The issue is not the artist being creative past 30 but the listener
Bingo, and you did really hit the nail on the head regarding your Haim recap.
Music is never as good as it was in your formative years or you're always yearning for the feeling that band X gave you in time Y. It just doesn't happen. Getting old sucks.
I dunno. Tell that to Challenged and Vas. They seem to be making it work and their not young kids.
And I think I'm enjoying music more now than in my teens, simply because I wasn't aware of much of the great music being made when I was in my teens. And I'm enjoying music now more than in my 20's, simply because I was too broke in my 20's to put any resources toward music.
Maybe I phrased that wrong... never as good should = music will never make the impression... At least in my opinion. I obviously still see and enjoy much much more music than probably any time of my life, but nothing hits like an album from say ages 12 to 18.
Maybe you had a better 12-18 era. For me, that was 1979-1985. i can't think of a single album that came out in that range that I actually listen to that i was aware of then. Maybe Born in the USA or War.*
*I wasn't into music when i was 12-18. Or better put, I lived in rural upstate New York, had the FM radio with three channels and the tv with three channels, so wasn't aware of any of the music being made in that era.
Space. You're still missing the point... but the first time hearing albums by Zeppelin, The Stones, Beatles, NWA, Guns and Roses, Metallica, Anthrax, Dylan, Pearl Jam, etc... those were all probably from being under 10 until late teens... THOSE SHAPED MY LIFE!!!
Jonathan Richman
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