The Youth stealing all your favourite records

[luka]

i was moaning to Sheils about this

 

[luka]

theyve hoovered up my entire taste by this stage. ive got no secrets left. i cant show anyone anything.

 

[sus]

 

[sus]

The kids are coming up from behind.

 

[Murphy]

This is to 1991 what 1991 was to 1961

 

[luka]

not so much a losing your edge thing as your entire past having been catalogued, ordered, ranked,

 

[DannyL]

You know what the word nonce means though so you still have one up on the Americans.

 

[DannyL]

More seriously, I think you have to have a bit of neophilia. I like this time of year as I read lots of end of year lists and go on a binge. If you've not got that love or fascination with new stuff you will feel a bit like your taste is ossifying.

Though, to your point above, I still don't reckon the internet's lossless recall can capture what it's like to be part of a scene even just as a listener, it can't capture the organic links and connections.

 

[luka]

no of course it cant but it can put all the records that comprised the scene in a ring binder and people can dutifully go through them all

 

[shiels]

Is the frustration more about them not getting it in the same way, flattening it, no investment. or you losing a sense of authority?

 

[luka]

none of those things really.

 

[shiels]

So I was asking luke for something beautiful on Saturday night and the first tune he shared id already heard (because he put me onto it!) and now he’s having a mid life crisis

 

[luka]

i just find it weird i suppose. its a strange feeling.

 

[DannyL]

no of course it cant but it can put all the records that comprised the scene in a ring binder and people can dutifully go through them all

Yeah I guess that's life though, especially now. Though those who go through the lot are a dedicated few.

If you've ever been involved in any collecting scenes, it can get like this but things get shuffled, recontextualized and made anew. Like I'm sure I heard my Urban 12" of The Jackson Sisters very differently to how it was first heard when first cut. I'm listening to an Indian flute LP I bought on Friday from Spitalfields. It must be more than 50 years old but it's fresh as a baby's bum to me.

 

[shiels]

The value of lived experience drying up

 

[sus]

no of course it cant but it can put all the records that comprised the scene in a ring binder and people can dutifully go through them all

"I'm losing my edge to the Internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1978."

 

[luka]

im obsolete. its weird though. my taste most people would say defined a generation, or several generations. but becasue i was the leading taste maker of so long my taste is now conservative by definition.

 

[Leo]

im obsolete. its weird though. my taste most people would say defined a generation, or several generations. but becasue i was the leading taste maker of so long my taste is now conservative by definition.

but they have to study and then try to remember things that come to you naturally. and it's highly likely they will eventually either forget those things, or move on to the next thing and leave them behind, while you'll still have the knowledge in your core. it's part of you.

 

[CrowleyHead]

I mean on the bright side they've also learned from your mistakes and don't think Ghetto or Kano is talented.

 

[luka]

i dont know why everyone has it in for Kano!