Trapped in an era, I suppose I could be, unfairly, pigeon holed as "Trapped in an era".
My era of entrapment starts the time cave men banged their first repetitive musical note and grinds to a reluctant halt at the time CD's changed the way we store music.
I think this altered the way we "invested" our time, love and loyalty towards music. The change saw most go from a weekly album and a weekly single, to infinite music files.
Nowt wrong with this I hasten to add, it just seamed to make music a little disposable, ignorable, and dare I say some times a little shallow?
Youth culture changed at the same time because of this? The early eighties saw "Sports casual" obliterate all "uniformed" sub genres and the music lost its associations to become a MTV Soup!
Again nowt wrong with this, radio 1 had for many years spoon fed those unable or unwilling to lend an ear to off centre music.
Crystal ball time now, I am not sure my son will remember a "genre" of music when he is older, I doubt he roll his eyes and look back lovingly at a type of music associated with a "scene"?
I, like most, are transported to a complete world of memories and sensations a la Northernsoul, trapped in an era? Wonderfully fookin yes!
P.S. I do enjoy many different types of music but nothing touches me as much Northernsoul.