Jaimie wrote:
> 
> There are STILL great songs being written....but after you've had 40 years 
> of every formulaic turn imaginable, it becomes a case of "been there, heard 
> that". Anyone making music in the last 15 to 20 years hasn't stood a chance 
> because you '60s geezers want to backwards engineer everything you hear. 
> Music is both cyclical and evolutionary. When it's cyclical it's 
> predictable, safe and boring...when it's evolutionary it causes discention, 
> rifts and has a tendency to leave you "cats" yearning for the golden age. 
> Get over it. Our children have.
> 
The reason us "cats" (how I love that word) yearn for the golden age is because we think it was a better age than any that has come along since, musically speaking. Sorry, but I do think songs written in the sixties and seventies are better than those being written today. I won't apologize for smiling and feeling all goosepimply when I hear a song performed in the style of "been there, heard that."

And as for our kids getting over "it," well, a lot of the kids I know would rather listen to music from the "golden age" than just about anything else. 

But this is all just what I like and what you like, isn't it? To quote Randy Newman, "It's a wonderful world."

Alan
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