achieved perfection in 1974, wasn’t cool anymore. He’d become just like this father.If you’re a Boomer, you know exactly how Homer felt.
The music you grew up with had grown old, morphing from vital, zeitgeist-capturing sounds into something the world was now calling classic or, heaven forbid, oldies.
This also meant that you were now old.Today, just like Homer, Gen X is enduring a painful truth. Their music is now old. And so are they.
How could this have possibly happened?This requires a little insight into how the radio industry works. Alan Cross explains how The Tragically Hip contributed to a ‘sea change’ in music 30 years ago (Feb.