Where's the music of the recession?

Axe_meister

So now we are in year 5/6 of the recession where is the new punk/new new wave/ rave scene ?
Or has the Internet/media turned the angry youth into zombies.

Hertz32

Zombies, deffo zombies. 
It's all Dubstep, electro Dance/rave, Niki Minaj/Farmyard noises and singer/songwriters to be honest  

monquixote

As Nile Rogers said when people are down they want to hear about good times. 

stickyfiddle

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/Wreckingball.jpg

DrBob

King Blues ?

[Deleted User]

The OP makes a very interesting point. Why has there not been a mega-hit equivalent of 'Ghost Town' by The Specials? As soon as I hear that song I'm immediately transported to '81, mass unemployment, riots, racial tensions, strikes et al. A record that truly captured an era. Perhaps music was seen as a method of mass communication then, whereas the Internet fulfills that role now? Or maybe people are only mildly angry, living predominantly middle-class/comfortable lives and the truly impoverished are fewer in number. These people now seem to have been branded more effectively by the press as scroungers and cheats than they ever were in the early '80s and possibly feel so marginalised that they dare not speak out....

bertie

I thought we came out of recession years ago ?

Grumpyrocker

Eldorado on Iron Maiden's Final Frontier is about the recession/banking crisis.

Fretwired

There's no longer an outlet for a punk-style movement. I worked in London in the mid 70s and there were dozens of small independent record shops [all gone] and clubs and pubs where you could hear bands live. Independent record labels like Stiff Records popped up out of nowhere which encouraged labels like EMI to take a risk with the Sex Pistols. EMI had the clout to market their product and force the likes of Radio One to play it. People were really interested in music back then - as a teenager there was bugger all to do.That's all gone.

Pop music's controlled by people who just want to make a fast buck and too many teenagers are more interested in FaceBook, Twitter, X-Box and following the exploits of Z-list celebs. Music is delivered in a convient way via an iPod or smartphone and is little more than the soundtrack to the daily lives of people commuting to work or working out down the gym. I don't know of anyone under 40 who consciously listens to an entire album any more.

Popular music's become bland and corporate [sponsorship opportunities] - think Coldplay. There's still some good music out there is you look but it will never be mainstream.

Bellycaster

@Fretwired summed it up perfectly, what a sorry state it is!

holnrew

Apathy.

VimFuego

fluoride in the water. That and X Factor, the worlds best mind control combination.

Zodiac51

I was watching Punk Britannia last night on bbc4 too!

Compared to the youth of today, we really have much less to do, and because of that music I guess played a bigger part and gave you a sense of "belonging" in a tribal sort of way. That's what it was - lots of little tribes. now all that "sense of being part of a community" thing is done on-line, and music is much less important. To compound the problem no one pays for their music now, which means no one makes any money from it. 

We are collectively Fooked :x