You have the magical ability to resurrect one style of music. What is it?

Still with us, surely? That said, I could do with some more big band Jazz-Rock.

 

It's still around but not nearly in the same capacity as it was pre 1970...I want the days of Grant Green, Brubeck, Miles, and Coltrane back. I'm just glad that Charles Lloyd is still putting out excellent releases. If you're ever in the mood for a great modern jazz record with a nice vintage style listen to "Mirror".

 

melodic

 

We'd be magically bringing back all the creativity and sense of cultural urgency too, right? Because that's the main thing

 

Early Genesis type prog. Like Nursery Cryme or Foxtrot era.

 

But it would be like reliving our youth.

 

The simple joy of skiffle. The world needs more Lonnie Donegan types.

 

Great actual live performances that sound like the studio recording.

 

Goth-80's Style :Bauhaus,The Cult-Love Era,Sisters of Mercy
etc.

 

What is the point of that? You can just stay home and listen to the record.

 

I meant the ability to sing live and not have a person wonder who it was because it sounded so terrible without the studio tinkering.

 

The inside out jass captured by the very recently departed RVG in the mid-60s.

 

I would love to have more music in the 1970's progressive rock style. It's great that there is still plenty of hard rock available by new bands, but it would be great to have more prog. I would love to be able to go and hear music like Tangerine Dream was making in the early to mid 1970's for example or the 1973-4 era King Crimson.

 

1978 - 1983 New wave experimentation.

 

Psychedelic music

 

Rock AND Roll, as in the 50s, back to basic, not the later rock without roll that some call rock & roll.

 

What concerts do you go to, where this is a problem?

 

I would just like to see pop rock bands playing honest to god instruments. Writing songs, arranging them, and performing them for real without a bunch of loops and autotune and bologna. I think about when I was a kid and we had mainstream pop bands like Huey Lewis and the News, INXS, John Mellancamp, and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, all with records in the top 40 and played on top 40 radio. I totally took it for granted. I realize those bands aren't necessarily the height of cool on this forum, but some real rock and roll no matter how cheesy would be such a welcome reprieve. I have nothing against electronic music, but everything on the radio doesn't have to be cookie cutter EDM.

I remember in college in the 90's I thought bands like Marcy Playground, 3rd Eye Blind, No Doubt, and Smash Mouth were super cheesy, but in retrospect I didn't know how good I had it.

 

Check these guys out -- punk is their reference point, but the Crimson influence is very clear:

 

Man, if I heard a new band that sounded anything like Fountains fo Wayne or Gin Blossoms, I'd be all over them. You're right -- it doesn't have to be monumental. Jsut well constructed songs with hooks. That'll do.

 

Boogie Woogie

 

Beat Music, Merseybeat or whatever it was called that The Beatles were playing in 1962-1963.

 

They could do it on supposed live tv performances.
How many would ever appear on a modern Midnight Special if they actually had to sing rather then lip sync?

 

Disco






It was fun.