Music

Just watching the 80s season stuff on the BBC (love the way they’re using the old idents) but has made me hopeful of great music to be coming shortly.

It’s not just this nice new era of non-oppressive coalition which is said to be around, but also we’re living in a HD, LED, soon-to-be-3D era that I think does represent a significant change.
We’ve had a decade of nothing happening – yeah, odd little changes like having screens on the escalators and  projectors on the platforms made it feel like the future but it felt like we were going backwards.

Sure, we still might have the plague and riots I’ve been predicting for 2012-15, but I think it will still turn out to be a time we look back on fondly for both progress and art/music reasons.

You can’t say that for the last decade of nothingness on both counts – and that’s not just because it’s just happened… come 2000 you could look back on the 90s and although some things were laughable you had britpop and grunge for music and the internet revolution as a tech thing.

We should draw a line. 2000-2010 didn’t exist.

2010+ is the first decade of the century (which is handy as it lines the numbers up)

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