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Alucard Lazy? from Vancouver, BC Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
Lazy?
#1: Nov 18th 2011 at 5:45:13 PM

I'm sure you've come across people on people on Youtube saying they were born in the wrong era or missed out an important movement in music. If you could push your birth back to some other time, which would you choose?

I'd go with the 80's myself. I like several genres and artists that had their heyday back then.

Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#2: Nov 18th 2011 at 6:00:33 PM

I think I'd have liked to be in downtown New York City during the 70s-80s , but that would sort of require being in New York during the 70s-80s.

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
TheGloomer Since: Sep, 2010
#3: Nov 18th 2011 at 6:00:56 PM

I'm not sure. I was born in 1991, so I was growing up while the Troubles were more or less starting to wind down. If I'd been born in 1971 or 1981, I'd have been growing up in a potentially violent society.

And there's the Cold War thing as well, I suppose. I think I was pretty fortunate to grow up in a decade where the pervasive fear of having a bomb dropped on you had abated to some extent.

Even from a musical perspective, I'd need to consider the possibility that, growing up in a different decade when different artists are popular, I'd end up not liking the things I currently do in the first place. Let me be frank, I wasn't really interested in music when I was ten; the only groups I liked were manufactured dance bands like S Club 7. Can I honestly say that if I'd been born in 1971 I wouldn't have ended up disliking Bucks Fizz?

edited 18th Nov '11 6:07:58 PM by TheGloomer

Wicked223 from Death Star in the forest Since: Apr, 2009
#4: Nov 18th 2011 at 6:11:40 PM

Even from a musical perspective, I'd need to consider the possibility that, growing up in a different decade when different artists are popular, I'd end up not liking the things I currently do in the first place. Let me be frank, I wasn't really interested in music when I was ten; the only groups I liked were manufactured dance bands like S Club 7. Can I honestly say that if I'd been born in 1971 I wouldn't have ended up disliking Bucks Fizz?

maybe we should change the question to "Being of age in a certain decade"?

You can't even write racist abuse in excrement on somebody's car without the politically correct brigade jumping down your throat!
ImipolexG frozen in time from all our yesterdays Since: Jan, 2001
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#5: Nov 18th 2011 at 6:13:32 PM

Well, if we're considering real world events at the time, then I'd say I'd go nowhere.

But, if we're doing it purely by musical interests, then I'd want to be around in the 60s. Beatlemania, the British Invasion, psychedelia and "flower power" (cheesy as it was), and later the birth of progressive rock and heavy metal.

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TheGloomer Since: Sep, 2010
#6: Nov 18th 2011 at 6:20:33 PM

[up][up]Maybe. I don't know. I imagine that I'd still be a completely different person with different musical preferences.

sca_punk Not-Not-Not Your Academy from sca_punk's computer Since: Apr, 2010
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#7: Nov 18th 2011 at 9:12:18 PM

Well, I really like being alive now because with the internet I listen to pretty much any album ever...

But if I had to pick, I'd probably be born in the late 60s so I could be a part of the 80s undergound hardcore/post-punk/alt-rock scene.

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#8: Nov 18th 2011 at 10:03:12 PM

My favorite rock bands are ones that are putting out music right now. And, as sca_punk pointed out, the internet has done amazing things for making old music accessible. I could easily learn more about, say, jazz in the '40s than the jazz fans of the era did.

If I could jump in a time machine and go visit some shows, that'd be awesome: I'd like to see Duke Ellington live, either at the Fargo 1940 show, or the Newport Jazz Fest 1956 show, and I'd like to go to an early 90s UK rave, but I can't say there's any scenes that I want to completely immerse myself in.

Buscemi I Am The Walrus from a log cabin Since: Jul, 2010
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#9: Nov 18th 2011 at 11:18:23 PM

Jerry Goldsmith's Golden Age. About late 1960's to early 1980's.

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#10: Nov 19th 2011 at 2:14:10 PM

I guess the mid-80s. There was some good music in the 90's.

Litis from Israel Since: Jul, 2009
#11: Nov 19th 2011 at 3:10:14 PM

I guess I'm the only braindead product of the Internet generation who's glad to be the way he is for the sole reason of having more or less unlimited access to 99.99% of the music ever released.

inane242 Anwalt der Verdammten from A B-Movie Bildungsroman Since: Nov, 2010
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#12: Nov 19th 2011 at 3:12:51 PM

[up]You are not alone. Plus, if Burial isn't a good reason to be alive right now, I don't know what is.

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Litis from Israel Since: Jul, 2009
#13: Nov 19th 2011 at 3:27:40 PM

There are different sides to the question being posed, of course. Regarding the ability to expand horizons the Internet era is unquestionably ultimate. I can't say I would've been interested in participating in a movement like the early grind scene in late '80s UK because I don't feel like being herded.

Now being able to witness certain acts live is a different thing. Most of my favorite albums were released in the middle of the nineties, and I would kill to see Fear Factory, Godflesh, Neurosis, Nine Inch Nails and Cynic at their prime. Which, I guess, would require me to mature in mid-'90s US. Can't say that would've been totally swell...

edited 19th Nov '11 3:36:13 PM by Litis

TheGloomer Since: Sep, 2010
#14: Nov 19th 2011 at 3:39:05 PM

There is one thing I'd have liked to see; Meat Loaf performing live in the early 1990s when his voice was still fantastic.

I saw him live a year ago, and he didn't sound so good.

edited 19th Nov '11 3:40:12 PM by TheGloomer

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Pingu Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
#16: Nov 21st 2011 at 6:16:20 PM

I'm pretty much cool with having been born in this era, what with the internet and all the 2000s music I listen to. I might like to have been born a bit earlier to experience the 90s properly.

Erock Proud Canadian from Toronto Since: Jul, 2009
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#17: Nov 21st 2011 at 6:40:04 PM

Be born in 1948. 19 for Monterey, 21 for Woodstock, 22 for Leeds.

So 1967-1977 for me.

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Dekunobo from underground bunker Since: Aug, 2011
#18: Nov 21st 2011 at 7:37:00 PM

There's plenty of great contemporary music I listen to, so my wish is not that strong, but sometimes I wish I had been born in the mid 70's so that I could be a teenager in the 90's and witness the post-hardcore/emo movement...not only see the likes of Sunny Day Real Estate, Fugazi, and Cap'n Jazz in the early 90's but also wait until 97 or so and see At The Drive-In live and hopefully take part in a band myself. There are still some bands today keeping those genres alive but not many.

edited 21st Nov '11 7:38:53 PM by Dekunobo

annebeeche watching down on us from by the long tidal river Since: Nov, 2010
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#19: Nov 22nd 2011 at 10:46:09 AM

The decade that has some safe and stable way of at the very least listening directly to the past so I can hear music at any time before recording devices were invented.

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Yachar Cogito ergo cogito from Estonia Since: Mar, 2010
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#20: Nov 22nd 2011 at 11:50:17 AM

1910s or 20s.... so born in 1890 or so I guess.

edited 22nd Nov '11 11:50:37 AM by Yachar

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MikeK Since: Jan, 2001
#21: Nov 22nd 2011 at 12:07:41 PM

I don't really want to be born in another decade, but I would seriously consider time-traveling solely for the purpose of going to concerts. I could go see Queen or The Minutemen *

, see Nirvana in a tiny rock club before Nevermind came out, etc.

thegojira848 from somewhere Since: Sep, 2009
#22: Nov 22nd 2011 at 10:00:23 PM

People that say that are really ignorant. I bet a lot of the bands they found now through the internet they wouldn't have even known existed in the 70s/80s.

I'm fine right here, because its so easy to have access to whatever music you want.

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Alucard Lazy? from Vancouver, BC Since: Jan, 2011 Relationship Status: Showing feelings of an almost human nature
Lazy?
#23: Nov 23rd 2011 at 2:20:36 AM

People that say that are really ignorant. I bet a lot of the bands they found now through the internet they wouldn't have even known existed in the 70s/80s.
Geez, no need to go criticizing a large blanket of people, I'm just asking if you sympathize with them or not (it's hardly an offensive thing to wish for). If you'd just said "I'm fine right here," that'd be enough.

KitsuneInferno Jackass Detector from East Tennessee Since: Apr, 2009
Jackass Detector
#24: Nov 23rd 2011 at 2:51:23 AM

Part of me wishes to have experienced the early-ninties boom of alternative metal/hip-hop, but that would require me to suffer through ten more years of post-grunge and be thirty in this economic climate. I'm good right where I'm at.

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JHM Apparition in the Woods from Niemandswasser Since: Aug, 2010 Relationship Status: Hounds of love are hunting
Apparition in the Woods
#25: Nov 23rd 2011 at 5:17:53 PM

I think I'd have liked to be in downtown New York City during the 70s-80s , but that would sort of require being in New York during the 70s-80s.

So, it's like being in Sheffield in the '70s for me. But more so.

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