Julian DayRe-listening to the first couple Big Shiny Tunes CDs (if you're Canadian and of a certain age, you know), and some of the songs are big, famous, still on the radio. You know, Bush, Sloan, RHCP, etc. And then there's the oddballs, like "Paste" by Pluto, a Vancouver band that had a brief run of a few years in the mid 90s. Nominated for a single Juno. It's a pretty decent song! I think a lot about who makes it and who doesn't (in various things) and how so much is a matter of luck and timing.
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@juliancday I think about this often when I listen to nostalgic music, knowing that people who are enough of a different age from me or didn't grow up in Canada will not understand or appreciate it the way I will because that's all just lost to time, and yet it lives on inside of me.
@theynege I wonder about all the great weird/local/whatever music I've never heard because I was too old, too young, wasn't there.
@juliancday I think that's something that streaming services could be useful for (if they weren't all evil and now being ridden with AI garbage) both in making that music accessible to anyone at any time, and in leading people down a life-enriching rabbit hole. I've found a lot of music I really like this way that I otherwise would never have come across.
In a way it kind of kills the collective experience of MuchMusic playing the same music for everyone across the country at the same time and thus might not create that comparable of an experience to being in the right place at the right time, but at least there's a piece of it to point to and give a frame of reference.