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Dog 3000
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Re: Most Influential Band of Last 20-25 years
May 01, 2008, 16:14
Jazz seemed to go into "museum mode" when Miles retired in 1976.

Rock went into "museum mode" I suppose whenever Jann Wenner built his actual "rock and roll museum".

Hiphop is an interesting case -- it doesn't seem to have followed the same path as past popular music paradigms. Perhaps since it was literally built on bits and pieces of every preceeding music (the pomo bricolage thing.) There are a lot of important artists in this realm, but no one jumps out like "The Beatles" for rock or "Miles Davis" for jazz. The styles change so fast that it's nearly impossible to be a relevant rap artist for more than 2-3 years. All the stars of 10-15 years ago are either struggling nostalgia acts or turned into TV and movie actors. Eminem's one flop album away from going the same route (or maybe he already is?)

I think technology is a very big driver of changes in music, so I assume the computer / sampling is going to be the central "instrument" for the next few decades, as guitars were to rock and saxes to jazz.
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