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Being 46 and always very into music I figured that no surprises would bubble up from my own era but I stumbled on slowdive the other day.
Never heard of them.
Now working my way through their back catalogue and Lush as well.
Fantastic & music that could have been written just for me.
The thing is I don’t get how I missed this the first time around?
I was never very much of a ‘scene’ person and would listen to just about anything.
I also bought so many bands who were ‘adjacent’ such as Saint Eitenne, Portishead, Suede…
I suppose because I was very much into stuff like Nine Inch Nails, Black Crowes as well as mining older music like Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd & The Smiths it just got missed.
Anyway, I’m really pleased I found this sub-genre and if anyone has any other suggestions I’m literally all ears!
Never heard of them.
Now working my way through their back catalogue and Lush as well.
Fantastic & music that could have been written just for me.
The thing is I don’t get how I missed this the first time around?
I was never very much of a ‘scene’ person and would listen to just about anything.
I also bought so many bands who were ‘adjacent’ such as Saint Eitenne, Portishead, Suede…
I suppose because I was very much into stuff like Nine Inch Nails, Black Crowes as well as mining older music like Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd & The Smiths it just got missed.
Anyway, I’m really pleased I found this sub-genre and if anyone has any other suggestions I’m literally all ears!
Firstly thank you everyone for your suggestions.
But yes, it was a whirlwind time & by moving to different circle of friends or changing pubs could change the artistic & musical landscape greatly.
Yours truly at 18.
President Merkin said:
I definitely recall the heyday of it being a fairly middle class white boys scene, although that may have been a product of being at university at the turn of the 90's when it was everywhere. I tend to think of it as something that came & went quite quickly in the public consciousness but has left a fairly big legacy on indie guitar music to this day.
But in a wider context, that period was a pretty big cultural explosion in the UK. We'd had the first flourish of indie,then Madchester & the rise of the rave scene, all of which got swept away by the Britpop thing & all of that along side people like Tracy Emin, Danny Boyle, Hanif Kureishi, Damien Hirst They were heady days.
I am the epitome of a middle class white boy…But in a wider context, that period was a pretty big cultural explosion in the UK. We'd had the first flourish of indie,then Madchester & the rise of the rave scene, all of which got swept away by the Britpop thing & all of that along side people like Tracy Emin, Danny Boyle, Hanif Kureishi, Damien Hirst They were heady days.
Edited by President Merkin on Tuesday 2nd April 15:48
But yes, it was a whirlwind time & by moving to different circle of friends or changing pubs could change the artistic & musical landscape greatly.
Yours truly at 18.
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