Stopped at a convenience store on the way to work this morning

[Orrex]

A song was playing over the store's sound system, and a young employee in the food prep area lamented that she wishes they'd take the song off of the rotation because "it's just stupid, they're just shouting."

If it had been My Generation, I believe the universe would have folded in on itself.

She then proceeded to rock out to the next song, Pink's stirring anthem about starting parties.

[blogslut]

1. I'm not a WHO fanatic

But that song belongs on the list of the greatest songs ever. Stupid child.

[betsuni]

2. But ... they DO shout.

'70s loud guitar and shouting music gives me headaches, but I am not young. I don't understand the lyrics of this song. Are they saying that the hippie culture of the time became commercialized and fashionable and therefore same as the establishment? So they won't get fooled again? Or something else?

[Orrex]

3. I suppose my point is that...

her complaint seems to mirror exactly the same complaint that was made about the song by the then-older generation that just didn't get it.

And it amusingly underscores the perennial observation that the musical sensibilities of different generations don't always mesh.

[astral]

4. By the same token,

There are new artists doing our old songs and the kids think they wrote them.

But yeah that Who song was stuck in my head from the a.m. radio days and I think it's a great song too, although I never noticed what the words were and never gave it a second thought.

I think that song was what got George W. all tongue-tied, the song was stuck in his head too.

And he didn't know the words either.

(If you don't know what I'm referring to, it's because I'm OLD.)

[Iggo]

5. These kids today with their hair and their clothes.

And their music. You call that music? I call it noise!

I swear that little girl's channeling my grandpa.

[Tikki]

6. Be hard pressed to find any generation of bass players who won't give props to Entwistle.

Tikki