The Reigning DJ King (MK III) is @Koala the King Killing Drop Bear is Simply Irresistible

[JohnRain]

Feel like a whiskey & fat cigar.

Yes.

[Preliminary_Point2]

Serge!

Yes

[swoodley]

I got a little bit excited when that song first started as i thought I was going to get some cool Euro cabaret music…the excitement soon faded.

No

[Kira]

Quirky YES

[choppsuey]

That is certainly different… Good on you for going right out on a limb. I didn’t like your limb though so it’s a firm no from me.

[mrjez]

Damn, beaten, I had Serge in my next set (which, at ten songs and going by my average success, would really be about four sets).

Yes

[Kj_11]

Quirky YES

This.

[choppsuey]

5-2

[dingus]

I still think there are many, many reasons why people have left the thread that aren’t just about people being mean to their music.

It’s very time-consuming, and you have to invest plenty of time just to get a spin, let alone how consuming a long set can be.

I’m warming to the idea of a spin-off thread for a different concept like ‘DJ Battles’ (DJ KingX), while keeping the changes here minimal and practical.

It would be great to get the likes of @GeoffBlethynsGlasses, @Kay_Eff_See, @dingus and @bltn be able to come back for cameo appearances now and then.

Not @ivan or @saladin though. They were too sensitive.

Edit: Essentially what up_up said.

Yeah, what he said.

My balls are being busted regularly at work and contributing at the moment would feel like having perfunctory intercourse with a supermodel. Unless your gonna do it properly, don’t do it at all.

[Paul_Peos]

Damn, beaten, I had Serge in my next set (which, at ten songs and going by my average success, would really be about four sets).

Yes

I was thinking “This is so weird it sounds like Jez played it.”

Yes for the weirdness.

[wimmera1]

Yes, okay.
Just.

[up_up]

Yeah, what he said.

My balls are being busted regularly at work and contributing at the moment would feel like having perfunctory intercourse with a supermodel. Unless your gonna do it properly, don’t do it at all.

That’s what she said.

[Crazy_Bomber]

Wait is it seriously only 7 votes for yes these days and 10 for no? Serious? WTF

[mrjez]

Nah, it’s still 10-10. 7-7 is being tossed up as a possibility for next thread.

I think.

[swoodley]

Somehow, 7-7 had a run last night (with the objective of keeping things moving).

Today seems to have reverted back to 10-10 after Klawdy was shot down

[dingus]

[frosty]

Are we still voting on Gunners?

Not in the pinball machine soundtrack, so no

There was a reason grunge appeared. It was in response to the prevalence of sh*t hard rock bands at the time. GnR had some good songs, but this wasn’t one of them.

Really?
I thought it was in response to the Real McCoy, Sucker DJ, dance-pop trash that was all the radio played at the time.
Although in this country I accept that we’d probably had enough of Farnsy, Barnesy and Diesel, too.

I think (but there’s probably a million PhDs on cultural phenomena who disagree with me) that grunge came out of a response to the mainstream, record company controlled, commercial music of the time. Hair metal was a part of this much like the commercial pop of the time (although sucker DJ post dates grunge), as it was music that was being shoved down consumers throats based on image at the expense of substance. Grunge was “real”, not some A&R managers vision of a way to turn a quick buck (until grunge was an A&R managers way to turn a quick buck).

[up_up]

grunge came out of a response to the mainstream

I think this is right, but in a passive, slacker, lid-on sort of way. Whereas punk was very active and political, grunge had a real apathy save for a general opposition to the mainstream, a “Nirvana says no”. And being defined by what you are not can be self-defeating.

[Preliminary_Point2]

Without starting a music was better in my day thread. I don’t really understand why there hasn’t been a new culture/music scene since forever. Late 80’s early 90’s have rise to grunge, hip hop and electronic music which were not just new genres also gave raise to whole cultures around them. It’s been 30 years and nothing other than “insert x genre revival”.

Obviously the 30 years before grunge had rock/folk/punk/disco etc so culture was consistently getting reinvented then.

Why is there nothing new?

[swoodley]

I think that there is “new” music out there…it’s just not conveniently found on the radio or television anymore.

All the new stuff I listen to, I have found via the likes of youtube and mp3million…and I have had to look for it.