Pretty much all Boomer garbage. I really fvcking hate the Beetles! The most over-rated trash piles ever to burst onto the music scene. I can't wait until all of them are dead. Death cannot come soon enough for Beatlemania. The Beatles will be forgotten about five minutes after the last Boomer dies. The Beatles being forgotten along with Woodstock will be a good thing.
I'm also glad to never see Elvis, Bob Dylan, the Kinks, Rod Stewart, the Monkees, Elton John, Cat Stevens, the Beach Boys, Jimmy Buffet, Queen and of course the Grateful Dead. I hate everything about hippies including their music.
What the boomers changed is how old people behaved. Prior to them it was expected that as you aged, you put away "childish things" including "childish music", and moved on to more sophisticated, better music. Old people in the 60s and 70s didn't want to stay 16 and listen to Glenn Miller for the rest of their lives. But now we have 75 y/o boomers going to Rolling stones concerts and "Rockin" to the Beatles. They're proud they're still mental teenagers, telling the "the Man" to go stick it, while they rebel. Sad. In retrospect, though, I see that the lyrics were not just harmless fluff, but a part of the process that has created the stupidest political movements in history.
I always loved music for the sheer quantity available. Like remember going into a huge record store and feeling that sense of wonder at what you could find? Or the day where you were stoned in there and were like [Bleeeeep!] it and listened to some stuff from the African section?
The internet has really ruined what made music so unique as an art form. Before the internet, music was the art medium you could collect and explore in any town in America. Nowadays everything is all on the internet and disconnected. There really isn’t a pop music scene or really any popular culture in the same way. It’s the reason MTV doesn’t play music videos anymore, or for the last 20 years. Maybe it is a good thing in some ways, but I’ll fondly tell my kids about record stores someday.
Your stuff about the boomers wanting to live the 60s and 70s forever is somewhat true IMO, but don’t forget how good, meaningful, and important music was back then, up to even just 20 years ago. Evaluating music in today’s context can be unfair IMO, because so much stealing happen in style and sound.
Now new music is another commodity on an app to consume yet even young people I know are far more interested in classic 60-90s than anything 2000+. When the Boomers are long dead that music will live on. I think so will Nirvana and the Seattle bands. However, it’s pretty hard not to notice the void post 2000 and so few new household band names.
I would definitely skip the Beatles show for Pink Floyd.
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