“And when finally they sense that some position cannot be sustained, they do not re-examine their ideas. Instead, they simply change the subject.” Jamie Galbraith
I think record sales is a simple sign of popularity across the market. If your big into the genre, then yeah you probably know group so and so. But if someone like R.E.M. has a couple platinum albums, then they appear to appeal to fans of all genres. Group x, although popular to a genre, may not be popular on the grand sceme of things. So when you look back in 20 years your average person is going to know bands like R.E.M., Zepplin, Beatles, Stones, and so on.
Coldplay seems pretty reasonable, but I don't think there is that ONE band you can obviously point out
"The Hall of Fame is there to keep alive the memory of people. You don't need to do that with people like Buck [O'Niel] and Joe [Nuxhall]. Nobody's forgetting those guys."
- Joe Posnanski
Last edited by Falls City Beer; 10-07-2008 at 10:55 PM.
“And when finally they sense that some position cannot be sustained, they do not re-examine their ideas. Instead, they simply change the subject.” Jamie Galbraith
"The Hall of Fame is there to keep alive the memory of people. You don't need to do that with people like Buck [O'Niel] and Joe [Nuxhall]. Nobody's forgetting those guys."
- Joe Posnanski
After all of this, I am still hard pressed to nominate a potential band for the aughts at this time.
I think others have hit on why this is so hard and it is certainly not for lack of "good music" (by whatever definition you wish). There is just so much music so readily available that people are going to be more spread out for lack of a better term.
As disconnected as I may have been, I still love music, listen to the radio, and for over a year have had XM , which is helping me "re-expand" for sure. I have loved the discussion here, and it is making me go back to checking out some stuff on the web for the first time in a while.
"I'm virtually free to do whatever I want, but I try to remember so is everybody else..." - Todd Snider
I don't think band of the aughts means either biggest or best. I think most important is a category because just like band of the aughts, it can't be quantified.
It can't be biggest because the highest sellers aren't always the ones that have staying power or meaning; but at the same time it can't be best because best is controversial and what was thought of as best by some might not go down as best in the history books...
Not _just_ music sales. Touring sales, DVD sales, merch sales, publishing, publishing, publishing and maybe a bit of publishing.
WGB inspires the masses to buy into them.
I bet sale of music isn't even a primary source of income.
= popularityDecide what you're deciding: biggest band
= tasteor best band
Both and neither.or biggest and best.
Sure it is, but it's one of them there subjective discussions.Most important isn't a category.
Have a look at this.
It only lists album sales but it's a pretty interesting list. There are some acts (like Queen) that haven't really been considered in this thread (sorry if someone mentioned them and I missed it). You might have to filter out the non-rock acts mentally, but it's pretty interesting.
Queen?
No ever talks about them here.
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