I didn't like post-Woodstock country-rock, post-Woodstock Nashvegas rock-country or anything "country industry" ever since, disco, corporate stadium rock, fern bar music, rap, hardcore, thrash, speed metal, house music, hip hop, top 40-girly diva disco (Mariah, Madonna, Paula Abdul, etc), grunge (or at least anything that "got through"), boy bands, Disney dance acts, "the return of rock Strokes-Vines-Hives-White Stripes YEAH!", dubstep, mashups, techno, electronica, ambient, cuddlecore, rrriot girrrl, NU country, NU Metal, Mathrock, Icelandic death metal, U2...
I could go on and on and include those artists like Tony Bennett and Ethyl Merman who "had" to record Beatles covers and disco songs to prove they were still "with it".
To show you how silly this nostalgia business is, a Fakebook ‘friend’ of mine, whom I don’t even know, he’s only the brother of a guy whom I once knew, and didn’t even know had a brother, proudly posted a list of what he considers best rock and roll recordings ever. Proudly and shamelessly. I hate lists in the first place, but this one told you everything about the guy and nothing about the music. Told you how old he was and what crap he listened to when in his teens. Nostalgia from beginning to end. That plus bad taste (Yes, “stairway of heaven”, the 70s reference point of ridicule by rock critics was there). Numba won, was, you’d never guess, “A Hard Day’s Night”. WHAT?
I have a quote that Yogi Berra can buy from me for next to nothing and claim as his own: “I don’t miss nostalgia.”