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

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

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, July 16, 2019 12:08 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink
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

Yeah...new Psych still seems like a pretty big deal. Every Indie record store gives it its own section in the racks.

Is Prog up or down these days? It seems like people don't make fun of it as much.

Maybe the withering away of the boomer critics who hated it

Dave Weigel’s prog book helped.

King Crimson just appeared on Spotify, so way way up

Tame Impala headlined Coachella

(Re: psych)

aren't they an IDM band now

EDM whatever the fuck they call it now

EDM is not usually I

what about Led Zeppelin? they haven't gotten the reappraisal of other 70s "dinosaurs" like Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, Laurel Canyon crew. have they crossed into The Who territory? or am I in a Zeppelin bubble?

Zep is eternal

Shoddy synthpop is Tame Impala's jam now.

There’s artists like Scott Walker and Neneh Cherry which scaled up in recent years.

even after his death, idk if scott walker's rep is as high as it was circa 2006's the drift

Zep is eternal

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, July 16, 2019 3:58 PM (forty-one seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah my parents hated them and I never heard the records until I was in my early 20s. that was strange and awesome.

The Rolling Stones have... stayed the same? or gone slightly up? I've written this many times on here but I'll forget being at a party in ~2014 and talking about Beatles v. Stones with some guy and he said "I'm more of a Goat's Head Soup kinda guy."

stones have maybe gone up since keith's book and cause they're still touring, but not making new music.

also, that weird early '10s period where mick jagger's name appeared in a few hit pop tracks

Appetite has always been feted by critics afaik?

Xpost: I think Zep is one of those legacy bands that are too big to ever fall out of grace. Like Pink Floyd or Black Sabbath they will always be one of the first bands referenced when talking about 70’s music.

From the 70’s these are some artists which I think were huge at the time but are barely mentioned anymore and I very rarely overhear their music in public spaces, as if they had always been obscure artists:

Deep Purple, Alice Cooper, Genesis. On a minor scale Yes.

On another note:

My 16 year old cousin and her friends went to a costume party in some sort of nondescript KISS makeup with a black leather jacket and she said they were disguised as 80s rockstars. She had no idea the band she was referencing to was KISS but she was aware of the look through instagram/pinterest. I guess it also happens a lot with the Aladdin Sane/Ziggy Stardust look which is a cultural icon that people remember regardless if you know who Bowie is.

There’s artists like Scott Walker and Neneh Cherry which scaled up in recent years.

― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Tuesday, July 16, 2019 9:58 PM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Scott Walker's stock has steadily gone up since the 90s tbh.

Neneh Cherry is a good one!

gnr's critical reputation seem pretty low right now,

Pitchfork's 80s albums list was a year ago and Appetite was in there.

I actually think that list might be a good way to determine some of these, like how The Police placed twice in the 80s list from 15-20 years ago but were absent in 2018.

"Don't Stop Believing"'s stock has dropped since the mid 2000s.

I could be wrong about that, but it feels correct.

Elvis's stock fell around the late 90s for whatever reason and has yet to recover.

Africa sort of took DSB's spot

gahhh so true

DSB didn't feel like as much of a meme tho. It was still a meme, but not as much as Africa.

memes moved slower in 2007... I feel like if the Sopranos ended today DSB would be on the level of whatever happened to Africa last year, minus the Weezer aspect (maybe)

This is based on nothing in particular but Marvin Gaye seems to be less of a staple these days.

Going back to P4k again, another reason why it only seemed like a partial-meme is because it's one of the entries in that "Pitchfork 500" book. Not denying it's meme qualities tho.

sorry that was regarding DSB

Nor do the Clash appear to be as canonical anymore.