Nothing reveals a defeated man than one who pines away for the good old days.

Music is art and art will never be defeated by politics, kings, or despot rulers. I don't believe there is one decade that has produced 'great' music and one that hasn't. One can find great music from any decade whether it be Amadeus Mozart, Stephen Foster, Claude Debussy, Sun House, the Carter Family, Hank Williams, Nick Drake, Phillip Glass, Miles Davis (and he had a new form of music for every working decade of his life), the Pogues, Christy Moore, Roy Harper, Gordon Lightfoot, Steeleye Span, Gillian Welch. You have to go find the music, whatever the genre, whatever the decade. I have been here on the Mudcat for a short spell and already I have been given a lead for a new artist which I will seek out.I'm still happy I have my hearing for listening to music new and old and the dextrity in my hands to still pluck out tunes.

As per politics, how can you pine away for the 1960's, a decade that had a fascist leader still running the show in Spain, the Vietnam war that killed literally thousands of American Youth, you had Mao orchestrating the Cultural Revolution, you had Sukarta ruthlessly running Indonesia, you had apartheid in South Africa.The assination of JFK, RFK, Martin Luther King. You cherish that decades's politics and criticise the 1980's. Every decade has it's politics's and always will.Every decade has it's dark side and every decade has it's hope.