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

My teenage sister-in-law was recently wearing a tour t-shirt of a rapper I’d never heard of, designed to mimic a Nirvana t-shirt or something — it was very semiotic.

Friends posters maybe the most surprising revelation to me! I know it's been on Netflix for ages but it's weird to think that present-day teens would get into that show. I guess the 90s revival is even deeper and broader than I'd realized.

I had a hip student worker who wore a jacket with patches of the Ramones, the Cramps, Motorhead, Iron Maiden and Bauhaus, though I'm pretty sure she really listened to indie.

A few years ago I saw the Unknown Pleasures poster next to Bob at the campus poster sale and it felt like a changing of the guards

Kids really dig the Simpsons as a hip/retro/meme-ish/ironic cultural touchstone these days, which is kind of weird to me because it doesn't feel like it's been away a long time and it's strange to make a meme out of something that's supposed to be a bit post-modern anyway?

The Simpsons has never been away, it’s still being produced!

I see enough Unknown Pleasures t-shirts that I don’t even necessarily assume the wearer is a fan... seems like just another of those “classic designs” now.

Down: Early Roxy Music
Up: Later Roxy Music

you don't really hear a lot about the band Gryphon these days

You do in the circles I move in, especially concerning the new album they released last year: https://www.discogs.com/Gryphon-Reinvention/master/1444681

Line-up:
Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Producer, Recorded By, Mixed By, Mastered By – Graeme Taylor
Bassoon, Baritone Saxophone, Recorder, Crumhorn, Piano, Vocals – Brian Gulland
Drums, Percussion, Vocals – Dave Oberlé
Electric Bass, Double Bass – Rory McFarlane
Flute, Piccolo Flute, Crumhorn, Soprano Saxophone, Clarinet, Fife – Andy Findon
Harmonica, Mandolin, Violin, Keyboards, Edited By – Graham Preskett

So they're still rocking the crumhorns.

Graeme Taylor needs to update his wiki

Having spent many years playing guitars in the pit orchestras of many West End musicals, Taylor is now a member of the touring bands for both John Tams and Rolf Harris, and runs his own studio in South London.

c'mon Matt you made all those names up

It's not a crumhorn prog band without a Brian in the ranks

having been to an outdoor music festival over the weekend, these were my takeaways:

* local band that sounded a lot like rage against the machine seemed to have a decent crowd
* liz phair (and liz-inspired acts) doing well, even if she was stuck at a 5pm set time in the blazing sun
* reasonable number of people watching dressy bessy (?!) although it seemed like a lot of the same people i'd have seen at their show 15 years ago
* the entire shtick of crazy shit on stage and spectacle has a mixed reception. portugal. the man were headlining and a younger (early 20s) coworker of mine and some others nearby were confused by instrumental breaks between songs that were covers of pink floyd and metallica. maybe they weren't used to "festival bands" and the whole jammy/play up to a varied crowd thing but the area closest to the stage kind of emptied out by mid-set. some of their shtick was very decade-ago flaming lips and it didn't seem to play with the crowd

many xposts to unperson- I’m listening this new Santana- it’s tight!

Friends posters maybe the most surprising revelation to me! I know it's been on Netflix for ages but it's weird to think that present-day teens would get into that show. I guess the 90s revival is even deeper and broader than I'd realized.

feels like we're being trolled

Friends is hugely popular with all ages

A lot of female psych/folk singers from the late 60s/early 70s have had a real resurgence of interest in the last 10 years - Linda Perhacs, Judee Sill, Shirley Collins etc.

Since the introduction of the latte (via Freinds, really!) the basic bitch lyfe hasn't changed much right? Pop culture slowing down as noted? Maybe posters have soley become signals for habits-of-chilling - zoning out to Breaking Bad or Friends vs Marley-sized spliff vs dropping acid and thinking about light getting split by a prism vs bumming out alone to Unknown Pleasures.

yeah wait wtf is with the Friends popularity? I have some friends that have watched it multiple times.......... what...........

it's actually genuinely liked, right? not sneered at like with Brady Bunch?

Drums, Percussion, Vocals – Dave Oberlé

This dude appears on Wire's "154", and not many of us can say that.

Just finished watching this clip, which is at least partly relevant to this discussion. And funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwhoykzbhdA

it's actually genuinely liked, right? not sneered at like with Brady Bunch?

yeah, genuinely liked... I can’t really think of an equivalent from past decades

All my white friends love Wonderwall

brady bunch is a fascinating comparison since we are now about as far out from Friends's mid-90s heyday than the Brady Bunch films were from the early 70s, and yet it's sort of hard to picture a comical film using the show to send up those silly ways we were back then, etc. etc. not saying that's a bad thing since such a film would likely be unbearable but i do SORT OF buy the idea that Friends would feel enough like the present day to work as low-stakes streaming TV. surely there must be some political or social-mores disconnects...idk... as far as this thread goes tho, i imagine The Rembrandts' legacy is about as secure as ever

xxp The Office

the other day I saw three different people in nyc wearing Friends shirts, it was odd

when I work out Friends is always on, albeit with the volume off. to me the show is just an endless series of long conversations that end in 2 characters making out

there's an Interpol song in there somewhere

the people I know that love Friends are more well-adjusted and happier than me

Cheers was pretty much the Friends of the 80s.

except Cheers wasn't terrible

there's an Interpol song in there somewhere

:D

saw this advertised the other day: https://www.high-noon.com/event/9325025/indie-jam-500/ -- perhaps of some relevance to the "jam" part of the thread?

The Indie Jam 500 is a supergroup comprised of local Madison musicians involved in the Jamband scene who have a deep love for indie rock and psych rock music. Featuring members of WURK, Dub Foundation, Magic Conch, Better Yeti, The North Code, Sweet Delta Dawn, Nuggernaut, Fringe Character and more, this group has been tasked with the mission of creating a setlist full of everyone's favorite indie rock songs and giving them the royal jam treatment by extending and improvising over them! This will surely be a unique concert experience for fans of jambands, indie rock, psych rock, and all music lovers alike.

Setlist curated from the following bands:
Radiohead
Violent Femmes
Arctic Monkeys
Arcade Fire
PHOX
Bon Iver
..and many more!

just want to chime in and say dang this new Santana album is surprisingly good!

Oh my god Indie Jam 500 sounds like hell on earth

I think Friends kind of functions as an escapist fantasy for millennials: poor twenty-somethings make their way in NYC and everything ultimately works out.

Dying at "Nuggernaut"

And literally dying if I have to listen to them extending and improvising over a Bon Iver song.

I've seen that band at my go-to bar, it's a bad scene. You see, if you want the hippie bar/restaurant that serves good food until 1am every night of the week and has a constantly changing beer list, you need to withstand the occasional brutal jam band. It's the devil's bargain.

hah, I've had favorite places to go that occasionally host bands and have bitten by the live music schedule

"I just wanted some food, I forgot that Thursdays is FUCKING JAM BAND NIGHT!"

Who the phuck are PHOX?

PHLEET PHOXES

THE BAND:
Rin Q Ribble (The Gadjo Players, The North Code, Sortin' the Mail) - Violin/Vocals
Daniel Haschke (Wurk, Dub Foundation) - Saxophones/Reeds
Noah Gilfillan (The Earthlings, Nøå) - Keyboards/Vocals
Frank Laufenberg (Wurk, Old Oaks) - Guitars/Vocals
Jack Peterson (Magic Conch, Sweet Delta Dawn) - Guitar
Casey Seymour (Wurk) - Bass Guitar
Kelby Kryshak (Nuggernaut, Wrenclaw, Better Yeti) - Percussion
Max Morkri (Wurk, Fringe Character, Meggie Shays) - Drum Set

Kill me

lol this guy owns pic.twitter.com/JPlLCCs2XV

— antifa victim (@lib_crusher) July 17, 2019

Who the phuck are PHOX?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHOX

See also, bands who appear to have written their own Wikipedia entry.

xp omg I hadn't heard that yet, but there have been stories off and on for weeks in local media speculating why he was let go when he was appointed by the current governor

Violent Femmes

Do you think they do "1,1,1 cause you left me" but just go up to like 35

xpost I guess we don't need to do a What's on Your iPod thread

Who the phuck are PHOX?

They were hometown 'next big thing' heroes for awhile before they imploded. Honestly a good band that didn't survive the weight of expectations + money + too much touring etc.

The singer is working her solo thing now, really hope it comes together for her.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC844OnP5pM

I think Friends kind of functions as an escapist fantasy for millennials: poor twenty-somethings make their way in NYC and everything ultimately works out.

― frustration and wonky passion (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, July 17, 2019 3:15 PM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah the people I know that like it like it because of the blithe optimism and naivete. it's basically Adulting: The Show