I’m sure we all lament the ‘good old days’.

Every generation thinks they grew up in the ‘golden age’ of music. I’m only 27 and I am guilty of doing this at times. We talk about how today’s ‘kids’ only have a 30 second attention span and how fickle the music industry is. Bands come and go. Youtube sensations pop up then disappear into obscurity.

Technology has improved so much that it’s much easier to be a musician without actually being a musician. Anyone with a laptop or a guitar can create a song. In one way it’s fantastic. Music should be something we can all create and share with one another. Real talent however, is much harder to find. Longevity for a band or artist, is much more difficult to achieve.

Like most Gen Y’ers, I grew up listening to Dad’s CDs in the car or at home. Artists like Joni Mitchell, Sting, Steely Dan and of course the Beatles were on high rotation. My Dad also liked fusion/jazz music. Artists like Grover Washington, Dave Grusin and the fabulous Weather Report appeared frequently too.

While I may romanticise these artists and long to have lived in a different era, I am also glad that I’m alive in such a time as these. There is so much good music out there these days that it’s incredibly hard to keep up. Blink and you’ll get left behind. Still, I will always return to the classics of the bygone eras, which I’m not sure I’ll do with anything released post 2000s (at least not to the same extent). Then again, who knows with the passage of time…