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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Mozart. Dude would be social media famous in .2 seconds. He’d be annoying us all. He’d be covering all new songs same day after hearing it once. And I’m here for that chaos.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It would be a crime if he didn't do a remake of Amadeus, replicated to the letter but for the main actor.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Amadeus Amadeus,

A-madeus,

Amadeus, Amadeus

A-madeus,

Amadeus, Amadeus,

Oh, oh, oh Amadeus

(cue frenetic speech sequence)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He’d be covering all new songs same day after hearing it once

So basically Weird Al but faster?

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Freddy Mercury.

Or David Bowie

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Freddy's voice was fucking amazing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

He was also just dahling, seriously

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The starlord provides the only correct answer

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

Fkn Jimmy Hendrix

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a tie between Chris and Chester.. both too soon.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd say at least bring back someone who wants to be here

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Jeff Buckley, no question. He released arguably the best album of the 90s (Grace) then went and fucking drowned. Only 30 years old. He coulda been one of the best to ever do it, but we're left wondering.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Here I am, upvoting comments of people who wrote answers first: Bach, Mozart and Buckley. I tend to believe second or third albums are the best ones from an artist, can you imagine if this was true for Buckley?

Love to basically every mentioned artists, but I think most of them did give the best they had while alive.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Gotta go with chester, assuming you can bring them back with their health (mental and physical) "fixed" to a good massive balance.

Not because he's any better than any of the other greats that have died. Not even the ones that killed themselves.

Just because there's something about his death that makes his life feel more unfinished.

Out of any of the people listed here, I think he had the most undone. Not even in the musical sense alone, across the board.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Chester without a doubt.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Nirvana(Curt Cobain), Linkin Park(Chester Bennington)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imo, unfortunately, bringing back Legends will just harm their legacy (I'm thinking of John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie...).
However Tupac may have had an enormous impact in the 90s and early 90s music, and so on.
And who knows how grunge could have gained other mainstream success with Cobain...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Cobain is risky, odds are he just peaces out again 😞

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My vote goes for J.S. Bach. One of my shower thoughts is that he would make a great experimental IDM artist. He would give Authechre a run for their money.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Authechre

Hadn't heard of these guys. I like them - thanks!

Reminds me of Noisia and Aphex Twin.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Otis Redding. I didn't realize until recently that he died so young, I would've loved to see how the rest of his career turned out. His voice had such a special quality.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Mid-century airplanes killed a bunch of famous young musicians.

Even now: the smaller the aircraft, the less you should want to be on it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Peter Steele. Although he might disagree. Type O Negative's last album before his death was named "Dead again", and a lot of their music is about escaping yourself (aka suicide or extreme self harm)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The first ancient cavedweller to stretch skin over a frame and start hitting it to make noises. Give Grog a full drumset and see what he comes up with

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Harry Chapin

Or

Karen Carpenter

(I know, they're kinda sappy but they were on my Playlist when I was young and in love.)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Karen carpenter was going to be my answer for this too...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We could really use a Pete Seeger or a Woody Guthrie in times like these.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson

Would have liked to see what would have happened if they had continued making music.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Doom.

I'd be hesitant to bring back anyone who's reason for death was suicide or substance abuse, it just seems cruel.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ian Curtis (Joy Division), though that would probably screw up the timeline for New Order and all of 80's music (not a dealbreaker).

Prince (obvs)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Petri Walli.

Really, it's a friggin' miracle that Jeff Mangum only quit and fucked off for a decade. What all musicians need to know is that success won't fix depression.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Aaliyah. 22 is far too young to have died, and her career was moving in the craziest direction. She was set to collaborate with Trent Reznor; I wanna see how she would've changed the game.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Jimi hands down

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jim Croce. He died relatively early in his career and was already an amazing songwriter. What could he have written with more time?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Elliot Smith, no contest. Best singer songwriter ever.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Stevie Ray Vaughan

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (4 children)

He died before the world learned what a cunt he was

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Orpheus. I bet he’d do great fronting a metal band.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I would only suggest Ian Curtis if anti-epilepsy medication has advanced significantly since 1980. Dude had it rough.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hendrix, Rory Gallagher and SRV. Imagine what the blues and the world would be like with those 3 big hitters still around.

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