Controversial Opinion, I know...

[Pixie]

Righty ho then.............. Pixie's thoughts !!!

As far as OS being a product of the earlier stuff, then I totally agree with what everyone has said. It is. All music is a progression of something or other & all music has a 'feel' of some other type of music no matter how long ago it's from. It could be rock, punk, ska, metal trance, OS, whatever...there' will always be an element fo something else in there. for example most electronic music was started with people like Kraftwerk imo & even they had to have influences from other genres of music.

As for there not being any good music being produced these days then I have no idea about music production but I do know what makes me jump about & dance & personally I can dance to most things. I have to say I'm not a big fan of the pop comercial crap that is out at the moment but more recently I have really got into quite a bit if trance stuff & even hard house to an extent.

Some of you have said that there aren't any clubs about at the moment that give you that 'underground' feel of the early 90's well in that case get yourself down to Parlez Vous in Bradford once a month. It's an invite only event & byo booze & it is totally THE MUTTS NUTTS for a venue. Very warehouse style with flourescent walls, wear what youlike & banging music that makes me dance all night. Now some of you might say you don't like HH but most people on here have said that they love OS & most of you have said you loved Kinetic too - well this place is a totall mixture of the two. the HH tunes they play, most of em are remixes or samples of OS tunes but with a banging techno style fast beat to them. I LOVE IT !!! Even I'm knackered when I come out of there !!

I think Missed-A-Monday has raised some perfectly valid points & I do think that in some cases there is a tendency to only like OS and to slag other styles of music off when I personally don't think that's fair. There are some people on here who only listen to one kind of music & in all honesty how can they compare this music to another style if they don't listen to it??? (btw, I'm not aiming that comment at anyone personally)

As far as the party prescriptions go, I agree too that they've changed but then so have we. Have we ever thought that we need more these days cos our bodies are so used to caning it all the time rather than them being any diff? I personally don't think that they made the clubs but the whole scene definitely revolved around them at forst. In the end though I think the whole thing became like a fashion - people wore certain clothes listened to a certain style of music, went to certain clubs etc & just as fashion does, it's come full circle & now OS is back in fashion. :

In summary, it's all good. OS is cool but you can have too much of a good thing & I definately need other stuff in my collection. I also like listening to OS to remind me of some fantastic times I've had. It's like being in a couple & having an 'our song' - that song no matter how old you are will always hold a special place in your heart just as OS does for people on here. (aaaaw romantic Pix) If this is a rose tinted view of the scen then I'm quite happy with that but on the other hand I can still appreciate the music of today (well some of it !! )

PLUR Pix :

[princesswarrior]

Hello Darling,

My husband listens to crap Limp Bizkit. I do have the sunday charts on for the girls they r into all the chart music and yes my feet start a tappin.

Jo x

[Missed(A)Monday]

[quote]Originally posted by Pixie
[b]
I think Missed-A-Monday has raised some perfectly valid points & I do think that in some cases there is a tendency to only like OS and to slag other styles of music off when I personally don't think that's fair.

Quite right, I aint trying to slag anyone off, I mean I suppose this website and os is quite quaint, but it aint cuttin edge no matter how much you try and pretend, (Im not saying it should be, but all Im saying is there is more stuff out there than os)

And the thought of me only listening soley to music that I listended to 12 years ago is tragic in my opinion

[sirius]

Do you want a wheelbarrow to go with that spade youre wielding m8????. hehehhe... Digging yourself deeper if youre not carefull. heheh.

Only havin a laff bud


See ya,

Sirius.

[princesswarrior]

We all hear different kinds of music, I hear it as i have no bloody choice the kids listen to alsorts my husbands choice is even worse.
I think it's because you mentioned it on an oldskool board were peeps on here just listen and talk about OS but if you went on a different forum they would be talking about trance and hip hop, I can not get me words out missed a monday, this is an os site so os post here but it does not mean we luck anywhere else if u no what i mean. You have your right to state how u feel and you did m8 and god you got some answers did'nt ye maybe more than what you wanted, but you as a person has your right to say what you want and ye did m8. I love os because it gives me some wicked memories and the music is sound.

But if I was to talk about other styles of music then i would take it to the proper place. Do ye get what i am saying i am not been funny or owt but as said before it is HARD to express what your feeeling or wanting to say.


My GOD I think i should carry on a little bit more and this will be a long post for me, HEE HEE.

Missed a Monday we r all welcome to our own opion even if it upsets peeps like one self, until i went back and read your post again m8. I do really hope you understand what i am saying.

Jo x

[XstaticX]

I will also agree with all of you!!!

OS is something more than just the music. My whole life evolved around the scene for almost five years. I now have three little muppets and they all love OS!
I think this site captures the mood of those days perfectly, eveyone is helpful, courteous, and up for a laugh. I certainly dont see this sort of buzz when I go out, but then Im far too old to stay up all night now anyway

The guys on this site do a terrific job of capturing a very happy and important part of my life that I will always cherish!

Thats my two penneths worth.

XstatiX : : :

[Missed(A)Monday]

Well, I suppose it was an age, a genre, friends were made, an archive in the past, and if you must be obsessed by it I suppose its fine too do that.

Nothing to do with music though is it?

[XstaticX]

Erm, yes everything to do with the music, I know of no other media that can still raise the hairs on my neck along a huge gurn-like grin!
Come to think of it, I have yet to hear a new tune that has that effect either!

Call me a sad old git, but, I still have all my old vinyl, and me decks! I would like to think that I will still be able to enjoy them for many decades to come!

Has anyone sold their OS vinyl?

XstaticX

[OldskoolDazed (al)]

MISSED A MONDAY IM PUZZLED TO FUCK ERE

YOU TOLD ME - WHEN I WAS TALKIN TO YA ON ICQ THAT YA LOVE THE PIANO TUNES - SO I SAID COME ON ANTHEMZ THERES A LOT MORE PEEPS INTO THE NORTHERN SCENE THE E TUNES - NOW YA SLAGGIN IT - SAYIN IT WAS GAY MUSIC - ERR

AL

[ste huxley]

Mr Monday

Are you writing a bloody book or summat or are you a journo????

You know exactly why everyone goes on here mate, I dont really know what you want us all to say.

[The Frog Meister]

Originally posted by Missed(A)Monday
Don't get me wrong, I think this web site is a really helpful, great place and I find it really useful for helping me locate samples I want to use in dance music I'm making currently. But I do think it's a bit sad in a way, sort of a sentimental/rose coloured view on yesteryear.

I think music dance music has moved on a lot since the days of piano tunes, (I did love them and still listen to them occasionally, even though some of them sound terribly dated now and badly made!, not all of them , but some) There is loads of great dance music being made now that is diverse and interesting, so why just concentrate on old skool piano tunes?

I'm not critisising people here, but its just a bit like "eeh when I were a lad it were better et etc" When infact there is tons of good music out there being made right now. I suppose it's different and you are in your early 20's and dj'ing this stuff cos that sounds like a bit of a laugh once a month or whatever, but I do feel guilty being in my early 30's looking back to another era when I used to rave!

Sorry to ramble, but I'm just being honest

Just befor people say that this has been said... I rarely come on here at th moment, but found out about this thread ( I should b back to normal cod shat levls soon )

As you all know by now ( if you don't, where have you been????) I don't listen to Old Skool, but to old Rock and Roll. Every so often I switch the radio on, and talk to people who listen to dance music. and I have to say OLD SKOOL is better!

The new music has no real brain power behind it. It is just noise that has been assembled on top of a tempo. In other words, it sucks! But I will grant a few good tunes going around....

Old skool was made at a time technology wa not very good and reliable, and you litteraly had to plan every single thing! Those guys that could do it in those days were fucken brilliant with an insight into the world of music that is being lost nower days. It is websites like this one that allows Old Skool, and the old legends to still live.

Old Skool is still around because it has brains in it's construction. I will tell you all this, the dance music of our days will die out, and very few people will remember it. It is not made to last but just please for a couple of months and that's it! How many New Skool guys are still around ( I honestly don't know!) but I am willing to bet that there are a lot more Old skool guys running around the place.

You said that this website is a rosie way of Old Skool. Well, I prefer itto be this way because it allows people like me to mingle, and might as well have fun on the side. If people only come to these kind of websites to just listen to the music and not communicate, where is the point to being human with the ability to speak?

I understand your stance and the "look forward" type, but this is old skool, not new. I personaly listen to very old songs and I do go mushy over tem. Because it reminds me of home, of my friends, of those things I go up to that I really shouldn't have done! And this website is that kind of place for peole that know each other, and for me to meat them.

I would like to say again that i have no read any of the answers, and hopefelly I will be abe to soon

[Missed(A)Monday]

Im not slagging old skool. A lot of the music was from the gay italian club scene. Im sure that Beebocks response was a micky take, with the "brains behind it" argument, you can't be serious, whilst I still love the old piano tune I don't kid myself about it's intellectual capabilities!!

[glazzy]

i don't know about Beebock's response bein a micky take...there has to be some truth there!!!!

at the end of the day if the tunes sounded like what we wanted to hear wen we went out clubbing and then we alll decided that they were so good we r still listening to them today...then to me there r brains behind it,

i doubt it takes too many brains to make a tune these days...not slagging any1, but i mean the stuff u hear nowadays isn't too hard to make...my dad made a tune the other day on the Dance e-jay thingy on his pc and considering he only made about 2 minutes and my dad isn't into dance music...well it was really good, i was ded shocked!!!!i know there's a bit more to it but that's just a little point i am trying to make

at the end of the day we just LOVE it and that's why we listen to it...wether it's shite to other people or not, it's wot we LOVE

as for tunes being badly made, i never listen right into a tune...if u get me??
i just listen to it!!!!!!

over and out

jayne x

[Missed(A)Monday]

Point taken kidder, over and out

[glazzy]

also can i say...this has been a really good thread i think!!!

well it aint just tunes is it??

wot i mean is we can all disagree with other people tastes(wether we actually say it or just think it)but we have all had a really good say on this one and i've never had to think about it so hard befor cos i have never been questioned!!

in other words it's made me realise how much i do love my tunes...cheers missed(a)monday!!!

jayne x

as for sweet sensation...hmmm...i'll put it on now...REALLY LOUD
j/j m8!!!

jayne x