Office Debate: Future Oldies

[Captroop]

Here's a scenario: 30 years from now you own an Oldies Radio Station. What songs from the 2000s so far would you make sure were on your regular playlist?

I figure only about 1 in 100 songs on the radio ever reaches the strata of "timeless" and is played beyond it's generation. Basically this is a roundabout way of asking, what music from this era will truly be worth remembering. I think it's a short list.

• CeeLo Green - "Fug You" - Hopefully censorship will be more lax in 30 years. But it's a fun song, and fun songs always hold up well. Same with...
  
• Outcast - "Hey Ya!" - Undisputably one of the best songs of the decade, and sure to be in regular Oldies rotation. Will have our kids GooFaceTwitting names like "Lucy Liu" and "Beyonce," if they can spell either.
  
• Kanye West - "Jesus Walks" or "Gold Digger" - Would err on the side of Jesus walks for it's powerful message. It could be the "American Pie" of it's day, but Gold Digger is a safe Party anthem if the Atheists take over the world.
  
• Jimmy Eat World - Anything, honestly anything from their self titled album.
  
• Amy Winehouse - "Rehab" - A songstress with a truly unique voice opining about the drug abuse that ultimately killed her. "Lived fast and died young" appeal will make her relevant to future generations and they will talk about her like Jimi Hendrix or Janis Joplin who died too young, and we who lived in the time will be thinking to ourselves, "I can't believe she lived as long as she did!"
  
• Jay-Z and Alicia Keys - "Empire State of Mind" - God Damn that's a good track. My kids are going to hear it whether or not it plays on the radio.
  

Optional: What songs do you just know will be on Oldies Stations that you really wish wouldn't be?

• Green Day - "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" - I was burned out on it in 2005. The knowledge that it will be an Oldies Staple in 20 years makes me glad I am probably in 90% of the iPod bud blasting Gen-Y's who will need hearing aids by age 40.
  
• Lady Gaga - Any of her crap - One can't be a sustained phenomenon for so long and not get some Oldies Station Recognition. I hope she is just the Monkees of her time, who get's one track played every few days. Still I think on a cold Winter day I will be sitting in an empty house, weeping over my failed life, and hearing Lady Gaga on the radio will be the catalyst that actually gets me to pull the trigger. Well, it will either be that or...
  
• Leona Lewis - "Bleeding Love" - Shiz, that song makes me want to kill myself now.
  
• Gwen Stefani - "Hollaback Girl" - Sweet. Jesus. No.
  

[GritsRgreat]

[Captroop]

I really don't get the Gaga hate. Her songs may well be insipid tripe and she is a full fledged freak but you cant deny she has epic pipes.

I'd rather this not turn into a Lady Gaga debate, there's plenty of them. Suffice it to say, she's not my taste. I've come to accept that a lot of people like her "music," but personally, Lady Gaga wakes me up in the morning (or Kesha); by that I mean when my radio alarm comes on, I can stay in bed while most other artists play, but when Gaga comes on, I have to get out of bed so I can hit the snooze and turn that sound off.

[Captroop]

Yeah...Didn't mean to hijack.

so to the question at hand.

Californication - RHCP

Blow Me Away - Breaking Benjamin

Broken - Seether w/Amy Lee

Loose Yourself - Eminem

Bastard. That's so good - that should have been on mine

[GritsRgreat]

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[OneBadassCat]

The Killers and The Smashing Pumpkins deserve oldies status imo.

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we are saying timeless right? songs that have been recently popular that could still be considered good 30 yrs from now. here is one for sure.

[GritsRgreat]

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[Mvp2014]

^^^^^ nice GIF

[Panthro]

What a poo decade for music.

Coldplay, KoL, The Strokes

Everything else I liked would probably not be mainstream enough to ever hear on the radio

[Panthro]

this is one of the best songs of the last 15 yrs imo.

I hate the white stripes almost as much as I do ranch

[Mrs Pantherfan]

I hate the white stripes almost as much as I do ranch

except for the ranch part...I agree with this 100%

I do like Jack White on the Danger Mouse CD