[Wolves] Introducing myself

[Andy Wootton]

I have a theory that most music fans start to think that 'modern music' 
is rubbish sometime between about 25 and 35, probably depending more on 
when trends change than their age. People always love the music of their 
youth but as they get caught up in careers and family lives they stop 
paying attention and take the rubbish that is fed them on TV and daytime 
radio as representative of the current 'scene' so don't hear enough of 
the good stuff to learn to appreciate it. Does anyone disagree?

I hardly listened to anything new for about 10 years. I completely 
missed The Pixies, Nirvana,  The Gang of Four and all rap, hip-hop and 
dance music. I think Greenday's Dookie probably woke me up because they 
sounded like the punk/New Wave of my music-obsessed years. I almost got 
trapped by comeback gigs by acts like The Pretenders and Nenah Cherry 
but I found a few new bands that I liked and started to branch out. Live 
music has been better in the last couple of years than I can ever 
remember. I get funny looks when I buy the NME but it's worth it.

The depressing part is that the wrong bands get famous. The Futureheads 
are better than The Kaiser Chiefs. The Ludes are better than Razorlight. 
Black Wire are better than Maximo Park. 80s Matchbox B-Line Disaster are 
so much better than The Darkness that it hurts. Bet then Linux is better 
than Windows; so why am I surprised?

Woo