Favourite Era For Music?
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wormus said:
TheChampers said:
and ended in 1990 with Depeche Mode’s Violator.
Oooh harsh. Songs of faith a devotion was a great album. I think the (all) music died when Alan Wilder left DM.
Eddie Strohacker said:
I would bet my house that almost every contributors favourite period coincides with their youth. Not seen anyone punt the 1920's or the 2000's.
There's always other factors in a question like this.
Perhaps the 1920's or 2000's are not popular!There's always other factors in a question like this.
The reason for my liking of late 70s music is I find it is the best sounding recorded music normally down to the use of API and Neve consoles once the 80's got going SSL took hold and I find a lot of recordings from the 80's era harsh, take the Power Station studio in New York using the Neve 8068 on the Chic albums and Springsteen's The River compared to Madonna's Like A Virgin recorded a few years later at the same place but through an SSL console, the warmth was all gone.
As the late Big George Webley once said "music reached it's heights in the late 70s and very early 80's and then started going downhill"
Eddie Strohacker said:
I would bet my house that almost every contributors favourite period coincides with their youth. Not seen anyone punt the 1920's or the 2000's.
There's always other factors in a question like this.
I already said I have very fond memories of music from the 2000's (not 2010's). I wasn't alive for 90's music, but it's by far my favourite era for both music and cars. There's always other factors in a question like this.
Raygun said:
Eddie Strohacker said:
I would bet my house that almost every contributors favourite period coincides with their youth. Not seen anyone punt the 1920's or the 2000's.
There's always other factors in a question like this.
Perhaps the 1920's or 2000's are not popular!There's always other factors in a question like this.
The reason for my liking of late 70s music is I find it is the best sounding recorded music normally down to the use of API and Neve consoles once the 80's got going SSL took hold and I find a lot of recordings from the 80's era harsh, take the Power Station studio in New York using the Neve 8068 on the Chic albums and Springsteen's The River compared to Madonna's Like A Virgin recorded a few years later at the same place but through an SSL console, the warmth was all gone.
As the late Big George Webley once said "music reached it's heights in the late 70s and very early 80's and then started going downhill"
TheChampers said:
Great album, agreed. I was trying to be quite precise as to what an “era” was for me. The list could be longer, but great, great, music between 1978 and 1990 (not necessarily for the whole period) was produced by (deep breath) : AC/DC, ABC, All About Eve, Frankie, Tubeway Army, Gary Numan, Black Sabbath, Blondie, Talk Talk, The Psychedelic Furs, Spear Of Destiny, Tears For Fears, Yazoo, Patti Smith, Dire Straits, Floyd, Rush, The Skids, Big Country, The Sisters Of Mercy, The Mission, New Order, Echo And The Bunnymen,This Mortal Coil, Carmel, The Sundays, Black, Nick Cave, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Eurythmics, Carmel, Ian Dury, Siouxsie And The Banshees..... almost ad infinitum.
Cannot argue with any of those (maybe Dire Straits), sounds like we have very similar music taste 
I would add Joy Division, U2 (up to Joshua Tree) and dare I say it Duran Duran. I also worked with the bloke who skippered the yacht in the Rio video. How cool is that? (Him, not me).90s, obviously. More specifically 91-96 with hardcore, jungle, bouncy techno and gabber being at their peaks pretty much in progression. Throw in some Belgian techno and finish the decade with the big room trance of Tiesto, Ferry Corsten etc, who started out a few years earlier making gabber.
The dance scene now afaik is pretty much on its arse, certainly in the UK re harder stuff. Holland still going strong as ever. RedBull just did a decent documentary on Bonzai if anyone knows wtf I'm talking about.
And to think some weirdos spent the 90s listening to f
king Britpop.
The dance scene now afaik is pretty much on its arse, certainly in the UK re harder stuff. Holland still going strong as ever. RedBull just did a decent documentary on Bonzai if anyone knows wtf I'm talking about.
And to think some weirdos spent the 90s listening to f
king Britpop. technodup said:
90s, obviously. More specifically 91-96 with hardcore, jungle, bouncy techno and gabber being at their peaks pretty much in progression. Throw in some Belgian techno and finish the decade with the big room trance of Tiesto, Ferry Corsten etc, who started out a few years earlier making gabber.
The dance scene now afaik is pretty much on its arse, certainly in the UK re harder stuff. Holland still going strong as ever. RedBull just did a decent documentary on Bonzai if anyone knows wtf I'm talking about.
And to think some weirdos spent the 90s listening to fking Britpop.
Alot of that 90's trance music still popular round here. Pretty sure the Orbit night club round here was well known for it. The dance scene now afaik is pretty much on its arse, certainly in the UK re harder stuff. Holland still going strong as ever. RedBull just did a decent documentary on Bonzai if anyone knows wtf I'm talking about.
And to think some weirdos spent the 90s listening to f
king Britpop. Eddie Strohacker said:
I would bet my house that almost every contributors favourite period coincides with their youth. Not seen anyone punt the 1920's or the 2000's.
There's always other factors in a question like this.
Whatever you're into at ~17yo is usually what people stick with for the rest of their life.There's always other factors in a question like this.
Yipper said:
Whatever you're into at ~17yo is usually what people stick with for the rest of their life.
Is it? I was mad soul head at 17, then I taught myself to play guitar and everything changed.More to the point, I've learned to keep an open mind to all kinds of music, to recognise quality wherever i see it.
Eddie Strohacker said:
Yipper said:
Whatever you're into at ~17yo is usually what people stick with for the rest of their life.
Is it? I was mad soul head at 17, then I taught myself to play guitar and everything changed.More to the point, I've learned to keep an open mind to all kinds of music, to recognise quality wherever i see it.
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