I shuffled some music this morning and a song from Avicii came on, and was surprised by how depressed I was that he passed on and was really just entering his prime. Lots of very, very talented musicians suffered the same fate and have left us way sooner that they should have depriving the world of more awesome music.
For the sake of fairness, put your nominations down, with one condition: you can nominate one from the era of the 1960's to 1980's, and another from the 1990's to present day. I'll seed all of the nominations and put them into brackets by era, and we can vote on who has the best music catalog and left the biggest legacy on the industry after they left us. I'll leave this open for a while and I will start seeding the musicians by the weekend. I'm going to limit it to 32 total though, 16 in each bracket, NCAA style.
My nominations:
1990's to Present: Avicii. He put the genre of electro-pop on the map with the song below. He was one of the best in a new era of music that continues to have a lot of influence and popularity today. This song was played at every nightclub that I went to in my early 20's, and everyone got pumped up for it. It's a banger, even today. He was 28 man, and he's gone. I was only older than him by a few days.
1960's to 1980's: Jimi Hendrix. Another musician that was one of the absolute best at what he did, and one that revolutionized and put rock and roll and pyschadelic rock on the map. Definitely a top 5 guitar player of all time in my book. He was so unique as a musician that I believed had way more versatility if given more time here with us. Only 27.
For the sake of fairness, put your nominations down, with one condition: you can nominate one from the era of the 1960's to 1980's, and another from the 1990's to present day. I'll seed all of the nominations and put them into brackets by era, and we can vote on who has the best music catalog and left the biggest legacy on the industry after they left us. I'll leave this open for a while and I will start seeding the musicians by the weekend. I'm going to limit it to 32 total though, 16 in each bracket, NCAA style.
My nominations:
1990's to Present: Avicii. He put the genre of electro-pop on the map with the song below. He was one of the best in a new era of music that continues to have a lot of influence and popularity today. This song was played at every nightclub that I went to in my early 20's, and everyone got pumped up for it. It's a banger, even today. He was 28 man, and he's gone. I was only older than him by a few days.
1960's to 1980's: Jimi Hendrix. Another musician that was one of the absolute best at what he did, and one that revolutionized and put rock and roll and pyschadelic rock on the map. Definitely a top 5 guitar player of all time in my book. He was so unique as a musician that I believed had way more versatility if given more time here with us. Only 27.