Name: Top 10 Forgotten Music Trends
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Blow my heart, blow my heart Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the musical genres or fads that have seen their public profile dampened over the years.

Some may still have their fair share of fans, unlike 70's disco, but artists from these genres aren't as commonly found nowadays. 10.

Jazz Fusion It was seen by some jazz purists as heresy, the combination of rock rhythms with electrified instrumentation and an eye for complexity.

The roots of Jazz Fusion can be traced back to the late 60's, particularly with artists like Miles Davis and his LP's Bitches Brew, and in a silent way, Herbie Hancock and Weather Report were there too, as well as a slew of other artists that rode the Jazz Rock Fusion train to chart success.

The bubble essentially burst upon Jazz Fusion's reputation for forward-thinking progression however, as the genre became more slick and evolved into what's now known as Smooth Jazz.

Still, that didn't stop artists like Chuck Mangione from achieving massive crossover popularity with Fusion hits like Feel So Good. 9.

Doo Wop and Motown The 1950's, 60's and 70's were halcyon periods for soulful vocal music to permeate cultural landscapes around the world.

Doo Wop was there at the beginning too, gaining early popularity in the 40's and progressing with full band arrangements through the subsequent decades.

Meanwhile, the sound of Motown advertised itself as the sound of young America, and they weren't wrong.

Doo Wop and Motown's soul music would go on to influence countless artists, including modern chart-toppers like Bruno Mars and the much-missed Amy Winehouse.

However, the warm and analog sound of 60's and 70's soul doesn't show up with much authenticity these days, and this might just mean that the traditional sound made popular by artists like James Brown is ripe for a pop chart comeback. 8.

Shoegaze Shoegaze is difficult to pin down, but music fans know it when they hear it.

The genre gained prominence as part of the early alternative rock music movement near the tail end of the 1980's.

Shoegaze pioneers like Slow Dive, The Chameleons, and My Bloody Valentine popularized the loud, soft dynamic of the genre's volume attack.

This was a genre that could be simultaneously hypnotic, beautiful, and boisterous, and Shoegaze stuck out for much of the pop, metal, and rock styles of its heyday.

Today, however, you're more likely to see Shoegaze influence artists like Francis Alcest the real thing.

That said, The Chameleons were touring North America as recently as 2024, so maybe don't close the book on traditional Shoegaze just yet. 7.

Skiffle Music archaeologists in the modern day are probably most familiar with the genre of Skiffle via its connections to The Beatles.

The Fab Four famously started out performing this type of rhythm and blues-influenced folk music prior to their emergence as international pop icons.

Elsewhere, the UK blues boom of the 1960's and 70's saw artists like Ireland's Roy Gallagher claiming Skiffle roots prior to adopting their heavier sound.

It doesn't feel unfair to label Skiffle as the DNA from which classic rock and roll was born, only tempered with more traditional, vintage instrumentation.

That said, contemporary Skiffle artists are scarce, although diehard fans still exist to this day. 6.

Psychedelic Folk The term psychedelic is a huge musical umbrella that encompasses scores of interesting sub-genres.

Variants of psych still exist today, as do contemporary folk artists, but true psychedelic folk saw its biggest crossover successes in the 1960's and 70's.

This too was a genre full of different sounds, from the heady progressive sounds of Comus to Donovan's pop icon status.

The freak folk sub-genre did rise up out of the 1990's to remind music fans of psych While those longing for those hippie days of yore can easily find reissues today of vintage classics, that said, the billboard hit charts don't necessarily find themselves saddled with many takes on Mellow Yellow these days. 5.

Seapunk This Tumblr-generated subculture proves that not every forgotten music trend necessarily needs to reside within the 20th century.

Seapunk took off thanks to the accessibility of the internet, as well as its intrinsically electronic nature.

This made it easy for home-grown, bedroom seapunk artists to create this sort of R&B-influenced electronic dance music.

Unfortunately, the internet's notoriously short attention span also meant that a new trend was almost certainly destined to rise up and take seapunk's place.

This occurred after the genre's peak years of popularity, around 2011, although seapunk-adjacent genres like Vaporwave keep this intriguing style of music alive within the hearts of  4.

Ragtime Slash Vaudeville It's interesting to see how certain styles of music become phased out as a generation ages.

For every seemingly evergreen artist such as The Beatles or Pink Floyd, there's genres such as ragtime and entertainment styles like vaudeville.

The latter's association with problematic makeup and cultural insensitivity has severely diminished its impact with younger generations.

Meanwhile, ragtime's music's jaunty nature did see something of a retro-appreciation back in the 1970s, but is largely ignored today.

The latter can lend its thanks to the 1973 Robert Redford hit, The Sting, and its usage of Scott Joplin's The Entertainer.

That said, it's been a long time since The Sting, and there doesn't seem to be much modern clamor for a ragtime renaissance, or is there?  Italo Disco It all depends on where you look when it comes to our next musical genre, Italo Disco.

This synthesized and heavily processed style of electronic dance music never really went away in Europe.

That said, areas like North America saw their Italo Disco fascination pinpointed within the 1980s, which was almost certainly the genre's creative peak.

This producer-driven style was fashion-focused and gaudy, performed without a shred of irony and tons of fun.

Italo Disco also enjoyed a number of international smash hits, including Tarzan Boy by Baltimore or Ryan Paris' Dolce Vita.

Even members of prog rock groups like Italy's Goblin would craft Italo Disco songs to make a little cash, although stateside interest in the genre would largely wane by the 1990s.

Number 2 Dubstep Slash Brostep Electronic music is a fluid genre, able to be molded by any number of creative musicians into something new and exciting, and Dubstep definitely brought that excitement to its drum and bass origins, a more aggressive attack that fueled dance parties during the 2000s and beyond.

Brostep would take this approach even further, with artists like Skrillex pushing boundaries with regards to intensity and rhythm.

It's difficult to say whether or not these genres truly ever went away, because they've been largely internalized by modern synthwave and dark synth groups like Ghost, Carpenter Brut, and Perturbator.

That said, the success of Dubstep remains a curious anomaly within the pop music sphere influence.

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Swing and Big Band It's unclear at the time of this writing whether or not we'll see another swing revival similar to the one that rode a wave of popularity back in the 90s.

One thing's for sure, traditional swing and big band music exist within our aforementioned musical generation gap.

Old school swing was hugely important to dance culture within the 1930s and 40s, and this helped keep swing alive in schools and on the stage.

Meanwhile, big band jazz evolved from this world and progressed along with jazz rock and fusion artists as the 50s gave way to the 60s and 70s.

So will we see new groups start name-checking artists like Glenn Miller or Duke Ellington, preferably while doing the Lindy Hop?

Are you still holding on to your Pure Mood CD and Gregorian Chants cassettes?

Do you still bust out the forbidden dance?