Alison's getting her tit pierced

"Alison's Starting To Happen". What a great song. Great tune, catchy chords, infectiously silly words. So I said earlier to the Evil Pixie. She didn't know it. Nor had she heard of the Lemonheads either. ¿Qué? I know their version of "Mrs Robinson" wasn't exactly yesterday but both it and "It's A Shame About Ray" were sizeable hits only eight years ago. It seems more and more common that people have no idea about any music that wasn't in the charts in the last couple of years, let alone anything either old or in some way esoteric. And this is people who are into music I'm talking about. Which I find very strange indeed.

Here's an example. At work a few months ago there were half a dozen or so of us jamming regularly. One of the web team, about 19 and into all this nu-metal wank like Limp Bizkit and Papa Roach, proudly played me this little tune-ette he'd written. I said "hmm, cool, but it's been done before". He didn't know what I was talking about so I went and grabbed an mp3 and played it. He was gutted because it was the same chords in the same order. But he'd never heard the song, and the title meant nothing to him. It was "Pinball Wizard", for Christ's sake. How the F.U.C.K. can anyone be into guitar music and not only not know "Pinball Wizard", but not even have heard of it?

Kids these days. Tsk tsk. No sense of history or culture. Shocking, it is.