Re: [ARSCLIST] A Holiday vision

[Ethan Clauset <ethan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have no doubt that you could time-shift this statement backwards  
about 100 years and someone in 1907 would have said the same thing  
about the perilously declining quality of popular music in their  
day.  Why even bother with so many words when you could just scowl,  
shake your fist and say "Kids these days..." and achieve the same  
effect?

Ethan Clauset



Steven C. Barr wrote:

> Further, having been an (attempted) blues musicianer since c.1986,  
> and having personally "ear-observed" the inevitable descent of pop  
> music and "indie <wotever>" over the past decade or two (basically,  
> ever since the rise of "punk rock" made it acceptable to play music  
> badly in public settings...?!)...I tend to hold serious doubts as  
> to the "preserve-worthiness" of most "independent" music of the  
> last decade or two...if not more...?!