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Looks very interesting indeed..
This retro night is going to be fantastic
Never been a fan of Thriller myself and the video is a bloated yawn fest. Agree a Beat Box segment or anything really would have been better.
Ah well.. it gives me 15 min to go on the computer or make a cuppa
John: "A pity that for such an exciting music form as New Wave,this doco didn't live up to expectations"...
Jason: I know exactly what you mean. I agree 101% while watching it...
I was also very affronted by the conservbtive and narrow minded spouting of a few older Baby boomer "intellectuals". I particularly found the reference to the new wave generation (basically very young baby boomers and older gen xers) being non-ideological and therefore of no value.
I don't think they had much to crow about. All that free love and general permissiveness of the 60s achieved absolutely nothing. A certain amount of the blame for the waves of unemployment in the early eighties and then in the 90s can be laid at the door of these former hippies who sold out and became smug economic rationalists. I suppose if we all got our tertiary education for nothing then we'd look smug as well!!!
Surely some of the greatest recordings ever were made during that period. It was an exciting time when technology and creative flare merged. If nothing else then that at least is a worthwhile legacy to crow about.
Sorry to get generational but the mantra about "our music being the best" and "we were the greatest generation" is just laughable. What they don't like is being clearly outdone and I think you can see it on their faces in relation to the much better balanced generations X and y today(not to mention generation i - this coming generation shows great promise).
What we saw on Saturday night was a taste of what my generation has had to listen to all our lives while a great 'wall' of money followed these perinially spoiled brats (1945 to 1960ish) it mysteriously started to dry up when my lot started to come of age.
I found parts of it very hard to watch. I think you can hardly go and interview a handful of people outside a pub and then give the impression that they are representative of their generation. Any attempt to make an academic analysis from such a small sample on any subject manner in any field in the humanties just can't be taken seriously.
It also proved that binge drinking is not a problem restricted to generation y's (nor generation x's Or baby boomers OR nation builders etc etc). All in all I think it took the term 'gross generalistion' to a new level. The doco was poorly constructed in an editorial sense in that their was too much blurring between the punk movement, new wave and the first glimmerings of the new romantic movement. Tickle I think tried to unpackage it in a thoughtful way in his interview but many of the nuances appeared to get lost in the rush to portray all young people as unemployed, tasteless and artless layabouts.
Odd isn't it that former PM of NZ David Longie considered the music of Split Enz one of the great cultural achievements of his nation. Not bad for a generation of useless layabouts!
