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Originally Posted by Aaron Silverman
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Originally Posted by Patrick Sun
Those of us who live through those times in our youth take knowledge of those songs for granted. I work with folks (who have an interest in today's music) still in their mid to late 20s, and they have a hard time identifying song details from the 70s/80s (I mercilessly make fun of their lack of knowledge of songs and musical acts from the 80s and earlier).
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Simon's 48. And his father was an EMI Music exec. He lived through those times. He's got no excuse for being so unfamiliar with classic rock. |
I'd agree with Patrick's point that one is familiar with the songs one grew up with -- I can identify most 80s songs, down to what year it was released and sometimes roughly how well it did on the UK charts as well. I'm nowhere near as good with 70s music, even though I listen to a lot of it. I'm useless with 90s music.
For Simon, growing up in the UK in the 70s he would be familiar with late 60s and 70s UK music, US acts that were hot in the UK, and not US acts that were not as popular in the UK. And if old photos of Simon are any indication, he would've been the sort that got into the mod stuff, not rock (or for that matter soul). Hence his unfamiliarity with it when it now comes up on AI.