08-14-2016, 06:47 PM
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Zum Henker Defätist!!
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Beating GNR at DDR and keying Axl's new car
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Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station
What's kind of depressing to me is that when these sorts of "why are we worrying about older generations' music" discussions pop up, and folks name artists they shouldn't feel obligated to pay much attention to, you almost never hear folks mention the likes of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin etc. any longer. Those folks seem to really have been forgotten by the majority in younger generations, and they were all easily Led Zeppelin/Pink Floyd/Bruce Springsteen/etc. or even Beatles-caliber famous in their day.
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Basically anything past when the Beatles stopped being a boyband is forgotten. I'm assuming this was when Rolling Stone magazine started up and began telling people what to listen to. It's amazing the influence a magazine that nobody reads can have after all these years.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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