I'm quite happy that people have opinions, and that they're just as valid as mine, but I prefer to see the opinions based on something more than broad-brush prejudice.

It's really sad that people, mostly quite senior ones, give blanket condemnation to entire genres or eras of music with comments such as "it's all just noise" or "it all sounds the same"....just like our parents condemned our own choices of listening material without even taking the trouble to actually investigate what we were listening to as opposed to the very limited sub-set they heard on mainstream media.

I vividly remember in my mid-teens promising myself that if I ever had children, and when I grew old, I'd keep an open mind about whatever music was current, and treat songs and tunes on their own merits. I've often felt that I haven't properly lived up to that promise, but seeing some of the comments here, I actually feel that I haven't done too bad, considering, in leaving my mind open to changes. So many of my contemporaries seem to make a virtue out of never approving of any music written after about 1976!