Originally Posted by rootboy

Ah, The Tubes. The Completion Backward Principle and Remote Control are two albums that I don't let far out of my sight. "American White Guy Power Music" another member of the forum called it, or something to that effect. To be sure, but those guys could really play their instruments. Consummate musicianship. Something I don't hear much any more. Poguemahone may be right, that there is some great MUSIC being produced today, and perhaps I don't know where to look to find it. Or maybe I'm in Robbie's camp; just too old and tired to engage the new stuff. I've tried, but after a few minutes on the "New Music- Alternative" radio station, I have to switch it off. It's a gross generalization, of course, to say the Baby Boomers think nothing after '76 was worth anything. People listen to and love what they're familiar with. That which provided a sound track to life at a certain point. My mention of the Kings of Leon was a stretch. I don't buy their CD's or listen to them. But I remember that when I heard them I was pleasantly surprised that someone was actually playing electric guitars fairly well again. For my part it's mostly about melody and great singing. Writing great melodies and singing very well ain't easy, of course. Every time I hear something like Wilco, Moby, Lucinda Williams, The White Stripes, etc., etc., ...I wonder where the singing went. Or maybe the nasal, atonal droning is just the style nowadays and I don't get it. Entirely plausible and likely. So, I just put on something like Tim and Neil Finn, to name but one example, to remind myself that someone can/could actually write good melodies and sing. If there is a modern-day counterpart, I guess I haven't found it yet. I like music, so I'll keep looking.