Comments by "A.J. Hart" (@cobbler88) on "The 4 Bands That Will Still Be Played In 2100" video.

What is the 500-year-old music that's still popular?
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@cotedebeaune2012 No banging early harpsichord riffs? We get a little loose when we start making these points. 🤣 I think Nirvana "surviving" to 2100 depends heavily on whether we have a resurgence of instrument-based rock at some point in the next 75 years. Basically, its popularity will likely rely on whether something has popped up to replace it. We're not exactly oozing with well-known classical music in the past century that we don't know through movie soundtracks.
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If it wasn't for Wayne's World, Queen would not have made this list. Decades later, they still have to credit that film for the resurrection. :)
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@freespeechoneeach By who? 🤣
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@toyfreaks If they're relying on movies for their music to outlive their fan base, I think there's some disappointment ahead. 🤣
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It's a nice thought exercise. Maybe the Beatles will still be listened to in significant numbers in 2100, but in no way do I believe Queen or The Police will be popular. To be fair, I think this list is generally driven more by the rest of the world than it is US listeners, so in that regard I may be off. I was born in 1970, so in some ways I lived through all of those groups except the Beatles. The only people I know who listen to The Police are the ones who were still listening to them in the 90s after they broke up, which I can count on one hand. To be honest, they were the only ones listening to them BEFORE Synchronicity as well. Queen was always considered kind of a sideshow/gimmick group, to be honest. They had a strong cult following, but no one today would be hearing them had it not been for Wayne's World and the general demise of instrument-based music otherwise in the meantime. Maybe Nirvana has an outside chance, but what may work in its favor now may be what leads to its decreasing popularity moving forward. There just weren't enough albums to be bulletproof, plus the listenership is going to dwindle with each generation removed from when Nirvana was around. The next generation that features good rock with real instruments could quite possibly put Nirvana in the rearview. Since we're looking basically 75 years ahead, let's look at about 75 years back at the top artists/songs of 1950. It's not the same as a Spotify list, but it's likely about the best we can do when talking about individual songs. One man was listed as the lone or co-artist for six songs that made the year-end top 30 Billboard chart that year. You'll recognize the name, of course. It's Gordon Jenkins. Yes. THE Gordon Jenkins. Are we sure Spotify's list doesn't have Jenkins racking up 30M listens/month? I'm thinking we're getting a little over our skis in trying to predict who will be relevant down the road, using this particular model. Take care.
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Queen will, again, disappear, as will The Police. The Beatles will still be there in 2100. Maybe Nirvana. A lot depends on whether anything arises to "replace" them.
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@noahpincus8344 People who we "know," but who almost no one except hardcore folks actually listen to.
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@jeromejamies3641 Thank you for the cut-and-paste regarding things two decades and longer ago. No one was listening to what Prince was putting out for more than a decade before he died. I was born in the 70s. Frank Zappa was around most of my life. I can't name a single song (although I think I did once know one) or acquaintance who could name more than three. I'm not sure flamenco guitar players have that Spotify longevity. I like some of Gaye's and Wonder's music. Along with Prince, none of them will outlive the fan bases who lived at the same time they did. They certainly won't make it to 2100. Gaye only had 3 No. 1 hits, and his last hit came 15 years after the previous one, then he was killed. He'd been all but forgotten already by the time "Sexual Healing" came out in the early 80s. And what's Wonder's excuse for not having a single in almost 40 years? Enjoy them while we're around. But don't expect the longevity that bridged our parents' era to ours. Things are not lasting that long anymore. Take care.
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They'll be all but gone by 2100. That's a LONG time for a band that has already all but disappeared once already.
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@thomasblock1164 I'm not evaluating either group. But Nirvana is more likely to be "around" in 2100 than Pearl Jam, based solely on the fact that I haven't heard anything about Pearl Jam for about a decade and we're still 76 years away from 2100. I agree that an early end helps many acts. Pearl Jam ultimately will just fizzle out. The Beatles had the decency to break up, which makes a difference. The Doors were already a borderline laughing stock by the time Morrison died because of how fat and sloppy he'd become, plus their music wasn't exactly going to age any better than would the music of KISS or Billy Joel. Ultimately, I think maybe the most likely thing will be that neither group will be the standard bearer of an entire subgenre of music. Instead, grunge will be recognized as having happened, then they'll say, "And two of the leading acts in this movement were Nirvana and Pearl Jam."
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The music of Billy Joel and KISS have aged like milk.
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But it also speaks to it likely not actually being popular in 2100. The Beatles and maybe Nirvana have a chance, out of these four. To your point, there was an artist who had 6 songs on the year-end Billboard Top 30 in 1950. The name? Gordon Jenkins.
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@ServraghGiorsal I think "look them up" tells us all we need to know about whether some artists will endure through 2100.
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@jeromejamies3641 I don't think his music will really out live that community, though. People who didn't live it kind of forget that he didn't really release anything that popular for quite a few years leading up to his death. Same with Madonna.
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I'm also guessing that Europe is heavily influencing this list. I grew up during 3 of these bands. I know very few people who listen to any of them except maybe Nirvana.
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@davidpnewton Yes. Not a day goes by that I don't hear Williams' bangers bumping out of someone's car windows.
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@ZENOBlAmusic So in order to defend a personal preference, we're going down to the microscopic level of existence? Okay then. I hear one person is still listening to Dead Boys albums. I guess they'll never disappear. GTFO! 🤣
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@sloganreadet1151 People having heard the songs and actually wanting to listen to them or gaining inspiration from them are different things. Some of Queen's more high-profile songs are fairly gimmicky and not really that popular for general listening. As for the songs/song you mentioned, the former is known as a cadence for foot stomping, and the latter is not played remotely as much as people like to think, on its own. And I've watched far too many reax vids from the latest couple of generations to state with any confidence that they know who performed "We Will Rock You" any more than most of us knew that the intro to "The Lone Ranger" was the William Tell Overture. Just my thoughts, though. Take care.
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@Doc92IDH We can call them risks if we want. Queen was pretty much considered a borderline novelty act by the time Freddy Mercury died. And The Police seemed to be greatly over-rated as far as their general appeal went. They were more of a group that only the "smart kids" (but not the smart kids who listened to Supertramp or ELO) listened to until Synchronicity, and along with U2, etc., are a group people are kind of required to say was great despite the lack of bangers (on the part of The Police, at least) and that "Roxanne" is almost objectively a horrible song. 🤣 But we like what we like. I don't listen to Queen at all because it's like listening to Dr. Demento. For The Police, I'd be more apt to listen to B sides or deep cuts than the handful of top 20 hits. Ultimately, though, I'd likely just listen to Pixies. :) Take care.
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@thomasblock1164 I think we're all eventually going to be looking for our offramp. 🤣
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@mmagram0926 Still packing them in ... in a venue that holds less than 20,000, in what happens to be the largest MSA in the country at 20 million people, in the region he happened to very often exclusively write about. Ball Arena in Denver and the Moda Center in Portland hold roughly the same number of people. I'm thinking he's not selling those out with the sort of regular appearances he's made at MSG.
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@SaintMartins To what was that a reply?
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@jupphainkas3070 You keep telling yourself that. These are the top 10 songs for 1950. Some of them were also considered "timeless." But I don't need to tell you. I'm sure you've got them on heavy rotation in your playlist. 1 "Goodnight Irene" Gordon Jenkins & The Weavers 2 "Mona Lisa" Nat King Cole with Les Baxter 3 "Third Man Theme" Anton Karas 4 "Sam's Song" Gary & Bing Crosby with Matty Matlock 5 "Play a Simple Melody" 6 "Music, Music, Music" Teresa Brewer 7 "Third Man Theme" Guy Lombardo 8 "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" Red Foley 9 "Harbor Lights" Sammy Kaye 10 "It Isn't Fair" Sammy Kaye & Don Cornell Take care.
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@tolook308 First, I'm not hearing a lot of those artists on pop radio or banging from car windows. Second, you may want to do the intellectual legwork on this one and actually see when those composers lived. 🤣
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@dingo8babym20 Other than the hackneyed claim that basically all music was created by blacks in the 20th century, this had WHAT to do with artists who will still be popular in 2100? 🤣
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How soon we forget that the Beatles kept a stranglehold on their music being used for decades.
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