Old people

I've kind of danced around the edges of it, but I have to face it - one of the reasons I Hate Rolling Stone is that the editorial direction all comes from former hippies who think music peaked in 1969.  Yes, they have younger guys working there now, but it's the same vibe.  Nothing released today could possibly be as good as this reissued The Band with new bonus tracks, unless it's a band who wishes they were The Band.

The irony of this is that I love the Band.  I think "Makes No Difference" is one of the alltime great songs.  But I also think Primitive Radio Gods "Standing Outside a Broken Phonebooth with Money in My Hand" is one of the alltime great songs.

This shouldn't be an argument, but I have it with stupid people all the time.  My boss loves Cheap Trick, but if I try to play Weezer or Fountains of Wayne, which to me are a pretty similar kind of music, he hates it.  He loves Neil Diamond and Jim Croce, but Iron and Wine?  Never.

Rolling Stone is a little more accepting, but you look at their list of the top 500 albums ever - something like half of them were released between '65 and '75.  There's this assumption that that was the Renaissance, and the last thirty years have barely equaled those ten.

It's late, and this is rant-y, but tomorrow I think I'll try to put some evidence, some band semi-equivalencies I think I see.