The Music of Your Youth

Interesting discussion on the connections between memory and music at Discussion: Re-Evaluating the Music of Your Youth « Country Universe, quoting from the NY Times Domestic Disturbances.

It’s a funny thing I’ve noticed lately, listening to the “classic rock” stations that are now — unbelievably — broadcasting the soundtrack of my life: bad music sounds so good once it becomes the music of your youth. All the songs you hated, all the bands you mocked, all the pop clichés you spurned because you were so much cooler than all that now sound so soulful, so very real.

I listened to some cheesy stuff in the seventies that sound good to me now. I also listened to some great stuff in the seventies that has stood the test of time and still sounds great. My personal theory is that everyone thinks the music from their high school years was the best pop music of all time.

What will the kids of today think of today's music thirty years from now? Probably the same as my generation thinks if the music from our youth.

How about you?