The 90’s for myself are the best due to clubs/raves/big shindigs in the Galloway forest and good drugs, easy money and living week to week/party to party, excellent bands and being in my 20’s throughout the entire decade.
A great time for all kinds of Reggae.
Aye - the variety of Music in those years. Reggae had been around and Marley brought it closer to the mainstream but the Clash liked reggae so reggae became cool for the rest of us.
We had the end of the real heavy metal / prog rock era and the rise of punk ,new wave,new romantics and then two tone - the 2nd era of Ska
Music became political with a bite but you could still dance to it with twotone
Disco still chugged along in the background and metamorphosed into house leading to the rave generation
Every era builds on what went before but the pace of change and the variety of those years was something special
He might have a fantastic repetoire of his own songs but knows that doing covers brings in the cash.
Yes, I was being provocative and a little unfair probably but it was to address the point espoused elsewhere that unless they've "earned their chops on an instrument." then their music has no merit. Plenty of people have 'earned their chops' but for whatever reason aren't producing music that anyone else really wants to listen to. Just as there are those that can in comparison barely play but are selling out venues all over the world, or are effectively computer programmers, but are producing music that sells (or streams) by the bucketload.
And for sure I know there's more than ability and creativity that determines who makes it or not....
On Joy Division,
Is it just me that thinks Curtis was a weary singer? He's good when he gets going, the end of Transmission there is great. But most of the time he sounds like Bob Dylan on a 45 set to 33.
In a fast German car
I'm amazed that i survived
An airbag saved my life
I was born in 1954, the first piece of music I recall hearing on the radio was ‘Freight Train’, by Nancy Whiskey. It was released in 1957.
Every year from around 1960 until the present has been a great year for music, because every year brings something new and exciting.
If I downloaded everything in my Music library on my phone, I’d probably cause the phone to lock up, it’s a 1Tb phone with around 60,000 tracks, currently showing the music at 559.25 Gb, so I’m hoping the next version will have 2Tb of storage. Especially as I’ve now got Apple Music Classical, and those are bigger files.
Went to a wonderful gig Tuesday night, Gemma Hayes, who I last saw eight years ago, to our mutual surprise chatting afterwards, it didn’t seem even half that, and also discovered a great new singer/songwriter as support, Natalie Holmes, formerly from Bristol, now living In Stroud. Terrific voice, she wrote, recorded and produced her current album, with help from people from as far away as Canada, designed the album artwork, and put together a hardback lyric book with illustrations by herself.
There’s always something new to discover.
And my time is a piece of wax
Falling on a termite,
That's choking on the splinters
Every year from around 1960 until the present has been a great year for music, because every year brings something new and exciting.
Is probably the right answer, though you could start earlier than 1960. Much earlier.
Should be the 90’s for me but that’s just where it started. Loved the Seattle scene which lead me to Neil Young, Creedence, Dead Kennedys, Traffic, Jimi Hendrix etc. That opened up punk, Sabbath (just the early stuff) and that snowballed in to stoner rock with Kyuss, Clutch, Fu Manchu and the whole desert rock thing.
The Beastie Boys and RATM took me to J5, Public Enemy, The Coup, Ugly Duckling and Cypress Hill. That, in turn, introduced me to Curtis Mayfield, James Brown, Funkadelic, Rufus Thomas and Otis Redding.
Growing up listening to my mum sing along to Dolly Parton and Tammy gave me Jason Isbell, Sturgill Simpson, Colter Wall and Tyler Childers.
Somewhere along the way it all just became good music and now there’s just too much to listen to. Young Fathers are my current band of choice and I highly recommend them.
Music is my first love and for me yes that period in time was a catalyst for me. It became a life long education!
Until around 79 I'd just watch TOP on a Thursday night with my mum with not much interest in anything that was on it. The odd band on the show peaked my interest, but there was very little that dragged me away from riding my bmx and hanging with my mates.
A few years later my best mate's sister who is 5 years older than us had returned home from her first year at Uni, along with her record box. Going through that box set me on a never ending road of discovery, from that point onwards you'd often find me in the music library hunting out stuff that I'd heard on the John Peel show or read about in the NME. All the bands would be name checking stuff right back to the 50s.
I just love music, old and new
some more proof my theory is correct.
so underrated and a brilliant band.
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=xx37AWqSPU0
If you asked me a couple of years ago I would have said the 88/89 acid house arrival followed by the 90's dance music creativity was absolutely the best period in music.
However I've recently got right back into the house/dance music thing and to be honest some of the latest stuff, if you know where to look, is incredible. Playing some of my old favourites now they seem quite dated. I still love them but I think a lot of the appeal is pure nostalgia.
For any dance music fans try Jump into the Fire (tokyo fan club remix) by Come Closer.
On a loud system obviously!
