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** A similar gag was used in the original ''[[Max Headroom]]'' TV movie, in which a telemarketing ad for a collection of all-time classic ''digital watch tunes'' is played back by Carter's answering machine.
* A rare example of this trope being handled tastefully comes from Wim Wenders' 1991 film (better seen as a trilogy) ''[[Until the End of The World]].'' The director asked well known artists like REM, [[Depeche Mode]], [[Talking Heads]], [[Lou Reed]], [[Patti Smith]], [[Elvis Costello]] and [[Nick Cave]] and the Bad Seeds to come up with the kind of music they thought they would be recording [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future|in the year 1999]]. The result was one of the most influential film soundtracks of the 1990s.
* ''[[Zenon]]: Girl of [[Sci
** At the beginning of the movie, a couple of boys were complaining that Protozoa's music sucked because you can actually understand his lyrics. They must listen to a lot of death metal. Also, read below and judge for yourself how understandable it really is.
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* In ''[[Snow Crash]]'' teenagers still listen to rap and heavy metal, but the specific subgenre popular at that point is "post-nuclear fuzz-grunge".
* Jules Verne's little-known (never published in its day) ''[[Paris in The Twentieth Century]]'' features music of the "future": the music pieces have names relating to technology ("Thiloriade, Great Fantasia About Condensation Of Carbonic Acid") and sound like unrhythmic, jubled mess of noises.
* In the ''[[
* In Dan Simmons' ''[[Hyperion Cantos]]'' that takes place 700 years in the future the Consul's ship is equipped with a grand piano. He mostly plays Rachmaninov on it but in one chapter the Beatles are also mentioned along with other more traditional classical composers.
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** In one episode of ''TNG'', a Ferengi has a bar entertainer play some Ferengi music (istead of the Klingon opera she was playing before), which turns out to be rather monotonous serialist twelve-tone music (whose mathematical structures are fitting for a culture of accoutants and merchants).
** Who could forget young Jim Kirk listening to "Sabotage" by Beastie Boys driving a classical corvette while Matt Parkman is shouting at him through the [[Product Placement|Nokia]] dashboard communicator in ''[[Star Trek (Film)|Star Trek]]''? Classical car - classical music.
*** Could be seen as a [[Shout
*** While the song ''did'' mention [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Star Trek]], it wasn't exactly complementary. "All you Trekkies and you TV addicts, don't mean to dis, don't mean to bring static, all you Klingons at your grandma's house, grab your Backstreet friends and get loud."
* Rap Music and Hip Hop never seems to make it to the future, but the ''[[Alien Nation (TV)|Alien Nation]]'' TV-movies (set [[Twenty Minutes Into the Future]], after alien humanoid ex-slaves took up residence in Los Angeles and began to assimilate) featured Tenctonese Reggae.
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* On ''[[Night Gallery]]'', a character who's wandered into the future encounters some teenagers listening to music, which sounds like a random, tuneless assortment of notes being banged out on a synthesizer. Presumably the show's budget didn't cover a theremin for that one...
* ''[[Andromeda]]'' has some interesting musical choices for what people will be listening to in a few thousand years. Just listen to the [[Space Navy|High Guard]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8uE-HXASuE battle march].
* One episode of ''[[Earth: Final Conflict]]'' brings us Taelon music using a light-based musical instrument translated as "tubes". Also, the show's theme music just has a [[One-Woman Wail]] to a peaceful-sounding music.
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
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