Something that really bothers music geeks is when we hear someone say "I only like music from the era that I grew up in." Good music transcends generations and it should be obvious. Liking music from your childhood-teenage years and disliking everything that came after it is a sign that you don't really like or understand music. It also means you've fallen into a societal trap-the majority of people think that way (that the only good music was music from their era) so maybe you haven't thought the issue through and just regurgitating what you hear others say.
Yes, you can honestly believe that your era was the only good era of music and no, there is nothing morally wrong about that. To each their own. But you are wrong. Every decade had great music. The 50's had Elvis, Buddy Holly. The sixties had Motown, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones. The seventies had The Ramones and Kiss. The eighties had the hair bands and the nineties had grunge. This is just off the top of my head, not an in-depth analysis of what bands/music genres came from what era. Again though, just this very brief list shows my point. Good music is like a great novel-it's truly timeless.
And that's another interesting thing. You rarely hear people say "I only like the books I grew up with." Music is the only one held to that standard.
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