As the name would suggest, mainstream commercial conformity reigns. Everywhere on the planet, people watch the same movies, listen to computer-generated music, wear the same clothes and hold the same thoughts and opinions. Musical instruments and composers are forbidden, and rock music is all but unknown. Representative government has been eliminated. All are controlled by the Worldwide mega-corporation Globalsoft, which is headed by the "Killer Queen" and the commander of her secret police, Khashoggi. Those who stand against Globalsoft's enforced conformity are kidnapped and "brain stormed" into submission.

However, a small group of "Bohemians" struggle to restore the free exchange of thought, fashion, and (most of all) live music. As with the classic quest stories that it spoofs, the musical includes a Messiah figure, the social outcast Galileo Figaro, and together with his love interest, another dissident whom Galileo calls Scaramouche, Galileo joins with the Bohemians to find the guitar, and overthrow Globalsoft. However, when the Bohemians are captured and brain stormed, Galileo and Scaramouche are forced to flee for their lives.

Eventually they meet Pop, an older, hippie-esque Bohemian who yearns for the "old days" when people were free and Rock & Roll was king...or Queen as the case may be. Again fulfilling the classic role of "Guide" for the two, Pop shows them a fragment of the Queen video (which ends after the opening lyrics), "Bohemian Rhapsody," further inspiring them. Impressed by the “heavenly music,” Galileo and Scaramouche eventually decide to search for the guitar at Wembley Stadium, the location of two legendary concerts by Queen. Though the Stadium is a ruin, they find the guitar hidden in a wall. With guitar in hand, and Pop serving as "roadie" for the two saviours, they perform a rousing rendition of "We Will Rock You" and conclude with an arrangement of "Bohemian Rhapsody".

Mondays.

a few bands that sound quite a bit like Battles?

before going right back 'round in a circle to being largely orchestral and jazz and blues, which will then give birth to rock'n'roll, and so on...

and eventually just be a loud sine wave.
And all conversations will consist entirely of wikipedia links.

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the flying V glockenspiel.

A musical future I'd like to see is one without:
Hip Hop
Country and Western
Celine Dion
Formulated Pop Icons
Imo
Screamo-gag!
Fuct Metal
Jewell cases and
Keane

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8utXy5_q6Q

I mean I think it's pretty safe to assume Paul Hawkins & Thee Awkward Silences will be considered the most influential band in the UK and perhaps beyond but aside from that it's all open to question.

Of course, if you'd asked someone this question in 1998 he or she probably wouldn't have said "Take That will be back together, Oasis and Radiohead will still be massive and all the biggest new bands will sound like the Britpop bands that were big in 97" so I'm not necessarily expecting much life-changing to happen...

as with a lot of recent developments in pop, the underground will continue to filter into the mainstream at a slower pace than it is developing, and with a lot of the edges rounded off to make it appetising for Joe and Jo Bloggs. I'm sure there will be a few revivals and a lot of retrogression and nostalgia-based popularity, just like there is now

However, i'm almost certain that technology will have changed a lot by then and this will affect music at every level. Of course, the equipment musicians use will probably improve greatly, as well as becoming a lot more accessible to non-cognoscenti. But the way people listen to music will be transormed as well - the popularity of mp3 players is certainly to do with capacity and convenience, but as an audio form they're a massive step back. As harddrives become massive and (spatially) smaller still, music listening will go through an HDtv style renaissaice, with ordinary people seeking out high quality audio. Similiarly, ordinary cars will continue to become quieter to the drivers (in terms of sound deadening). Hopefully this will lead to more complex audio becoming popular, becoming the norm perhaps, and with producers moving away from the highly compressed sound which has been the main weapon in the loudness wars. And this will affect the sort of music being created and listened to, so intricate electronic and lushly orchestrated musics will get a lot more of the limelight, hopefully with a move away from the very rudimentary "vocals/beat as centre of pop" format which has been the case since the days of the transistor radio

I'm sure there'll also be a lot of change within the industry and the way in which music is distributed. How this is going to pan out is difficult to say, but i'm sure it'll involve a lot more in the way of indie and self-released material. But, as the mountains of music pile up the traditional labels will still hold a lot of sway amongst the common man, picking out the "prime" materials and pushing them just as aggressively as before, if not more (although hopefully the things they think the public want will become better). Also, there'll be a lot more of a focus on labels making money from places other than record sales, almost certainly a portion of the live takings, and probably a lot of marketing affiliated work for commercials and TV shows. All the talk of major labels dying out is greatly exaggerated.. i'm sure they'll be doing just fine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ3oHpup-pk

the world of the future will truly be a great place if the music turns out like ths.

in what music will sound like in a thousand years time.

"future of music" that can be written down. We live in an age that is outgrowing postmodernism. What is going to happen is that more and more music will be made, more and more will be stored and filed and kept, and that music will become increasingly disparate and fragmentary in nature. There will be fewer and fewer "generation-defining" records. OK Computer was probably the last one, and that was a record mostly about the impossibility of meaningful communication anyway, amirite?

Everything will split up more. I think it's going to be awesome.

there will be software available that lay people can use, in which you just put in a cd, and tell it in vague terms what changes you want made and it will do them.

as in, you put "nevermind" in, and you tell it some different chords and you get a new "nirvana" song or whatever

for the stamp of originality will fade in all art forms...Perhaps recreating more "antiquated" approaches to art, i.e music returning to a more fluctuating, porous, less individual basis.

the blues and jazz scene will become popular again

re: is good

is no future !

We are all doomed, doomed I tell ye !

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and start charging for how music is delivered and played... like itunes.

This will shift the power back to them and away from the artists.

I mean, there's only a finite number of melodies innit

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