Have you seen the current television ad for '90s club classics'?
At least three of the no more than ten tunes featured are from the '80s. If you were going to compile an album of songs, the single criterion for which was simply that they came from a specific decade, wouldn't you at least have a quick peek at the release date of your potential choices?

I appreciate that this is perhaps my dullest post of all time, but for crying out loud.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 22:29, 24 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I don't think this album is aimed at you Monty
Its what your granny might buy for a young person. In six months it will be given away free in the Daily Fail.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 22:57, Reply)

Whilst you are doubtless entirely correct
I still think a compilaton of '90s' music should at least have, y'know, '90s music' on it...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 23:30, Reply)

The problem is
that 90s music was shit.
So they had to get some stuff from the 80s.

Anyway, the 80s started in 1979 and ended in 1987.
1987 to 1998 was the 90s
There were two 70s, one went from around 1967 to 1976 and the second one went from 1976 to 1979.
( Mrs Entity is in hiding., Fri 23 Apr 2010, 23:39, Reply)

Are you using the Aztec calendar?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 23:44, Reply)

Jesting aside,
whilst you're right in that the dance music boom that started in the late 80s really made its mark in the 90s, I still feel that a tune like (the frankly rubbish) 'Ride on Time' really encapsulates the late 80s, having more in common with Stock Aitken & Waterman than the genuinely innovative 'rave' music that followed (and indeed preceded it in the form of the early Acid records of '88), despite it making its ghastly prescence felt at many an M25 orbital warehouse party.

If I had a point, I'm afraid it has now left the building.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Fri 23 Apr 2010, 23:57, Reply)

Monty - not a wind up for a change -
but I was at school with the Stock part of that trilogy. We was best mates and all. (Contains partial mis-statement.)
Wish it had been Pete Waterman - now he's cool.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Sat 24 Apr 2010, 0:01, Reply)

You should be so lucky.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Sat 24 Apr 2010, 0:07, Reply)

And further to my rant about Grime - of which I hadn't heard before today -
I don't like the Rap because I can't follow the language: can't hear it clear enough, and what I can hear is a different language spoken in English of a sort.
What annoys me is this - I'm fairly certain the stories told are honest, witty, fresh and clever but I can't understand them! And I'm also certain I'm not meant to. So sorry if I scorned a favourite music of yours.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Sat 24 Apr 2010, 0:09, Reply)

Most of it's shite.
And most of the stories told are neither honest, witty, fresh nor clever, they're self-aggrandising, pointless bullshit, but it hasn't always been like that. There are brilliant critiques of that whole 'I'm a gangsta' bollocks like the marvellous 'Time's Up' by OC, in which he scorns that whole nonsense, and in a clearly-understandable language too:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzyaaMUCpWs

But also, can't you enjoy music that's in a genuinely foreign language? I think you can still feel the emotion and/or attitude in some records even if you cannot understand a fucking word of it. Just ask Japanese rockabillies...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Sat 24 Apr 2010, 0:16, Reply)

Music, yes, but the lyrics get lost.
And I can only discern one tune used by all rappers. And it ain't much of a tune anyway.
Is it intended for white males pushing sixty?
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Sat 24 Apr 2010, 0:20, Reply)

No it's not
but neither is the heart-wrenching majesty of the Delta blues. Great music transcends all barriers of race, class and experience.

And I have to say you either aren't really listening or haven't heard the breadth of styles contained within the genre (which is perfectly fair enough). There are hip hop records that are based on everything from blues, doo-wop and jazz through the funk of the 70s right through to pioneering electronica like Kraftwerk.

If all you've heard is chart bollocks then you can be hugely forgiven for thinking 'it all sounds the same' but that's like assuming all rock'n'roll's the same because you've heard Elvis Presley.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Sat 24 Apr 2010, 0:25, Reply)

Very good point.
Of course, I can understand Mississippi John Hurt but I have to work at the allusions. 'Candy Man',eg, you now ain't about sweets, so you have to think about it.
Are you saying Grime is worth the effort?

*edit* sorry mate - I'm falling asleep. I'll read any reply and follow up when I can.
Good weekend to you.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Sat 24 Apr 2010, 0:31, Reply)

On the whole, no.
It really is shit. But I can still appreciate the verbal dexterity and inventiveness of some grime MCs - particularly when you consider that the practitioners are frequently chaps who've been written off by society as stupid and useless when there's clearly an intelligence and quick-wittedness at work that most people can only dream of.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Sat 24 Apr 2010, 0:36, Reply)

Precisely as I suspected.
On balance I've decided to respect the privacy of those individuals. It seems they aren't addressing me so why should I eavesdrop?
You guess correctly - what little of this genre reaches my ears is in short snatches while, say, tuning in a radio, or my son's playing his iPod in the car, or some mindless retard insists on sharing from his GTi. (Believe me, when you're trying to work and some prat is paused in the road outside your window, car stereo jacked to 11 blasting bombastic gangsta crap - this happens a dozen times a day - in does not endear you to that genre.)
*Breathe* I shall now tune the wireless to radio 3 and have a nice cup of tea.
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Sat 24 Apr 2010, 9:46, Reply)

Hip Hop is for scallies on buses. Fact.

(The Boy Monders I have ginger bits in my beard., Sat 24 Apr 2010, 11:44, Reply)

I also think
that the 'year 0' idea of 1976 (I'm assuming, quite possibly erroneously, that you are referring to a 'before punk/after punk' notion) is entirely wrong.

I ALSO think that perhaps it's Monty's bedtime.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Sat 24 Apr 2010, 0:02, Reply)

Night, Monty.

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Sat 24 Apr 2010, 0:10, Reply)

I'M STILL UP.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Sat 24 Apr 2010, 0:16, Reply)

Prove it.
Well I'm not. Shouldn't have logged on.
I gotta pee and get to bed.
Monday?
( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Sat 24 Apr 2010, 0:24, Reply)

MONDAY IT IS.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Sat 24 Apr 2010, 0:25, Reply)

It's academic,
since the kind of people who'll buy that album will also say "omg this is wel old but its stil good lol" on hearing a song that was released more than a year ago. The 1990s are ancient history to them.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 24 Apr 2010, 0:35, Reply)

In which case
I shall compile an album of 'Bebop Classics of the 1940s', featuring 'No Limits' by 2Unlimited, and 'Seven Tears' by The Goombay Dance Band, and watch the pounds roll in.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Sat 24 Apr 2010, 0:47, Reply)

This is your best post
ever
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Sat 24 Apr 2010, 6:49, Reply)

Get with it, Granddad.

(The Boy Monders I have ginger bits in my beard., Sat 24 Apr 2010, 11:22, Reply)