"Subpoenaed in Texas, Sequestered in Memphis ..."

[cruelnails]

Ok ... so I'm going to be a bit of a music snob for a second now ...
I subscribe to a number of podcasts including, All Songs Considered and NPR Live Concerts. Every once in a while one of the podcasts introduce me to something interesting and new (Orchestra Baobab, Fleet Foxes, and Kassin +2 to name a few recent favorite finds). However, the host

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"Don't need no credit card to ride this train ..."

[cruelnails]

I'm totally cool with the embarrassment - and since we're both from San Antonio, I'm sure we can name a few people each who will claim the Macarena.

I once spent hard-earned money on Huey Lewis & the News cassettes and I'm embarrassed as hell about it. I'm not going to deny it or mock it (well, maybe mock it a little) because for whatever reason that does make up at least a bit of who I am or (more accurately) who I was.

I guess my whole problem is that - in my mind - the 'sound of a generation' can't be made up of the stuff that retrospectively we've decided is the coolest. To use your example, Mancini and Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass are every bit as much part of the sound of the 60's generation as Elvis and the Beatles.

Are they the whole story of that generation? No. The majority of the story? No. But it's just insulting to say, "Herb Albert? What the hell was wrong with those people! Bwa-ha-ha-ha!" Which was the equivalent of what NPR was doing and what pissed me off.

Because, I'm pretty damn Bob Boilen was grooving to 'The Power of Love' the same time I was. The only difference is that he would never ever admit it.