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.
It would be a crime if he didn’t do a remake of Amadeus, replicated to the letter but for the main actor.
Amadeus Amadeus,
A-madeus,
Amadeus, Amadeus
A-madeus,
Amadeus, Amadeus,
Oh, oh, oh Amadeus
(cue frenetic speech sequence)
Falco was amazing
Mozart is my spirit animal. I was clearly (if unconsciously) deeply influenced by his music and shenanigans and also his economic issues.
He’d be covering all new songs same day after hearing it once
So basically Weird Al but faster?
Jacob Collier
Freddy Mercury.
Or David Bowie
Freddy’s voice was fucking amazing
He was also just dahling, seriously
Freddy Mercury
The starlord provides the only correct answer
Fkn Jimmy Hendrix
Chris Cornell
It’s a tie between Chris and Chester… both too soon.
I’d say at least bring back someone who wants to be here
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.
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.
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.
Chester without a doubt.
Nirvana(Curt Cobain), Linkin Park(Chester Bennington)
I would suspect Kurt being back could have an impact on the history of Foo Fighters and its success, so I’m… conflicted about that one.
After a few years, Nirvana split, Kurt goes solo, Foo Fighters are created
Karen Carpenter - mainly because she was such a talented musician and her death so tragic.
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.
Authechre
Hadn’t heard of these guys. I like them - thanks!
Reminds me of Noisia and Aphex Twin.
Seconded here, many thanks.
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…Cobain is risky, odds are he just peaces out again 😞
Depends if Courtney loves aim is still good at this point.
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.
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.
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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Mine too!
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
Harry Chapin
Or
Karen Carpenter
(I know, they’re kinda sappy but they were on my Playlist when I was young and in love.)
Karen carpenter was going to be my answer for this too…
