Still Too Soon To Know

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

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?

Comments

Re: salad of all my salad days

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

Gambo's full-colour 1987 update was a key text for me too when I decided (at 14) that I needed SCHOOLIN'.

Re: salad of all my salad days

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

was it put together by the cognoscenti voting? if so i believe i DISDANED it bcz j.peel declined to take part (and stated that he thought such projects were a waste of time) -- but i sneaked peaks at it in the bookshop all the same

i might add that my schoolchums' list was primarily made up of GENESIS and BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST

Re: salad of all my salad days

[jeff-worrell.livejournal.com]

was it put together by the cognoscenti voting?

It was. Notable casualty of the 2nd edition (i.e. did quite well in 1980, nowhere in 1987) = The Appletree Theatre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appletree_Theatre)!

(there were no doubt others too, but that's the one I will always remember)