Stew's right. I meant the even more awful "Give My Regards to Broad Street." And I can never keep my Penns separate. But thanks for the shout-out nonetheless. jlm ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stewart Mason" To: Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 1:00 PM Subject: Re: McCartney is God Get over it > > ----- 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 > >