Reply to: Recession and Music

[Mich the Tester]

Keane

Genesis

[ratewhore]

... so we made the best of our last weekend. ...

I bet you ******* did...

[Foxy Moron]

Keane

[GCR99]

They are to E&BM what Oasis are to The Beatles

It also shows that with a few notable exceptions, few decent bands come out of the South East

Whoa , hold on there, what about The Jam (Woking) The Cure (Crawley) Keane (Sussex) , Stranglers (guildford) Genesis (Godalming area) Gorillaz (Sussex) , as well as London bands

[Mich the Tester]

I think we are getting old.

Maybe. Perhaps it’s just stupid nostalgia. I heard the La’s on the radio and it reminded me of lying in the grass at the Flamborough Head cliffs with a rather beautiful Irish girlfriend and a little radio playing lots of indie music. She had to leave to go and live in America with her parents, I had to stay in Blighty to study, so we made the best of our last weekend. But I remember the word ‘recession’ was continually in the news and we didn’t give a tulip about it; we just got on with enjoying life.

[lambrini_socialist]

oh jesus, i am NOT getting drawn into a discussion about music in CUK of all places. no no no. it's wrong. buh bye

[gingerjedi]

The Beatles would not make it today. They haven't got the look, the x-factor. Forget songwriting, we can do a cover, bound to get to number 1, we had a free advert for 3 months.

Yours
Simon (zig n zag) Cowell

Times are a changing, bands can't make money from record sales these days so there are more gigs than ever, you wouldn't think so looking at the daily dross that appears on prime time TV though.

Get out there, start gigging.

[Foxy Moron]

I don't like the Beatles wither, but I understand why others do

[minestrone]

There was a real explosion of music from a town called Bellshill just outside Glasgow in the 80s, Bellshill is seriously like the dangleberry off the arse that is Glasgow.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellshill#Music

[lambrini_socialist]

The Beatles would not make it today. They haven't got the look, the x-factor. Forget songwriting, we can do a cover, bound to get to number 1, we had a free advert for 3 months.

Yours
Simon (zig n zag) Cowell

meh, i hate the way it's apparently compulsory to like the bloody Beatles in this country. what a failure of imagination. i'd rather put a donk on it

[thelace]

The recession will have to be incredibly deep before I learn to appreciate Coldplay!

[Foxy Moron]

The Beatles would not make it today. They haven't got the look, the x-factor. Forget songwriting, we can do a cover, bound to get to number 1, we had a free advert for 3 months.

Yours
Simon (zig n zag) Cowell

[lambrini_socialist]

I hated Britpop (shi7pop), especially Suede. I feel sick now

ditto, but i'm a guitarophobe full stop

[expat]

Yep, but my point is that these guys really got big in the 70s, and besides, Black Sabbath came from Birmingham, which was in economic doom ever since the war.

I'm just trying to be optimistic here in the hope that some bunch of bored teenagers who can't afford a haircut can produce a really good song to remember forever.

Looks like the bands form in the good times, but don't get appreciated till the bad times? So hard luck, what you see now is all there is for the next few years.

[Foxy Moron]

not according to Simon Reynolds:

I hated Britpop (shi7pop), especially Suede. I feel sick now