10 years ago

**SandraDee** · October 28th, 2002, 03:54 PM

I was watching television this morning & an advert for a compilation CD came on containing early 90's stuff like Snap & Haddaway & it's marketed as 'old school' dance music!! The voice-over said something like 'it was so much better 10 years ago'. My immediate response was '& it was even better 20 or 30 years ago'!
I don't care if I sounded like a has-been, 'cos I know its the truth!!

**sutnop** · October 28th, 2002, 04:23 PM

I don't think you will find anybody disagreeing with your opinion on this site
Dan
:lol:

**zeca azevedo** · October 29th, 2002, 06:58 AM

Hi Steely and Sutnop,

I want to say something here: SNAP & HADDAWAY & TECHNOTRONIC? AAAAAAAAAARRRRRGHHHHHHHH!!!!!

zeca azevedo, don't take me back to the early nineties, please

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**BrunoRepublic** · October 29th, 2002, 07:24 AM

These is something noteworthy about music from 1992 though...

That was the year that Jaydee's "Plastic Dreams" came out, which was the last somewhat original and non-formulated piece of dance music to get played in mainstream clubs.

Of course, the automatons hated it because it was soooo long, it had no shrieking diva, and you couldn't lipsync to it.

Celebrating 10 years of complete lack of creativitiy in mainstream dance music... woo-hooo!

**Nano** · October 30th, 2002, 03:32 PM

It's funny, because when house arrived, I totally agreed with its quasi-punk ideology (DIY, dance music made at home, etc.) but couldn't stand the music! It all sounded so damn SIMPLE! Certainly that couldn't be art! Save for Deee-Lite and a few other bands all sounded the same, and then the videos, which were good concept-wise but plain boring, with the cheap anime and the faux "virtual mattes" behind... I remember hearing the house version of "I feel love" and understanding how old soul fans felt when they said disco had liquefied their music!
Now, ten years had passed and those songs, without being masterpieces, sound a lot better to my ears :-? Like easy to understand (?), hum along...
I recovered my taste for dance music -after more than 10 years- in the mid-90's, with the works of French DJs and producers like Nellee Hooper and the Massive Attack guys. But when I read about them in interviews, all praise house music like it was the Second Coming! How odd. :roll: