Talk:Melbourne Shuffle

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I dont mind some of the stuff on the page but unfortunately it has some pretty glaring bias's floating around on there. It reeks pretty heavily of garry shephard, who most people would agree has been around since the year dot but is more interested in archiving a place in time rather than shuffling specifically. Also, the thing about talc being used in the northern soul scene in the states may be well meaning, but its wrong, northern soul is the brand of soul that was played in northern uk soul clubs from the late 60's until now, in the states they tend to call the same stuff rare soul. Also, the underground may have started in some small way in the late 70's shuffling did not kick off until 88 at the earliest. Acid house had been dead for quite a while b4 rocking kicked off. I cant lay claim to knowing who started the melbourne shuffle but I was around in 91-92 when it started to kick off in a pretty big way. I havent changed anything on the page cos there is more thats right about it than there is thats wrong about it, but the history is just out by ten or fifteen years. Also, in the list of places where the shuffle evolved, perhaps PURE in south melbourne then out the back of the palace could get a guernsey along with the fact that earthcore had sweet F>A to do with the evolution of the shuffle as it was almost frowned upon by the DOOF brigade. Not to mention the berzerk parties in the early 90's as well as the recoveries at the francis on lonsdale street where most of the hardcore ravers would end up eventually. Also, the mention of rupert from sonic animation mentioning shuffling might have been the first time it was mentioned in the media(especially considering the guy wasnt exactly "blessed" dancing wise it makes me wonder if he would really call his style of dancing shuffling as I dont think ive ever seen the guy on the dancefloor and a close mate of mine was one of the original guys in sonic animation and he definitely was a decent dancer) the dance style was called that unnoficially in the early 90's, rocking is a term that seems to have come in "relatively" (I mean after 96 when I put my runners away)recently. I would also question the specific history of the shuffle towards the end of the page seems a little too simplistic to me. Anyway, its a half decent start, but id hate for people to read this page as the last word. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.237.144.151 (talk) 21:36, 6 November 2007 (UTC)

too many people use this page as shameless self promotion, this is a not an advertisement space (This comment added by 210.49.242.124 · 2006-06-07 23:19:35)

If people are using this page for shameless self indulgence, then let them have their 15 mins. Plus there are some un-cultured freaks out there that always don't know about the underground scene of melbourne (This comment added by 58.104.120.123 · 2006-06-09 21:05:18)

Please do not delete comments, just add your own. —johndburger 02:59, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

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I agree but i also believe alot of these names have been around since the earlier periods. They are significant with what moulded the scene, please add your comments or modify what is on the main page if you think it should be edited.

Many people will have their own beliefs about that was classified as "the underground scene in Melbourne".

alot of these clubs \ places no longer exist

Peter James

This Article is really terrible. It deviates hugely from its topic. I mean a whole section of what ravers wear is already covered in the rave page.

Done a quick clean up, but still needs a lot of work--Stretch 11:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

Muzzacore? Are you fucking kidding me?? This article is absolute shit. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.214.45.99 (talk) 03:03, August 22, 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Major cleanup

Have taken to this article with a chainsaw and removed a lot of the crap. What this article desperately needs is proper references. I'm searching for whatever I can find, but not much is out there on the web. Also: this article is not a place to big note yourself, your club or your dance party event (which was basically all the previous article was). NathanLee (talk) 20:13, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

Also cleaned up the talk page a bit.. What a mess. NathanLee (talk) 20:15, 13 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Note for contributers

If you have material that is REFERENCED (that is there's a newspaper article or something) then the information can be put in. Descriptions of how cool someone is or your completely unverifiable personal opinion on who is a jetsetter in the Melbourne shuffle world are not going to make it into the article, plain and simple. Nor are collections of names of people, groups etc that there's no record of in any reliable source. NathanLee (talk) 11:01, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Notable shufflers" - removed

Think this section was just added as more shameless self promotion. If there's any reference in media or anything to support the inclusion of this section, then by all means. NathanLee (talk) 20:14, 5 June 2008 (UTC)