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History Starts Five Minutes Ago
Has anyone else noticed how history no longer really exists? Only the present. Only five minutes ago.
Have a poll of the greatest movies of all time and it will be littered with movies from the past decade.
Have a poll of the greatest albums, and today's latest flames will find themselves featuring heavily alongside music that is still considered great decades later.
Watch a TV discussion on football and all they'll talk about is the history of the Premiership, as if football was invented by Sky Sports. All previous achievements are considered null and void.
Now VH1 has got together with chart analysts to find the Nation's Favourite Music City. The results were announced today.
Liverpool came fifth behind Dublin, London, Manchester and Glasgow. Yet Liverpool has more UK number 1 records than any other city. It's a funny old world!
The criteria excluded everything before 1987 (much like Sky's football coverage does).
But even on this narrow criteria, looking up the East Lancs to our neighbours in Manchester, one can't help but wonder how fair it is to compare the output from a metropolis like London with a city the size of Manchester.
Surely Manchester music has been more influential in the past 20 years than London?
I reckon music in the North West has been well and truly short changed. Hmmmphhh. As Morrissey once said, hang the DJ!
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Alun, I totally agree with this! I recently started listening to Radio 1 on my journey to and from work and it all the same stuff and it's like nothing else matters. I mentioned to someone at work that I hadn't heard of a few of the bands on there and they looked at me in shock and asked "Where have you been?" and when I explained that I liked to select my own music to listen to, rather than just going along with what it appears everyone else likes/what everyone else is TOLD to like by such broadcasts, they just didn't get it. I mentioned a couple of 60s hits and the girl is was chatting with pursed her lips so tightly in disapproval that you'd have thought her teeth were about to fall out.
Anyway, the interesting thing would be to tape all of these Top 100 shows and then see which of the modern favourites actually stand the test of time.
Claire x
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