Music
Written by Michael Lankton Monday, 11 January 2010 16:35
I worked a double shift last night, and on the back half of my day I got a copy of Rolling Stone's Top Music of 00 or some such issue in my hands to help kill an hour. When I was a kid Rolling Stone was my parents generation's music rag, but I respected Rolling Stone because even though those geezers were in their 30s they still knew a good thing when they heard it. So, while the cover still had people like Frampton and Springsteen on it, if you turned to the back you would regularly read about bands like The Dead Boys and Sex Pistols, and Rolling Stone loved them. I forget what Rolling Stone said about 1981's Damaged by Black Flag, but it boiled down to they thought that Black Flag was the real deal and it kind of made all the posturing arena rock bands of the time look and sound like some kind of joke. I agreed.
I'm in my 40s now. I have a mortgage and a couple of car payments and you are likely to find me wearing sleep pants and a "World's Greatest Dad" t-shirt on any given day, but I'm not dead yet. I still like good music. So, while I can tell you a lot more about the music of 1985 than I can the music of 2009, I still find and latch on to the stuff that I think is really good.
I was curious to see how Rolling Stone's assessment of the music of the last decade matched up to my own.
