If You Could Hear Your Ten Favorite Songs From 2010 Right Now, Would You?

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You can't keep or record them. You get to hear them once or twice, then you have to wait until 2010 to hear them again.

― Matthew "Logged In Elsewhere" Perpetua, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

No, I think that would drive me crazy!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

But you are a musician. You could always rip them off and pass them off as your own, and the world would never know or prove otherwise.

― Matthew "Logged In Elsewhere" Perpetua, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought this thread was titled

If You Could Hear Your Ten Favorite Songs From 2010 Right Now, What Would They Be?

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

There was a Carlton Mellick III story about this, the name escapes me. Things did not turn out well in the end.

― the dawdling white-ducked colonist, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd be curious to. I'll be fuckin' 42 then,so I shudder to think what they'll sound like.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

it'd be great... a moment of divine revelation when you hear them again...

― BOATPEOPLEHATEFUCK (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

NO, because on the progression I went from now loving bands that I formerly hated... (Stones, Neil Young, Oasis...) then it means I'm going to hear tons of Radiohead, The Doors, Aerosmith, and Def Leppard

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought this thread was titled If You Could Hear Your Ten Favorite Songs From 2010 Right Now, What Would They Be?

I actually thought at first it said "ten favorite songs from 90210." I was like, "She Don't Use Jelly"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Matthew, you have a good point about being able to rip them off with no one the wiser, but I don't know if I'm the sneaky type!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah sure. who knows if they want to live that long anyway.

― irrigation can save your people (irrigation can save your peopl), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

if there's anything i've learned from star trek et al, it's that our futures/fates are not written in stone. a glimpse into 2010's songs could have profound effects on the life choices we make now, and so, while such exposure might be totally dangerous, i'd like to think that knowing the future ahead of me at this rate would help me make better choices.

so, the answer is yes!

― crly, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 18:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I would steal the songs and pass them off as mine. The ensuing problems in the timeline would probably throw the Earth out of orbit and into the sun.

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

That would be awesome.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this songs just released in 2010, or the ones that are going to be my favorites of all time? I'd be really disappointed if I heard them and ended up with only one or two new songs. Thankfully I'm fickle.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:26 (twenty-one years ago)

TEN? Really, beyond "Leave It" and "Owner of a Lonely Heart" I don't have much use for that record these days.

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:30 (twenty-one years ago)

If there's anything I learned from The Twilight Zone or the horror stories I read as a kid, it's that if I heard those songs now I would probably give in to the temptation to exploit this advance knowledge for personal gain, only to wait until 2010 for the denouement in which I finally hear themm causing the hairs stick up on the back of my neck with the sickening realization that it's all gone terribly wrong.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd certainly steal the songs and release them. But then I'd get no recognition for it until 2010, when many bands would cite my obscure work as being a formative influence.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

hell no. i'd probably hate my future self.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Are the best songs of 2010 going to suck so much that you can listen to them once and successfully copy them?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

i totally would!!

also, if you heard nothing but silence you'd know you'd be dead by 2010!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not that they will suck, rather the understanding of psychology and brain-chemistry will have advanced so much that they will be specially designed "ear-worms" that will lodge themselves in your memory immediately, yet still somehow demand repeated external play, causing the hypothetical 2005 preview listener to go insane. You don't need to be Philip K. Dick to see that one coming. You don't even need to be Robert Sheckley.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I would totally do this. My memory is such shit anyway that by 2010 I will have completely forgotten them anyway, so it won't make much of a difference to me.

But then again, they say that the flapping of a butterfly's wings in Yuma, Arizona can cause mild gastrointestinal discomfort for a barber in Thailand, so maybe hearing these songs could profoundly affect me in ways I couldn't possibly imagine.

― Lingbertt, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF, we've gone from 2010 to 90210 to 90125?

― Edward Bax (EdBax), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"so maybe hearing these songs could profoundly affect me in ways I couldn't possibly imagine."
well, for one you'd totally believe in some kind of ability to transcend time. and if you professed it too much you'd probably end up in the loony bin until the songs actually got released, after which the NSA would keep a verrrrry close watch on you.

― Felonious Drunk (Felcher), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

OU812.

― southern lights, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

POII: OU812 + 5150 or 90125 + 2112

― southern lights, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

It's interesting that some of you don't trust your taste from five years from now. I never doubt for a moment that my ten favorite songs from 2010 would be great. I'd be interested in hearing if there were any radical new trends, or what old favorite bands are still around, or if my taste changed a lot.

― Matthew "At Another Computer" Perpetua, Wednesday, 30 March 2005 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

I can't wait to hear these songs again.

― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 10 January 2010 23:36 (sixteen years ago)

This was a really good thread idea that never developed.

― Johnny Fever, Monday, 11 January 2010 01:25 (sixteen years ago)

It's not that they will suck, rather the understanding of psychology and brain-chemistry will have advanced so much that they will be specially designed "ear-worms" that will lodge themselves in your memory immediately, yet still somehow demand repeated external play
― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 30 March 2005 19:50 (4 years ago)

HOW DID HE KNOW?

― petprojectfoundation.org/success/roberto.jpg (unregistered), Monday, 11 January 2010 01:30 (sixteen years ago)

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