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Recessions are good for music

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  • 28-12-2008 4:09pm
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    Bren_M.Records
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    Do you all think that will be the case this time round?


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    Nolanger
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    Hope so - always thought that myself. No more Snore Patrol or Razorsh*te?
    Bring back bands like The Specials.


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    mike65
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    I'd rather be rich and tone deaf though. :)


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    boidey
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    80s ireland produced U2. /me shudders
    enough said


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    lordgoat
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    Nolanger wrote: »
    Bring back bands like The Specials.


    They are back!


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    stovelid
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    lordgoat wrote: »
    They are back!

    But I want it to be like when I was a kid. Ghost Town at #1. My mum even got me a Specials jumper down the market, at the time.

    Bring on the economic gloom!


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    Kold
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    What's your example of this being the case before?


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    mike65
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    Two tone!


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    Dudess
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    Kold wrote: »
    What's your example of this being the case before?
    Well in Britain: punk, ska... nothing for a few years but poncey "soul"/"jazz" and stadium rock during the yuppie years, then economic problems again by the late 80s so... acid house.


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    stovelid
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    Kold wrote: »
    What's your example of this being the case before?

    I would advance the thesis that the Great Depression was indirectly responsible for this:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu2NqfISm9k


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    Setun
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    mike65 wrote:
    Two tone!
    Hurrah! Now that's some great recession music. Recession america produced some fine jazz/blues musicians aswell. :)

    Personally I think it gives people something to really write music about. Thatcherism being a great example - music was an amazing form of protest at that time because it was energetic, passionate, and brought people from all kinds of backgrounds together. There'll always be a lot of great music to listen to, but I think hard times bring about interesting sub-genres/cultures in music.

    and if celtic tiger dublin produced the Thrills roll on the recession :p


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