OK now things have really reached the pits. Out of here.

Answer: non-Bit. Thank god. Enjoy the journey up your own arseholes. it’s gonna be a rough fuck. And the world will be watching.

Well that seems a fitting note on which to end what I thought might be an interesting thread.

Excuse me.

Again.

Goodbye.

The question here is which sorts of music have crossover potential, i.e. from the community in which the music originated to other, larger communities. There are many factors involved. One of them is language. It […]

Not much black inflluence in any of his music. Which is where Tigger got onto the mod thing.

Yeah Glam was also definitive of the 70s; I forgot about that one. In fact what I’ve observed is that Marc Bolan was the archetypal transition figure. A 60s hippy who morphed into something utterly 70s in […]

A corollary of what I was talking about was also the music that was swept away by the trends that emerged in the wake of r&r. I know very little about popular music in the UK before that. I’ve heard of ‘music […]

Ha Ha Ha! The charts in SA in the 60s and beyond were full of UK and American acts, not copies thereof (although there were one or two of those). But I think you’re in denial about how much rock and pop dominated […]

Yes, I want to comment on this world/South Africa aspect, but I didn’t quite get the thrust of your comment on that. If you could clarify …

The eruption of reggae on the scene in the early seventies was the […]

What I want to go on to write about is the transition from the 70s to 80s, if I can, as a way of coming to terms with the disillusionment I felt at that time. But I’ll need to give that more thought.

What d’you mean “purity” and what d’you mean “this thread tells me”?

But did they get rid of that whiney voice?

No I agree that one can be anti adopted positions or behaviours, like tory, zionist, animal cruelty etc. But it is another matter to be anti things that one has no control over, like being young or black or female […]

What is the difference between anti-this or anti-that and anti-semitism? Are some antis more acceptable than others?

Oh!

To add a little: Is this ‘popular culture’ forum. anti youth? Again if this is the case can we have some confirmation from the old fart brigade here that this is indeed what they stand for? Personally my view is […]

Er no … it said something more specific, apparently. But if I’m outside of these ‘concerns’ forgive me.

Can’t we park this stupid thread and start another, more honest one called people I don’t like or something like that?

Good call.

Exactly who are the people being discussed here? Is it all the people you don’t like? All the people of a certain age? A group of unidentified people who stand as proxy for everything you don’t like in the world?