12-05-2012, 23:22
A couple of years ago I asked a group of kids while talking about this "well what's new?" The best they could come up with was Radiohead. I said, "well they're still 25 years old. Got anything new?" They couldn't name anything newer than that. That's when I realised that they weren't going in and digging anything up. They were getting it fed to them ... don't know how, Pitchfork maybe? Rolling Stone? Two minutes later, the radio on the coffee house we were in played "Subconscious" by Samantha James, which must have been a week or two old at the time, and they were shocked to death when I said "Aw yeh, this is more like it" and even sang along. They were gobsmacked. They said "you really *do* listen to new stuff!" And I said "all the time. I've heard all that stuff you were talking about zillions of times and I've been sick of it for years." Next song up was Andain "Beautiful Thing", and I sang along with that too. They said "this is great, we've never heard this!" I said "it's about 8 or 9 years old" and then their minds were REALLY blown. All I could do was grin big and say "hey ya just gotta stay in tune, right?"
