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Best post. Nail on head.

Seriously I'm flattered but definitely don't deserve the praise. Edit - and agree about Maclaren. An opportunist and business man.

Fanzines, gigs, word of mouth, NME, Melody Maker, The Tube and Old Grey Whistle Test, more gigs...those radio stations and record shops weren't the only options. At the risk of bigging up my music blog, here's a link: http://www.burrowsmusic.com/ hopefully it might shine some light onto what I...

Okay - now I'm really confused. For a start, the chart isn't mine - it's from the Economist magazine. Secondly, I expressed doubts about it in my first post. Thirdly and most importantly, you were the person who said that we now have X Factor and BGT to which I replied that there's lots of great...

On a serious note, you might be onto something here. Maybe the music scene had different time-lags from underground to mainstream in the early 60s to the early 80s and as you say, the real revolution for the 80s started a few years earlier but just took longer to be reflected in the chart music...

Genuine question - and I really don't want to start a willy-waving contest - but how have you possibly come to that conclusion from my reply?

BINGO! I knew someone would come out with that line. If that's the only music you expose yourself to then you deserve the bad music. It's been explained enough times before but music is in very rude health. The musicians might well be screwed by Spotify and iTunes and the like but there's as...

Prince Fatty's latest is quite superb. Mixing old and new, The Skints might be a little too poppy for your tastes but they feature Tippa Irie on a few tracks. And a few more very old school names still making good new music: Lee Scratch Perry and Sly and Robbie.

The 3 periods were 63-64, early 80s, early 90s. I've got to say I'm rather surprised by the results as I'd say that the change from, say 74 to 78, was greater than from 79 to 82 but the eggheads say otherwise...