Which artists legacies have improved/worsened during the 2010s?

I occasionally hear the Strokes at the gym, which is...weird.

It's kind of like that, yep.

I was about to say that I miss Jackie-O Motherfucker but I only have myself to blame. Their latest album came out last year – I just haven't been paying attention.

Deerhoof, Xiu Xiu, and of Montreal have all released great work and played great shows this decade to dwindling attention. Seeing Deerhoof play to 50 people fucking sucks! They still rule...

xp had no idea JOM was still together

With a bit of luck Weyes Blood's success will improve their standing, no matter how microscopically.

I can't imagine anyone being into their schtick today.

― blue light or electric light (the table is the table), Sunday, July 14, 2019 4:42 PM

I'm not getting what is supposed to be so undesirable about the bands recently mentioned, in the context of recent years. Is it just a matter of getting tired of an approach, because there's always plenty of people who aren't familiar with this stuff that is still quite within their reach.
I missed out on so much of this music when it was big and I was reading about it a lot. Still have no idea what Wolf Eyes sound like beyond descriptions at the time, one of hundreds of bands I've been meaning to listen to for over a decade.

Through the 2000s there was a preference toward optimism and audience participation and joyousness that seems silly and indulgent in retrospect. Deerhoof don’t make songs like “Come See The Duck” any more

I don’t know if it feels silly/indulgent, exactly — I was no Lips fan, but those big inflatable ball / confetti shows at festivals were fun, and I don’t look back in shame for participating or anything.

Yeah re: Robert Adam Gilmour, as part of the generation that’s presumably going to be picking up the torch on the rep of the Lips etc. the vibe I’ve been getting is that their current incarnations are pretty corny but the “classic stuff”, if not necessarily The Pet Sounds Of Our Era or whatever the pitch was at the time, certainly isn’t deserving of ire

Kinda feel like that sort of antipathy requires a context for what being into music was like at the time which future generations just won’t have access to, eg the present bizarreness of that old Steely Dan pfork review which shot them down on the basis of “the punk rock ethos” etc

thanks to this thread for reminding me that Deerhoof still exist - I haven't listened to anything they've done since 2011! will rectify that asap

The drummer from Deerhoof just made an album with Anthony Braxton. I don't know anything about Deerhoof, but it's pretty good.

https://firehouse12records.com/album/quartet-new-haven-2014

Deerhoof still an incredible live band

Through the 2000s there was a preference toward optimism and audience participation and joyousness that seems silly and indulgent in retrospect. Deerhoof don’t make songs like “Come See The Duck” any more

― flamboyant goon tie included, Sunday, July 14, 2019 1:03 PM (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I didn't want to say it but Dan Deacon has disappeared from most peoples' radar (although he hasn't put out a record since 2015).
The blind joy of Wham City days was optimistic, silly, and indulgent to an extent perhaps but a natural cathartic reaction to the grim dread of post-9/11 America imo

for anyone lost in the weeds wrt Deerhoof, check out their 2016 record The Magic. that's the best one they've put out in the '10s imo. Mountain Moves is great, too.

Deerhoof peaked in about 2005 and I can't imagine anyone being into their schtick today

their schtick is just being a really good band and staying good imo

xp had no idea JOM was still together

― flappy bird, Sunday, July 14, 2019 10:59 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i'm pretty sure it's just a revolving cast of musicians around tom greenwood for as long as he wants to make new material

I've never taken much stock in these explanations about the times.

"Flaming Lips were relevant because times were grim and we needed some optimism"
"Flaming Lips aren't relevant because times are grim and we don't need that optimism"

Maybe they are 3.17% too optimistic for our times?

I think it's more likely their own audience just dropped off for other various reasons. Embryonic was a bigger departure than a lot of their newer fans would go. I'm sure some at Warners would have thought it was commercial suicide.

Really annoyed me when a piece on King Crimson favored them over Yes because they thought KC were moving with the times in their attitude, while Yes were supposedly stuck in the past. Jon Anderson's hippieness is not a trend, it's essential to him!

I remember I went to see Tilly And The Wall by accident because I mixed them up with Windy & Carl (who I was meaning to get into). That kind of stuff might have become grating to a lot of us, but I don't think the effects will be terribly long term. That was music, film, comics and even standup comedy and I still ponder over why some of it seemed excessively affected and other things seemed okay.

another one who i can't imagine has the same near-Radiohead level respect and in-every-college-dorm-room market share as in the 00s: Beck.

Did u vote in the recent Beck poll

naw, felt like i didn't know enough of the indie albums or the post-Sea Change records. were a lot of the respondents college dorm residents?

btw, a good precedent/reference point for this thread: shifts in popular opinion you have noticed

The results were ... interesting. If i had to hazard a guess i would say dorm room recollections colored a lot of ballots. Tracks from the first few records predominate

also for an early 2000s reference point: what is the most unfashionable music to make right now?

Wow, “intelligent dance music” and “conscious hip hop” wow boy byeee

There’s lots of wildly famous rappers that make “conscious hip-hop” just no one uses that term anymore

i'm going to run that 00's poll i think

old thread otm about ska, not so otm about metal and grunge

i saw Deerhoof live several times and...was not very plussed. I do understand that they're all very talented musicians— i have a minor in music comp from the same place some of them went to school— but if you were to ask me which band that was big in '05 i'd really like to see again or check in on, they wouldn't even make the top 20. i clicked around some singles and videos, and it was pleasant enough but not too exciting. similar results with Oneida and Liars. oh well.

oh yeah, Liars completely tumbled this decade

Not only the new stuff but Drum's Not Dead and They Were Dead So... those records are still great imo but very much of an era, floor tom + rim hits + delay. Drum's Not Dead coming out less than six months after Feels was a bit much.

re: deerhoof, been listening to them since ca. apple o, the magic (2016) is my fav lp by them

here's one that i was thinking about this afternoon: whither Elliott Smith? I still listen to Heatmiser every once in a while, but never Smith solo. do saddo teens still love Smith like i did?

yeah but he's definitely less popular. I only became a fan in 2013 so I don't know what it was like in the decade after his death but I've found the ES fan community online to be pretty fallow now, and I don't know many people that still listen to him regularly. he's never been popular on ILM. it's a bummer, he was an amazing guitarist and songwriter.

he was! i still get songs of his stuck in my head every once in a while. and he gave a pretty stunning performance on the last tour he gave— saw him only three months before he died. great show.

i feel like acts who passed away, broke up, or just slowed to a crawl in the 00s (Smith... the Beastie Boys also come to mind) have to be evaluated differently than acts which were already "historical" then (Beach Boys etc.) and ones which were still very active or just breaking. all are germane to this thread, but talking abt "legacy" means different things - e.g. trying to figure out if The Kids still even discover this act, or care when they do, versus evaluating whether their 90s boosters lost enthusiasm with later albums, etc. i'm maybe most interested in cases like The-Dream, who as noted upthread seemed like the center of the pop/r&b creative universe ten years ago, and who i never hear about off-ilx anymore.

I agree, I was just thinking about how Smith's work was ubiquitous for several years after his passing, but its presence has slowly faded, and while some of that is certainly due to the simple passing of time, i am interested in other reasons why that might be.

generally speaking tho, yeah, i am more interested in cases like the-Dream.

the-dream is still doin stuff!

do saddo teens still love Smith like i did?

FWIW, Phoebe Bridgers (who's 24) has cited Smith as an influence

I like to think that those 5 Classic Albums collections have had an impact on some legacies. I jumped on several of those for bands I otherwise would have taken much longer to listen to. I love them.

there are bands that have gotten that treatment that i've never consciously heard!

Quite a few of the ones I got were by bands who I'd heard little or nothing of. Bands that have an undying following but never get that much coverage these days.
Sadly it doesn't seem like they're bringing out much more of them. I don't recall seeing many that haven't been around at least 4 years.

I think Changing Horses probably wouldn't have been reissued recently if that Incredible String Band 5 Classic Albums hadn't come out.

Cleo Tucker from Girlpool has this gorgeous song that is indebted to ES at some level

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xHYN64L2Ro

I hear it in Phoebe Bridgers' "Scott Street," even an allusion to "St Ide's Heaven."

Actually there is quite a bunch of those cheapie classic collections in the last few years... Nancy Wilson, Conway Twitty, Slim Whitman, Dinah Shore, Billy Fury, Milt Jackson, Hank Crawford, Bill Haley, Judy Garland, Chet Atkins, Nena, Al Bano+Romina Power, Harold Land, Billie Holliday, Katja Ebstein, Lyambiko, Kitty Wells, Mahalia Jackson, Nat King Cole, Thelma Houston, Bobby McFerrin, Gene Vincent, Girlschool, Jackie McLean, Dakota Staton, Sonny Rollins, Elmer Bernstein, Bo Diddley, Chick Corea, Charlie Parker, Candlemass, Therion, Behemoth, Sinister, Sinner, Gorefest, Wendy Waldman, Jean-Michel Jarre, Petra Zeiger, Jennifer Rush, Doris Day, Guano Apes, Chet Baker, Sweet, Art Blakey, Fats Domino, Nina Simone, Max Roach, New Riders Of The Purple Sage, Hugh Masekela, Matthias Reim, Peter Maffay, Hank Williams, Ruth Brown, Etta James, Lavern Baker, Horace Silver...

mobb deep up, I think? not down at least. doesn't seem like, say, big pun, capone n noreaga, or even nas register much anymore but "shook ones" lives on. maybe prodigy's death had something to do with it?

fwiw my impression could be off since I haven't really followed hip hop for like 10+ years. this is mostly informed by some convos I've had over the years.

feel like I've been waiting for trap beats to become as uncool as jungle breaks in 2000 or w/e for way longer than I expected but it never seems to happen

^yeah I was expecting them to be played out this year, but no sign of that yet.

Seems like Stereolab are enjoying a resurgence with the recent expanded editions coming out and touring this year.

also psychedelics and communism are pretty "cool" again, not that they ever went away for some of us ;-)

is dub cool at the moment? seems to come round in cycles

Dub is always cool

also psychedelics and communism are pretty "cool" again, not that they ever went away for some of us ;-)

yep but psychedelic rock seems to have lower standing rn than any time since the 90s

probably just the general decline of rock as a form I suppose