At 02:23 PM 9/20/2003 -0700, bryan wrote:
>There's an interesting article in this week's L.A. Weekly:
>"The Kids Aren't Alright . . . They're Amazing": Why what was old and
>lost and a bit odd is young and new - and exciting - again
>by Jay Babcock

Good article, but I'm not sure the theory that "bands are only now looking
back further than 20 years" really holds up.  Around '67/'68, a whole bunch
of acts suddenly got fascinated by music of the '20s and '30s.  (Harpers
Bizarre, Spanky and Our Gang, Nancy Sinatra's SUGAR album, the Bonzo Dog
Band, "Winchester Cathedral," "When I'm 64" and "Your Mother Should Know,"
many of Mama Cass' contributions to the Mamas and the Papas, etc.)  Then
there was the rockabilly revival of the early '80s, reviving music that was
about a quarter-century old, and it's funny that people have already
forgotten both the lounge music craze of the mid-'90s and the swing revival
of the late '90s.  

I buy that there might be a lot *more* of that sort of thing going on now,
because there's more of everything going on now, but I don't think I buy
that this sort of thing has never happened before.

S