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Most of the old songs YOU like were at some point mainstream.
Had a bit of a shower thought today. A lot of music that people listen to back in the day and are considered “hipster”, or “out of the norm” were at some point mainstream radio hits.
Does it mean we’re all jumping on the bandwagon a few years too late?😂
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It’s the cycle thing innit? Occasionally there is some new phenomenon but I feel most of mainstream stuff is recycled.
Although I’m yet to see a wave of ambient sweeping through the charts.
Agreed. And that’s the thing…I wonder what it is about specific music that resonates well with the industry much more than others. Dubstep was a no-show until Skrillex did his thing, and now I see events dedicated to dubstep in Montreal.
The opposite is also true. Songs that were considered radical or very left field are now played on mainstream stations (probably oldies stations for the most part) alongside more mainstream contemporary music.
Yeah, that’s very true. Song no 2 by blur comes to mind. It was seen as an opposition to grunge, and now it’s recognized as one of the best grunge songs, haha.
I’m not sure that Crass’ « How does it feel to be the mother of a thousand dead? » was, is or will ever be mainstream.
Wait till you hear about Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring”!
Or Ottorino Respighi's "Pines of Rome"!
Of course. You drop a pebble in the lake and the waves travel outward adding more fans.
Now some of those early fans turn on you once you make enough income to quit your day job.
Not that I’m talking from experience. I actually kept changing lakes (careers).
Id clarify that it’s definitely true of “styles” though not really songs or artists. Tom waits could probably get by no prob in the 20s but he definitely wasn’t playing on my moms car radio while she was carting me around in his own heyday.
…is this a challenge for us to post our own favorites that have never been played on the radio? I’ve got some.
In the 80's we were seeking coins on the dance floor (new wave, haha) when the DJ played this track:
I knew it was based on Michael Jackson's Billie Jean:
Then i later realised that it was also based on Hank Williams Kaw Liga:
For us in that day, Kaw Liga from the Residents was cool and it was also made from a mainstream and an obscure song.
PS: The Shakuhachi flute sound was also used in Peter Gabriël's Sledgehammer and originate from the Emulator II.
Why is "you" in capitals?
Not sure the Prog Rock that I love has ever been mainstream, or played much (if at all) on the radio.
Likewise a lot of experimental and electronic stuff. At least here in the UK. I doubt Klaus Schulze got much, if any, airplay here. You get a bit of Can now and again now on 6Music, and every so often someone breaks out Neu!’s Hallogallo (but nothing else by them), but back in the day nobody would have been giving it much radio play apart from possibly John Peel, and his show was late night.
It's the royal "You"?
I thought the title was referring to that moment when I realize that the old tune I am humming is something that I absolutely despised 20 years ago. (Whereas the songs that I liked 20 or 40 years ago definitely were not mainstream.)
That is nostalgia at work.
Every 20 years the mainstream comes back for another try.
If one suddenly discovers they now like a song they used to hate, that might be sentimentality or wistfulness at work. Nostalgia would be recalling something you already used to like.