Happy Hardcore?

[minimatt1967]

I'm a big metal fan and i don't mind admitting it! Happy Hardcore is something I just cannot get my head a round, why or indeed how people can like it? I don't mind House/Trance music some of it is exceptionnally catchy and stick's with you for days, I have quite a ponchant for drum and bass and its ilk (garage, dub etc), but happy hardcore is just beyond me, and it isn't just being knaive through ignorance, my mates at college used to love Helta Skelta so I have listened to it! Ok thats what I think...whats your oppinion?

Edited by minimatt1967 on Thursday 10th July 07:48

[KANEIT]

All the cartoon imagery and squeeky voices makes me think it's designed for hyperactive five year olds.

[paulmurr]

Utter crap. All of it. Without Exeption.

[DucatiGary]

scooter?

hehehe

music for chavs and children, chipmunk voices? I just dont get that on jot.

thing that really gripes me is dumb people think your into hardcore if your into house music . . . . idiots

[Plotloss]

DucatiGary said:

scooter?

hehehe

music for chavs and children, chipmunk voices? I just dont get that on jot.

thing that really gripes me is dumb people think your into hardcore if your into house music . . . . idiots

Scooter I heard referred to the other day as 'Scouse House' which floored me.

Hardcore had its day, 18 or so years ago and it was wild.

Today, its an absurd pastiche of one of the driving forces behind the widescale adoption of modern house music.

[smiller]

F!!cking hateful, hateful stuff.

Happy hardcore is to dance music what the G-Wiz is to cars. Similar, but - ultimately - sh!te.

Proper stuff here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUt-Gn80hD0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOy5LOsV6Vs&fea...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF2wKZMfdiI

Bilge here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vk6r1gSYDM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUsb5HP7Ajg

[Frik]

The single "genre" of music that makes me want to injure people with sharp sticks.

[deevlash]

You're all wrong, this is great!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YBQmV2zZK5o

[Fittster]

Silly happy hardcore killed rave.

Where the rot started

[Plotloss]

Fittster said:

Silly happy hardcore killed rave.

Where the rot started

The commercial release of it did, when it was being played out 18 months before it was released it was a massive record.

[Frik]

deevlash said:

You're all wrong, this is great!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YBQmV2zZK5o

How can this be a tune when it hasn't got one?

[Plotloss]

Frik said:

deevlash said:

You're all wrong, this is great!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=YBQmV2zZK5o

How can this be a tune when it hasn't got one?

Bear in mind that around 89/90 the drugs were so good we would have danced around a car alarm.

[Frik]

Es the size of wagon wheels, eh?

[Plotloss]

Bag when Wagon Wheels were the size of your head.

All fields round here etc.

Full of ravers strangely.

[ganglandboss]

KANEIT said:

All the cartoon imagery and squeeky voices makes me think it's designed for hyperactive five year olds.

Excellent response.

I can't understand how anyone on here likes it - it's not a fking 'Max Power' forum.

[Fittster]

Plotloss said:

Fittster said:

Silly happy hardcore killed rave.

Where the rot started

The commercial release of it did, when it was being played out 18 months before it was released it was a massive record.

Depends which clubs you went to. It was released when a lot of people were getting bored of the excesses of hardcore and were getting into progressive house.

Us clubbers in our leather trousers and john richmond tops were much cooler than those ravers.

[deadslow]

Well seen its the school holidays.

[Ed.]

Sure its cheesy, repetitive and may lack musical skill in its creation but you can say the same about the huge amounts of blinged-up self opinionated rap. One openly glamorises gangland values (and yes people should know better than do it cos they heard it in a song but there are more than enough that don't) while the other may irritate you but others will say the same about rock or country.

[amir_j]

Not into happy hardcore but a month ago rdio 1's essential mix had one of the Uk's leading djs on and the set was damn good, remixed in classics like Baby D etc

[Fittster]

Ed. said:

Sure its cheesy, repetitive and may lack musical skill in its creation but you can say the same about the huge amounts of blinged-up self opinionated rap. One openly glamorises gangland values .

And the other bangs on about Ecstasy in every other lyric.