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Topic: Anthologies of historical music scenes

Posted By: Toaster Mantis
Subject: Anthologies of historical music scenes
Date Posted: December 04 2014 at 05:08

This week I've gotten much mileage out of Nuggets, a 4-volume boxed set with extensive sociological liner notes documenting the mid/late-1960s psychedelic garage rock scene in the US (both famous as well as obscure artists) and I'm curious to find out how many different other movements in popular music have produced similar anthologies. Some people in the "now playing" thread brought up similar compilations existing for a lot of early-1980s regional punk scenes, though with varying degrees of quality, and I remember seeing a couple anthologies along the same line for the New Wave of British Heavy Metal which prospered at roughly the same time. No idea if the liner notes are as intensive, though, I don't think the NWoBHM bands ever considered themselves quite as much of a cultural movement as 1960s psychedelia let alone the punk subculture still does to this day.

I'm pretty sure that some do exist for like the mid-1970s disco explosion, the 1980s UK indie rock and early industrial noise scenes which cultivated a similar "do-it-yourself" ethic as their punk and NWoBHM contemporaries. Would be interesting to see ones for things like the various progressive rock subscenes in the 1970s or the late-1980s/early-1990s extreme metal scenes around the globe too.

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