When Is Music Considered " Old" ?

[Big Ears]

When I was young, a 5 or 6-year-old album, like Thank Christ for the Bomb by the Groundhogs, would sound old and dated. Now, a 5 or 6-year-old album would sound no different to a new one. Those albums, like the early Groundhogs, that sounded dated to me forty years ago, now sound fresh, probably because remastering has given them a cleaner sound (although it does not always work this way, ie. Steven Wilson's remaster of Yes's Relayer). Anything by someone like Adele would be new to me, because I do not really listen to much after the early eighties (or up to the mid-nineties at a push).

It's funny really, but I remember as an adolescent, sitting with my friends in Woolworths' tea shop, or on a bus, and seeing teddy boys with DA haircuts and they seemed a real anachronism. Now I am the anachronism, except I haven't got long hair any more.