All kidding aside, I do feel sad for people who refuse to allow music to move forward in time. It may be different from what you’re used to, but to say that no popular music in the past 30-plus years is any good is a statement that I would never make.

I might say that I don’t like anything that’s come out in the past thirty years, but just because I don’t like it, doesn’t mean it isn’t any good.

Of course, I don’t believe that nothing good has come out in the past thirty years. Quite the opposite; I think some great music has been released in each of the last three decades. And some dogs.

But to make a sweeping statement such as the one you’ve made — yeah, it still makes me feel sad.

I have a bunch of friends whose musical tastes never moved forward out of college. Ew. Stuck in the eighties for life. Now that’s hell on earth. Me? I’ll listen to the new music, and keep moving forward.

One result of that: It turns out that I have a lot of musical taste in common with my nieces and nephews. They think it’s too cool for words that I know their favorite musical groups, and that I’m interested in the ones they listen to that I don’t know yet. And my niece about fainted when I told her I’d seen Chevelle twice. “I haven’t even seen them once yet! You’re so LUCKY!”

There are a lot of good musicians out there who’ve been making music since Simon and Garfunkel broke up. It’s all a matter of expanding your choices.

And in any case, no one’s written any decent music [off Broadway, at least] since Simon and Garfunkle broke up…

Now that’s just sad. They broke up in the seventies, and you haven’t listened to any new music in over thirty years?

I feel bad for you.

That’s what NRO did, cherry-pick songs with lyrics or themes that conservatives agree with. But in reality, the songs were not meant to be conservative, or conservative-themed, and it’s a real stretch to call them conservative.

“My City Was Gone?” Hey, they paved Paradise and put up a parking lot, right? And I don’t care what he says about covers, in what universe — in what effing universe — can “Stand By Your Man” be considered rock’n'roll?

(In point of fact, Pete Townshend has responded to “Won’t Get Fooled Again” being labeled conservative. It isn’t, he says.

But the one that disgusts me most of all? The choice of “Janie’s Got a Gun” described this way:

How the right to bear arms can protect women from sexual predators:

The song is about a victm of incest who shoots her own father. Yeah, that’s some “conservative idea or sentiment.”

The list is utterly bogus. Rock’n'roll was born out of rebellion against conservativism, and pretending that these songs are conservative just makes Miller look, well, stupid.

Hey Punk, where you goin’ with that button on your shirt?

I’m goin’ to the love-in to sit & play my bongos in the dirt.

Or the following:

FREE IS WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE TO PAY FOR NOTHING OR DO NOTHING
WE WANT TO BE FREE FREE AS THE WIND

That was my poor attempt at being snarky, Deb. :)

Yea, Keith Richards otoh, yea, I guess he may be considered ‘hip’ (and not meaning a candidate for ‘hip’ replacement).

I guess I’d add Johnny Cash to that list too.

I wonder if they’ll make a movie of Keith Richards Life though… hmmm… well maybe not…

Mick Jagger hasn’t been “hip” in at least 20 years. If you saw his performance during the Super Bowl halftime this year, it was cringe-inducing. Now Keith is another story entirely. He’ll be hip when he’s 90.