sadmanbarty
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I got sent 3 copies of Oi when it came out. One of only 4 promos I got that year.
Did it sound fake to you? Not the proper stuff?
I got sent 3 copies of Oi when it came out. One of only 4 promos I got that year.
Did it sound fake to you? Not the proper stuff?
Didnt really pay attention TBH. This was pre grime (obv), so thought it was just some random UK hip hop thing and only bounced the needle off it. It was about a year later when i heard it somewhere else and realised how good it was.
I do find the thing of music journalists pretending to like Taylor swift albums disgusting though. disingenuousness in the pursuit of mundanity. If some journalist goes “I only like derek Bailey, slips it and gabba” I’d think it’s fake but at least that lie is in the pursuit of making an aesthetic point about hardness and extremity.
My nan’s favourite band is west life. She was born in 1935. Their first album came out in 1999.
She currently loves Ed Sheehan, rag and bone man and George Ezra.
It goes to show though that pop music probably doesn’t document the listening habits of the young very well. I’ve never ever known a young person who likes Ed Sheehan.
I don’t know how they weight streams vs sales when they do the charts, but I think only old people are buying music these days which means that pure sales alone are completely unreflective.
When I first encountered this forum, it seemed like it was a window to all these cool secrets about music that no-one else knew. Not obscure music, but this hidden potency in all these excentric genres like jungle, grime and dancehall, uk funky.
There was a cognitive dissonance that I was drawn towards resolving.