So, something positive. A blog about music I cry! But let's do it without ragging on the youngsters.
Good music is of course subjective. It's whatever makes your feet stomp, your hands clap and your heart pound.
It's the indefinable something in a voice or a lyric or a chord that makes you take your clothes off anddance like a crazy. Hopefully that doesn't happen in the middle of the street...but if it does call me.
Suggested music then? Nina Simone's Feelin' Good, The National's Sea of Love, The Hive's Walk Idiot Walk and Springsteen's I'm On Fire. I will also chuck in most of Nick Cave and the Bad Seed's ouevre, The Hilltop Hoods, and the Offspring.