Still Too Soon To Know
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poptimistsThree 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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Date: 2007-04-16 05:04 pm (UTC)to answer 1. PUNK ROCK -- i recall while still in the "catching up" phase (which took some time) reading about the BILL GRUNDY EXPLOSION in the shropshire star (which printed it verbatim) and being most perturbed by the apparent disfavour shown towards BEETHOVEN!!! and imagining in my head discussing this w. j.rotten and PUTTING HIM RIGHT!
anyway a few months later i heard the larf at the start of anarchy and fell totally head over heels in love w.lydon, and the unfolding of that story (pistols; punk; aftermath) was more important to me than my own life till i wd say abt 1983, when i started writing myself and began the glide into a. disenchantment and b. working out my own voice (these both took AGES) (in fact CONCRETE SO AS TO SELF DESTRUCT is probably when i negotiated full freedom from that story
2. no! (i am very full of myself)