Let me explain something to you jive turkeys.

If they don't dig music from the 60's, 70's, like a robot out spouts: "Your parents have not given you a proper musical education"

All too often when I read YouTube comments on old music, a youngster will say some variation on "I love this music and it's from before I was born" or "This is my favourite band and I'm only 15 or whatever". That's great. Then, some jive turkey comes and says something like "Nobody cares about your age, snowflake.", "You think you're so special?" or "You must be proud of yourself

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Look here, bringing up one's age is not so much about the listener as it is a comment on the music. It's a compliment, not a brag. The listener is not trying to say that they are special, they are saying that the music is not merely nostalgia for old people, not a flash-in-the-pan fad, but is genuinely good music that has stood the test of time, still worth listening to. Dig?

I was 20 years old in 1978 workin a summer job as a camp counselor.  Two of my 8 year old campers got into a fight.  After intervening I asked what it was about and one exclaimed that the other was insisting that Paul McCartney was in in a band before Wings.  That was the first glimmer of my impending Old Fartdom.

  Every generation should have their own music as part of their identity.  I don’t listen to much non classical these days but my general impression is that most innovation in pop music stopped in the eighties or thereabouts.  That makes it harder to claim an identity.  Nothing wrong with recycling classic rock but it does seem to be a second hand experience…

You are never too old or young to enjoy different music. I am 73 and since getting bak into vinyl, I found that I enjoy jazz from almost before I was born. I am not so much into the bands of my youth in the 60's. I also really enjoy classical music more these days. 

We just brought our grandkids to Disney they rode Aerosmith rock n roll ride. There 14 and 16 years old and never heard of them. I called em snowflakes yes I did but I also said they didn't miss anything. Is this relevant to the conversation?