Inspired by a post that popped on lemmy world today about Weird Al it got me thinking. I listed out a bunch of names but the one that I think fits the most would probably be Surfan Stevens. Who do you all think?
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I’m going to go with Steven Wilson for this. Mostly because he and Mozart have an undeniable talent, many of their fans consider them to be some type of visionary savant, and despite the broad agreement toward that perspective I still find both of their outputs to be broadly incredibly dull.
Jack Antonoff has some incredible talent. He’s written and produced a lot of iconic pop music.
ZUN.
Alpine Universe is pretty damn good, I thought it was a band until I looked them up on Instagram and found out it was one dude that multi-tracks his voice and plays multiple instruments. I watched a few of his production videos and was amazed.
I’m learning lots of good music here, but I was really hoping Surfan Stevens was a surf-rock cover artist of Sufjan Stevens and Cat Stevens.
This is the kind of question that makes me hate my mortality, because culture is so scattered and vast and changing so rapidly these days that it seems difficult to imagine anything “modern” lasting for hundreds more years, and we’ll never actually be able to know the answer.
Freddy Mercury and David Bowie are up there in that podium.
You ever seen that post about how classical music is closest to metal? Well Kerry King is our modern day Mozart.
Kerry is a great player, but I think the shredder who embodied the spirit and the form of Mozart was Alexi Laiho.
His solos were a such distinct take on the neoclassical sound
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Dude can definitely shred and definitely plays some complex licks. Dimebag and Randy Rhodes are definitely up there too, but then again, so are many heavy metal guitarists.
I’m a shitty guitarist and whenever I just sit back and listen to the guitar tracks on most heavy metal albums I’m always amazed by the complexity, speed, precision and just overall sound of the tracks, especially when it comes to the solos.
Dwayne Rudolph Goettel (Skinny Puppy) Peter Christopherson (Psychic TV, Coil, Throbbing Gristle)
If we change this question to generational, instead of “modern times”, those two would fit into Gen X.
Richard Wright (Pink Floyd) Ray Manzarek (Doors) Elton John
For the “Boomers”.
Tori Amos Trent Reznor Atticus Ross
For the Millenials.
I’m sure there’s many more from those 3 generations. But they have my vote.
Squarepusher cones to mind
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Bullshit Logic. We also don’t have 1000 Da Vincis, 10.000 Jesuses and 100.000 Moseses.
Now imagining a Pharaoh with an unstoppable army of Mosi.
Well, Mozart was a composer, so I don’t know what parallels you’re drawing from to compare hin to Weird Al or Surfan [sic] Stevens. If we’re talking strictly in terms of best living musicians, Joanna Newsom is probably the best songwriter of the past fifty years, and in my opinion, the second place isn’t even close.
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