Energy Flush

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

http://www.newstatesman.com/music/2009/05/culture-technology-energy-rave

I was going to do an FT post on this but my day is filling up rapidly so I thought I'd throw it to the wolves here instead.

Comments

[martinskidmore.livejournal.com]

Besides the point that he is looking at the stuff that still seems familiar to him, this strikes me as the kind of moan we hear from middle-aged people all the time. The idea of periodic revolutions in music goes back a long way, and people are always wanting to know where the latest one is. This argument is usually constructed fairly lamely, and distorted to fit some kind of regular cycle: '56 rock 'n' roll, '66 psychedelia, '76 punk and so on. This considerably overstates, in my view, the importance of psychedelia, as well as being a bizarre date for the start of rock 'n' roll, and the usual timeline people construct on this omits hip hop, surely the most important development of recentish decades.