Post #211188

2026-02-01 21:42 UTC

Assuming that there is anyone under 30 on Mastodon, which #music (band, artists) would you recommend? It might be popular or not. What I want are the bands/songs that will be remembered in 20 years as those that (i) defined the times, and (ii) will be remembered as actually good regardless of tastes. For my my Gen it would something like Nirvana, RATM, The Cure, Massive Attach/Portishead, Blur/Pulp, and personal fav, Tom Waits (he is the outlier).

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@troberts@theblower.au 2026-02-01 22:10

@keyboardpipette@genomic.social It's tough to meet the criteria of "defined the times" since back in the 80s and 90s the channels for accessing music were fewer, and sucessful bands would be broadly well known. These days anyone can listen to anything they want, and a lot of smaller and diverse genres are popular. I read an article that said Gen Z listeners musical taste "largely centres on internet-spawned subgenres such as digicore or zoomergaze". Are our times being defined by zoomergaze? Probably not.

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@Sobex@social.sciences.re 2026-02-01 21:53

@keyboardpipette@genomic.social is 30 included or excluded ? (I turned 30 not long ago). I would like to recommend Christopher Tin, for his Civilization game series contributions. (I also wish his new ending for Puccini Turandot will survive the test of time).

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@coeurl@goblin.technology 2026-02-02 00:23

@keyboardpipette@genomic.social I know several people under 30 and I don't think any of them care whether something is trendy, I think that's more of a specifically in high school thing nowadays

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