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| From | "Stewart Mason" <craigtorso@verizon.net> |
| Subject | Re: McCartney is God Get over it |
| Date | Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:00:41 -0400 |
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From: "John L. Micek" <jlmicek@comcast.net>
> Sorry, man. I'm going to call you an "aging whiner."
> This may just peg me a snotty-assed GenXer, but I really can't stand
> it when Boomers start disappearing up their own backsides like this.
Two things: Bowie, not McCartney, wrote "Absolute Beginners" (a crap
movie made from an absolutely terrific book, incidentally), and Chris
Penn is Michael's dead brother.
Other than that, I tend to side more with Micek's side on this, but my
problem isn't with baby boomers who prefer the music of their youth to
that which came after -- that's a natural reaction -- but with baby
boomers who adopt an attitude of smarmy superiority over anyone who
had the temerity to be born after them. I'm not going to name names
or anything, but I've had people on this very list basically tell me
"Oh man, you weren't there, you're never gonna understand why our
music was so much better than yours." Which...I'm sorry, but that's
such a load of crap. That is the exact same blinkered thinking that
led to the baby boomers' parents saying "How can you listen to that
Beatle nonsense? The Glenn Miller Orchestra, now *that* was a band!"
S
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