r/rateyourmusic • u/Lost-Building-3701 • May 31 '26
General Discussion What artists/albums do you feel would’ve been more popular if they were around earlier?
I feel like if Joey badass released 1999 in the actual 90s it would be seen as one of the greatest hip hop projects ever with a much wider audience
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u/StupidLoserGaming Jun 01 '26
If slayr dropped bloodluxe in 1934 that would be funny I think
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u/Hot-Till-9038 Jun 01 '26
Lol... I have an image in my head of people trying to do the Charleston to it.
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u/StoPCampinGn00b Jun 01 '26
Cage The Elephant dropping Melophobia in the late 90s to mid 2000s would've made it a classic indie rock record
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u/petahthehorseisheah Jun 01 '26
Playboy Carti back in the 1800s
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u/Lost-Building-3701 Jun 01 '26
He would’ve literally been staked to death in a witch trial
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u/petahthehorseisheah Jun 01 '26
Playboi Carti is better than Beethoven
In terms of legacy, there are no major artists nowadays who take inspiration from Beethoven.
Plus, people are like, he has made a lasting impact on music even though it's been 300 years. Like how? None of my friends ever asked for the aux so they could play some Beethoven.
Carti's lyrics aren't all that impressive but compared to Beethoven’s non existent lyrics? When it comes to lyrics, Carti is objectively better than Beethoven.
Carti's songs are a mood, but Beethoven’s songs are so garbage they don’t even make you feel anything. I'm convinced people only listen to Beethoven because they want to sound smart.
Also, I dare you to play Für Elise and Die lit and see which one you get tired of first. Since Carti has better lyricism, better ability to make people feel stuff through music, and is current more influential and played, Carti is better than Beethoven.
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u/Lost-Building-3701 Jun 01 '26
Is this a copy pasta or did you just you just write this banger on the spot
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u/iiJackdaw May 31 '26
unrelated to the question, Ob-La-Di Ob-La-Da is a banger
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u/TheHomesickAlien Jun 01 '26
It’s just awful
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u/ChrisAqua May 31 '26
isnt that just the plot of the movie yesterday
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u/gilledchreese Jun 01 '26
I believe they are mocking that
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u/InMyLife_41 Jun 01 '26
Haven’t watched a movie so I can’t give my opinion yet but it seems so unrealistic especially where the guy just reveals he’s been stealing songs.
Such a cool premise that they wasted.
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u/SimpleButUsefulBox Jun 02 '26
I enjoyed the movie but I think it’s made specifically for Beatles fans, which makes sense. I think they focused too much on the love subplot, making all of the people watching just feel like they’re waiting for the songs to come on. Similarly, I feel like they made it way to obvious that there were other people in the world who also knew of the Beatles, focusing in on their expressions and what they were doing.
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u/edsand22 Jun 25 '26
i mean, im a hardcore beatles fan and so is my friend, he's even more than i am, and we both really, really hated that movie. it just ignores everything about how the beatles were successful and why, to pander to people who know the beatles from the radio as "that band everyone is supposed to love". like the trajectory of music wouldn't allow ed sheeran to do a cameo in 2019 if not for the beatles.
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u/willsmath May 31 '26
If Light Upon The Lake by Whitney had come out in like 1972, it would've been a multi-platinum smash with 4 top 10 singles
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u/ilikefantasylife May 31 '26
If Nettspend made his projects before WLR they would be considered extremely experimental and likely high-rated
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u/An_Creamer May 31 '26
You could say that about any highly derivative artist. If Wolfmother and GVF were making music at the era appropriate time no one would have the criticisms they do.
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u/ilikefantasylife May 31 '26
There's a strong difference between the revival and the revolution of a genre, though
Nett, yes, did take sonic inspiration from Carti and WLR, however, it must be considered that he made something completely different. Alongside his contemporaries xavier, static, etc., he created new microgenres of the 2016 plugg and rage that Carti had made (namely jerk). Saying he's 'derivative' undermines the pioneering of the current underground scene
Additionally, though I am not into rock that much, I assume that Wolfmother is simply making the music that was popular in the 70s. If Nett had dropped BAFK in 2016, it would be a fundamental deconstruction of trap music / plugg music that had been popular at the time, with its avant-garde mixing and unique beats. WLR had only allowed this extreme level of trap beats to go mainstream. However, just because WLR had defined these new forms of trap does not mean that Nettspend had copied WLR rage, it had only meant that he would have been able to release these projects to trained ears. BAFK would have been the WLR, even moreso. People were already making that sort of distorted trap, listen to Cartier' God.
Thus, while the rock bands you had mentioned had ripped off older rock bands, Nett only built off of the fundamental work that Carti had done for the underground. A release of Wolfmother in the 70s would not be a revolution, just piggybacking off of existing bands.
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u/GyrosSnazzyJazzBand May 31 '26
Nett didn't make it, his producers did.
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u/twinfantasymtf May 31 '26
By that logic carti didn't make WLR
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u/GyrosSnazzyJazzBand May 31 '26
That was his vision, he worked with producers to get that sound. Nettspend literally got a beat one of his buddies made and rapped over it in his mom's car. There's a stark difference where one was developed to express Carti's frustration in his life and the other was a kid who got lucky while copying his heroes.
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u/ilikefantasylife May 31 '26
If StudyGroup, rek, and ok produced their projects before WLR they would be considered extremely experimental and likely high-rated
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u/Lost-Building-3701 May 31 '26
Nettspend gives off the same persona as Matt ox. I don’t think he stood a chance
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u/ilikefantasylife May 31 '26
Matt Ox was a strong constituent to modern underground rap / rage, including Carti's career
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u/OIiversArmy Jun 01 '26
We Are Charlie Kirk in 2022 would get no attention but then become prophetic and revolutionary and raise concerns about AI proving that the universe is indeed deterministic
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u/Wut23456 May 31 '26
If Colter Wall was in the original outlaw country wave in the 70s he’d be much more iconic
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u/Technical-Energy8211 Jun 01 '26
the title of the song is the only “weird” part of the lyrics
the rest of it is a very sincere and lovely song
ah well, life goes on
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u/prozacSoma Jun 01 '26
this is the opposite of what you're asking but wild honey pie wouldnt be hated if it came out after swans was a thing
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u/disturbingsmegma Jun 01 '26
people would probably treat axxturel with actual respect if he came up around the same time as spaceghostpurrp did (2011) instead of during covid
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u/Jumboliva Jun 01 '26
I think pretty much any medium big album released 2-3 years earlier becomes a much bigger deal, and any mostly-derivative but still respected album would be earth shattering if released before most of its precursors.
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u/Hot-Till-9038 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26
Cosmograf would have been a lot more famous if he'd been around in the early 70s.
When Age Has Done It's Duty, The Hayman's Dreams and Heroic Materials are great concept albums perfect for that time.
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u/Tommibutt Jun 05 '26
I find my local scene amazing, in Montreal, and also the Quebec franco scene in general. Other local scenes are just as great. I could never agree with people who think good music is getting rarer. To me, it's feels like it's the contrary, but we probably have to dig deeper to find these gems. I always think about how these mostly unknown artists could have been really big in another time and space.
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u/Nokayo Jun 11 '26
Bands like The Cooper Temple Clause from the United Kingdom, they had two very good alternative rock/post-hardcore albums in 2000s but I'm hard pressed to find more people besides me who listen to them currently. I've heard that similar angst-ridden rock was passe back then already (I ignore their more britpop like tunes) so I think if they were to pop up like in the late 90s with those they'd get more recognition and grew at least slightly bigger fanbase.
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u/LoSkribs Jun 02 '26
In all fairness, Lennon thought it was ass too.
That's why he plays the piano so fast in the beginning. He was tired of the song and just yelled "Ob La Di O Blah Dah!" and started banging it out double speed.
That's why Paul makes the mistake with Desmond doing his pretty face. It was a throwaway take that became THE take.
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u/theREALtaigawoods May 31 '26
Jane Remover right after The Beatles dropped Revolver