About nostalgia

I suppose it had to happen.

Radio 2 has long had the 60s and 70s sewn up, providing a nice pension for Tony Blackburn and the like. More recent acquisitions to their stable, like "Ooh" Gary Davies, have tied down the 80s, whilst the addition of Fearne Cotton and Dermot O'Leary allow for 90s-themed programming, for listeners who are getting on a bit but don't want to admit it. "I can still mosh down the front of my provincial festival, as long as I'm in bed by 11.30 because I've got to get the kids up in the morning." You know the sort. Maybe you are the sort. Maybe I am too, a bit, though I was never really one for the moshpit.

But a new low has been reached. Listening to 6 Music this morning, I discovered they are currently running a whole slew of 00s-themed features and shows. Noughties forever! Like it is some colossal rose-tinted nostalgia-fest and not just yesterday, surely?

I live in hope that they might play something like this, at least: Lights Out For Darker Skies by Sea Power, or British Sea Power as they still were then, from Do You Like Rock Music?, one of my favourite albums of that ancient decade.

What's most depressing, I guess, is that I tend to think of the Noughties as the decade Pop Idol, X-Factor and the like took over, and the death of bands happened, with every chart act suddenly being "A featuring B" or "C vs D" rather than a group. Or maybe I'm just a curmudgeonly old git. Or maybe those statements are not mutually exclusive.

Blah, blah, blah... something about getting old... blah, blah... something about wishing it was the 80s again... blah, blah... some non-specific misery... You can fill in the blanks yourself, can't you? I've only been back three weeks and I'm already tired of blogging. And as Samuel Johnson might have said, had he been online 20 years ago, "When a man is tired of blogging, he is tired of life." Probably.