Brummies reflect on the most influential musical decades
Birmingham's rich musical heritage is well-known, but we wanted to dig deeper into which decades left the biggest mark on the city's residents. I'm here today asking Brummies to reflect on the music that has stood the test of time and why certain eras resonate more than others.
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00:00I mean, it's a toss-up between 70s, 80s and 90s, so I'll go 80s.
00:09I just think of every band that I think that I really, I think 60s and 70s, everything
00:14was kind of evolving and falling into place.
00:17And then every, it was almost like for a 10-year stretch in the 80s, every band that came along
00:22was kind of, if you go into a pub today or if you're in a, wherever you are and they're
00:27playing music and you like, there's a song that you think is from back in the day and
00:32you really like, you can almost like guarantee it's from the 80s.
00:36I personally think this generation because you're like, different ethnicities are trying
00:41different types of music, you get me?
00:43Which like, you don't, it goes, like, good though and it depends, like if you want to
00:47go gym and that, you got the songs for it and this generation's got everything for it.
00:52Of course there's arguments for like 60s and 70s because of the, like, cultural impacts
00:57and musical impacts all the way to Common Day, but I'd say for me personally, it's the
01:0180s, it's the year of decadence, it's the year of excess, skill, but the predominant
01:07thing for me is skill that goes into playing these instruments.
01:11People for many, many years have been sort of caught up in traditionalism, when you get
01:15to the 80s it's all about pushing these boundaries.
01:18I'm going to be heavily biased, but I'm going to say the later part of the 2010s, so entering
01:25into the 20s basically, yeah, in my opinion at least, because that's where a lot of forward
01:32thinking and lots of like underground artists started to experiment and because we're in
01:38the age of the internet, it was a lot easier for pretty much anybody to contribute to the
01:43music scene, which is why you saw so many like talented artists kind of just come out
01:48of nowhere in that era, so that's my personal opinion, so it would be the late 2010s in
01:53my opinion for the best music.