Actually I was a 16 -> 18 year old with an encyclopedic general knowledge of, and liking for, most genres of post music hall popular music...

That's a product of classic Grammar School edumacation that is...

same goes for my teen band mates...

But we needed your kind of sanctimonious intolerant old miseries to fight back against with our guitars, synths, and amps..
and that included many teen fans of Prog Rock and Singer Songwriters, with their narrow minded ignorant sense of superiority...

.. At that same time, those were still 2 of my favourite genres for home listening,
even though we were actively gigging out vital 'new wave' music in bands..

While all the moaners sat on their arses complaining about punk being a 3 chord 9 day wonder...

Of course it was.. We knew that, and celebrated it as loud and with as much exuberant fun as we could muster... 😎