I Hate Old Music, Too

How Familiarity & Overuse Killed Our Favorite Music

Dave Thompson

• Publisher: Backbeat
• Year: 2024
• eBook ISBN: 9781493073528
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Music Biographies

Edgy, witty, and opinionated critical analysis of "classic rock" in the 21st century, discussing everything from modern remixes of classic albums (why?) to concert ticket prices, Record Store Day, the vinyl revival, milking deceased artists, reunions, tribute acts, and more.
When Dave Thompson's I Hate New Music: The Classic Rock Manifesto in 2008, the book did not so much divide the world of rock reading as leave it in an uproar. It started arguments, it ended debates, and for the author of over 150 music books, it not only received the strongest reader response of any book he'd written, it also still crops up in author interviews today.
Almost fifteen years later, however, much has changed, and the classics have lost some of their bite as well. In I Hate Old Music, Too, Thompson recasts the story of "classic rock" in the 21st century.
Among the targets of his ire are lavish box sets that mostly just duplicate the albums you already own; comebacks and reunions featuring half or even fewer of the band members; the dark side of the "vinyl revival;" the continued cult of The Beatles; and much more.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• About This Book
• A Few Words on Terminology
• Introduction: As Easy as Falling Off a Logarithm
• One We Built This City on Landfill, Mud, and Shifting Sands. Rock’n’Roll Had Nothing to Do with It—or, If You Can’t Spell It, Don’t Sell It
• Two My Parents Went to Woodstock and All I Inherited Was Their Lousy Record Collection—or, Fear and Loathing in the Rock Hall of Fame
• Three First World Problems—or, So You Think You Hate Old Music?
• Four The Top Ten Rock’n’Roll Anatidaephobiacs—or, When Will the Cloud Start Shouting Back?
• Five How to Dismantle an Atomic Eff-Bomb—or, The Rudest Words Are Rock’n’Roll
• Six Sdrawkcab Siht Etirw em Edam Lived Eht—or, Satanic Messages in Reverse
• Seven Ten Things You Didn’t Know about Elvis Presley’s Bottom—or, The Greatest Albums Ever Listed
• Eight The Five Funniest Jokes Jim Morrison Ever Told—or, Quality versus Quantity
• Nine We’re Just Not That Into You, Boomer—or, What Does This Button Do?
• Ten The Undelete-Able File—or, “Wow, I’ve Got Some Real Lame Shit on My iPod.” “Oh, You, Too?”
• Eleven Butternut Canker Killed the Video Star—or, Promoting the Pants off Garbage
• Twelve The Fifteen Filthiest Progressive Rock Beards—or, Are Sales Really the Only Barometer You Respect?
• Thirteen What Tomorrow’s Pop Stars Looked Like Last Week (You’ll Never Recognize Number Three)—or, A Plague of Oldies
• Fourteen Super-Harry-Outsells-Beatles, Though-He’s-Quite-Atrocious—or, Editorial Bias Not Included
• Fifteen Meanwhile, on the Forums
• Sixteen Lip-Synching, Libido-Quenching, Foul-Tasting, Debilitating, Buzz-Killing, Shit-Talking, Tired-of-Living, Sick-of-Giving, Fool-Appealing—or, That Sinking Feeling
• Seventeen Parturient Montes, Nascetur Ridiculus Mus—or, A Sickness of Supergroups
• Eighteen One More Time for the Fans—or, Don’t They Look Young for Their Age?
• Nineteen Named and Shamed—Ten Artists Who Claim They Do Remember the 1960s—or, Oops, There Goes Another Vertebrae
• Twenty The Secret Life of Pants—or, Reviving Vinyl for Fun Profit and Profit
• Twenty-One We’ll Fix It in the Mix—or, Fifty Years Later
• Twenty-Two Twenty Totally Tubular Hits of the 1980s—or, The Wrong Box
• Twenty-Three First Time Ever in Limited Edition “Distressed” (Scratchy Warped) Dirty Off-Black Vinyl—or, In Praise of Rip-Off Store Day
• Twenty-Four The Sound of Tomorrow’s Yesterdays Today—or, The Wonder of Eurovision
• Twenty-Five In Which We Thank the Stars of the Past for Their Service … and Tell Them It’s Time to Let Go
• Epilogue: Growing Convictions
• Appendix A: An Index of Wholly Imaginary Artists
• Appendix B: Twenty-First-Century Playlist
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgments
• About the Author