I heard my uncles, aunts, and various others from the generation before mine telling me and everybody else how all the new music was going to destroy the world, it was hard on the ears, had stupid lyrics, and dumb harmonies, and the music was just awful. They were talking about everybody from Buddy Holly to the Beatles, Beachboys, and especially Pink Floyd. They compared the new music against the likes of Frank, and Dino, and Count Basie and found it wanting…seriously wanting.

My dad told me not to listen to those idiots about music. He said his dad’s generation said the same thing about the big bands and stars of his time. It’s a time-honored tradition to hate on the newest stuff going on. And it’s no different now.

I see at least one thing everyday complaining about the new music. It’s “juvenile, it’s mindless, it’s made by computers, it’s no talent crap, ” is how new music is described. The new music of today will be the standard when the next generation comes up and the story will repeat itself.

Things change. You may sit around and bemoan the new-fangled cars with their plastic dashes and computers and complain you can’t work on them, and they are junk, but I drive the highways every day and there is a noticeable difference in the number of broken cars on the side of the highway now as opposed to the seventies or the eighties, even the nineties. Those cars and the ones before were junk compared to what is available now. It’s fairly common to see cars with a half-million miles on them and yes, there are many with over a million miles on them. They are considerably safer, quicker, quieter, last longer, and they get outrageously better fuel mileage.

Music is like that. You may not like the new music, but you who think music is junk now, sound just like the old fucks when I was coming up complaining about them damned loud ‘lectric guitars. “Get off my lawn” is not anything new guys. And the old fucks today haven’t grown up much more than the last old fucks or the old fucks before them. And the new old fucks coming up will be just like us, whining like little babies when they release their chilrens to the world.

And for all of you who may take this as a personal affront or a snide remark, it’s not. I guess I am required to preface everything I write. It’s just an opinion, and mostly it’s a joke.