Old fogey opinions on modern popular music amnesty

[Cloo]

Every time I put on pop radio it just sounds like a lot of (mostly quite good) early '80s songs that I've never heard before.

Yeah, I'm quite liking the early 80s pop sound going on in some quarters

 

[Yossarian]

Kind of mind-blowing that the coolest items I own might be those Ride and Pale Saints cassettes that survived earlier rounds of clearouts.

 

[Pickman's model]

Surely you mean 1798?

 

[Pickman's model]

Kind of mind-blowing that the coolest items I own might be those Ride and Pale Saints cassettes that survived earlier rounds of clearouts.

saw ride at the auld town and country

 

[killer b]

Kind of mind-blowing that the coolest items I own might be those Ride and Pale Saints cassettes that survived earlier rounds of clearouts.

Check discogs, lots of it is worth real coin now

 

[existentialist]

I have become that old fogey I used to despise when I was younger, and I have to make a conscious effort not to make disparaging remarks about the crap a lot of my younger friends listen to. OTOH, nearly all of them seem to be quite nicely into early 1970s rock music, so everybody's happy if I pile that on the Spotify.

A particularly massive irritation for me is the use of excessive amounts of autotune.

 

[danny la rouge]

A particularly massive irritation for me is the use of excessive amounts of autotune.

Yes! It grates my ears to fuck.

 

[Carvaged]

One of the best songs ever (and a Xmas #1 no less) was the Mr Blobby song. What a work of art that was, true British talent at its peak. It was almost as good as St Winifred's School choir singing There's No One Quite Like Grandma in 1980. The oldies have always been the best, as tastefully sung by Karen

 

[Carvaged]

No but seriously, yes, anything that isn't disco is basically rubbish.

 

[Hollis]

I saw a modern shoegaze band a couple months ago... I can personally verify that I was probably 30 years older than the average aged person there... and they wuz playing guitars..

 

[petee]

Sorry lads, guitar bands are out.

 

[ska invita]

godley and creme and the like no doubt

close:

 

[danny la rouge]

The oldies have always been the best, as tastefully sung by Karen

When I was young I’d listen to the radio waiting for my favourite song.

 

[killer b]

I saw a modern shoegaze band a couple months ago... I can personally verify that I was probably 30 years older than the average aged person there... and they wuz playing guitars..

who was it?

 

[Sue]

When I was young I’d listen to the radio waiting for my favourite song.

Wireless.

 

[Hollis]

bdrmm

 

[Pickman's model]

Wireless.

marconi apparatus

 

[killer b]

bdrmm

ah, they're on my 'don't listen to these guys' list cause their twitter handle is smelly bedroom, and really.

Sonic Cathedral are a great label though

 

[Pickman's model]

anyway there's never been so good a time to see 80s bands as there has been (barring the lockdowns) in the past few years.

 

[The39thStep]

One of the problem is that these days you can hear the words

 

[The39thStep]

When I was young I’d listen to the radio waiting for my favourite song.

The best thing was hearing a song you liked but not knowing who it was because you'd missed the opening introduction by the announcer.

 

[Pickman's model]

The best thing was hearing a song you liked but not knowing who it was because you'd missed the opening introduction by the announcer.

i visited relatives in canada in 1985 and my cousin, a few years aulder than me, played a song i really liked but i never got round to asking him about. it took me four years to find out it was sympathy for the devil, by chance, when it was played in the virgin megastore.

 

[ska invita]

i visited relatives in canada in 1985 and my cousin, a few years aulder than me, played a song i really liked but i never got round to asking him about. it took my four years to find out it was sympathy for the devil, by chance

no, i think it was by the rolling stones

 

[Steel Icarus]

Miki Berenyi did a great drunken tweet last night threatening to spill the beans on various shoegaze and britpop stars

Kid I spoke to pretty regularly on Twitter turned out to be the son of Moose McKillop from the band Moose, whose partner is Miki Berenyi, a fact I found out when I told him I had several posters of her on my bedroom wall/a crush on her in my late teens he took it better than he could have done tbf

 

[nottsgirl]

Ed Sheehan is quite catchy.

 

[skyscraper101]

I do occasionally switch on radio 1 to see what the charts sound like but omg it’s so tame and generic and clean every time I do. There’s so little original material, never mind anything rebellious or political. It’s just so fucking boring most of it. I’d rather listen to the washing machine.

 

[planetgeli]

Modern music is rubbish.

But then again some of my favourite bands are playing 30th anniversary tours of old albums next year (Hello Ride) so wtf is that about anyway? Bills to pay? Rock and roll.

I was 13 in '77. Just, just old enough for punk and a misplaced belief in permanent revolution. Status Quo had been playing over a decade! Kick them out! It's going to be great from here on in.

Well it was once or twice. In 40 years.

Ed who?

 

[killer b]

Moose McKillop from the band Moose, whose partner is Miki Berenyi,

fairly sure they're in a band together these days too?

 

[Steel Icarus]

fairly sure they're in a band together these days too?

Might well be, not sure if they were when the conversation happened, I've not been on Twitter for about 6 years now

 

[killer b]

Might well be, not sure if they were when the conversation happened, I've not been on Twitter for about 6 years now

I checked, it's Piroshka - they're pretty good. Album out this year, sounds like you'd expect it to.