When something of mine gets critiqued, the word "Retro" comes up a lot. That's because my personal "playlist" just keeps growing larger, rather than always updating to the Here & Now. I don't seem to tire of a great song, no matter how much time passes. It's my disease and I ain't giving it up.

I recently took my daughters to see MGMT and Beck in concert. Wow, LOTS of great new music. And also lots of newer but swiftly aging classics from Beck's catalog. A lot of people thought/think he sucks...well, he doesn't.

We can keep complaining, and the music will keep changing. I remember groaning about the late 70's. I thought disco sucked, most New Wave sucked, Punk sucked...but they all sucked me in eventually. I love all three now.

We'll look back on today and remember all this slick production...we'll probably forget a lot of the artists and instead tip our hats to some of the groundbreaking producers and engineers, who knows?

All I know is that it keeps changing. The king is dead, long live the king.

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