Pattrick said
lantweed said
lease let us know when your article is complete.
No problem. We've already decided to present this as a series of articles, so this first one is broad strokes to fill the canvas before we get the detail brushes out.
http://www.forumusic.co.uk/90s_easy_listening_compilations.html
Apologies if it all reads a little simple / Ladybird book to regular forum members; our target audience is college students who weren't around when it happened. It would be a shame if they thought the 90s was only about Hip Hop / Grunge / Britpop / Chill-Out / Rave and the birth of EDM / glossy clubland Rn'B and that has dragged on ad infinitum ever since.
It's tough getting my head around 1993 being 20 years ago.
If anyone else has any more thoughts or theories on the roots of the 90s easy revival we'd love to hear them, though folks here have given us a wealth of different avenues to explore already and we're really grateful for that. Thanks Plantweed, for that Waxi link (ace!) and Skel if you have had any thoughts? They'd be most appreciated.
Getting the US angle on all this: the swing revival > Buster Poindexter > 80s retro films (thanks for that Bassie, great contribution) > Swingers > Paul Major and other heads being into exotica....etc etc is a little harder as we're UK - based but we're going to do our best to pursue all avenues that lead to easy suddenly going overground in the mid-90s. We think (at the moment) the US and European lead ups were sufficiently different to deal with them separately.
I'm going to read later so forgive me if you do deal with it, but how about the lives those Saint Etienne type guys were living who were so slavish in their devotion to a period - everything from their phones to their vests had to be authentic - that their music taste had to encompass the obscure tepids too, and not the obvious artists of yesteryear
r. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band Late 70's
