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I would introduce Friday by Rebecca Black to The Beatles

50 to 60 years is only going back to 1965-1975, that's not like ancient history or anything...

Johnny Cash would probably love hearing his cover of Hurt from 2002.

I would play Nick Cave's song "into my arms" for The Kinks because I think they would enjoy it.

I would walk right up to Mick Jagger and play “Baby Shark.”

jim morrison predicted that some day a single person will be able to produce a full song with machines but never lived to see it happen, so i'm not sure exactly what but i'd definitely show him something entirely arranged and rendered on a computer

Screw 50-60y!

Go back ALL the way!

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J.S. Bach, to Led Zeppelin.

Why?

J.S. Bach was THE original heavy-metal artist ( pipe-organs are HEAVY metal music : )

& he was also an innovator ( he was introduced to a whole bunch of piano-forte instruments, our piano is based-off-of those ) before he wrote The Art of the Fugue, so the whole thing about how to use these wild-new instruments was churning in his mind..

lighting-up in his mind that music could be that different, in that many ways, would possibly spark wilder music-writing in him, & he was the most music-OF-universe-that-is-music-FOR-universe writer I know-of ( most others are more social-process centered, not structure-itself centered, & to me universe is the only frame-of-reference that "religion" can be centered on, so Bach was the only one who wrote actual-religious music, in my eyes, all the officially-religious music is social-worship, which isn't universe-centered, so it isn't religious, to me: it's just social-process's narcissism )

Anyways, I'd have to explain to him that the only reason I was asking him to listen to it, was just to consider how it expanded-the-boundaries of what music is, & for that to free him to have vaster-understanding, enriching his access to his own unknown-potential before he listened, otherwise his assumptions would probably bork at hearing that stuff..

XOR, if Bach wouldn't hear of that, then Mozart with The Who, same sorta reasoning.

With Mozart, though, I'd want to make him copy-down his sister's music, so we'd actually have copies of it!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Anna_Mozart

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Can I show them some of those YouTube videos about "the evolution of music" with about 5 seconds of songs from each year?

I'm just not sure if I would use real songs from each year or make a fake one with X Factor participants getting, getting gradually worse. Then end with Bring Me To Life, Goofy version.

Go back to when Aerosmith released their debut album and introduce 24 year old Steven Tyler to the music of 77 year old Steven Tyler.

I went back and forth between something I typically listen to everyday like Spiritbox, and something I love but don't listen to all the time like Blank Banshee.

Blank Banshee won, Frozen Flame

This is maybe an odd choice, but I'd make Cher listen to it. She was the first major artist to use autotune (in my memory at least). So maybe she'd be more open to the heavily technology-dependent parts of vaportrap too

I would make Jimmy Hendrix listen to hyperpop

60 years takes us to 1965, hmm

Strong urge to just play "Venetian Snares - a lot of drugs" or "Aphex Twin - Ventolin" to someone and try to convince them that's what everyone listens to in the future. But I can't quite figure out who would give me the best reaction, maybe someone like Elvis

Playing something like "deadmau5 - Strobe" or basically anything from Chemical Brothers to people like Bob Moog or Don Buchla, would be a cool experience. Tbh they'd probably love a bit of Aphex

I didn't have to think much... for me it'd be Brian Eno in the Early 70's and i'd show him breakcore.

don't ask why, it just feels right.

Musical theory has taken quite a dive these days. I dont even think most songs have bridges or codas.... i dont think id do a musician in the past dirty like that.

This is really hard! All the musicians and bands I like from that era might end up being musicians and bands I hate from that era if they get their whole musical legacy fucked up by a time traveler.

So then I will answer for a band I hate: the fucking Beatles. I'd make those damn kids listen to fucking Nickelback. And it'd definitely have to be How You Remind Me. Purely out of spite and wanting to make them suffer just a tiny bit.

I would introduce With All Disrespect by Cattle Decapitation

If I'm also able to relay a message as well to explain, I'd send the absolute WORST AI generated slop song that is just the absolute worst song imaginable and tell the crowd that this is from a future timeline where the music industry has replaced humans with robots that try, and fail miserably, to imitate humans. Any single artist or band of sizeable influence would work.

Otherwise, I would love to see their reaction to something like this Ryone Yami UTAU cover of nostraightanswer's Pushing Daisies just to see how many band members of any band would think it's a human singing the song and not just a human that decided to make a computer version of their voice that can sing for them.

I'd bring the album 10,000 gecs by 100 gecs and show it to The Beatles. In 1965, they'd have been at peak boy-band coming hot of the release of Help! and just about to drop Rubber Soul and a few months away from dropping (IMO their greatest album) Revolver.

Imagine if instead of George Harrison getting really into Indian music, he discovered hyperpop. The Beatles are such an influencal band that it would have ripples throughout the music industry. Imagine what 100 gecs would be getting up to in an alternate universe where Revolution 9 might get replaced with something like One Million Dollars?