Sometimes I wonder what would have become of music had Nirvana and Beck not ushered in the Age Of Irony. Panopticon is the first song that ever made me consciously think, "oh, here it is. Uninterrupted sincerity." That could apply equally to Thus Love, for instance, but it just doesn't. Maybe because they're stuck in the before times, while Peter Gabriel sounds modern, but as if the 90s never happened.
My 50+ artists: MJ (with or without his brothers), Prince, Stevie.
Maybe not 50, but at least 40: Janet, Whitney, Mariah, Jay-Z, Kanye (sigh...), Sting (inclusive of Police songs), Phil Collins (inclusive of Genesis songs), A Tribe Called Quest (if I can include Q-Tip solo stuff), De La Soul, John Mayer, DMB, Marvin Gaye...possibly U2.
Sometimes I wonder what would have become of music had Nirvana and Beck not ushered in the Age Of Irony. Panopticon is the first song that ever made me consciously think, "oh, here it is. Uninterrupted sincerity." That could apply equally to Thus Love, for instance, but it just doesn't. Maybe because they're stuck in the before times, while Peter Gabriel sounds modern, but as if the 90s never happened.
My 50+ artists: MJ (with or without his brothers), Prince, Stevie.
Maybe not 50, but at least 40: Janet, Whitney, Mariah, Jay-Z, Kanye (sigh...), Sting (inclusive of Police songs), Phil Collins (inclusive of Genesis songs), A Tribe Called Quest (if I can include Q-Tip solo stuff), De La Soul, John Mayer, DMB, Marvin Gaye...possibly U2.
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