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An article currently up on popmatters.com

As much as I love and appreciate the "older bands", what would rock 'n roll (of whatever you wanna call it) be without forward motion? Without the arrogance of youth, there would have been no Beatles, only Fabian forever...
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No Elvis, Beatles, or the Rolling Stones
[30 January 2006] - Pop Matters
When the baby boomers finally relinquish control of pop culture, who will replace their sacred cows on the perennial "best bands ever" lists?

by Michael Patrick Brady

This past Christmas season, American Express Financial Services unleashed a commercial aimed to tug at the well-plucked heartstrings of our nation's most self-indulgent and self-centered generation. "You're the generation that gave new meaning to the meaningful relationship," intones the narrator, as we watch faux 8mm footage of youthful baby boomers cavorting around a VW minibus. To boomers, it's a pleasant warm feeling as they gear up to engorge themselves on holiday gifts from the Sharper Image and Brookstone; to the rest of us, it's yet another reminder that in spite of all the illusory inroads youth culture makes every year, they're still on the top of the cultural totem pole.

Full article here:

http://www.popmatters.com/music/features/060130-noelvis.shtml

Cary Grant will always be cooler than Leonardo DiCaprio.

The Fabs will always be the coolest.

Boomers will always be the coolest of generations.

Kids - stop sniveling! Go find something else to be the best in!

What, like My Chemical Romance and The Darkness can't fill the shoes of the Beatles?

They're not fit to shine the shoes of the Beatles...

Jerry...your Cary vs. Leonardo point is well taken, but you're using an anvil to kill a fly.

Let's face it: Soupy Sales is cooler than Leonardo DiCaprio...I think this 'next' generation has about as much talent as any that came before (reincarnationists would say 'exactly as much'...), but for some reason that talent can't get it's foot in the door for all the non-talent clogging the hallway. That's because the 'show' is being run by a bunch of illiterate swine, which has happened on our watch...

We 'boomers' have some 'splainin' to do...

I think it is that the "Craft" has disappeared. Now movies are "product". Where is the tie-in with Burger King or Coke, what's the marketing angle, every once in a while, a real movie gets thru, but for the most part, movies and music have become so calculated and controlled and marketed to death that they are no longer interesting or exciting.

(getting off my soapbox.)