Music Quote of the Day

In a post about music and radio stations, David T of comes up with this gem, deep in the comments thread:

There's Radio 2, for those who have resigned themselves to their middle aged fate.

Then, there's 6Music. Which is basically Radio 2. But it plays more Clash.

For a few years, I thought: 'Oh, this is cool - I'm still into new trendy music, and so I'm never going to get old and die'. Then I realised that things like 6Music, the (excellent) Word magazine, and all those revivals of punk bands etc. were actually just an enormous marketing ploy to make me feel as if I was still in touch with coolness; and were, in fact, the cultural equivalent of wearing lo-slung jeans with a middle aged gut hanging over them.

Indeed. Reminds me very much of that work colleague who I've mentioned before.

In fact the only cultural different between the current crop of formulaic new-wave of new-wave of new-wave post-punk retreads and the third-generation prog-rock I listen to is that the prog-rockers never try to pretend that they're cool and trendy. Oh, and they know more than three chords and therefore play far better actual music. But if you're reading this blog you knew that already.