This budding war between the generations is pretty silly. Mbo, you like SOME of the music of my youth, as I like SOME of the music of yours. Much of the music from my youth has been lost to the ages, for which we can all be grateful (it wouldn't bother me if more of it were retired). Much of today's music will also fall by the wayside, and rightly so. There was some good music when I was your age, and there's some good music now. With any luck our beloved "folk process" will help separate the wheat from the chaff, and the good stuff will still be around for all of us to enjoy in the future. We may all have our opinions about the worth of certain performers, but they're just opinions at this stage -- we'll just have to wait and see whether people remember Oasis fifty years from now.