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Top 10 Reasons Parties were Better in the Last Millenium

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  1. lurk Stunning Cunt

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    10 reasons parties were better in the last millennium

    1. The scene was not split into people who liked progressive, dark, full-on, forest or Mongolian. Everyone went out at the weekend to the same parties, danced like loons to the same music and shared the same experience. There was unity, basically.
    2. There was no shite “live act” culture. A good party in the 90’s had one live act, possibly two. They rarely came from abroad. Instead you had skilled DJs who played the tunes from those acts that were out of reach in long sets, and weaved them into something much more unique and magical than a live act ever could be.
    3. People who put on the parties had no real concept of making money from them, they were just done for the love, and that love was pure.
    4. People who made the music had no real concept of flying all over the world doing gigs for a living and becoming “famous”, the tunes were just made for the love, and that love was pure.
    5. Because of 3) & 4) the people dancing to those tunes at those parties felt the love, magnified it and sent it back out there, and that love was pure.
    6. Free Lemonade. Squat parties meant Free Lemonade.
    7. You could put on a proper outdoor party, in proper countryside, and get away with it.
    8. Vinyl.
    9. Thyssen Street. A venue so cool that there was at least one big party a week there for about 7 years, and no-one moaned about it.
    10. It was new. Not just new for some people, it was new to everyone. There was no jaded energy to be found, no punters at parties just there because they have become institutionalised over the years. It was new, and everyone was exploring it together.

    flame on.
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  2. zulie Guest

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  3. Technognome Professor of Ecognomics

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    11. I was younger and more bouncy
  4. bez23 slow moving wide load

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    12. New Years Eve parties happened at Brixton Academy, were put on by either Megadog or RTTS, and were ALWAYS massive, awesome, and certain to happen.
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    Not that I was even in double digits in the last millennium, but I agree. I don't get this need to compartmentalize your tastes into neat little categories. 'I am a fan of this music, and by definition everything else isn't worth hearing'. Just enjoy it. Multi-style parties are just as, or even far more, enjoyable to me.

    The problem isn't with the style of music, it's with you (whoever thinks like this ;) )
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    ^I was going to mention RTTS.
    It would be great to have just one more really good New Year's Eve at the Brixton Academy!

    13. The music was better.

    :p
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    14. more lezzers
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  8. JohnM blah blah blah

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    Was this before psy trance split off from acid trance/acid techno, or before trance split off from techno, or before techno split off from house?

    in a few years the dark fans will be remembering the days when night time & forest fans all went to the same parties - its just the way it goes...

    ..
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  9. Daydream Believer WI

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    Have we given up on being a hasbian? ;)
  10. Psy_mystic chaotic neutral

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  11. JohnM blah blah blah

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    tbh that probably the biggie.. though obviously things have never been as good as it used to be...

    you forgot..

    space tribe/outrageous fluoro clothes
    cosmic outrageuos fluoro drapes (nobody had heard about sails & string then)
    everyone fluoro'd up on the same stuff
    luxury fluoro toilets at venues (cf. Tyssen St)
    fluoro lesbians

    :confused:
  12. Bacchanal semilanceated

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    I could be wrong, but I believe that's still available.
  13. Pierce f-ing Brosnan Poor man's Dawn

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    What happened to all the lesbians? Did new-labour cut their funding or something?
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  14. Daydream Believer WI

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    It's been a long time since I've seen the 'free for everyone from a bejeweled flask carried by a wizard' variety. ;)
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  15. Psy_mystic chaotic neutral

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    People's preference seems to have shifted to something else though.
  16. BlipBlop deeper beeper

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    i know this is a semi ironic jaded post but...

    no.
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    no ... im just having a break : )
  18. zulie Guest

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    nah, they all fucked off to Hebden Bridge to have kids...
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  19. Noein noemata

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    15. There weren't as many beard-stroking grumpy old-farts proclaiming music (and parties in general) is not as good as it used to be.
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  20. Nanook Gone Fishing.

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    You know sometimes, when someone posts, "Thread Winner"....or some-such?

    .....well....Sorry Lurk....this isn't it.



    I declare this...
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    "Forum Winner"

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