There are lots of great candidates for the "Best Scene Ever" list (I HATE lists) but a great case can be made for this one. Read all of the comments after the article - everyone has a suggestion or a personal favorite. Personally I'd have extended the time frame a bit into the early 80's. "With hip-hop being born in the South Bronx, Talking Heads and Television at CBGB's and disco at Studio 54, what other musical era could possibly compare? Fire up the Tardis!"
By Jon Wilde, read it in the Guardian.
2 comments:
American jazz coming to Paris in the 30's must have been something, too. Or London in the 60's!
Is it because this is the kind of music we like that we agree with the NYC scene from this era being the best? Maybe today's youngsters think that Seattle in the 80's was better?
There must be something new happening right now under our noses. I hope nostalgia or middle age doesn't keep us from seeing it.
Interesting. I always said that if I could have lived in another periods, I would have picked late seventies downtown New York, or Elizabethan England. Of course the feminine hygiene products and plumbing were a lot better in the 20th Century, (and the plagues were more contained) so I'd probably have to go with New York.
(Also Athens, GA circa 81 might have been fun)-- Bonnie
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