Freddy Mercury.
Or David Bowie
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Freddy's voice was fucking amazing
Freddy Mercury
The starlord provides the only correct answer
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.
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.
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...
We could really use a Pete Seeger or a Woody Guthrie in times like these.
Recently wanted to add "this land" to a Playlist, but wanted a more modern cover and it is damn hard to find a version that includes the original lyrics about private property and trespassing. https://www.woodyguthrie.org/Lyrics/This_Land.htm
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
Aaliyah. 22 is far too young to have died, and her career was moving in the craziest direction. She was set to collaborate with Trent Reznor; I wanna see how she would've changed the game.
Jimi hands down
Doom.
I'd be hesitant to bring back anyone who's reason for death was suicide or substance abuse, it just seems cruel.
Johann Pachelbel. So many modern songs reuse the melody from his Canon in D. I just think, it'd be fun to let him listen to them. Would probably blow his mind to listen to modern music, to begin with, and then to have it be his melody, too. π
Liszt.
Seriously, so many great suggestions from other people.
I'm going to throw out Neil Peart, although I'm not sure he'd appreciate it. Selfishly, I'd love to have him back.
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Orpheus. I bet heβd do great fronting a metal band.
Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson
Would have liked to see what would have happened if they had continued making music.
Hey guys, bad weather up their, I have some nice seats in my bus, I drive, you can rest, ok?
Jim Croce. He died relatively early in his career and was already an amazing songwriter. What could he have written with more time?
He would have put it in a bottle
Hendrix
Stevie Ray Vaughan
Hendrix, Rory Gallagher and SRV. Imagine what the blues and the world would be like with those 3 big hitters still around.
Dimebag Darrell.
Kirk Cubain.
I'd give him two bullet before introducing him to Justin Bieber.
The famous singer of the Band Virnana.
Bradley Nowell. Sublime was so good, and none of the bands that have followed in their style have had the same lyricism that Nowell had, or have been able to really blend genres like they did to make something completely unique.
I'd bring back Sonny. Cher needs her Sonny again.
JS Bach.
The only two I would consider otherwise are both alive (Lindsey Stirling and Amy Lee). They even have a collaborative piece π
John Lennon
He died before the world learned what a cunt he was
Musta moved to Melbourne.
Wayne Static.
Easy: Duke Ellington
Bryn Jones aka Muslimgauze
Bob Marley.
FZ
Can't believe nobody else has mentioned him yet
Chuck Schuldiner, frontman of death metal pioneers Death, dude died of cancer in 2001 at the age of 34. I never had the chance to see them play live but their records are incredible.
Cliff Burton, Bass player of Metallica, died when the band's tour bus crashed and he was crushed underneath it. The band lost part of its soul and it took them a very long time to get over Cliffs death. Seeing videos of him playing live makes one understand what was lost, as he was an incredible musician.
On a more general note every artist that died very young, many made a big impact to their genre or even to a wider audience without it ever knowing.
JW
Stan Rogers. Would pretty much double the number of available sea shanties
Ricardo Iorio
Elliot Smith, no contest. Best singer songwriter ever.
Tim Maia.