what I'm talking about!

[Edited on March 3, 2008 at 10:57 AM. Reason : PS8 Xplosovio, I agree]

3/3/2008 10:57:22 AM

me 3

3/3/2008 10:58:00 AM

nothing... youtube will still have everything

3/3/2008 11:03:42 AM

you know, I have been thinking more about this topic and I wonder if the lack of any memorable bands is due in some part to the fact that there haven't really been any significant "movements" in music?

50s = Birth of Rock and Roll
60s = Counter culture/Hippies/Anti-war
70s = Arena Rock/Disco/Punk
80s = Metal/Synth Pop/College Radio
90s = Grunge/Techno/Hip-Hop (current styles)

there really hasn't been anything new in the 2000s. Certainly nothing that is fundamentally different enough to justify a new classification.

3/3/2008 11:25:25 AM

^the 00's are the emo era

3/3/2008 11:30:33 AM

emo got done in the 80s. Just look at the bands coming out of England like the Smiths. That's as emo as you can get.

3/3/2008 11:33:21 AM

sure there has, just under the radar. id say the dischordesque movement of the 80s into the early 90s was a HUGE musical movement with their roots still firmly and openly planted in a large number of the rock, hardcore, etc. bands i still listen to today.

also the whole 'metalcore' (really the reemergence of hardcore and the metal scene together) of the 90s into early 2000s was huge, but now is pretty stale and bloated.

i mean when you have something like 'straight edge' lifestyle and all its other branches being as big as its ever been, and having the original term coined by Minor Threat in 1983, I think its safe to say it was part of a significant movement.

3/3/2008 11:36:23 AM

^^^ no, the term emo was coined in the 80s. the stuff coined emo now blows...even if it is some derivative of the original genre

^^ youre right...and wrong. emo originated in the 80s but not with bands like the smiths really imo(even tho i do enjoy the smiths). ive talked about this ad nauseum on here tho so im sure people dont want to hear me list all the 'founding' bands of this genre. and really it doesnt matter what genre someone considers a band, except i hate bands like my chemical romance getting grouped with someone like sunny day real estate

[Edited on March 3, 2008 at 11:40 AM. Reason : ]

3/3/2008 11:39:18 AM

Quote :

"Gen-Xers are probably nostalgic for Nirvana and grunge. "

I consider my self Gen-X and I would(do) miss Nirvana but not so much grunge as a whole.

I still listen to most of the same bands I listened to in junior high/high school and I've seen most of the bands from that era that I want to see in concert. But I guess I'm not sure what you define as "miss" I miss when U2 and REM made good albums. I basically hate anything post 92 from either band(except Monster from REM) But I always have my tapes/CDs of the albums I really like so I can listen to them anytime.

And seeing how some bands turn out.. I just as soon not think about how shitty Nirvana's music would be now if Kurt hadn't passed..

3/3/2008 11:41:57 AM

this is the dumbest fucking thread ever

a person with very sparse knowledge of the history of pop music is trying to direct it

wtf ever

3/3/2008 11:56:22 AM

pixies, superchunk, 90s-era college/indie

3/3/2008 12:37:56 PM

mmm pixies. i might have to go into another pixies run again soon. i happen to do that with certain bands. every once in awhile i come back to them hardcore and listen to all of their stuff until im sick (well as sick as i can be of a band i love) of them for awhile.

[Edited on March 3, 2008 at 1:03 PM. Reason : ]

3/3/2008 1:02:12 PM

this is the dumbest fucking thread ever

a person with very sparse knowledge of the history of pop music is trying to direct it

wtf ever

3/3/2008 1:46:32 PM

honestly i dont think ill miss anything

my music of choice for the most part is hip-hop, but as a constantly evolving genre, it's never really one set kind of music, so its hard to say ill miss...what, 1996? 2003? sure they were great eras, (i.e. 80's, early 90's, late 90's, early 2000's, current, future), but you appreciate them for what they were, not for what the current music isnt

most of what i look for in my music today still exists if i want to hear it, it's just not as mainstream as some newer incarnations, but that's ok, as long as the constant innovation and reinvention exists

[Edited on March 3, 2008 at 2:33 PM. Reason : .]

3/3/2008 2:32:51 PM

What blows my mind is that a bunch of college-radio loving Raleigh dwellers have went nearly 50 posts without mentioning WhiskeyTown. I mean shit, it's this town's biggest contribution to the Alt. Country "movement".

Stone Temple Pilots and Sublime made it before these guys? fuck.

3/3/2008 2:37:06 PM

so a bunch of college kids will miss a band that has been disbanded since before most started college?

3/3/2008 2:39:55 PM

ryan adams put unwanted mayo on my sandwich when i was in middle school

3/3/2008 2:44:17 PM

my first year at state i went to schoolkids on a trip to chapel hill, and the clerk had a love letter from ryan adams to her. there was even the little "check yes check no" part. she didn't return it.

3/3/2008 2:45:44 PM