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When there was 'proper music'

Scroll down the YouTube thread for almost any punk/post-punk song from the 1970s and 1980s, and it probably won't be long before you come across the "I feel sorry for the kids of today" crowd. These are middle-aged (or older) commentators who don't just like a particular song by X-Ray Spex or the Clash or the Skids (or whoever), but are also at pains to point out that music was better then . So, in among all the usual "best days of my life", "I grew up listening to this", "got this in Virgin in Grimbsy in 1978" stuff, you come across comments like these. These are all taken from a YouTube comment thread for the Specials' Gangsters: "When music was real"  "Music back then was real" "The kids. Don't have any quality bands these days. What a shame, they don't have any identity like the late 70s and early 80s. Great music then" "Proper tunes" "Forget all about the the crap that's go...

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