an amorous party at a farm

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Courtesy of freakytigger and indeed FreakyTrigger, apparently we have all resolved our generational difficulties and become one big happy Radio Two family since 1966. Blimes.

Arbitrary Woodstock reference WTF

Of course you can't have an innaccurate and limited poll carried out without poptimists getting involved, with our great experience in POLL SCIENCE and superior democratic methods. Err. Anyway, I'm clearly not the best mod for this task but away we go.


[Poll #1443342]

It would be more thorough but I appear to be experiencing mild 'stealing wireless fail' so thought I'd just shove it out here quick.

Comments

Re: BRAINFIZZ

[cis.livejournal.com]

oh dear the embarrassed by yr prev self thing was supposed to just be an aside!

It was more the point that a person's tastes aren't linear - as well as not being constant - and so there's this point where, within the same rough sense of genre, a fourteen-year-old who's only just learning to be a snob about pop music will coincide with a 5-year-old who's too busy to be a snob about pop music any more. So the generations are a little stretched out, they're sort of a funny shape.

tbf this is basically me doing a seth godin, maybe i should go away and make up a diagram and then talk about what we can ~learn~ from this.

(actually this is all coming from the percolation of Franco Moretti's Graphs Maps Trees, what i read last week, which has some interesting stuff on literary-genre generations)

"embarrassed by yr prev self"

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

is what i shorthand with BUBBLEGUM GUILT (then indie guilt, then popism guilt, then etc): seven ages of pop menz&wimminz, all structured by guilt HURRAH

when you are 49 you realise you have never been wrong about anything and it's everyone else who should feel guilty CURSE THEIR PUNY ANTICS

Re: "embarrassed by yr prev self"

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Nonono I was DEFINITELY wrong about Staind and the next 27 years won't change that.

Re: "embarrassed by yr prev self"

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

When I look back on my teenage tastes I'm seriously just AMAZINGLY IMPRESSED by my taste - while everyone around me were being SHEEPLE into bad, bad, terrible britpop, I was looking down on them from the trip-hop-soundtracked moral high ground :D

Re: BRAINFIZZ

[piratemoggy.livejournal.com]

Graffs are grebt!

I didn't really word my response right: the non-linearity is of course what is important here. I did so much flipping about and attempting to delete my previous musical history when I was a teenager that even after I managed to get my head around pop it took me another three years to reallign that with the previous stuff as non-opposite. I guess this means I am currently down with the kids? (no)