Kid Pulse
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I wanna be that someone that you're with.
Joined: April 2007
Posts: 3,957
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Post by Kid Pulse on Jul 8, 2007 12:48:17 GMT -5
1998 and 2006. But 2007 is right up there! :)
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Post by busyboy on Jul 8, 2007 13:25:13 GMT -5
1993 and 1994.
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Post by jaxxalude on Jul 9, 2007 18:14:32 GMT -5
Instead of years, let's just say I have periods. 1993 to 1997 can probably be my Golden Age. After the 1989-1992 Prologue Years, those four years was when I dug really deep into music and never looked back. It was when I started to uncover real alternative music via the indie scene, especially the American one. It was when drum-n-bass and trip-hop happened, and from that I plunged into electronic and dance music like no other music since then, discovering house, techno, early trance and everything in-between and hopelessly falling in love with it all. Gangsta rap was happening and I more than happily took the bait. New Jack Swing was giving way to Hip-Hop Soul and the doors to R&B and Soul opened up to me. And now that nostalgia set in, even a lot of the Eurodance type-stuff that seemed trite at the time now seems more appealing to me. All of these, when listened to nowadays, more or less dated in their production, still maintain a lot of its visionary undertones and has survived greatly as artistic statements in their own merit, especially when it comes to electronic music. But since this is Teen Age we're talking about, a good portion of mistakes were also done. One of them was thinking that things like Hootie & The Blowfish were of great artistic value. Age and distance now tell me that, at best, they were pleasant background music, totally indefensible as great or challenging art. I too fooled myself thinking that Bush, Silverchair or Live had something of merit to give me, when I should have realized there and then how generic and tailor-made they were for mass consumption. Britpop, though, is an altogether different beast. While I whole-heartedly embraced it then, very few of it now survives as really important music. With a few notable exceptions, that music now sounds to me what it actually always was: terribly stagnated and too reverent of its original sources of inspiration to be fully deserving of the iconic status it has in Britain. Then came the 2000-2004 period, but I'll elaborate on that one either later, or when I find the mood.
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Post by itsbeenaweek on Jul 10, 2007 2:29:15 GMT -5
1998
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