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Name the one song from your lifetime that had the biggest impact on music
Posted on 6/28/21 at 12:02 pm
Posted on 6/28/21 at 12:02 pm
I’m going with Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit . It was a true shock to the system. We had never heard anything like it, and it permanently and almost immediately changed the landscape of music.
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Posted on 6/28/21 at 12:03 pm to High C
Rapper's Delight, without a doubt...for better or worse. I love the song but have grown to hate the genre that it created.
Posted on 6/28/21 at 12:08 pm to High C
That’s easy: Superbass
I hate the song, but pop music completely changed as a result of that song. Pop music before Superbass and after Superbass are noticeably different eras of music, similar to that of rock before and after Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Other nominees would be:
“Break Stuff” - Limp Bizkit setting off the whole rap metal dumpster fire
“Save A Horse Ride A Cowboy” - Big n Rich for spearheading what would become Bro-country
“Do You Believe” - Cher for popularizing Auto-tune as a vocal effect
“I’m Sprung” - T-Pain popularized that auto-tune vocal in rap and hip-hop to the point that it’s practically more popular than real voices now.
I hate the song, but pop music completely changed as a result of that song. Pop music before Superbass and after Superbass are noticeably different eras of music, similar to that of rock before and after Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Other nominees would be:
“Break Stuff” - Limp Bizkit setting off the whole rap metal dumpster fire
“Save A Horse Ride A Cowboy” - Big n Rich for spearheading what would become Bro-country
“Do You Believe” - Cher for popularizing Auto-tune as a vocal effect
“I’m Sprung” - T-Pain popularized that auto-tune vocal in rap and hip-hop to the point that it’s practically more popular than real voices now.
This post was edited on 6/28/21 at 12:21 pm
Posted on 6/28/21 at 12:35 pm to High C
Thriller
Posted on 6/28/21 at 12:41 pm to High C
Modest Mouse - 3rd Planet
Started me on the road towards more indie/college/underground/whatever tastes when it came out.
Started me on the road towards more indie/college/underground/whatever tastes when it came out.
Posted on 6/28/21 at 1:02 pm to High C
Posted on 6/28/21 at 1:06 pm to High C
Islands In the Stream
Posted on 6/28/21 at 1:16 pm to kingbob
quote:
That’s easy: Superbass
I hate the song, but pop music completely changed as a result of that song. Pop music before Superbass and after Superbass are noticeably different eras of music, similar to that of rock before and after Smells Like Teen Spirit.
Other nominees would be:
“Break Stuff” - Limp Bizkit setting off the whole rap metal dumpster fire
“Save A Horse Ride A Cowboy” - Big n Rich for spearheading what would become Bro-country
“Do You Believe” - Cher for popularizing Auto-tune as a vocal effect
“I’m Sprung” - T-Pain popularized that auto-tune vocal in rap and hip-hop to the point that it’s practically more popular than real voices now.
Holy shite at all of the suckage in this list.
Posted on 6/28/21 at 1:17 pm to Saint Alfonzo
quote:I have to agree here, especially for us mid to late 70s born Gen Xers.
Thriller
Funny thing is, the song itself may not have been a huge sea change, but it took music videos, even in their infantile stage, in an entirely new direction...bigger budgets, stories to go along with the song, etc. Without Thriller's video we might not have gotten the Money For Nothings, You Might Thinks, and Take On Mes as soon as we did.
Also, that entire album changed music in that any and every song could have been a released as a single and been a pretty big hit. I think it changed how albums, at least pop albums, were put together when it came to song selection.
Posted on 6/28/21 at 1:25 pm to DaleGribble
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Holy shite at all of the suckage in this list
No argument here. Pop music is garbage, but that doesn’t mean those tracks weren’t hugely influential in what kind of garbage was being made and played on pop stations.
It’s harder for me to pick influential rock songs because rock has so little influence and so many different kinds on artists under its umbrella that it’s kinda hard to point to one relatively recent song that really changed the game in a noticeable way.
Rock right now is in a similar problem spot that jazz was in the late 70’s-80’s.
This post was edited on 6/28/21 at 1:26 pm
Posted on 6/28/21 at 1:30 pm to High C
The Beatles - "She Loves You"
Posted on 6/28/21 at 1:34 pm to kingbob
I started trying to tune out most contemporary music back in the late 90s, so you're probably right about their influence on current music.
Whether you're talking about what passes for pop, rap, country, or rock in the 21st Century, it all sounds like formulaic, straight off the assembly line garbage to me.
Whether you're talking about what passes for pop, rap, country, or rock in the 21st Century, it all sounds like formulaic, straight off the assembly line garbage to me.
Posted on 6/28/21 at 1:37 pm to kingbob
quote:I had never heard it nor heard of it.
That’s easy: Superbass
Posted on 6/28/21 at 1:39 pm to AlxTgr
quote:
had never heard it
Lucky bastard: Nicki Manaj - Superbass
Please don’t confuse my beliefs that these songs had a profound impact on the general direction of the music recording industry with me actually liking any of those songs.
This post was edited on 6/28/21 at 1:49 pm
Posted on 6/28/21 at 2:00 pm to AlxTgr
quote:
I had never heard it nor heard of it.
I had to do a search to see if it was the name of a song or some kind of new studio gimmick.
Posted on 6/28/21 at 2:12 pm to PJinAtl
quote:
I have to agree here, especially for us mid to late 70s born Gen Xers. Funny thing is, the song itself may not have been a huge sea change, but it took music videos, even in their infantile stage, in an entirely new direction...bigger budgets, stories to go along with the song, etc. Without Thriller's video we might not have gotten the Money For Nothings, You Might Thinks, and Take On Mes as soon as we did. Also, that entire album changed music in that any and every song could have been a released as a single and been a pretty big hit. I think it changed how albums, at least pop albums, were put together when it came to song selection.
If I had felt like elaborating on why I chose Thriller, I probably would have written something similar to your post.
Posted on 6/28/21 at 2:28 pm to High C
quote:
We had never heard anything like it
Unless you count Boston's "more than a feeling".
But yeah, that song and album. A lot of music from 1990-1996 is iconic. So much 70s experimentation with 80s technology led to some interesting 90s sounds.
NIN's "Closer" also had a huge impact. That song was a perfect marriage to a lot of genre loose ends..even as far as video presentation goes.
The 90s had complex simplicity in its guitar driven music. Melodies of better times. In the same vein.. Even when visiting the past, using a swing beat with Manson's "The beautiful people".
Thats why I hate a lot of popular music today, its less organic and lost what made it unique. Its not taking influence from something..it literally taking what once was. Anyone gets the same sound when using the same loops and samples.
This post was edited on 6/28/21 at 2:34 pm
Posted on 6/28/21 at 2:30 pm to Saint Alfonzo
The Thriller album was hugely impactful, but I’m talking about songs, not albums or videos. I also recognize that the SLTS video contributed to its impact.
Posted on 6/28/21 at 2:45 pm to kingbob
quote:Seems i remember them having shitty music long before that song. "Nookie" seems to be the single they launched that album with iirc.
“Break Stuff” - Limp Bizkit setting off the whole rap metal dumpster fire
I went to Family Values 98 in New Orleans just to see Rammstein
quote:always felt a little gayer after hearing this song play through.
“Do You Believe” - Cher for popularizing Auto-tune as a vocal effect
This post was edited on 6/28/21 at 2:58 pm
Posted on 6/28/21 at 2:53 pm to High C
quote:
The Thriller album was hugely impactful, but I’m talking about songs, not albums or videos. I also recognize that the SLTS video contributed to its impact.
The song Thriller and its accompanying music video had the biggest impact on music videos, and it's not really even much of a debate.
Seems Beat It was a bigger song from that album though, but if memory serves it was the first single from it.
Man, that album was HUGE when it was released.
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