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 ...
