1. Post-grunge mainstreaming of the alternative (insert quote marks as desired). I didn't think it was a good thing, but I did think it Changed Everything Forever.
2. Not really. My favourite era ever was britpop, but it was less a glorious thousand year reich than this is fvcking brilliant music to be young (~20) to. Seeds of it's downfall enthusiastically hailed etc - why should our younger siblings have it when it was ours?
3. All of it! Dance Music/hip hop/noo romanticism/SAW - I might not have officially approved of all of it, but the sense of everything heading outwards at once was very powerful.
re:#3 it counts as a sense of history if you think that history is being made now, right? I knew all these things were new and exciting even if I couldn't quite figure out what they had replaced. If the question is "what's the first thing you missed out on", then punkpunkpunkpunk.
1) Well, I moved to NYC in 2001 and started playing in bands, so certainly all the stuff that was going on there at the time (electro(clash), garage rock, dance-punk) seemed fairly important, both because of what other people were saying and because of what people around me were doing.
2) I needed something to read in the bathroom the other day and so I took the NME with me, and I was somewhat surprised to see them say of the Klaxons that they were the most exciting, world-changing thing to come along since the Strokes. I like the Strokes, but in retrospect, the important part of the turn-of-the-century NY music scene was definitely not their kind of music.
Other than that, I'm sure there are lots of things that ignorance led me to overstate. As an American teenager I though "electronica" was important, but in retrospect, again, I think the wrong aspects of it were seen as important.
3) Not quite sure how to date this question--my first album was The Beatles and I did a project on Billy Joel in elementary school, so that would
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something always stops me seeing the Smiths as 'important' even though i (eventually) loved them to bits and could see plainly how much they were distorting the space-pop continuum.
1- acid house, even though i did not get into it when it was happening, it was obv 'important' 2- late 80s indie dance x-over/baggy/stone roses, immersed in it. nobody cared outside of the Late Show 3- in the early 80s, Punk and Gary Numan
qualifying 1: i LIKED what i heard in the charts, and really loved quite a few tracks once i had accepted it (I was dismissive of Voodoo Ray when I first heard it!!). but i didn't jump in. my first actual rave was ~95.
re 2. I think I STILL think of baggy and indie-dance as being more important than they were. I definitely think they LASTED longer than they actually did, because I was very consumed with their progress at the time.
1. Acid house, even though I was a passing intrigued observer, mostly.
2. Probably trip hop - so dense with possibility for a few months, and then such a cul de sac.
3. I don't remember not being aware of pop's history - we had oldies singles like Yummy Yummy Yummy and Lily The Pink in the mid-70s, and I was Beatles mad at nine (in '79)...
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2. Not really. My favourite era ever was britpop, but it was less a glorious thousand year reich than this is fvcking brilliant music to be young (~20) to. Seeds of it's downfall enthusiastically hailed etc - why should our younger siblings have it when it was ours?
3. All of it! Dance Music/hip hop/noo romanticism/SAW - I might not have officially approved of all of it, but the sense of everything heading outwards at once was very powerful.
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2) I needed something to read in the bathroom the other day and so I took the NME with me, and I was somewhat surprised to see them say of the Klaxons that they were the most exciting, world-changing thing to come along since the Strokes. I like the Strokes, but in retrospect, the important part of the turn-of-the-century NY music scene was definitely not their kind of music.
Other than that, I'm sure there are lots of things that ignorance led me to overstate. As an American teenager I though "electronica" was important, but in retrospect, again, I think the wrong aspects of it were seen as important.
3) Not quite sure how to date this question--my first album was The Beatles and I did a project on Billy Joel in elementary school, so that would ( ... )
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you can extend the metaphor to include "stars" and "gravity"!
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*someone use this somewhere pls
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2- late 80s indie dance x-over/baggy/stone roses, immersed in it. nobody cared outside of the Late Show
3- in the early 80s, Punk and Gary Numan
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2. Probably trip hop - so dense with possibility for a few months, and then such a cul de sac.
3. I don't remember not being aware of pop's history - we had oldies singles like Yummy Yummy Yummy and Lily The Pink in the mid-70s, and I was Beatles mad at nine (in '79)...
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