....what's it like?

Now I'm not saying this is a wrong thing, nor any less enjoyable than what anyone else does with the time they give up to music....it can't be as it is all, after all, subjective.

But at what point does it cut off for you sixties lads? (Or seventies, or mod, or ska...whatever)

I find it hard to comprehend that, as I find, most of the people that are die hard-whatevers, always seem to have a seceondary leaning - be it punk or whatever, something that is a million miles away from their 'polished boot' credentials on here - and that seems to be accepted...strangely.

Why is this odd juxtaposition deemed okay?

Eg - Malcolm Owen & The Ruts (tick), The Pages (shite)...get me?

Trapped in an era, I suppose I could be, unfairly, pigeon holed as "Trapped in an era".

My era of entrapment starts the time cave men banged their first repetitive musical note and grinds to a reluctant halt at the time CD's changed the way we store music.

I think this altered the way we "invested" our time, love and loyalty towards music. The change saw most go from a weekly album and a weekly single, to infinite music files.

Nowt wrong with this I hasten to add, it just seamed to make music a little disposable, ignorable, and dare I say some times a little shallow?

Youth culture changed at the same time because of this? The early eighties saw "Sports casual" obliterate all "uniformed" sub genres and the music lost its associations to become a MTV Soup!

Again nowt wrong with this, radio 1 had for many years spoon fed those unable or unwilling to lend an ear to off centre music.

Crystal ball time now, I am not sure my son will remember a "genre" of music when he is older, I doubt he roll his eyes and look back lovingly at a type of music associated with a "scene"?

I, like most, are transported to a complete world of memories and sensations a la Northernsoul, trapped in an era? Wonderfully fookin yes!

P.S. I do enjoy many different types of music but nothing touches me as much Northernsoul.

....what's it like?

Why is this odd juxtaposition deemed okay?

Eg - Malcolm Owen & The Ruts (tick), The Pages (shite)...get me?

Get you.

I wouldn't know what its like, but I would say there arguably isn't a conflict.

Small minded soul police People who consider all eras and styles outside their chosen one 'crap' exist in every genre under the sun.

When some life-change causes them to swap music genres they will sometimes retain an emotional attachment to their former life (as say a punk) despite the music they now will cling-till-death-to being completely different to the music they were clinging-till-death-to last week.

They can justify this attachment to themselves by noting that within (eg.) Punk you had your 'fakers' and 'pop acts' (the horror!), just as you do in Soul, and that regardless of their evolving musical taste, they have remained true to integrity and no doubt being an individual.

The same timidity they had in exploring the former genre carries across with the self-righteousness.

Small minded soul police

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