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70s & 80s: both ended/marked/capped (in the yoo kay at least, once again, u.s. = too big for any one massive movement?) with a new...scene...which precipitated a massive and total shift in, well, everything. for good or ill, forward or backward, regressive or progressive. ground zero, nuthins ever the same agin. so, what happened with the 90s that something similar didn't occur? or am i just so out of it that one did and i didn't notice? by 1981 and 1991 the musical landscape was pretty well re-drawn by the results of these movements (meaning while its not impossible to say that we would have seen records like "y," "closer," "screamdelica," "the orb's adventures beyond my arse" before 1990 or 1980, a certain...cause and effect could immediately be drawn up), but by 2001 i just see...the same ol' micro-niche-marketing and genre necrophilia. so having lived with the results of both but the excitment of neither in their prime (as i would say is the case for most of us here, with the few obvious exceptions), what i wanna know is: where's my fookin revolution? eh??

(obviously this question is reductionist and simplified beyond belief owing once again to my...yes, that's right, bone crushing tiredness.)

― jess, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(multiple word thread titles are my blow against the MAN.)

― jess, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah I used to be an advocate of the "every ten years pop gets shaken up" school of thought. With benefit of hindsight I'm not sure it actually stands up, however.

Interestingly, you don't say who or what caused the revolution in the late 80s. Was it the C-86 brigade, as I argued in my BSc(Hons) final year thesis around that time - after all, Primal Scream were associated with that movement. Or was it acid house?

And where/how does rap fit into the theory anyway?

As to where your 90s revolution may have occurred - if it did at all, it was probably on a lot of laptops rather than in any club or smelly pub basement.

― Jeff, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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― Ronan, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

from my limitied viewpoint, the nineties have consisted of a great deal of imitation of previous decades, not only in music.

― Maria, Friday, 5 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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