Thread: They’ve got all the music in the world now!

In some ways I’m almost jealous that I’m not young now with all the music that’s available at your finger tips, from youtube to file sharing & everything in between, I know I have it all now but it doesn’t matter that much any more, I don’t sit around getting high & playing tunes with loads of my mates like I used to, sadly.

I remember when the Electro’s started to come out, it was like wow, dance tracks all mixed up for you, when I was at school I remember a big thing was to get imports, now that was saying something.
I would have loved to have just switched on a computer & had access to unlimited music.
I would also have loved to have access to all the different music types that there is now as well, that would have been a dream come true.

The nearest I had to the sort of music that I liked back then anywhere near regular was when I discovered that crackly pirate radio station LWR (London weekend radio), oh my gosh, that was like all my birthdays had come at once, of course pirates weren’t always there, Bloody DTI.
Mostly back then the pirates only started up on a Friday night when the DTI had gone home & then they would finish by Sunday night.

It was good when more pirates started up & people got more clued up on how to hide their signal using repeaters & putting the aerial in hard to find & get to places.
Some of the bods from one pirate I knew swung across a lift shaft, risking their life just to try & keep the station on air longer.

I just remember how hard it was to constantly have dance music, life is so easy now, are you just a little bit jealous of how easy music is to get compared to how it was back then?

Originally Posted by Spacework

In some ways I’m almost jealous that I’m not young now with all the music that’s available at your finger tips, from youtube to file sharing & everything in between, I know I have it all now but it doesn’t matter that much any more, I don’t sit around getting high & playing tunes with loads of my mates like I used to, sadly.


I just remember how hard it was to constantly have dance music, life is so easy now, are you just a little bit jealous of how easy music is to get compared to how it was back then?

I agree with you there, I wish I had had all the access to the tracks I wanted back then, but then again it was much more social back then, you had to go out to hear the music , now you can just sit by yourself in your bedroom and hear it all. I remember meeting up with people every Saturday in the local record shop, all buying tunes together, spending Saturday afternoon listening to em and then out at a rave hearing the DJs play them. Then the anticipation of what would be new next week. We never had pirate radio round my way.

I now have all the tunes I could ever want with my decks and Serato and about 500 gb of tracks its like a dream come true, but, like you say I dont spend my freetime getting wasted with my mates playing tunes anymore and its not the same. I wish I did though.

So I don't think I am that jealous really that they have got all the music in the world at their fingertips cos I have the memories of 89 - 93, well some memories left anyway.

Yea we have it better when it comes to all the music you can obtain, but, i'd much rather have been in your time instead. Mattyc wrote something that's very true.

Originally Posted by mattyc

... then again it was much more social back then, you had to go out to hear the music , now you can just sit by yourself in your bedroom and hear it all. I remember meeting up with people every Saturday in the local record shop, all buying tunes together, spending Saturday afternoon listening to em and then out at a rave hearing the DJs play them. Then the anticipation of what would be new next week...

Im 20 now and It's not the same anymore. Things change, and so has the scene. You were lucky enough to have experienced all the events and the social revolution. I would love to be in your place.

Being of the younger generation, I kinda first started getting into 'dance music' of various shapes and forms, at about the same time that alot of the internet 'file sharing' and mp3 culture was first starting to emerge. It was still pretty hard to get hold of stuff, and what have you, but its always been apart of my life. I still used to have alot of that social side of things. But it was more finding tunes online and then recording them to CD or tape and then to my little 16 song max mp3 player and bringing those out to then play to mates.
However I'm scqared that it means that I dont value music in the same way people used to do in the old school days. I've always found ways of making music a free commodity instead of really taking time to search and find something to buy and truly value. I have great remmeber of going to a couple of record shops and searching for decent white label vinyls to spend what little money i had on and kinda wish I'd kept this up more.

Originally Posted by llennnn16

Im 20 now and It's not the same anymore. Things change, and so has the scene. You were lucky enough to have experienced all the events and the social revolution.

True, but I wouldn't mind being 20 again.

I read this the other day and i've been thinking about it. I had a discussion with someone at work about it on Sunday.

I think that music (for me anyway) has lost it's charm because it's so easily available and so much of it can be had with the click of a few buttons.

I used to love going down to my local record store where the owner knew my name and walking in he would get out the latest white labels etc and would play them for me. I would often hear some of the tracks I heard on a night out the previous week or a track I heard on a mix tape or a radio show. There was no feeling like it for me and I could spend hours listening to tracks in a shop. That feeling of getting what you wanted and getting what you didn't expect. Bragging to your mates about an import you had just picked up.

I still buy music today, but like I have said, it's lost it's charm, it's mystique and it just doesn't feel the same any more. Gone are the days of hearing something really special and going home with a warm glow inside, itching to get those new tracks playing on your stereo or decks back at home.

The stuff I do download now, I do it blindly and half of it I never give a proper listen because it just doesn't feel right, I don't think I've achieved anything.

Am I alone in feeling this way???

Originally Posted by China-Rising

Am I alone in feeling this way???

No m8E you’re not alone feeling that I way, I had just forgotten all about those feelings until reading what you put above, you’re so spot on.

I remember at my local record shop it was often like a meeting place for ravers & DJ’s, the owner loved DJing as much as selling records & was up for a buzz, sometimes he used to lock the door & we’d all have a smoke while choosing our records, Damn! I can feel my heart sinking as well as lifting thinking about those good times.

Your right about being able to brag to your friends about the tunes you’d picked up, it was good being able to show off to your mates when you not only knew the name of the track playing on the pirate radio station that night but you actually had it in your collection.
I remember you’d hear a mix at a rave & want those exact two records to do the mix yourself & you wouldn't be happy untill you had them, which could be a right challenge sometimes.

Yep, those were special times, it was like I was part of a secret religion & buying records was paying homage to the rave god

good post this and very true, when i was a kid i would save up and get the guy in the local backstreet record shop to order a public enemy album then i would go back eleven weeks later to pick it up

little shits now have it in under five mins the downside being music is very throw away now.

Originally Posted by China-Rising

I think that music (for me anyway) has lost it's charm because it's so easily available and so much of it can be had with the click of a few buttons.

That's also true. There's just something about owning something that only a select few have. Kinda hard to achieve that feeling when you can copy a file in a second. :ymtongue:

Originally Posted by China-Rising

I think that music (for me anyway) has lost it's charm because it's so easily available and so much of it can be had with the click of a few buttons....

The stuff I do download now, I do it blindly and half of it I never give a proper listen because it just doesn't feel right, I don't think I've achieved anything...

Am I alone in feeling this way???

I feel the same as you on this, I find I download nowadays, i barely even give the time of day to actually really listen to. It just becomes another line on itunes and in the collection, until i randomly double click on it and some point, or it pops up on shuffle. I miss rummaging for music and finding a hidden gem, instead of downloading something that pops up on a blog and someone says is alright..

Music should be more than that surely!?!