I really like the point about the pace of music changing in the not too distant past. Hip-hop is another perfect example. The different between 1988 and 1998 is gargantuan and it boggles the mind how many parallel styles and sounds were going on, whole paradigm shifts in taste and appeal changing in just 5 years and often less.
The exercise of pick a random decade span and compare the two points in music really illustrates a lot.
And thank you for introducing me to the phrase "woop clap music." That will come in handy some day I'm sure of it.
IIRC I think the record is left as is and by just slowing it down it sounds like sludge punk and dark synthwave. It rules and thank you for mentioning it.
I basically agree with Jordan that popular music across all genres flatlined between 2008 and the recent past. In that context, it's not surprising that this latest wave of nostalgia is having such an impact in the music business.
Pouring one out for Screened (the movie and TV website Rorie and Alex were the main people on in the Whiskey Media days), which fits this topic perfectly. There's an archive of some of the videos from it on Youtube but a lot of that content is lost to time along with their wiki that a bunch of people poured time into.
On a different note, I've run into accounts on Twitter talking about and sharing stuff from "the old days" (mostly pre-social media dominated internet. Stuff from like 2000 to 2010 or so) and some of that stuff is pretty rough to go back to. I went through a Twitter account of old memes and videos and it seemed like every fifth or sixth piece of content was problematic in some way. Casual racism and homophobia showed up a lot mid-2000s internet. There's still stuff from back then on Youtube that is pretty eye-opening to watch these days.
Unfortunately you might be right with the wiki and the articles unless Rorie and Alex kept their own copies. However, on a positive note, I have it good authority that the video side of Screened is not permanently lost. Whether they can made available again, I have no idea but it is in safe hands. My hope is that at some point, a certain handsome video editor can upload them somewhere when the coast is clear.
The biggest band from Boston has to be Aerosmith right? Like whatever numbers Godsmack and Dropkick Murphy's are doing, you add a 0 on the end for Aerosmith.
Growing up in New England, Steven Tyler must have been on every classic rock radio reel I've ever heard. I put him up there with Tom Brady for Boston celebrities you're gonna see all the time whether you want to or not.
Although before this I had no clue that Godsmack is among the Boston band canon.
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