Steve, seeing as you say your message isn't a joke . .
I thought these days it was supposed to be the old geezers who were
moaning there wasn't ENOUGH soul on the mod scene, what with all the
kids being into prog rock and heavy metal :-)
We all think that younger kids 'missed out' on whatever we were into
when we were teenagers, and of course when we were younger that what we
were into was better than what came before, even if it was shite, simply
because it's ours and because it's 'now' (even when you're talking about
records from the past, they're our discoveries) - and that's always the
right attitude to have.
It's just a shame when it turns into 'what we had is better than what
you've got' - people 'who were there' in the 60s, who dismissed punk in
the 70s, and continue to dismiss anything since as somehow inferior, or
ex-punk journalists doing exactly the same ('we were the last
self-important London clique of journalists to make a career out of
youth revolution'), and even the 'Ibiza isn't what it used to be' thing
is about 3 years old. As if the only thing that makes your teenage years
count is they really WERE better than everyone elses, rather than what
you did with them.
Which might sound like it has bog all to do with the mod scene, but it's
exactly the same - full of people who reckon it was better in their day,
and young kids glad it isn't like that anymore.
Except for the ones these days, of course, what with their 'swinging'
clothes and psychedelic music and all that - what's mod about that, and
don't they know that nothing will ever beat Where's Jude in the summer
of '97 (or was it '96?, my memory is failing with age).
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