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I was listening to some old prog rock deep cuts the other day and it got me thinking about how much music relies on timing and luck. It’s wild how a track can be totally ignored or even considered a "miss" when it first drops, only for it to become the absolute centerpiece of a band's legacy decades later.
It feels like there's this weird phenomenon where the songs that don't fit the initial "vibe" or the marketing push end up being the ones that actually resonate with the core fanbase. A song can be a commercial dud in 1974 and then become a spiritual anthem by 1995. It makes me wonder if the "hits" are actually just the songs that were easiest to sell, whereas the real masterpieces are the ones that take a generation to truly be understood.
Do you guys think a song's greatness is something inherent, or is it mostly just about catching the right wave at the right time?
It feels like there's this weird phenomenon where the songs that don't fit the initial "vibe" or the marketing push end up being the ones that actually resonate with the core fanbase. A song can be a commercial dud in 1974 and then become a spiritual anthem by 1995. It makes me wonder if the "hits" are actually just the songs that were easiest to sell, whereas the real masterpieces are the ones that take a generation to truly be understood.
Do you guys think a song's greatness is something inherent, or is it mostly just about catching the right wave at the right time?