Listening to a mate dj'ing other night who is a lot younger than me and only been in to the music 15 years or so ,he played Johnny Bristol 'hang on in there baby' and it went down a storm you would think he had discovered a mega hard to find toon !made me think with lots of 30 somethings in to the music how do they know whats rare and what charted ? You got to admit there are lots of well known records that need playing ,Iv just started listening to Marv Johnson again the M F P one just forgot just how good he was .Rose for my rose cracking .

Listening to a mate dj'ing other night who is a lot younger than me and only been in to the music 15 years or so  ,he played Johnny Bristol 'hang on in there baby' and it went down a storm you would think he had discovered a mega hard to find toon !made me think with lots of 30 somethings in to the music how do they know whats rare and what charted ? You got to admit there are lots of well known records that need playing ,Iv just started listening to Marv Johnson again the M F P one just forgot just how good he was .Rose for my rose cracking .

I think the fresh ears approach works wonders on bringing some underplayed stuff back to life,

The younger crowd are hearing the music on merit and not snob/rarity value, loads of stuff out of vogue because deemed not rare enough or as you say ex chart stuff

Bring em on

M.

Listening to a mate dj'ing other night who is a lot younger than me and only been in to the music 15 years or so ,he played Johnny Bristol 'hang on in there baby' and it went down a storm you would think he had discovered a mega hard to find toon !made me think with lots of 30 somethings in to the music how do they know whats rare and what charted ? You got to admit there are lots of well known records that need playing ,Iv just started listening to Marv Johnson again the M F P one just forgot just how good he was .Rose for my rose cracking .

Rose for my rose - top tune gets me every time.

I work in a university library with a small vinyl section mainly poetry but with some music. One of the students took The Motown Story out on loan and I heard him say to his mate - I bet this is really rare - I didn't want to spoil it for them so I kept schtum.

Cheers

Manus

Edited March 21, 201015 yr by manus

The younger crowd are hearing the music on merit and not snob/rarity value, loads of stuff out of vogue because deemed not rare enough or as you say ex chart stuff

The older crowd hear the music purely on merit as well. Well i do anyway.

Hearing something new to your ears is brilliant and it doesn't matter if you've been on the scene four years or forty years. I spoke to a bloke on Friday at our do who used to be a Wigan regular and he said he recognised only two records we played. I just hope the younger crowd don't stop seeking out new things to listen to, as seems to have happened to most.