[kj] Good exercise someone on FaceBook recommended

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

Whether or not it's "important" to be "hip and informed" _ i have no 
idea. I just know I like music and didn't start paying attention in 1998.

My mom loved Christopher Cross, Bonnie Tyler, Crystal Gayle, and a lot 
of horible crap My aunt at least liked Black Sabbath, Devo, KISS (which 
as a kid I loved), owned some Clash, etc. But as an only child I pretty 
much had to find my own way into the realm of really good music. No 
older brother or sister to get me into it, as I have found is so often 
the case. For me it was skateboarding videos and magazines that started it.

Of course a lot of new bands remind one of older stuff. I still believe 
we're in the "throwback era" or music, in that bands try to sound like, 
emulate, or are compared to, bands that came before. But that doesn't 
mean there still isn't great stuff out there. I've tried mentioning new 
stuff on here, actually. Usually it seems like it gets brushed aside and 
a lot of folks fall back into their pre-1995 time warp.

-Oliver

On 4/7/10 6:19 AM, Alexander Smith wrote:

> I'm perfectly content with being 42. My parents listened to stuff like 

> Cat Stevens and Sergio Mendes & Brazill `66, so it ain't like they 

> spend a lot of time lamenting newer crops of music. But I know what 

> you mean.

>

> Maybe it's important to stay hip and informed, but I don't ever want 

> to be that guy. You know the one I mean. The oldest dude in the club, 

> strenuously trying to prove how hip he is to the young folks.

>

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