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

Down: Crescendo Based Post-Rock

Up: Nile Rodgers

Queen, definitely. You can't underestimate the popularity of that movie (which I still haven't watched). My 11 year old niece told me that she's learning to play Queen songs on the piano a few days ago.

Queen are like some weird keystone in British culture now, but they (and their manager) have pursued that line pretty much since not long after Freddie died.

In terms of keeping the band's name alive in every media that was viable, they've managed to basically shill for themselves in every potential direction and, very astutely, at the generations following the people that were into Queen the first time around.

I did go and see them once with Paul Rodgers singing (it was a freebie) and I blubbed like a big fucking girl when Brian May came out and sung Love Of My Life on an acoustic guitar.

Grammy award winning artist, shirtless wonder Matt Pike of High on Fire and Sleep.

Yeah it happened...Pike's kinda picked up the torch now from Lemmy in a stylistic way.

somebody said it up thread but I feel like Tom Waits I see people busting on a lot now and he was such a darling for decades

i blame tom scharpling for that tbh

stock down: turn of the decade indie, freak-folk, arcade fire, college rock

― mott the hoopleheads (voodoo chili)

big blood will always have a special place in my heart

up: tori amos, but not as much as she deserves

↓ canadian indie rockers
↑ canadian pop stars

i blame tom scharpling for that tbh

Ha! He is very vivid in his hatred.

Regarding the electric guitar, I guess the stock of the overdrive guitar has fallen (even though the likes of Ghost and Avenged Sevenfold have managed to revive the hair metal genre somewhat). However, the chorus guitar is at its coolest since the 80s. (Agsin: Mac DeMarco)

down: songs about molly
up: songs about xannies

yeah Queen, which I have never liked at all, seems so big now.
Also Elton John : a friend told me he's his 7yo kid's favourite singer(and I suppose at this age, they are influenced by other kids at school etc).
Not surprisingly, his kid also likes Queen...
I blame THESE movies !

That said I guess E. John wasn't particularly down in the 00s.

Billy Ray Cyrus?

The problem with this thread is that pop culture moves so much slower than it used to and ten years is just not a very long time music-wise anymore.

yeah, I've often thought about that and I suppose it's been discussed at length somewhere on ILX but it's one thing I can't really explain.
Like I remember when Suede's first album reached its 20y anniversary release and thinking it had been as long as say when Sgt Pepper got its CD 20y anniversary in the 80s.
Yet it didn't feel that long ago to me regarding Suede whereas between 67 and 87 it seemed like totally different eras.
It might be totally subjective, though and the musical landscape IS totally different now so I don't know...

Also pop/rnb hits now don't seem vastly different from 10 or even 20y ago whereas pop hits in like the 90s had nothing to do with those in the 70s, for instance.

While it would seem more likely that pop culture now would move FASTER than previously with all the media, IT, trends, etc.

00s music is in the uncanny valley of pre-revival but no longer current so will fall by default

there is something heartening about the enduring rep of the wu tang clan

there is something heartening about the enduring rep of the wu tang clan

Indeed!

Then there's the whole scene of vaporwave spinoffs who are all more or less indebted to Japanese electronica.

the first time I heard Ongaku Zukan my thought was "it's like Weather Channel music, but I really like it", which is pretty much vaporwave in a nutshell. I'm surprised that album hasn't retroactively blown up.

― frogbs, Tuesday, July 9, 2019 8:27 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

Yes! Same with Casiopea's 'Mint Jams', which sounds like it was recorded tomorrow (but in fact is from '82 o_O). You could fool anyone passing it off as a smooth jazz/vaporwave milestone.

Elton John is a good one, there was a Twitter post not long after 'Rocketman' came out saying, can you imagine back in the 80s hating Morrissey for being a bigot and Elton John being the cool one.

I get the feeling Billy Joel is more respected now than he was back in the 90s/00s. Conversely despite going down the Rick Rubin stripped back route, Neil Diamond seems more of a footnote as a performer, with only his 60s singles being remembered.

turns out wu tang really was for the children.

Down: Most 60s music - the Beatles, even the Beach Boys.. No one talks about them any more.

It's been ages since I heard anyone talk about Troutmaskreplica in any significant way

Does anyone still talk about Love?

as long as the Zombies and Byrds end up atop the pile I'm cool

Up - Trance music

Does anyone still talk about Love?

― pomenitul, Wednesday, July 10, 2019 12:32 PM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Don't know if anyone *talks* about them, but Alone Again Or was used in Netflix's Russian Doll series.

I think it's 'cooler' to mention Love these days than any of those other bands. I guess people burn out on hype for certain acts and peak Beach Boys worship seemed to come during that Animal Collective / Magic Numbers era of the mid-2000s.

wish people would talk more about the Beatles

That said, there's still probably lots of love for the more experimental psychedelic acts like Silver Apples or White Noise

I think there were lots of talks about the Beatles with the releases of the remixed Pepper and White albums, weren't there ?

Sebastien Tellier was quite big (relatively speaking) by the end of the 00s.
He's mostly disappeared now (even in France).

True. Meanwhile, Noir Désir’s stock has plummeted even further (I wonder why?).

Autechre and IDM type music in general stock has shot up in recent years after nosediving some time c2004

I think there were lots of talks about the Beatles with the releases of the remixed Pepper and White albums, weren't there ?

― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, July 10, 2019 1:53 PM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

on certain ILM threads maybe but honestly, who's excited and passionate about the Beatles in the same way as, say, during the 90s? Nowhere close. The sixties isn't even a mum and dad era any more. It's the distant past and it's been mined so many times over there's nothing new to really say about them, for now perhaps

Yeah, I agree

(oups too fast)
I agree and considering the musical landscape (even in the UK), I don't really see them coming back as a major inspiration for new artists in the near future...

Sucks that psych pop is less cherished these days but on the plus side prog is nowhere near the plague carrier it used to be and that's a definite step up.

That said, who would have put money on Queen in 2019 !

As someone who runs a new wave / post-punk / old school electro type night, it feels like even that era has lost a fair bit of cachet in recent years. 80s nostalgia is for Gen Xers and millennials, and trying to romanticise the B52s, Talking Heads and Gang Of Four is pretty ageing. That said, early house and techno is considered really cool and I'm surprised how many students will turn up to those kinds of nights round here.

There is a major fucking motion picture about the fucking Beatles in 2000 and fucking 19 and there are still endless fucking people fucking going on and fucking on about them

tbf

Yeahn 80s nostalgia seems to have passed too.
Is there a 90s nostalgia going on ?
I don't really hear/see things inspired by grunge, new jack swing, britpop, triphop... but I'm not at all in touch with the current trends !

ahah yeah I thought about that movie but somehow I doubt it will have the effect the Queen and Elton John movie had.

Well a sizeable chunk of the public seems to have finally realized that Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle are for shit so fingers crossed.

There is a major fucking motion picture about the fucking Beatles in 2000 and fucking 19 and there are still endless fucking people fucking going on and fucking on about them

― jou're much too jung, girl (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, July 10, 2019 2:29 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Maybe if you stopped talking about them there'd be less?
I'm only speaking from my own POV of course..

Hey I haven't had a "fuck the Beatles" tear in ages, needed to get it off my lungs

Is this even about the quality of these Queen/Elton movies (which I haven't seen) ?
From what I understand, they're pretty bad, aren't they ?
Maybe the main issue with the Beatles movie is that it actually not a Beatles movie : it doesn't portray them at all (and you don't even hear their songs, just covers) so it might be difficult to build excitement about them...
That reminds me of my teenage years, when Olivier Stone single-handedly revived the Doors !

(speaking of Beatles movie : there was also a Ron Howard documentary released a couple years ago iirc)

As someone who runs a new wave / post-punk / old school electro type night, it feels like even that era has lost a fair bit of cachet in recent years. 80s nostalgia is for Gen Xers and millennials, and trying to romanticise the B52s, Talking Heads and Gang Of Four is pretty ageing. That said, early house and techno is considered really cool and I'm surprised how many students will turn up to those kinds of nights round here.

this stuff all had its moment a decade ago with LCD Soundsystem and the rest of the DFA bands so it kinda makes sense that everyone's sick of it now

as long as the Zombies and Byrds end up atop the pile I'm cool

― imago

Zombies revisionism/worship is possibly one of the most annoying things abt this current decade, such an overrated band