those of us in our 20's, who is the quintessential artist (musical) of our era?

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Kev

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oh and how could I forget pearl jam. They still have a huge following to this day and play epic 3 hour shows.
 

QueBert

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i can't remember the last time MC was relevant

2004, and she will go down in history as the biggest selling female artist ever, and 2nd biggest to Elvis. Doubtful anyone in the music industry will ever surpass her. She has sold more records than the Beatles. If she never sells another record again she'll be the biggest artist of the past 30 years.
 

n7

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For me, Armin van Buuren, Tiesto, Oakenfold, Paul van Dyk, etc...those DJs that made trance my favorite genres by miles.
 

DominionSeraph

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mugs

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oh and how could I forget pearl jam. They still have a huge following to this day and play epic 3 hour shows.

Did a ctrl-F on the first page (75 post view) figuring I must have missed when someone mentioned Pearl Jam, and I was disappointed. vi edit had a good list of bands and albums and missed both Pearl Jam and Ten <--- unquestionably one of the best albums of all time.
 

Ns1

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2004, and she will go down in history as the biggest selling female artist ever, and 2nd biggest to Elvis. Doubtful anyone in the music industry will ever surpass her. She has sold more records than the Beatles. If she never sells another record again she'll be the biggest artist of the past 30 years.

and mcdonalds is the greatest hamburger to ever grace the planet
 

BoberFett

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Did a ctrl-F on the first page (75 post view) figuring I must have missed when someone mentioned Pearl Jam, and I was disappointed. vi edit had a good list of bands and albums and missed both Pearl Jam and Ten <--- unquestionably one of the best albums of all time.

Ten came out in 1991. People who are in their 20s right now were between the ages of 0 and 9 when it came out. Excellent album, one of my top albums of all time for sure, but I'd hardly call that music for people in their 20s.

And corporate rock still sucks.
 

SlickSnake

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i'm having trouble coming up with a list...

it seems like we grew up in an era of teeny bop, boy bands and synthesized "electronic" music.


I object to this thread topic on the basis of blatant ageism discrimination and the fact the OP is a twenty something and thinks his limited lifetime experiences counts as anything valuable enough for us to even contemplate or bother posting about as a viable thread topic.

Had the OP bothered to include others older and wiser in his sample grouping by stating a more general topic with the years listed he was inquiring about musically, I would have had a much greater respect for the OP, and actually participated in this debate, without pointing out the obvious ageism discrimination the OP thinks is perfectly OK.

Ageism discrimination is not ok, and your a bad, bad OP, and you need your bare 20 something ass paddled by me until it turns bright red so I can post it online for all the old hags you disrespected by your topic title to frap over.
 

vi edit

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Ten came out in 1991. People who are in their 20s right now were between the ages of 0 and 9 when it came out. Excellent album, one of my top albums of all time for sure, but I'd hardly call that music for people in their 20s.

And corporate rock still sucks.

I don't know why I left off Pearl Jam. Arguably they are the only band to survive the Seattle scene meltdown..although you could say AIC did to some extent since they put out an album recently. But PJ still continues to put out albums and tour to a large success.

Much like Nirvana though I'd argue they had their big debut impact in the early 90's and lost a lot of commercial success after that. Not that commercial success means much (re: sales charts I posted) but PJ only gets about 6 songs played on the radio any more...half of which are from Ten.

Another band I left off too was Stone Temple Pilots. Core came out in '92 and just blew up rock music at that time. Dead and Bloated was a statement song that set the tone and the album just crushed the rest of the way through. I think that album really marked the death of grunge and the beginning of contemporary hard rock.

Purple came out in '94 and was successful for years too...probably even more commercially successful than Core. And then they just fell apart after that with Weilands drug issues and just putting out far too...pop'ish albums.
 

Kev

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Another band I left off too was Stone Temple Pilots. Core came out in '92 and just blew up rock music at that time. Dead and Bloated was a statement song that set the tone and the album just crushed the rest of the way through. I think that album really marked the death of grunge and the beginning of contemporary hard rock.

This made me laugh because I pictured Patrick Bateman delivering it.
 

Lonyo

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for my generation (those of us in our 20s) I think it's going to be Lady Gaga =)

I hope not, also I think Lady Gaga is too late for "my" generation.
We should be talking mid 90s to mid 2000s at best, what we grew up with, not current pop music. Lady Gaga hasn't even been around 3 years, so even people who are 20 now already had nearly a decade of music before Lady Gaga.
 

mugs

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Ten came out in 1991. People who are in their 20s right now were between the ages of 0 and 9 when it came out. Excellent album, one of my top albums of all time for sure, but I'd hardly call that music for people in their 20s.

And corporate rock still sucks.

Yeah I guess it was a little early, but I'm 29 and it came out just before I started junior high. Junior high is when I think a lot of us were forming our musical taste.
 

zinfamous

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2004, and she will go down in history as the biggest selling female artist ever, and 2nd biggest to Elvis. Doubtful anyone in the music industry will ever surpass her. She has sold more records than the Beatles. If she never sells another record again she'll be the biggest artist of the past 30 years].

she's certainly fat, I'll give you that. But fatter than Elvis?

lolno.

and more relevant? lollolololno
 

UNCjigga

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For me, Armin van Buuren, Tiesto, Oakenfold, Paul van Dyk, etc...those DJs that made trance my favorite genres by miles.
You're dating yourself. The kids these days listen to some Deadmaus fellow.
 

vi edit

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lol. that sounds exactly like Bateman.

:D

LOL! I really don't spend my nights having three ways with hookers and then hacking them up with a chainsaw. And my days shanking street bums in alleys.

Nor do I have a doodle pad full of whacked out morbid shit.

():)
 

darkewaffle

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ITT more of the same old "old people like old stuff young people like new stuff" :rolleyes:

Older generations main exposure to new music is through the billboard charts and radio. Which suck, always have always will. Seems like many forget that in their 'day' the charts still sucked, filled with the likes of Captain and Tennille and the Osmonds and crappy disco and Tiffany and New Kids on the Block and Olivia Newton John and the Partridge Family and so on and so forth. It's a terrible representation of what that generation offers to future listeners. The most popular stuff is only what's most popular in the moment, it's a poor gauge of what will leave a lasting impression.

I also wouldn't say every generation has an icon. There's a gap between Elvis/The Beatles and MJ/Madonna where I think that role was vacant. Maybe an even bigger gap depending on how you view the Beatles as an iconic band vs an iconic artist. There were big names, sure, but not of that magnitude and scope. Jim Morrison and/or Hendrix could have I think, but we lost them too early.
 

Fritzo

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ITT more of the same old "old people like old stuff young people like new stuff" :rolleyes:

Older generations main exposure to new music is through the billboard charts and radio. Which suck, always have always will. Seems like many forget that in their 'day' the charts still sucked, filled with the likes of Captain and Tennille and the Osmonds and crappy disco and Tiffany and New Kids on the Block and Olivia Newton John and the Partridge Family and so on and so forth. It's a terrible representation of what that generation offers to future listeners. The most popular stuff is only what's most popular in the moment, it's a poor gauge of what will leave a lasting impression.

I also wouldn't say every generation has an icon. There's a gap between Elvis/The Beatles and MJ/Madonna where I think that role was vacant. Maybe an even bigger gap depending on how you view the Beatles as an iconic band vs an iconic artist. There were big names, sure, but not of that magnitude and scope. Jim Morrison and/or Hendrix could have I think, but we lost them too early.

I see you've been reading Cracked.com. Disco lasted 3-4 years and was mainly a way to get people to wear less clothing and have more casual sex. After disco the hair band era hit, and before disco the stadium rock scene was in full force. I was actually too young to experience a lot of the 70's, but by the end of the 90's, music seemed to be less fun and meaningful than previous generations.

It isn't an "old like old, young like new" thing. The quality of music in the last 15 or so years has gone down hill due to corporate greed. Many artists will back this up, starting with Pearl Jam's ban on using Ticketmaster. Dilution and manufactured music is killing the industry.
 

skace

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on somewhat of a related note, my girlfriend is a dj and she says weddings aren't much fun to do anymore. Ten years ago it used to be people wanted a large variety of music spanning several decades that everyone loved and was just fun to get out and dance to. Now she says that whole part of the reception lasts an hour or two, and then the bride and groom and all the other drunk wedding party fools just want shitty new dance music and rap.

cuz we're going har har har har har hard
 

darkewaffle

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I see you've been reading Cracked.com. Disco lasted 3-4 years and was mainly a way to get people to wear less clothing and have more casual sex. After disco the hair band era hit, and before disco the stadium rock scene was in full force. I was actually too young to experience a lot of the 70's, but by the end of the 90's, music seemed to be less fun and meaningful than previous generations.

It isn't an "old like old, young like new" thing. The quality of music in the last 15 or so years has gone down hill due to corporate greed. Many artists will back this up, starting with Pearl Jam's ban on using Ticketmaster. Dilution and manufactured music is killing the industry.

What does that have to do with anything? If anything it kind of corroborates what I was saying, that what's popular in a short period (eg: disco for example) isn't a good representation of music as a whole.

And that's really just a matter of opinion. You can say that with just as much authority as I can say music from 15 years ago bores me and lacked inspiration, and they're probably both true in a relative sense. Every year horrible music is released and every year fantastic music is released. But as people get older and they grow up and have less time to sift through the crap so after a certain point/age/whatever many people just stick with what they already know and like.

Hell I'm only 23 and I already feel that to an extent, in high school I would comb Rolling Stone and Spin and Blender and websites looking for stuff that might be exciting or great, and it's there. I found some, but anymore, I don't really have the desire to. I know plenty of artists that I enjoy and I have a hard enough time keeping up with them all, so I bookmark a couple blogs that suit my tastes and just keep an eye on things. I really doubt people whose livelihood isn't directly related to music really keep their finger to the pulse of the industry all that vigorously.