Grow up!

My music tastes are changing. I think it's with age. It seems juvenile to be listening to all these teenage/adolescent bands breaking into the NME scene today.

You can't be listening to The-next-big-band all your life. As you settle into the hum-drum of adulthood, I guess aural choices become more mature and stable too.

I've stopped reading NME,switching to Mojo. The last few albums that I bought/downloaded are older than me (Sonic Youth, The Chameleons). Bob Dylan's Blonde On Blonde which initially repulsed me when I bought it four years ago is sweet melody to my ears today.

Patti Smith, Jimi Hendrix, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Thurston Moore all seem to have more personality than the sludge of young "The-Somethings" bands. But, I still have a soft spot for The Strokes and some other The-X bands.

Maybe Rock and Roll did die. Pop corrupts and musicians just live in an pseudo-world manufactured by record labels and media conglomerates.

All the more to turn back the dial to the 60s, 70s, 80s. But minus the glam metal please.


My favourite Bob Dylan song, 4th Time around. He's a poet indeed:


When she said,
"Don't waste your words, they're just lies,"
I cried she was deaf.
And she worked on my face until breaking my eyes,
Then said, "What else you got left?"
It was then that I got up to leave
But she said, "Don't forget,
Everybody must give something back
For something they get."

( you can cry, laugh or grimace at this stanza)