Will todays music be listened to in say about 100 years?

[SnowyPuma]

Will today's music still be played in the future? Examples like Bon Jovi, Michael Jackson, ZZ Top, etc. Will they become like classical music which is like 100's of years old and only a few bunch listen to it? (If you know what I mean)

 

[tin dirigible]

I don't know, but I would like to think that a lot of the great music from around 1969 - 1979 would still be well known.

 

[The Refugee]

I'm sure someone would listen to it.

Problem it that people of the time period might question that mans sanity. Or just consider him an outcast.

 

[Blackie]

.. Only if roaches can cue it up .. cause we all are going to wipe humans off the planet ..

 

[River]

The examples you mention aren't today's music. They're yesterday's music.

Those that listen to Classical music are not a "few bunch". Most of them can string together a sentence.

Rock and Roll will never die. But it will have to be performed to be listened to. Roaches won't be running around with iPod buds in their ears.

 

[sammyblp]

I don't know let me go in my time machine and check

 

[crazymike]

You can bet your a55 it will if Clear Channel is still around.

 

[Alligatorbling]

do you listen to music from 100 years ago now? some do, but most listen to music within the past 50 years.

 

[1970custom]

As vital as the music I listen to is to me (and how NON-vital today's pop music is), I imagine there will be lots of innovations in music and instrumentation between now and 2111, thus making the stuff I like "old fashioned". Look at how popular music changed from 1900-2000. Hell, 1930-1950.

I guess it's hard for some people (like me) to imagine a new instrument or electric gizmo that could change music. I guess it takes a genius like Les Paul, Leo Fender or Jim Marshall or someone like Steve Jobs to envision something new and then start the revolution (Hint: not Henry J.)

 

[CivoLee]

Probably: the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who, the Doors, Jimi Hendrix, the Velvet Underground, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Rush, Bob Marley and the Wailers, the Clash, the Ramones, Joy Division, Van Halen, the Cure, Metallica, Megadeth, Guns 'n' Roses, Alice In Chains, My Bloody Valentine, Nirvana, Tool, Radiohead, Pantera, At the Drive In, Mastodon

Possibly: the Kinks, the Stooges, the MC5, Neil Young, Lynyrd Skynyrd, David Bowie, ZZ Top, Kiss, the Sex Pistols, AC/DC, Ozzy Osbourne, Talking Heads, Motley Crue, Poison, Anthrax, Slayer, Death, Fugazi, Social Distortion, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Rage Against the Machine, Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day, 311, Sublime, Foo Fighters, Korn, Deftones, the Strokes, the White Stripes, Meshuggah, Children of Bodom, Lamb of God, Thursday, Coheed and Cambria, Muse, the Mars Volta

Unlikely: Creedance Clearwater Revival, Ted Nugent, Journey, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Bon Jovi, Warrant, Winger, Blur (except maybe "Song 2"), Oasis (except maybe "Wonderwall" and "Champagne Supernova"), the Offspring, Bush, Silverchair, Limp Bizkit, Slipknot, Nickelback, 3 Doors Down, the Hives, Jimmy Eat World, My Chemical Romance

 

[CivoLee]

The examples you mention aren't today's music.

Not entirely, but they're still popular and/or influential enough that they could be considered "today's music". All are examples from what may one day be called the "rock period".

 

[Blackie]

I don't know let me go in my time machine and check

.. careful .. it will muck up your computer ..

... Oh and the answer is no ... cept us time travelers .. with mucked up computers ..

.. everyone else no ,, music is ilegal 100 years in the future .. and even if you get cought humming and smackin the side of a central services ac unit to some type rhythmic cadence you gonna go to a de-education camp .. .. because music is subversive to the state machine .. and when you do not uphold the pillars of the machine .. society breaks down and when ...etc etc .. get on your knees in front of this body filled trench ...

 

[moff40]

Short question, long answer...

I think some stuff (mostly the groundbreaking or genius) will stand the test of time, as will songs that touch people on an emotional level. Great music is timeless, and a truly well written song transcends styles or instruments. The sign of a well-written song is that you can play it with just an acoustic guitar and vocal, and it will work. The truth is only a small portion of popular music makes it out of its own decade. The more inane throw-away top-40 fluff, and music that is highly dependent on production, a particular "sound", trendiness, or image to carry it, is probably destined to be forgotten.

"Classical" (Bach, Beethoven, Dvorak, Tchaikovsky, operas and operettas, etc) is still extremely popular in some circles, because it was pure genius at work, and is capable of making an emotional connection. Swing, old-school jazz, and big-band may be less popular than in the years around WWII but is still recognized as pretty cool to some. There's no doubt that those guys could PLAY. The big '50s and '60s crooners like Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett still sell records (Bennett still draws new fans all the time - he's a pretty cool old cat, who still has a tremendous voice). Some of the pieces from stage and screen musicals still stand up. If people are music students or music lovers, and have developed an understanding, knowledge, and/or an open-minded appreciation for music in general, they will probably dig at least some of it.

But bear in mind - what defines genius or groundbreaking or "emotional connection" 100 years from now may be quite different than how we define it today, so I might just be talking out my ass.

 

[chazza]

Rock music will still be around in 100 years but will probably be about as popular as ragtime is now.

Here's what was going on 100 years ago.

1911 in music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

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[LPG]

Rock music will still be around in 100 years but will probably be about as popular as ragtime is now.

Here's what was going on 100 years ago.

1911 in music - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Irving Berlin was a popular dude.

I, of course, have heard of him but just to see how many times his name comes up on that list is amazing.

I didn't realize HOW big he was back then.

 

[Tim Fezziwig]

Yes Music Never Dies!

 

[moff40]

Irving Berlin was a popular dude.

I, of course, have heard of him but just to see how many times his name comes up on that list is amazing.

I didn't realize HOW big he was back then.

He wrote "White Christmas", dude! There's a song that WILL last forever.

BTW, has anybody ever noticed that the most beloved non-hymn Christmas songs were written by Jewish songwriters? White Christmas, The Christmas Song (Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...). A little irony, perhaps?

 

[teame1]

Thanks to advances in medical science, I'm sure Jessie will still be cranking out his
LZ CB.

 

[slapshot]

do you listen to music from 100 years ago now? some do, but most listen to music within the past 50 years.

from about 90 years yes.
nothin like some big band 1920's jazz in the workshop

but they will be because some music is timeless and will remain relevant forever and a day.
times they are a changing springs to mind for example
No doubt people will study Elvis in depth & people will write thesis on Les Paul & he's inventions.
You will have professors of punk music (real ones) arguing about the birth of it
Sadly ... bon jovi may well be listened to in a 100 years though and studied on how to re-invent yourself a few times to still pollute the nations airwaves.
Thankfully Poison will be but a footnote in MTV transgender poster boys