music

Ok maybe a bit out of left field here, but I believe this is likely a subject near and dear to many of our hearts. I'm currently reading "Just Around Midnight: Rock and Roll and the Racial Imagination", by Jack Hamilton, which discusses how media marketing in the USA during the 1960s was...

In my revised alt-timeline scenario, KMT-ruled China of the 1960s is a Western ally that possesses a nuclear arsenal. As of 1967, it has a large GDP of 500 billion USD and a population of 700 million. Its territory spans OTL China, Taiwan, the Diaoyu Islands, and Western Xikang Province...

[Fade In] Haunting orchestral music plays faintly over a field of black. One by one video clips fly onto the screen, take precedence up front, then fall into the background, each sequentially taking a random spot on the screen, top, bottom, left, or right, stretched out towards the back, slowly...

Berry Gordy Jr. and Suzanne de Passe. ("classic.motown.com" and "facebook.com") … How the start of Motown’s next, bold era is often simplified. Often, it’s simply put as [Berry] Gordy having always had his idea and simply done it. As it usually is, however, the truth is far more complicated...

So the version of the song "Let's Get It Started" by Black Eyed Peas that everyone is familiar with is actually a version of the song the NBA requested Black Eyed Peas to make for them. More stores were willing to sell this version as the lyrics weren't offensive, and the original kinda fell...

What if this Gummy Bear Song: French Gummy Bear Song repeated multiple times like this: Irish Gummy Bear Song?

I got inspired to ask this after seeing @TheDetailer 's Golden: A Pop Culture Timeline Let's say that back in the late 1990s after British rock star Gary Glitter gets arrested for having CP on his computer, he ends up revealing to the authorities that there are other major sexual predators in...

What if Beatle Paul McCartney actually died in 1966, rather than just being an unfounded conspiracy theory?

Welcome to Just Like Starting Over! A new pop culture timeline that asks, “What if John and Paul just couldn’t resist $3,000?” I joke, but I truly hope I can bring a great pop culture timeline to you all, starting right here, right now. Some information before we begin: If you have an idea...

In 1988, German producer Frank Farian founded Milli Vanilli, a dance-pop duo consisting of Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus. Their debut album, All or Nothing, was an instant international success. However, the duo's success began to unravel in 1989, when a hard drive malfunction caused one of their...

Lead vocalist Peter Gabriel left prog rock band Genesis in 1975, being replaced by drummer Phil Collins and beginning Genesis’ road into pop rock which was solidified when guitarist Steve Hackett left in 1978. If Gabriel doesn’t leave, what happens of his and Phil Collins‘ solo career, does...

So, on 11 December 1984, the British pop group Bucks Fizz‘s tour coach crashed into a lorry on the way to a concert. No one died but all of the band members were injured, most significantly Mike Nolan, who still suffers from the effects of the crash to this day. For those wondering, Bucks Fizz...

Anthems: we all have 'em. A national anthem is a song which is supposed to officially represent a nation. Likewise, a royal anthem represents a monarch or a dynasty. There's supposed to be both an aesthetic and a symbolic dimension to which music is chosen as the national anthem. Given that...

What direction would his music go in? How long could he live, would he be able to live to today? I personally doubt he could live past 1995, with his hereditary heart condition (even if he cleans up his lifestyle)

The AIDS crisis claimed many lives. Few of its victims were as iconic as Queen vocalist Freddie Mercury. One of the most influential singers in the history of rock music, Mercury left a profound legacy that can still be felt more than thirty years after his death. However, the band he helped...

How does a Confederate victory in the American Civil War affect the history of music, as the CSA and USA are not one nation?

I am fully aware that this is pretty much a kamikaze idea, considering how long time has passed since the last time any alternate Billboard #1 thread has gone for a long period of time, and how many people within that group might even have any interest in a chart that isn't the Hot 100. But you...

As many people know, Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana, took his own life on April 5th, 1994, becoming part of the infamous 27 Club. What fewer people remember is that another artist would end up joining the 27 Club just over two months later, when Kristen Pfaff, the bassist for Courtney...

Hello everybody! I want to think you for being here. I would like to express my thoughts on an alternate history of the band Pink Floyd. I have several ideas but I would like you all to vote on which scenario.

What fascinates me A LOT is whether everyday people in the not-too-distant-past would pick up on not-so-obvious and subtle changes in their environment or non-physical things such as music, language, mannerisms if said things were not from their time. Would they instantly realise something was...