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Topic History of: UK pop stars drop out of global bestseller charts Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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Green Man
Woke up with news that Five tickets are on sale for a comeback. Yet, there's more hype over Neil Young playing at Hyde Park and Slayer doing a farewell tour at festivals.
Think the media and Ents24 know where the UK scene is going, down the crapper.
Green Man
Men Without Hats are going to Milton Keynes in August Rich.
I have been re-reading the comments from the BBC website. It's interesting to read them.
I am in Abingdon on an early lunch, I have seen several pubs with live music but I have noticed a trend, most pubs are just family restaurants with "pub" written on the building. Meaning that some bands have to be clean and do stuff people know.
There is no dedicated pub/ club circuit which were amazing place to be back in the day, with cheap admission at the door and about 4 hours of rock and metal in your eardrums. Some bands got coverage in rock magazines also, not forgetting the bands self-promoted also with their shirts and records/CDs. Which were either free or cheap.
We all had a bit of pub rock in our collection back in the day. I did like Ducks Deluxe, Little Bob Story and The Motors.
I think the UK pop scene went downhill in the mid-1990s with plastic pop, and then Simon Cowell carried on the trend. It's not bands the suits want but singers. There was a time when people from record companies scouting clubs and pubs not doing the lazy way to look on social media.
They want karaoke singers with Botox and butt implants. I guess it keeps the simps and incels drooling.
What metal and rock there is poser shit, which Van Halen also was but Right Now is a belter.
When my daughters were in their early/mid-20s, I asked if they liked Sheeran, and they both looked at each other and pretended to gag.
It makes me laugh when white youths go on about drill music. You are never going to be "bluck mon". So drop the persona.
I do see you kids in coffee shops with laptops on Garageband playing with samples to make a "new song or beat" I thought Jive Bunny was one of the first to do that kind of shit but they still went gold and platinum.
Does anyone else remember this?
Green Man
I feel sad about that. When I was that age everyone was into music, wanted to know the ups and downs weekly, and the one boy I remember in school who wasn't into things like that was mocked like a weirdo one day when he was asked what the No1 song was and couldn't tell anyone because he hadn't got a clue.
In the 2000s, I had no idea who was in the charts, by 2010's I had no about chart and pop.
When I look at the music charts now, I give every thing a sample listen it all sounds the same. I feel like I am not missing much.
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