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If you have a spare hour, this is well worth a listen. A reminder of why Sheffield would have been the biggest city in music if people only got the South Yorkshire mentality.http://www.noiseheatpower.com/godsarticle.htmHuman League and Cabaret Voltaire re-inventing pop music in the early 80s and giving the signpost for where electronic pop music would go. Heaven 17 - South Yorkshire's Wham with irony. And ability. Pulp combining the sharpest of social commentary with the Scott Walker-esque pop perfection. The coolest, most listenable experimental Warp/FoN scene.And as the writer says, there has never been a more shimmering pop song in history than All of My Heart.Grand.
Quote from: BillyStubbsTears on June 12, 2013, 10:37:26 amIf you have a spare hour, this is well worth a listen. A reminder of why Sheffield would have been the biggest city in music if people only got the South Yorkshire mentality.http://www.noiseheatpower.com/godsarticle.htmHuman League and Cabaret Voltaire re-inventing pop music in the early 80s and giving the signpost for where electronic pop music would go. Heaven 17 - South Yorkshire's Wham with irony. And ability. Pulp combining the sharpest of social commentary with the Scott Walker-esque pop perfection. The coolest, most listenable experimental Warp/FoN scene.And as the writer says, there has never been a more shimmering pop song in history than All of My Heart.Grand.I suppose this lad is the latest in that line, he is big friends with people like Winston Hazel.http://m.youtube.com/index?&desktop_uri=%2F#/watch?v=tAqENlABNQkFairly standard dance/pop if you ask me.He is though undeniably influenced by what goes in London and probably Atlanta for that matter. A couple of decades ago a city like Sheffield could have it's own music scene and sound. I'm not sure it is sufficiently cut off from the world to really develop it's own thing nowadays.
Quote from: River Don on June 26, 2013, 09:38:41 amQuote from: BillyStubbsTears on June 12, 2013, 10:37:26 amIf you have a spare hour, this is well worth a listen. A reminder of why Sheffield would have been the biggest city in music if people only got the South Yorkshire mentality.http://www.noiseheatpower.com/godsarticle.htmHuman League and Cabaret Voltaire re-inventing pop music in the early 80s and giving the signpost for where electronic pop music would go. Heaven 17 - South Yorkshire's Wham with irony. And ability. Pulp combining the sharpest of social commentary with the Scott Walker-esque pop perfection. The coolest, most listenable experimental Warp/FoN scene.And as the writer says, there has never been a more shimmering pop song in history than All of My Heart.Grand.I suppose this lad is the latest in that line, he is big friends with people like Winston Hazel.http://m.youtube.com/index?&desktop_uri=%2F#/watch?v=tAqENlABNQkFairly standard dance/pop if you ask me.He is though undeniably influenced by what goes in London and probably Atlanta for that matter. A couple of decades ago a city like Sheffield could have it's own music scene and sound. I'm not sure it is sufficiently cut off from the world to really develop it's own thing nowadays. Barnsley'll be a music powerhouse then I take it
It sounds like bog standard Italian House from the late 80s RD. The keyboard right and left hand lines being copies of each other at a couple of octaves apart. If that's the best that Sheffield's bright young things are doing, it's miles away from the revolutionary stuff in the 80s.I guess you're right about the all-pervading influence of instantly accessible music. Simon Reynolds in the Melody Maker in the late 80s saw it coming. He called it The Excess of Access and predicted that it would f*** up originality in music. Matt Johnson in The The summed it up more eloquently a decade or so back:http://grooveshark.com/#!/s/Global+Eyes/1WSXT9?src=5"Globalise, Hypnotise, Homogenise.Kentucky Fried Genocide"The finest lyrics in the history of music. I've never been able to work out whether Matt Johnson is a genius or a raving f***ing headjob.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYTl1YA_uHQ
I personally like power ballads. I think Heart - Alone is the greatest song ever written. They are so wrought with passion and emotion - I would recommend anyone to go to an "Ultimate Power" night, they are unbelievable.Who couldn't like a type of song which encompasses:- Crashing drum fill, ideally in the bar before each chorus. Absolute pre-requisite for the build-up to any key change.- Soaring vocals that build throughout the song- One or more instrumental solos. The more elaborate the better. If the solo is, essentially, unnecessary and self-congratulatory then all the better.- Several moments where you just can't help but clench your fist as the only means of conveying how the song makes you feel.PS Contrary to what the above suggests I am not a homosexual.