There have been 70's theme pubs for ages, and 80's ones, but they are wearing a bit thin, jesus, that decade had its shot and people moved on.
80's theme pubs have managed to carry that decade on for another decade.
What happened to the love for the 90's? You can sum up the 90's as the decade when dance music appeared. Where are the 90's pubs?
Early 90's stuff was a bit crap. Go back and listen to it, and it's like meeting a childhood hero are realising they are an arse. Electronics first started to turn up, but people weren't quite sure what to do with them. These days it is worlds apart. You can hear the various backing tracks like grease in a machine, making everything run smoothly. I guess you need to know what you are doing in music producing, as it isn't plainly obvious to me when you'd need a symphonic crescendo in the back, but I can feel it working when it is done right.
The production is far better, levels balanced etc, but hey, it was new.
It moved quickly from the rave stuff into what generally has been a similar format for years. People still like some of the stuff from the mid 90's, and even kids that were born after 1992 still think that out of space - the prodigy is "proper old skool geezer, init".
That's like me thinking Fernando - ABBA is a banging tune.
I might sing it when drunk waiting for a taxi (it seems a lot funnier at 3am) but I doubt I'd let it play through when stopped at traffic lights... straight for that mute button...
The dance bit evolved, it went to the US and changed its name to Techno, moved through Europe and is happily still there, but the UK went a bit crazy.
At the end of the 90's, the first signs of speed garage arrived. Back then, it was just melodic baselines.
You're going to get some now anyway whether you like it or not...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm5_50mL8P4
That's an intro and a half.. the baseline bit only starts about 3 mins in.
I liked that stuff, it was (is) real catchy, but more of a "gangsta" scene started to follow up, and now there is an entirely different speed garage, dubstep (fuck knows what that's all about), Grime (likewise...) and it has split.
It does start making me feel old when I think "what the hell are these kids listening to today? it's just noise!"
My dad used to say that..
Full circle...
The thing is, I still like Dutch Hardstyle.
Now, I bet most of you have no idea what that is. Well, here you go -
CAUTION - CLOWN CONTENT (Stephen King's IT sample...)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKgAqh8VA-k
This is almost exactly the same stuff I was listening to in the "proper" nightclubs in the 90's. It's still out there, and alive in different countries.
It's fairly popular all over Europe, but not sign of it in the UK.
By the way, if you are going "What the hell is this crap?" hit the pause button.
You don't have to like it, just get an idea. But anyway, back to the non-story rambling, my music is still out there.
There's a strange situation where dancey music has expanded into different styles but stayed the same, it's gone weird but familiar.
Why I'm going on about music I guess, is because I have more time to listen to it now, and I've also swapped from pretty much a stripped out race car to a soundproofed limo, and I can actually hear stuff again apart from reverberating metal and road noise. I really look for forward to long distance jobs as I get to sit in the car for a few hours, music up and just enjoy the ride.
It helps that summer has just started too.
I wouldn't say I have SAD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_affective_disorder) but I think everyone smiles when there is a blue cloudless sky outside (apart from drought ridden farmers).
Tomorrow I've got a 2 hour road trip up north, I'm hoping for blue skies, and getting the USB memory stick loaded up with this -
I've been told 'you can't be angry looking at a penguin' (Polar bears might disagree) but sunshine and Will Smith is better than any penguin I know.
Summertime>Penguins.... Scientifically Proven.
Anyway, I'll leave you lot to it. If there's one thing you can take away from this (and you certainly can't claim those 5 mins of your life back) it's the failing of the penguin.
And by the way-
See.. I didn't make it up...
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