My dad
is a singer. He goes around local pubs and clubs, entertaining with his guitar and keyboard. He's been at it since the early 60s, and is well known in these parts. He's still going strong at 63, but now only plays for an older audience because modern music is 'shite'.

So, growing up I got to hear all the greats of yesteryear.... while Haddaway and Black Box were crashing through the charts, young bag was listening to the Kinks, the Stones, the Eagles and, God help me, the occasional bit of Cliff. As a result, my musical taste was less stunted than many of my peers, who thought anything more than a month old was saa-aa-aaad, and I gained a healthy appreciation for music old and new.

I remember it well, that night as I left a club, having spent the night listening to all the best the turn-of-the-millenia popular music scene could offer. I'll never be like my dad, thought I, no matter where music goes, I'll approve. With such an eclectic taste in music, surely there was no way I would ever despair at the state of the charts?

You live and learn, don't you. Pass me slippers.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Fri 1 May 2009, 17:34, 1 reply)

Absolutely
I never understood why some people consider that, just because a song is not brand new, then it is in some way inferior.

I listen to music from all ages - as long as the particular song is to my taste, then it doesn't matter if it was written in 1950 or in 2009.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Fri 1 May 2009, 20:44, closed)