All this thread is doing is (a) dating people and (b) showing that most people lose touch with the current "scene" that the younger generation are actually listening to.

Kendall: "Every time I turn the radio on and that awful racket that passes for music these days, I remember when modern songs were pleasant to listen."

Sounds JUST like my parents omplaining that "all this modern stuff is just a racket" and "why can't you listen to someone decent like Bing Crosby, Perry Como or Vera Lynn?"

I was actually listening to *some* stuff from their era but it was Django and/or Grappelli etc rather than "crooners", who I couldn't (and still can't) get on with. But the music I *was* listening to while they were complaining included some of the "greats" listed above, plus a lot of other really good well-crafted and musically interesting songs.

And they're still out there. Just as most of the stuff I was listening to in the 60s and 70s didn't get much (if any) radio airplay, and a lot that did was crap, there's a vibrant scene with good bands prodcuing some well-crafted, songs in among the dross that gets airplay.

It's the same with every generation, it seems. My kids listen to (and steal) my old vinyl, but it's the "prog" stuff they're after and they wouldn't be interested in "Herman's Hermits" or "Gerry and the Pacemakers" from "my" era (which I wasn't interested in either).

I bet a lot of the songs about in the days some of the other posters are getting all misty-eyed about were absolute crap, too...it tends to be the more decent stuff that stands the test of time. And in 30 years, I'm sure someone from my kids' generation will be on a music forum (or equivalent) moaning about what absolute crap is being tured out "these days", unlike the great days of the "early two thousands"!