As most of you know I love the early era of music. My favourite is the 1960s, but I enjoy the 1950s on up through the 1990s and beyond — depending on what it is.
Went to check out a club today that was supposed to specialize in retro and classic music. The Who was playing. So far so good, even though seeing a “host” and a very generic looking DJ raised a little red flag . . . but no big deal. Can’t always judge a book by its cover! And yet, I wasn’t there two minutes before The Who changed into Kid Rock with an announcement from the DJ that “Nickelback is up next.” I have to say, life is just too short. If you want to get me out of your club fast, play Nickelback!
Why God? Why? I know music is in the ear of the listener, and certainly people can have a club featuring whatever music they like best; but Kid Rock and Nickelback at a club that’s supposed to be retro? This place, in its description, claimed to be different. It was trying to appeal to people who liked older music, really pushing the retro thing. My advice? If you really wants to be different, fire that DJ!
There’s nothing wrong with clubs that play all kinds of music. Some people like that. However, if it is a club like that, don’t try to pass it off as retro and claim that it’s different, when you’re just as generic as everywhere else. That’s frustrating for those of us who really want to go to retro places.
Maybe they were confusing retro with old hat ;)
Hey Graz. I think they were confusing retro with “music to torture Shauna with.” :)
Sympathisers. Music usually either supplements, or changes a particular mood, which one feels the sublime as it accentuates that which is playing in the mind anyway. I reckon abrupt contrasts, distract, but positively, in a good way as it is influences are curious to the effect of those we are with,, which we’re going to be concerned with, and selflessly gives inspiration,, All the time the music nonetheless re-occurring as it’s played in one’s mind repeatedly until it plays out, until a new insight to a variation emerges. Lobby Lloyd’s BPR strikes a new chord I just today rediscovered ,when in the garage sorting out stuff , the covers, the notes ,travelling back to the past , wondering if Ernie Ball phosphor bronze strings still exist LOL strings, a collective neurosis amongst, aspirational guitarists,Retro the good old days,
I just realised, Lobby Lloyd is completely counter to the Mod culture which Shauna identifies, except to say , being non-prejudicial to subculture of music differences others, which we were alienated from, because of the violent nature still resonate something within the psyche that feels good. Another I recently rediscovered, sorting records, in the garage’s is Madder Lakes Salmon Song this strikes a chord to my predicament,
Erm… What he said! ^