[A Thousand Threads]

Originally Posted by Glice

You know that thing about 'whoever won the war writes the history'? Well, the historical revisionists of modern times are BORING OLD MEN WITH THEIR STUPID BORING STUPID BLOKE MUSIC STUPID.

Look... there is, was, and ever shall be shit music in every generation. For every one Jimi Hendrix there are a million Adam Faiths. I can't stand Hendrix, but don't lets let that interfere with the point - the point is that it's easy to look back on the musical fashions of yesteryear and forget quite how much shit there is around.

A personal observation - all the of the generation old enough to be 'into' the first wave of British punk (so, they were 17-25 in 76/77) think that punk is shit. The kids who were a little younger think punks the shit, and post-punk/ baggy/ goth/ new-wave is shit (etc etc). My brother is the grunge generation - he saw Nirvana on the Bleach tour. He thought they were shit. He thinks all grunge is shit. The historical revisionists are the people who try and create the idea that there was a better 'scene' than there ever was. There rarely is a scene, it's nearly always a creation of rose-tinted glasses wearing wankers without careers and NME journalists.

No generation has anything particularly... I have plenty of friends across most generations... the jazz generation of the 50's through to kids now. And I can say, pretty safely, that save for a few bores, most of them just enjoy what they enjoy, and don't care about some journalistic edifice.

PLEASE KIDS, ENJOY BEING YOUNG, AND DON'T EVER WISH YOU WERE IN ANOTHER GENERATION.

Phew. Sorry, gets my goat this one...

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