They just don't sing 'em like they used to.

Showing my age here. You know you've reached "that" age, when you listen to the radio and think "What the hell is this shit?"
Now granted, music over the last 5 years or so has generally become insipid guitar-rock and ballad, but even so - they just don't sing 'em like they used to.
This came about because as I was doing some work on my PC today, Winamp in random mode selected "Shout" by Tears For Fears. Great track. That made me go and find Everybody Wants To Rule The World. Those first 7 or 8 high synth notes made the hair on the back of my neck stand up.
There's a few tracks that are so instantly recognisable by the first couple of notes. Relax (Frankie Goes To Hollywood) is one, and Midnight Radio (Taffy) is another. In fact, with Relax, you don't need more than a couple of seconds to know what it is.
Yet today, this insipid drivel that passes for music is so bland, so same-y, so alike that I can listen to the radio all day and not remember a single track - they're all the damn same. My music collection pretty much came to a grinding halt in the mid 90's. Never mind the music companies bleating about MP3s killing off their sales. It's crap music that's killed the sales. The only CDs I buy now are DJ Mixes, Trance and Techno.

I'm only 35. I guess "music from my day" is the 1980's then. I have nearly 2Gb of MP3s from the 80's. Less than 400Mb from the 90's, and nothing since 2000.

Eeesh.

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