So the Keith Moon project...

Absolutely wrong, silly person.

The magical homogenization machine was not even constructed yet, foolish generalizer (is that even a word?).

Sure there were "bad" bands in every period. That's hardly the point. "Mainstream" back then was overwhelmingly and bowel-shakingly different from mainstream today. The huge variances between groups and performers, both good and bad, doesn't exist nearly as much today...and that's an understatement. People do not crave variety anymore, they simply want more of the same, again and again. And that's what they are being given, in huge overflowing 55 gallon drums.

Sorry for the rant, I just get annoyed by the whole "typical revisionist history" bull, because 20 years from now, the music will be virtually identical to the music of today. Every decades is bringing less and less change. Notice how different the 50's were from the 40's? Ask yourself, how different is the music of today from 10 years ago? Pretty much the same.

Duh!

What we have here, is a knee-jerk reaction to another person's knee-jerk reaction. A second-level-awareness observation of the opinions of the first-level sheeple. Don't get me wrong, second-level is a good start, and sure, it's easy to find fault with the opinions of the herd animals, but some individuals don't realize there is a third, fourth, and fifth level. I even heard talk that there was a level-6 guy out there. Many think that's just a myth. (he is said to wear a suit in an outlandishly gaudy shade of chartreuse. Probably only gaudy to people like me, I'd assume, since I'm not even near that level yet. Taking night-classes though!)

So ya, there you have it. I agree with that guy who said "I wish they still made good music today", despite the fact that old and out-of-touch buffoons have been saying that very same phrase every single generation. For the first time in history (though through no great insight from most of those saying it)...those guys are right!

As the grandparents say, even a broken clock is correct twice a day.

That's your food for thought morsel for today kids. Eat up!