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poptimists2007-04-16 03:12 pm
freakytigger.livejournal.com) wrote in poptimists2007-04-16 03:12 pm
Still Too Soon To Know
Three questions, which I will try and phrase right - all related though.
They're about importance. For once I'm not talking about importance to one's personal listening history, emotional development etc. I'm interested in how we as individuals perceive "music history" and "historical significance" while it's happening.
The question:
1. What moment, or trend or era in music have you felt was most important while it was happening?
2. Have there been any moments you felt at the time were important, which don't seem as important with hindsight.
3. When you first became aware of pop music as something which had a history, what seemed to you the most important things in the previous ten years?
They're about importance. For once I'm not talking about importance to one's personal listening history, emotional development etc. I'm interested in how we as individuals perceive "music history" and "historical significance" while it's happening.
The question:
1. What moment, or trend or era in music have you felt was most important while it was happening?
2. Have there been any moments you felt at the time were important, which don't seem as important with hindsight.
3. When you first became aware of pop music as something which had a history, what seemed to you the most important things in the previous ten years?
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I first got into music at a very young age - 6 or 7 (= 1972). But I first really seriously and geekily got into pop/rock music at age 13 or 14 (= 1979).
I can't remember when I first realised that pop had a history. But I must have been fairly young at the time (a key moment might have been seeing my parents' generation twisting to Chubby Checker at a wedding reception! This would have been early/mid 70s). At that point, though, I think there was still no such thing as an authorised Story Of Rock or an alBUMs canon with widespread acceptance. That didn't really come about until the end of the 70s AFAIK. By the time I was old enough to form my own ideas about what was important about pop's past - age 14 or 15 I guess - I was probably thinking it was prog rock stuff like Yes.
Obv from 1980 onwards I was experiencing nearly everything in real time.
Random thought/question that may be relevant to this thread
IOW, when did it become necessary for the programmers to reject chunks of pop history?
i.e. when did R1 stop playing
1. Elvis
2. The Beach Boys
3. The Move
4. 70s disco
5. Duran Duran (assuming they have stopped now - haven't checked)
6. etc ?
and when did R2 stop playing
1. Light Programme stuff (in the daytime, I mean. There are still dedicated shows at the weekends like Friday Night Is Music Night and Listen To the Band)
2. 50s pop hits
3. etc. ?