… and for the pedantic in the group you can take something modern with you to play the music.
I would play Nick Cave’s song “into my arms” for The Kinks because I think they would enjoy it.
Go back to when Aerosmith released their debut album and introduce 24 year old Steven Tyler to the music of 77 year old Steven Tyler.
“Wait. So I’m singin’ about some dude doinkin’ my daughter?”
Screw 50-60y!
Go back ALL the way!
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J.S. Bach, to Led Zeppelin.
Why?
J.S. Bach was THE original heavy-metal artist ( pipe-organs are HEAVY metal music : )
& he was also an innovator ( he was introduced to a whole bunch of piano-forte instruments, our piano is based-off-of those ) before he wrote The Art of the Fugue, so the whole thing about how to use these wild-new instruments was churning in his mind…
lighting-up in his mind that music could be that different, in that many ways, would possibly spark wilder music-writing in him, & he was the most music-OF-universe-that-is-music-FOR-universe writer I know-of ( most others are more social-process centered, not structure-itself centered, & to me universe is the only frame-of-reference that “religion” can be centered on, so Bach was the only one who wrote actual-religious music, in my eyes, all the officially-religious music is social-worship, which isn’t universe-centered, so it isn’t religious, to me: it’s just social-process’s narcissism )
Anyways, I’d have to explain to him that the only reason I was asking him to listen to it, was just to consider how it expanded-the-boundaries of what music is, & for that to free him to have vaster-understanding, enriching his access to his own unknown-potential before he listened, otherwise his assumptions would probably bork at hearing that stuff…
XOR, if Bach wouldn’t hear of that, then Mozart with The Who, same sorta reasoning.
With Mozart, though, I’d want to make him copy-down his sister’s music, so we’d actually have copies of it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Anna_Mozart
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jim morrison predicted that some day a single person will be able to produce a full song with machines but never lived to see it happen, so i’m not sure exactly what but i’d definitely show him something entirely arranged and rendered on a computer
50 to 60 years is only going back to 1965-1975, that’s not like ancient history or anything…
Johnny Cash would probably love hearing his cover of Hurt from 2002.
yes. I specifically chose that time because it was still modern enough to “get” the music of today
I would introduce With All Disrespect by Cattle Decapitation
I didn’t have to think much… for me it’d be Brian Eno in the Early 70’s and i’d show him breakcore.
don’t ask why, it just feels right.
I would introduce Friday by Rebecca Black to The Beatles
Can I show them some of those YouTube videos about “the evolution of music” with about 5 seconds of songs from each year?
I’m just not sure if I would use real songs from each year or make a fake one with X Factor participants getting, getting gradually worse. Then end with Bring Me To Life, Goofy version.
This is really hard! All the musicians and bands I like from that era might end up being musicians and bands I hate from that era if they get their whole musical legacy fucked up by a time traveler.
So then I will answer for a band I hate: the fucking Beatles. I’d make those damn kids listen to fucking Nickelback. And it’d definitely have to be How You Remind Me. Purely out of spite and wanting to make them suffer just a tiny bit.
I would walk right up to Mick Jagger and play “Baby Shark.”
Musical theory has taken quite a dive these days. I dont even think most songs have bridges or codas… i dont think id do a musician in the past dirty like that.
I would make Jimmy Hendrix listen to hyperpop
I’d bring the album 10,000 gecs by 100 gecs and show it to The Beatles. In 1965, they’d have been at peak boy-band coming hot of the release of Help! and just about to drop Rubber Soul and a few months away from dropping (IMO their greatest album) Revolver.
Imagine if instead of George Harrison getting really into Indian music, he discovered hyperpop. The Beatles are such an influencal band that it would have ripples throughout the music industry. Imagine what 100 gecs would be getting up to in an alternate universe where Revolution 9 might get replaced with something like One Million Dollars?
I went back and forth between something I typically listen to everyday like Spiritbox, and something I love but don’t listen to all the time like Blank Banshee.
Blank Banshee won, Frozen Flame
This is maybe an odd choice, but I’d make Cher listen to it. She was the first major artist to use autotune (in my memory at least). So maybe she’d be more open to the heavily technology-dependent parts of vaportrap too
