[duckbutt]

Hubby and I listen to an oldies station - - we constantly say to each other, "gee did we realize the music was THAT GOOD way back when?" I have to agree, today's stuff is a horror, with a very few exceptions. Sorry......but I'm going back to the golden oldie vault o' wax.......

Can I spin something for you folks??

[Polybius]

Hubby and I listen to an oldies station - - we constantly say to each other, "gee did we realize the music was THAT GOOD way back when?" I have to agree, today's stuff is a horror, with a very few exceptions. Sorry......

Not that I disagree with you in any way but, you realize, of course, that you are saying what an entire generation of parents said "way back when".

Ah, yes, I can hear it now......."Back in my day, when there was good music, the songs asked 'Will you sit under the apple with anyone else but me?'. Now the songs ask, 'Why don't we do it in the road?'". ;-)

[jejones]

Hubby and I listen to an oldies station - - we constantly say to each other, "gee did we realize the music was THAT GOOD way back when?"

Yup...the ironic part is that if you go back and listen to the Monkees, that everybody called phony, plastic, etc., the songs they recorded is vastly more interesting musically than most of the popular music you hear today. Also, the Top 40 back then was vastly more varied than it is today. On KOMA in the 60s and 70s, I'd hear rock, folk, novelty songs, and country. You won't find that now. One could argue that stations are more specialized, but the variety across stations is far less now than it was on individual stations in the past.