Still Too Soon To Know

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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?

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1. Grime -- Although I ws v distant listener, I still feel this in some way and that the seeds have been sown for something special.

2. not sure, nothing comes to mind right now (I'm sure many would say Grime).

3. Became strongly aware (hand on shoulder) of music history (pop or otherwise, I suppose I can never answer q on poptimists on just pop music) sometime in the late 90s. In prev 10 years it probably would have to be the stuff written in "Blissed out", but I never really thought of it as important, just some v good bands, wriiten about in a very convincing manner. The actual answer (today, stuff I ws beginnign to discover then) would have to be the avant-garde classical stuff by the likes of Finnissy, Ferneyhough, Dench, Barlow and the like, but the history of that stuff has yet to be written.

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haha of course grime isn't quite 'over'..