Go back in time and save music.

[thatstheguy]

Music was in danger?

Funny,I never thought it was in danger...

Amen. There is good music out there. People are just too busy dwelling on what's popular.

 

[Gunner 51]

I'd try to persuade Simon Cowell never to go into the music industry. That man has destroyed half way soulful pop in Britain with cheap and nasty crud. (With the aid of Louis Walsh and his boybands.)

 

[Thirsk]

I'm not sure how, but I think I'd do something to make more people discover Candlemass. They're fantastic and very, very underrated. Of course, their quality and trueness might have something to do with the fact that they aren't, along with the entire doom metal genre, very popular, but I think the world would be a better place if everybody reckognized Messiah Marcolin's greatness.

 

[SD-Fiend]

make sure Michael Jackson stayed black

 

[Tehlanna TPX]

Save music? -Save music-? I wasn't aware modern music was in danger, or do we all just want those damn kids off our lawn? No, you want to go back in time and save music, stop thinking of this fan fiction 'Keep fill-in-the-blank' off drugs or whatever. You want to save music, then you have to save the music nobody has ever heard.

Society's records of music is incredibly limited, only going back a few centuries of the several millenia we've been alive. There was no way to record music in the ancient world, or at least none that we know of. In short, we don't know jack about ancient music. What did the Romans play on their harps? What were the tunes to Egyptian hymns of Osiris? What songs did the Vikings chant before battle? Did Jesus sing the psalms while he worked, and did King David really play them? What were the poems and tunes of Native American shamans before the Europeans came over? Were Aztec ritual chants 'hardcore'? What was the first song ever, and by who? We don't know. If I had to go back in time and save music, I'd be more worried about filling in that roughly 10,000 year sized gap we have.

You beat me to it. What the fuck is wrong with music? Nothing. Carry on, carry on.

 

[Mr. Google]

Well in the opposite sense i would go and make sure bruce springsteen was never born

 

[Latinidiot]

Come now, I never said anyone should be drunk on the job, and I said you were 'misinformed' because I simply yet have to go to a concert where the artists are drunk. It could very well be that I am misinformed. But you made it sound as though Rammstein is a shining beacon off soberness in the murky vomit pits of drunk metalconcerts.

PS: what bands have you been to when they were drunk?

PPS: just for the sake of the argument: musicians can afford to be drunk because the only organ that can do something about it is the public. and as long as they keep coming, the artist can keep doing what he does. On a normal job you get fired by the boss. If you'd stop going to drunk artists, they'd either stop drinking or stop playing music and descend into poverty.

I listen to a lot more punk than people seem to these days (yeah...it died again) and it's very frequent for punk acts to be drunk on stage. It's also my opinion that a couple of members of MSI had been doing something before that gig, cause they were slapdash as fuck and not in the normal MSI way.

I'd say that Rammstein are one of the most overall conscientious bands in the metal scene to be fair, they always seem to be straight up to their customers and they've never cancelled a tour without good reason (the one time they did? the keyboarder had driven a segway into the lead singer's hip and fractured it) Compare that to that gig that Rage cancelled over something or other, they pissed on a lot of people for their "beliefs".

Ah, punk. A scene I am relentlessly unfamiliar with. Also, I tend to listen to prog, death, and doom metal, which aren't the kind of people to show up drunk.

 

[Nadlice]

Come now, I never said anyone should be drunk on the job, and I said you were 'misinformed' because I simply yet have to go to a concert where the artists are drunk. It could very well be that I am misinformed. But you made it sound as though Rammstein is a shining beacon off soberness in the murky vomit pits of drunk metalconcerts.

PS: what bands have you been to when they were drunk?

PPS: just for the sake of the argument: musicians can afford to be drunk because the only organ that can do something about it is the public. and as long as they keep coming, the artist can keep doing what he does. On a normal job you get fired by the boss. If you'd stop going to drunk artists, they'd either stop drinking or stop playing music and descend into poverty.

I listen to a lot more punk than people seem to these days (yeah...it died again) and it's very frequent for punk acts to be drunk on stage. It's also my opinion that a couple of members of MSI had been doing something before that gig, cause they were slapdash as fuck and not in the normal MSI way.

I'd say that Rammstein are one of the most overall conscientious bands in the metal scene to be fair, they always seem to be straight up to their customers and they've never cancelled a tour without good reason (the one time they did? the keyboarder had driven a segway into the lead singer's hip and fractured it) Compare that to that gig that Rage cancelled over something or other, they pissed on a lot of people for their "beliefs".

Ah, punk. A scene I am relentlessly unfamiliar with. Also, I tend to listen to prog, death, and doom metal, which aren't the kind of people to show up drunk.

I got here a bit late, so it seems this misunderstanding has been resolved, but I shall comment nonetheless. Everybody wants my opinion.

The majority of metal musicians take their job and their live performances VERY serious. Metal is generally fairly unpopular, so if a small band shows up drunk and as a result play a horrible set, they will lose the interest of the local metal scene very quickly.

Ramstien is an admirable band for the consistency of their shows apparently though, and as they are quite popular among non metalheads, it's easy to get the idea they are the only ones. They aren't. Bands like Cynic and Opeth play virtually flawlessly night after night, to my knowladge anywho.

EDIT: Oh right, on topic. Music doesn't need saving. It's doing fantastic, and technology is brining to light all kinds of amazing musicians and genres. You just have to dig a bit deeper. Popular music is made to be popular, not to be deep or interesting musically. Accept it.

 

[Aux]

I'm actually quite happy with the way music is. True there have been a few great artists that died during their prime, but what if they were saved and went to put out two or three crap albums?

The fact that people would even think that today's music sucks just goes to show how much your mind is closed, and for that I laugh at you.

 

[Captain Booyah]

Music's in danger? :/

Either way, I must go back in time and save Freddie Mercury. I would've loved to see Queen in concert, and imagine all the hits that band still could have had in them.

 

[Nadlice]

Target:Korn,Slipknot,Pantera,Lamb of God
Task:Assassinate.

Just to see Metal purified.

Good sir, what's you quarrel with Pantera and Lamb of God?

 

[Frequen-Z]

KILL YOKO ONO

Good call. I was torn between killing her or saving John Lennon.

Target:Korn,Slipknot,Pantera,Lamb of God
Task:Assassinate.

Just to see Metal purified.

What's wrong with Pantera? They're absolute classics.

 

[sageoftruth]

I'd got back to the time before that dance beat was created (you know: n ts n ts n ts n ts), beat its inventors to the punch, patent it, and then charge a $10,000,000,000,000,000 copyright fee for its usage in any music. We'd never hear it again.

 

[Something Amyss]

Not really saving music, because music is fine, but I'd patent autotune and then never let anyone use it.

For an encore, I'd have a chat with Freddie Mercury about safe sex and drug abuse.

 

[Get_A_Grip_]

Am I the only one that would go back and kill Maddonna before anyone ever heard of her?

 

[sageoftruth]

Actually, to keep it simple: Take all the musical elements that make up the songs of BrokenNCYDE and make sure they never happen.

 

[emeraldrafael]

Wouldn't change a thing. Maybe the current music scene isn't the best but it could be worse. It always has to be bad before it can get better. Plus who knows what would happen if you changed something. It could cause things to be even worse when you come back.

You know the butterfly effect and all.

Save layne Staley and Kurt Cobain. I know, Kurt has been said alot, but no one thought the vocalist for Alice in Chains was worth saving?

and to comment on the butterfly effect, hey, as long as it bumps off Justin Bieber or That Hannah Montana chick (though she has recently be doing a good job as imploding her own career), I'm happy with it.

 

[AgentNein]

I'd probably go back in time and find some way to assure that the black musicians who were the heart and soul of rock and roll got all of the credit they deserved, instead of it having been co-opted by the mainstream radio friendly safe white folk like Elvis Fuckin' Hack Presley.

Not entirely sure how that would be accomplishable, even with time travel invented.