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

#flashbackfriday Paul & Eddie Piller at the Acid Jazz 10th Anniversary celebration in 1997! #paulweller #mod #acidjazz #acidjazzrecords #soul pic.twitter.com/rEmNm6lYcZ

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it's that numpt who makes them compilations with martin freeman with the wellender!

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Up - ambient and balearic

Really? I thought the whole balearic hype of 10y ago is well over?

Here's one I think about a lot that has been talked about on other threads, but the whole Lexx/Mudd/Idjut Boys/Quiet Village aesthetic is....well, it's been co-opted beyond recognition, right?

also my comment upthread was linking Stereolab to psychedelics and communism, because duh. most psychedelic rock being made is garbage, though i rather like that Bardo Pond/Acid Mothers Temple collab from a few years back.

I realized the other day that for years and years I’d hear “Born to be Wild” at least once a month as TV/movie/ad shorthand for squares cutting loose and/or something to do with cars or motorcycles. And to a much lesser extent Magic Carpet Ride and The Pusher to signify some sort of drug experience. But I don’t remember the last time I heard any Steppenwolf song in any context.

Not quite balearic per se, but there seems to have been a big resurgence / revival of Early house and techno (or modern takes on the genre) with no discernible peaks or troughs recently.

My shitty theory is that its because everyone knows that everyone else has a camera in their phone, and no one wants to get caught / memed / FB'ed doing anything embarrassing like get excited - but I'm guessing some people must really like this stuff?

i never really saw any of that music as going away. like if you didn't like early house and techno then you were just an idiot.

it's that numpt who makes them compilations with martin freeman

I’m not sure that “man who founded record label in 1987, and has been running it ever since, still runs it” is that revelatory a zing

Have you seen the album covers of these compilations? Never mind.. In your world of relwvatory zings you just think it is cool!

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i can't even tell what you are being shrill and arsey about here - the minutiae of record label history or that i'm calling someone you like a numpt!

I didn’t know the compilations existed, just googled “eddie piller martin freeman” to check that’s who you were talking about

(As due to a brain disease, I remember the name of a record label boss, despite owning a total of one Corduroy CD in 1993)

oh lol it was in the tweet anyway

The "we are the mods" po-faced mugging on the covers of them compilations, silly old men trying to look like young dandies - i just find it completely laughable.

I think there was a lot of neo mod/acid jazz crossover in the 90's and there seemed to be some quite nauseatingly bad fashion design about, although the only band I seem to remember is the Brand New Heavies! But I have vague memories of lots of wazzocks in daft hats.

Chicago had (has?) Liquid Soul, which is an interesting one, because it was headed by Mars Williams, who not only has a ton of free jazz bona fides but also played (plays?) sax in the Psychedelic Furs.

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Jim Croce's stock seems to have risen, judging by recent placements in Django and Stranger Things

rush yeah maybe I’m just thinking of kunihara with his cipolina steez

The name of the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz was (inexplicably, to me) changed to the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz, so I'd say Hancock's stock has risen steadily in the last 10-20 years.

Herbie is probably the most famous living jazz musician at this point, save Kenny G

I realized the other day that for years and years I’d hear “Born to be Wild” at least once a month as TV/movie/ad shorthand for squares cutting loose and/or something to do with cars or motorcycles. And to a much lesser extent Magic Carpet Ride and The Pusher to signify some sort of drug experience. But I don’t remember the last time I heard any Steppenwolf song in any context.

There's a TV ad for some kids stuff out now that uses an female-sung cover of BTBW. It and MCR still seem to be staples on Classic Rock radio, all the more remarkable given how many '60s songs they're dropping.

^^Just saw that ad again: it's for baby diapers and there's a guy singing the chorus over & over.

there's another ad that made the rounds pretty recently with magic carpet ride too

Surprised that Guns 'N' Roses hasn't been mentioned yet. The mostly reunited band has had hugely successful tours, Axl is out of the woods, somehow didn't become alt-right - but are more people listening to Appetite for Destruction? Use Your Illusion??

Didn't their reputation tank before the 2010s? I suppose it's now hovering even closer to the bottom of the abyss.

I can't imagine any millenials care about such a shitty band

GN'R remain hugely popular with rock fans, check out their Spotify numbers.

Right, I don't and I don't know anyone who does. But I'm asking if their reputation went up as a result of the bigger tours and Axl keeping a low profile & occasionally dissing Trump (right? didn't he do something like that...)

Feels like their rep couldn't get any lower than it was in the 00s so anything is an improvement

gnr's critical reputation seem pretty low right now, i think a lot of ppl who grew up post-80s would be surprised that they were ever considered any cooler than, like, poison. even their 'classic' material hasn't aged that well; i listened to appetite for the first time in years recently and tbh what struck me most about it was how misogynistic and vile most of the lyrics were.

the only thing I've seen about GnR in my current life is an horrific account of abuse by an ex-GF of Axl's going around social media

on the college campus yesterday, I saw one Beatles t-shirt. I should keep a running tally.

"One In A Million" comes up from time to time on my Pandora...after going "Damn Axl" to myself I always think it feels very MAGA now.

GNR has one album that anyone still cares about, i know the UYI albums have their fans but their wider cultural presence evaporated as soon as November Rain left the charts.

"woke Axl" was a thing

i don't have much of an opinion on those albums except as a hard rock/metal fan i was a little disappointed. i mean it was no Adrenalize, it was an impressively ambitious project, but i just wasn't into the new style. the singles didn't stick with me either, i feel like maybe "Don't Cry" was the first one and it was played all the time on local radio and it was the worst GNR song i'd ever heard.

The songs on A4D have a combined 900 million Spotify streams and 1.8 billion Youtube views

^ for a nanosecond just nowi lived in a world where GNR were once label mates with cocteau twins and the pixies

lol

Axl on a fourth This Mortal Coil lp, passionately crooning Gene Clark's "No Other.

https://thehardtimes.net/culture/report-majority-of-millennials-cant-even-find-paradise-city-on-a-map/

(stupid article, but relevant url)

Simon Raymonde

April 27, 2017 ·

We got an email once from Guns n Roses management to see if we could shed any light on where he might find a copy of a song of ours that he'd been told was about the lead singer of his band. Several puzzled exchanges later he apologised saying it turns out he'd misheard someone talking about this song 'Axel Rose' by Cocteau Twins................

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a6NzSuUosI&feature=share

that's awesome and hilarious

cease and desist from Ikea franchise in Guinea

(It probably means nothing but) at target they sell gnr shirts next to stranger things shirts

yeah yeah yeah it’s just a design blah blah blah

I don’t know any young people

I can't imagine any millenials care about such a shitty band

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one thing about millienials is they definitely never like any shitty bands!

wrt psych - i feel like there's an absolute shitload of young psych-ey/shoegaze/indie jam type bands locally and nationally but maybe it's just the circles i am in

i feel like psych is still a big thing but admittedly i'm an old man now & don't keep up with the trends