February 19, 2008

• Age and music, they should work together and for the most part they do, however that does not seem to be the case with some people. I've always said that a good song is a good song, no matter when it was made, be it five, ten, twenty, or thirty years ago.

  I hear people say "oh, that song is old," if I was listening to for example "Closing Time" by Semisonic which was released in 1998. I also hear that comment when I listen to for example "Blasphemous Rumours" by Depeche Mode, which is supposedly "too 1980s." Just because a song was released more than say three years ago does not make a song bad or unlistenable. It's stupid that some people would avoid listening to an "old" song, because it's "not hip" to do so. That just does not make sense to me. It's one thing if you don't particularly like a song, but to judge it based on age is ridiculous.

  On the flipside, this also applies to people who say there's nothing good in music today. Some people are so stuck in the past that they can't appreciate some of the good songs that are recently released. If you can't find any good current songs, then you aren't looking hard enough.

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