When do you think good music will go mainstream?

Question

music that will one day be considered a classic, unlike the bands these days that are forgotten soon after they become popular.

Answer 1

As soon as downloads become as expensive as albums.

The single is all that matters when you can get everything for free. No more Pink Floyd - The Wall, or Pearl Jam - Ten, when you can just do a couple singles to get noticed. No art at all.

Answer 2

I'm sure in terms of underground or not-so-mainstream music everyone might have a fave, but I think the last real classic mainstream album was OK Computer and to a much lesser extent The fragile, that's almost 10 years with out a real Classic Seminal album.

I think the only way albums like that will comeback is if somehow the value of the mainstream is lessened somehow in the eyes of the public, which is something insanely difficult. Something like that might happen if an underground (possibly more than one) act really breaks out on their own steam, the help of the internet and word of mouth, but more importantly play good music that's different from the sh!t that's been released by the mainstream over the last 10 years.

This would let people know that if they searched for good music instead of blindly accepting what's played on the radio, then they might find decent bands .

Answer 3

That's a problem. When a band suddenly goes mainstream, they get hate. Metallica, Green Day, all went mainstream and got haters suddenly.

And also, the term "good music" means different bands for different people. For example, the "good music" you maybe thinking of will not be the same as what I'm thinking of.

The best place to find music right now is the internets...that's how I found some.

Answer 4

I think you just asked a question that haunts all of us "real" and "good" music lovers. It may coincide with "Why is mainstream music these days so bad?"
Well, as you may remeber, in the golden years '60's-80's, the best music was mainstream. The Beatles, The Stones, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Queen and so many more were mainstream and they became immediate classics. The fact that rock'n'roll, psychedelic, blues rock etc. died together with most of these bands, making room for hardcore punk and agressive metal is the reason why good music is mostly "underground". Even if we don't like to admit it, punk and black\death\gothic\thrash\doom\etc. metal aren't musical genres for everyone. And inevitably, when "good" bands want to go mainstream, they soften their sound and the messages in their lyrics so as to be more accesible to larger audiences, thus resembling today's pop artists.
So I think the answer to your question is that good music will go mainstream when the sounds are going will be "light" but not pop-ish and will resemble the music of the classical rock gods from the very beginning of a band.

Answer 5

i hope not. good band should stay out of main stream. the less they are in that spot light the better the band is. once you get a band in mianstream playing in the top 40s they confome to whatever sells main stream and not the music they would normally write [whihc is way beter]

Answer 6

They will become mainstream when the other people realize that the music they are listening to is not good enough compared to the good music.

Answer 7

never. to a lot of people, as soon as something becomes mainstream it stops being good.



this is SO not my opinion but i have noticed this with a lot of people.

Answer 8

Never. Radio stations never play good music.

Answer 9

never......even though they deserve more credit then they get now they never will reach fame....which is good cuz they might let it get to their heads......or mtv will completely destroy their reputation