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Tories as popular music saviours, discuss.
Posted by austinplatt on 8 November 2010 - 9:39pm.
Might the Tories herald a renaissance in popular music? Whatever you think of the 80's, it was much more fecund than recent years. The seemingly unavoidable economic misery heading our way might inspire some unemployed teenager to conclude that the X factor is not the summit of creativity and seek another way to express themselves.
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it was much more fecund
I think you mean 'fetid' not 'fecund'. As soon as you start getting the usual greedy prats encouraged to steal from everyone again, there probably will be suitable musak to give their corrupt lives some musical accompaniment. Maybe Phil Collins and Level 42 are not washed up after all. And here was me hoping we had moved on.
I'm not so sure
The 80s music scene was shaped by what came before it - arbitrarily starting around the middle of the decade there's punk, disco, German electronics, post punk, the ska revival, the mod revival et al feeding into the circumstances that turned out the best 80s music.
Try as I might I haven't been able to identify a similar melting pot emerging post 2005. Unless you count Keane.