The Mercury Prize - Am I becoming an old fart?

[DaveB]

Only ones I'd heard of are Arctic Monkeys - Don't like 'em but can see why some folks would, and Amy Winehouse - Don't like her either and she always seems to be pissed on stage.

Best souce of music I havnt heard before has been Radcliff and Maconie on Radio 2 weekday evenings. Cracking show with some excellent music.

[wendigo100]

Cool today is knowing about everything that is tulipe, vacuous, facile, irrelavent and inconsequential.

I thought it always had been.

[gingerjedi]

My neighbour's 16 year old has never heard of Jimi Hendrix. Don't talk to me about cool. Cool today is knowing about everything that is tulipe, vacuous, facile, irrelavent and inconsequential.

Good point, I suppose cool means different things to different generations.

Hendrix was and still is cool.

Once you hit 30 ‘well informed’ seems more appropriate.