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Wheat from the chaff...

90% of the pop culture--music, movies, TV, books--from any era is worthless for anything other than kitsch.
We just remember the good stuff from those decades past and forget the bad.
Example: a former local talk radio host used to go on and on about how TV today was crap, that the 1960s was the Golden Age, etc., but the truth is that most of the TV shows from the 1960s were wretched. He was only remembering the good ones because that's what stood out in his mind.
There were tons of horrible music released during your 1980s-1990s time period. I should know; I bought a lot of it. Your selective memory--this is understandable, something we all do--prevents you from realizing it.
I'm an old guy. Most of my favorite performers are long dead, but there is still excellent music being recorded and released right now, today, if you care to look, and I had no problem finding at least a half-dozen solid keeper LPs released just this year. It doesn't sound like music from the 1990s (or 1980s, 1970s, 1960s), but that doesn't diminish its excellence.
But right now 2010/2011 the bad stuff is still hitting you upside the head.
Five years from now, someone will post something to the effect that "it's all crap; whatever happened to the great stuff we used to listen to at the end of the Aughts?" It's as inevitable as sunrise.



Edits: 12/31/10

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