Remember how OUR parents said EXACTLY the same thing about the music we listened to as kids (and we now venerate as being SO much better than OUR kids' - or grandkids' music!)?

Yep... we got old...!

TBH, the very PURPOSE of kid's music is to pi$$ off their parents. If it didn't, the kids wouldn't like it! Imagine liking something those old fogies liked? Horror!

The truth is, the 'old days', when music was SO much better is an illusion. We have 40 years of filters to sieve it through. For every classic tune and band we remember, there were probably forty BAD tunes and bands we have long forgotten. For every 'Stairway to Heaven', there was a 'Yummy, yummy, yummy, I've got love in my tummy'!

And Mark... don't knock the old guys. You'll be one soon enough, and some kid will probably think YOU a dinosaur who should have the decency to go lie down in a tar pit and be petrified! But you'll still WANT to play, and enjoy playing even if your skills have lessened with age.

Today's music is pretty much the same as it has always been. A mixture of the sublime and the excremental. It's up to YOU to sort it out.