On 1 Nov 2007, at 10:40, robin wrote:
Another point that's missed here is, by and large, musical
revolutions happen in time with other youth/cultural changes.
These can be brought around by changes of society (rock and roll
due to teenagers having money) or changes in the drugs that
society does, amongst other things.
One big reason house and techno became so big was the association
with MDMA, particulalrly in the UK youth culture of the 80s.
I total agree, it gave kids a degree of separation from the
generations before, something that was their own.
I remember when people who still drank when E was at full swing
where referred to as "beer monsters" but the main problem as I see
it with the E generation is they all went back to their day jobs
on Monday morning.
yep yep yep....
the (r)evolution never happened.
It's a shame it didn't because for a while the sense of community was
really good after Thatcher has destroyed all the unions and all the
working communities where I live.
it was co-opted by alco-pops manufacturers and now we have a
society with a huge drinking problem.
Invented for the sole reason to get women to drink more and the guy
that invented it really regrets it now.
m
