Or: "How can you listen to that Nickelback nonsense? Now, Grand Funk Railroad -- that was a band!" Mike Bennett Blog: http://blog.myspace.com/mrhonorama Record reviews and more at http://fufkin.com Find out about Chicago shows: http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/chicagopopshowreport/ >From: "Stewart Mason" >Reply-To: audities@smoe.org >To: >Subject: Re: McCartney is God Get over it >Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 13:00:41 -0400 > > >----- Original Message ----- From: "John L. Micek" > >>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 > _________________________________________________________________ Exercise your brain! Try Flexicon. http://games.msn.com/en/flexicon/default.htm?icid=flexicon_hmemailtaglineapril07