music referances

I can name one or two, but that's about it. But then, I took a music history course.

Why do I bring this up, well, simple: People are always dropping 20th C. Music referances. By the time 2089 rolls about, you'd be lucky to find 1 in 40 people who knows who 'New Kids On The Block' were. Or 'Britney Spears'. Or 'Metallica'. Let alone 'Iron Maiden' and 'The Clash'.

So, what do you do when music is such a huge part of popular culture, and Withmore would be no less?

Well, this topic is for people to discuss and open up dialogues on different pop media icons in Withmore City. We already have the BabySmashers, a band that plays heavy guitar beats over maniac speed drums that switch tempo suddenly and often. The lead vocalist switches from screaming loud to, how did I call it once, ah, 'Kaluah poured over shards of glass'.

How do bands and pop icons start up in Withmore? Where do they come from. Well, BabySmashers were started by a player just refering to them all the time, and yowling out lyrics that he made up as he went along.

Anyone can do that.

Or, for those who like a more formal approach, make up a band or singer here, we'll discuss it, and hash it out as a community, then impliement it into the IC world.

Either option is welcome and will be used by the admin at some point if you keep using the references in your day to day roleplaying…

As to the types of music you'd find in 2089, well. I would think it would be all over the map. You'd have people remixing old TV commercials into Techno. You'd have Jim Moreson-eske bands like Babysmashers. You's have sickly sweet Chinese and Japanese pop music. You'd have anything and everything. You'd have punk, rock, and country. You'd have punk country. And rock-folk. And techno-country. And you name it. If you are nuts enought to think it up, it can happen. Shania Twain mixed with beastyboys dropped over a slow symphonic orchestral track. Whatever you dream.

Hell, Polka may be the hottest thing in the mix for a few days.

So, lets jam some ideas, and see if we can flesh out the music culture of Withmore City.

The net brings plenty of forgotten things to the forefront of popular culture - most of the audience that paid money to see 'Not Another Teen Movie' certainly wasn't old enough to truly remember B.A. Baracus, but the A-Team theme did blare and Mr. T did make an appearance - and everyone knew him if not from their childhood, but from the plethora of Mr. T versus * websites out there.

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Oh the possibilities….

Can anyone here name the top ten popular musicians from 1920?

I assume you mean the 1920s. There wasn't exactly a Rolling Stones Top 10 back then. Blues, jazz, and classical  were the sounds of the time. Louie Armstrong basically dominated the Jazz scene. A lot of very famous composers  from the 40's and 50's were actually getting their start durring the 1920's, writing music that wouldn't be discovered for another 20 years.

But if I had to guess at who the most popular artists (independant of genres), my guesses would be:

Louie Armstrong (And the Hot 5)
Fats Wallar
Robert Jordan (althogh he's technically even older than that)
George Gershwin
Sergei Rachmaninoff (or Rachmaniniov)
Igor Stravinski
Arnold Schoenberg
Tommy Dorsey (bigger in the 30s but got his start in the 20s)
Paul Whiteman
Bertolt Brecht
Francwois Poulenc
Sergei Prokofieff (or Prokofiev)
Benny Goodman
Jellyroll Morton

I've never attended a single class of Music Appreaciation, nor have I ever had any formal education in the matter. And you'll have to forgive me if I horribly misspelled any of their names… I didn't google for any of them, so it's entirely possible I'm way off.

But to return to the point at hand, I'm (I expect) a VERY rare exception. Most people, were you to ask them about these people, would probablly stare blankly at you.

-Kevlar

*huffs about with his feathers in a ruffle*

:cool:

Corps could have music piped into lobbies, streets, parks, rehashed, resample unidentifiable mood music to calm peoples nerves, like today�s pop but (god forbid) blander with electronic birds chirping away over a whispered and soothing voice explaining how it�s good to be a dome citizen?

Now that's thinking! I love it!

"Obeying the law is good, and good for you. A happy life is a crime free life. Be kind to your fellow citizens. Enjoy the sites the city has to offer. Withmore City: We care about you!"

*chuckle* Great stuff.

-Kevlar

So, with that in mind, perhaps the goal of every player should be to try to 'create' a genre or mindset for musical expansion in the game world.

Nah, man. That's not rambling.

That's Sooth-saying Spidy Truth. Stick some Air Jesuses on that baby, smack it on it's ass, and let 'er rip on the population at large.

Everyone, instead of trying to revive their favorite 85 year old genre/band/artist, should be challenging themselves to envision what music would be like in 2089.

Think Rap and hip-hop would still be popular? I'm willing to wager that 85 years ago people would have said EXACTLY the same thing: that blues, jazz, big band, and classical would still be the style of music people listen to. And we see how silly that seems now.

But that's, very literally, the change that will have taken place: The same change that seperate Jazz and classical from Rap will seperate the music of today from the music of 2089.

No ones saying it would have been forgotten, but it would be about as common as Big Band concerts are today. Thoes who acutally did seek it out would be old fogies who can't keep up with the times.

That's a good way to think about it actually: Place todays music in the same frame of reference as you place the music your great grandmother listens to.

I'm dead serious. Do it. What happens?

It's hard, isn't it? How could something which your so into right now possibly be compared to something so drastically different as to be completely incompareable except to say they're both 'music'? How could something so moving and upbeat be relegated to the same class as the stuff you consider absolute crap. No, worse than absolute crap: It's unlistenable. Untollerable. Just catching a passing glimpse makes you want to claw your ears off.

But that's EXACTLY what you should do to get in character, because that's exactly the mindset people will have: It's exactly the same mindset people have right now, just applied to the music of 2089 instead of 2004.

A mixer listening to the music of 2004 is about as likely as my great grandmother voulentarilly listening to Eminem or Ice-T: It just isn't happening.

-Kevlar

Who's Danzig? And why should I care?

So, like, remixes of bad 80's hip-hop at double speed over theme tracks from 80's action flicks over top of hard hitting hardcore bass lines.

So. Hot.

And Misfits never gets old, it's one of the few that you can listen to a million times and then that million and oneth (dunno if that's a word) is still cool as hell.

The drum shop that i go to, up in ft collins colorado called "Colorado Drum and Percussion" is Bill Stevenson's drum shop….(being the drummer for black flag, descendents, and now Only Crime).

that guy also owns a recording studio called the blasting room now, where almost every good band under the sun seems to try to get in to record something.

just trivia you might enjoy.