Reply #21: This stands to reason and makes perfect sense to me [View All]

[DisgustipatedinCA]

I'm 39 years old. I grew up listening to Led Zeppelin, BOC, Pink Floyd, Rush, and so on. And I still love to listen to these bands--on occasion.

But if you're in my general age group and you're still listening to your local Clear Channel classic rock station as your main source of music, the station that only plays songs that were in the top 10 way back in the day, the station that still thinks it's cool to play AOR stuff like Comfortably Numb 3 times a day 30 years after its release...well, it could be argued that you're stuck in the past. And that begins to approach the definition of conservatism (and maybe a lack of imagination too). I still love to hear Free Bird, but on my own schedule, which works out to be about once every 3 years or so. I listen to newer music. Hell, I've learned to love much, much older music, for that matter (Django Reinhardt, anyone?). So it comes as no surprise to me that someone who solely subsists on the Doobie Brothers and Disraeli Gears or whatever would be likely to vote for McCain. These are the same people that want a simple, black and white world where the US are the good guys with the white hats and we kick ass and take names and go to monster truck shows.

This doesn't detract from old rock & roll at all. It speaks more of simpletons with no imagination. And if you're in your teens or twenties and you've just discovered Zeppelin and listen to them all the time, this post isn't referring to you. Congrats on finding a great old band and grooving to their catalog (maybe I'll be lucky enough to see you at the Plant/Krauss show). And if you're my age or older, and you're going back and listening to the deep tracks, this post isn't about you. It's about the stuck-in-the-rut people; and they're by and large Republican-leaning.