I reckon if you hear a Diggers set that’ll do the job…Spraying people is half the fun.
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An udpate for our audience- outside a mysterious little French nightclub a Ford Mustang pulls up- references to romance and violence abound. Is the protagonist in for the ride of his life or a ride to the cemetery? Currently voting sits at 7-2…
until we’re not allowed to anymore.
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Make sure you apologise and tip your fedora every time you no vote.
Yes
yes 8-2
I’m lucky to have a slack job and the DJ thread helps pass the time when nothing much is going on. People apologise to me all the time for interrupting my DJ King listening 
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9-2
I just couldn’t keep up with the thread. The song turnover became so quick at one point it wasn’t something you could just casually dip in and out of at work anymore.
That and you voted me off for radiohead and Pearl jam 
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Is it really so weird? Or just French?
If it’s any consolation we’ve been luaghing at this ever since.
It’s kind of the gold standard on how we used to vote. “What we voted this trash song through but we voted Ivan out for Radiohead.”
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Ruok diggers? Need a panic room like your love?
I think this represents a misunderstanding of the way culture operates the days. I say think because I don’t know, but I’ll try to explain.
In the old days “culture” had an element of homogeneity in that although there were the various sub-cultures they were all living within the same framework, and there was the capacity for someone to come out of one of these sub cultures and see much wider acceptance across sub cultural lines (without becoming part of the mainstream, which would be everything that some sort of counter culture megastar couldn’t be.)
Now, there are 2 things that make it different these days. The first is that sub cultures are much more fragmented and operating in completely different frameworks. Those who like “other” music need not ever even engage with a Melbourne music scene, for instance, so rather than bending the scene to their differences they tend to engage with somewhere that suits them, and become embedded in the “scene” that suits their needs, rather than just exploding out of some local scene unlike anything we’ve ever seen before.
The other thing that changes things is that in spite of culture being fragmented, there are millions of people out there trying to spot that next movement and exploit it and suck it dry before everyone else tries to do the same. So everything becomes mainstream in a matter of minutes once there’s a buzz about it, and it’s over before it’s even started.
This is my guess.
Although it’s also likely that I’m completely wrong, and the are stacks of people who would meet the criteria for next person who “changed it all”, it’s just that we’re all too old and cynical to have noticed.
Actually that is probably it entirely. I should ask the kiddies who it is that they’d be talking about in 20 years. Cobain as he’s seen now is different to how it was then. There was still far more people listening to C&C music factory than the were buying Nirvana records in 1991 (maybe, don’t give me the stats!). And even now if you listen to “classic 90s” radio it’s all rubbish. So it’s not like Nirvana actually changed anything. Except that they did.
Ahh fck it, I have no idea.
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Great post!!
That’s Nirvana nicely summed up…they were by no means the originators of Grunge, they just became “The Face” of grunge.
They weren’t the best of the grunge bands, but they became the most popular and Kurt’s death added to their popularity and notoriety
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Probably one of the “lil”
Lil yachty
Lil peep
Lil pump
P.s don’t look them up
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What’s the song and how quickly can I no vote it?
On a related note, mumble rap. WTF!
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This is pretty close to the truth I reckon. The shuffle generation has changed music irreparably. The ability to pick and choose a specific song at any one time shortens the attention span of the listening audience and thus music doesn’t ever have the chance to become ingrained in culture anymore before people move onto the next sound. There are no more classic records because nobody has the attention span to listen long enough before moving to the next fad.
Are lyrics important to people in music or not?
It’s no coincidence the internet appeared in the meantime. Counter cultures were built underground to the point they exploded into the mainstream. We find out about stuff too early now, co opt and present ■■■■■■ money making versions of it, before it has a chance to discover its real power.
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