and next on the news….

The Government makes all music a class a drug.:hopeless:

Music is fucking me up big time. I can’t get enough of it. It’s gone beyond one style of music now, into downright poly-music use, and it’s spiralling out of control. What do I do, guys? Help me. 🙁

They’ll ban EDM and only legal shit like Rihana will be allowed.

@process 416915 wrote:

and next on the news….

The Government makes all music a class a drug.:hopeless:

hahahaha:laugh_at:

@DaftFader 416981 wrote:

They tried to ban music (and did to a certain extent) allready! – Read into the oragins of morris dancing if you don’t know about it allready. :hopeless:

but that might involve watching morris dancing. I cannot stand it, to me all morris dancing says is: beards, volvo’s, tofu, slacks, loafers and caravan holiday on tyneside*

*couldn’t think of somewhere

alot hasher isn’t the way to put it, the man made Hannibal lector & buffalo bill look like amateurs, he’s one of the only people to have ever served the punishment of being hung, drawn and quatered in a court case. The man was a religious tyrant and a pompous cunt to boot

@DaftFader 416981 wrote:

They tried to ban music (and did to a certain extent) allready! – Read into the oragins of morris dancing if you don’t know about it allready. :hopeless:

i know quite a lot about morris dancing tbf, well my parents do anyway.

dont see what the problem with it is to be honest, just a different way for people of a different age to enjoy them selves. not much different to how we go out and listen to music outside and dance around while being intoxicated ourselves. only differnece is different music and they get high on real ales! 😉 morris has actually meant that my both my parents are a lot more understanding of me going out in the middle of the night and not coming home for two days. also like someone said before they’ve had to stand up for thier right to dance and listen to music together outside just the same lots of us do every weekend.

not so different imo…

Hi everybody, my name is Amino Clang and I am a musicaholic.

I guess it all started for me when I was really young with stiff like Seaseme Street and the Muppet Show. I can tell by your reactions that this was a gateway genre for you too. You see the real problem was that the band really took music seriously and produced high grade shit that got a lot of kids hooked from a very young age. My first album was Musical Youth by Musical Youth including the hit song of the time Pass the Dutchie… need I say more?

As I grew up nothing could even come close to the high I felt in those early days. All of my mates were into the chart music of the time, but I craved for something a bit harder, something created by real musicians, something raw, not cut with crap to make a quick buck. Even though Shaking Stevens was my first concert (well, the kid had some moves and I liked the way he danced… kinda like the welsh MJ), I soon got into The Pogues and The Men They Couldn’t Hang. I just loved that Irish/Folk/Rock sound and when I saw The Pogues live (I must have been about 11 or 12) they blew me away. The mosh pit was a bit intense for such a young lad, but I still planted myself at the front of the crowd and just listened with amazement. The atmosphere in that room was electric and the music blew my mind. The energy that the live band gave me was a real high and something I had not really experienced before. But still it couldn’t match that first high.

As I said, I never really got into the music that all of my friends were listening to. I went to another concert or two (MC Hammer, Ned’s Atomic Dustbin) but eventually I heard this new sound that really got me going…

I guess I must have been about 15 years old and I had heard that there was some wierd hippy festival happening near to where I lived. The year was 1991. I was offered a lift and so I decided to go along. The first night I went I spent most of the night lying down on a matress on top of the Land Rover we arived in. I could see a million stars projected in awe-inspiring technicolour above me and from every direction I could hear a different musical style drifting towards me through the night. Rock, Punk, Ska, Reggea, Folk, Rock-a-Billy, Grunge, Indi… the list goes on and on and on. I was in rapture on top of that Land Rover. The high was extreme and multi-dimensional. I will never forget that night.

The next day I slept a lot, but I went back the night after that with a different group of friends who were all raving about this new sound. The volume of the sound system was awesome (so loud I got the fear about getting too close to it), the ground shook with the sound of the bass coming out of it, I had never heard anything like it before. It was like a constant bang bang bang (or maybe boom boom boom would be a closer description, or maybe even whomp whomp whomp) which was the kick drum, on top of that there was the percussion which just drove through your body and MADE you dance, there was no option! Beyond teh drum kit was all these floaty, wishy-washy sounds and some crazy noises that I had never heard before… and they were part of the music. Not just blaring random noises (although they seemed like it sometimes) but always in time with the music and in the right key with chord progressions, fills, breaks, drops. My hands were in the air, my feet were stamping into the ground, my whole body was part of the music and the music was part of me. Spiral Tribe showed me the truest, purest form of uncut music going – techno music. Cut right back to the active ingredients (drums, bass, melody, strings) with little or no lyrics at all. The music was a bit intense, but I liked it. I was hooked from that day on.

The next few years are a bit of a whirlwind really. I got really heavily into music, even started DJing to feed my habit. Every weekend was a search for the sound that Spiral Tribe had woken my senses with at the Happy Daze festival in Bala. Every waking hour of every day was spent listening to music, or trying to find more new music, rawer, cleaner, less cut with sacharin and deeper and deeper into the scene… spiralling out of control.

I have managed to go to Uni and hold down a decent enough job through my adult life, but I still need to hear music every day or I just don’t feel right. I get cranky, upset and depressed and will often take it out on the people closest to me. My friends and family are understanding enough though… in fact most of them are hooked too and enjoy the mix tapes I make. Yes I still DJ too, but its OK because I can afford my vinyl (the rawest, purest form of music avaiable, even in the age of the MP3) habit and I just about have it all under control. Having said that, my saturday ritual of DJing from 12-5 while the missus is at work is possibly the only thing that keeps me going. If I had to give that up I genuinely don’t think my life would be worth living.

I may be well into my 30’s now, but I don’t let that get in the way of a good night out too. Luckily my GF enjoys stripped back bass heavy music too so we let ourselves go every now and again and go a good nightclub or festival to hear some tunes on a nice big soundsystem. I do even have my own sound system, but its too big for general use so it only comes out very rarely. When I hear the bass coming out of my Lab Subs I just melt. DJing through my own system is the pinacle of the musical high. I love to hear my favourite tunes at high volume with all of the bass reproduced in crystal clear quality. I reckon I am even more hooked on this feeling than dancing in the middle of a dancefloor surrounded by friends listening to the music we all love together… well, maybe. Its difficult to judge really, I’m so confused.

I hope the members of this group will be able to help me kick the habit of a lifetime. I really need support from somebody other than my frinds and family, because they are all totally hooked too and positively encourage my DJing, my clubbing and my dancing.

I need your help people. Music has taken over my life. I am even thinking of studying music from a psychological perspective as a way of incorporating it into my working life.

Thanks for listening and understanding.

@General Lighting 417034 wrote:

Thats pretty much already happened in most areas of Suffolk for legal nightlife and soon the crap RnB places will be locked off too because of the drink related violence.

BTW don’t diss the morris dancers, as Process said they over the years genuinely did stand up for the right to have outdoor music, and CAMRA are the main organisation which got late(r) licenses approved for rural pubs which a lot of my friends have held events in…

Most Chav club music uses House beats as well, sadly they all sound the same (crap) they’ll also have the lyrics ‘in the club’ ‘get down in the club’ etc

It’s a right laugh i reckon, it’s like the film Commando.