What do teen-age and young men listen to nowadays?

[Dick Whitman]

I saw the Stones last year on the Fourth of July at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. There were 50,000-60,000 people there. It was spectacular, and I assume that it will go down as a touchtone cultural event in the history of that city. Now, granted, we aren't talking about Paris here. But the fact that more than 50 years after they started playing together, that can happen, is pretty remarkable. I always laugh at an old editorial cartoon someone dug up from the '90s that showed the Stones as a bunch of skeletons playing together. I think Ronnie Wood was 49 at the time.

 

[Songbird]

I saw them at Cyclone Stadium in Ames in '94 (maybe '95). Awful show.

 

[bigpern23]

Does anything that was popular 10-12 years ago get played on classic rock stations? Is there ever going to be a format called classic rap?

It's called "old school" and it already exists.

 

[Songbird]

Rap is still an art, and no one's from the Old School
Cuz Rap is still a brand-new tool
I say no one's from the Old School cuz Rap on a whole
Isn't even twenty years old

"I'm Still No. 1" -- Boogie Down Productions in '88

 

[Captain_Kirk]

If it's between the Stones or Zeppelin it's the Stones 99/100.

Love them both, but guess I'm the 1 then.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

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Even though most of the people who made the music are dead, 1920s/30s /40s classic jazz and big band still has an audience, even if it's much smaller than it once was.

I think the 60s-80s classic rock "canon" has become almost universal in U.S. culture.

Dylan hasn't "mattered" in the sense that anybody really cares what he has to say about current events in about 40 years. But people are still vaguely aware of "Like A Rolling Stone."

Yes, it will definitely be around. You mention jazz and big band, but go back even further to the music of Beethoven, Bach, Mozart. Would they have thought their music would be played hundreds of year later.

The 60s - 80s Classic rock will definitely exist far, far into the future, maybe with smaller audiences or more limited range of songs that remain familiar as standards.

Hey, hey, my, my....

 

[EStreetJoe]

Perfect timing for this

Which Rock Star
Will Historians of the
Future Remember?
The most important musical form of the 20th century will
be nearly forgotten one day. People will probably learn
about the genre through one figure — so who might that be?


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/m...nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=0

Why the heck does Klosterman ignore mid-70s and 80s rock? The name Springsteen does not appear in that article at all.

 

[Dick Whitman]

Why the heck does Klosterman ignore mid-70s and 80s rock? The name Springsteen does not appear in that article at all.

Nor should it, any more than Cobain or Joey Ramone or David Bowie. I love all those artists as much as the next rock geek. But the artist that he's trying to pinpoint would almost certainly emerge from the '60s or early '70s, when it was still an emergent form.

 

[Buck]

Because we have willingly, as a society, refused to acknowledge a difference between art and entertainment, between high culture and popular culture.
Every entertainer is now an artist. Every person pursuing any form of creative endeavor is now an artist.
That is why the overwhelming majority of what is currently considered art will not endure.
The vast majority of art through the ages does not endure, and popular entertainment is even less enduring.

 

[Starman]

Springsteen will certainly be noted as the longest-reigning mantle-bearer of the "Heartland American country/blues singer/songwriter" genre, a line which traced from Hank Williams to Buddy Holly to Bob Dylan to John Fogerty to Bruce and a number of imitators since.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

My 18 year old is a guitarist and a hard rock guy. Metallica, Megadeth, G 'n' R, AC/DC, Hendrix, Van Halen, Buckethead, etc. Never had any interest in hip hop.

His new favorite? Kendrick Lamar. Go figure.

 

[Songbird]