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| Talk,
Justin Harries,
12 January 1999 | |
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The article will start something like this – "As the dawn of a new millennium approaches, we take a trip through our immediate history and count down the classics that have made these one hundred years worth livingÂ…" Indeed, as we approach the dawn of a new millennium there is one thing we certainly can expect to see a lot more of - lists, lists and yet more bloody lists of the best things in the world ever. Q and the whole pack of music mags will be numbering every subgenera of every sonic spawn, in fact, I can imagine the thoughts of editors the world over – "What the hell are we gonna’ count – What’s our angle?" Well the race is on boys. Personally I’m looking forward to seeing which REALLY IS THE BEST Albanian all dwarf yodelling album EVER EVER. Hopefully when the dust has settled we will be able to feed all the lists ever into a giant supercomputer that can correlate the info. Then we’ll really know.
People generally want to feel safe with their choices. Whatever these may be career, car or record collection we want to feel good. This generally means having or keying into things people we respect have. Then we can be more like them and so we can look at them, think they’re good people and then feel good about ourselves. Journalists involved with consumerist culture make a living out of this (unless you work for foocha! – then it’s just for the love of it).
So what better way of gauging your safety than with a good list or two. If you’ve got a few top ten albums it means you’re a pretty creditable person, up on the world around you, you own GOOD music. Well done – you’ve definitely taken part in the human race.
It’s not that celebrating culture in such a way is demeaning – indeed if this access did not exist it would preclude the existence of the very culture itself. Just that there’s going to be so much of it, and most of it will be very similar indeed.
Hopefully it will represent a cull, so we can burn the detritus of the past to make way for the next century – or will it be another excuse to flog a new Beatles anthology? Like a post autopsy corpse the past’s all sewn up. Here’s looking toward the future.
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