It’s not hard to sympathise with your sentiment towards ZTT, though. It’s quite a matter of what some would call an acquired taste — especially when it comes to The Art of Noise (whom I quite enjoy, actually) and, even for some, Propaganda. But, as I think I insinuated; very eighties only, most of it. In my view Trevor Horn “lost it” after that, I’m sorry to say.

As for Steve McQueen… I expect there’s a reason why most Sprout followers, myself included, seem in perfect accord on that matter (I didn’t put up that picture for nothing). :-)

We appear to be in almost boring agreement, Radiohode, yet I can’t help but feeling like a mid-life crisis desperado, clinging to what — to me — music and youth (gone by) is all about. Then again, today’s youngsters probably haven’t got a clue what we’re rambling on about, rendering us exonerated of such despicable accusations.

We all too often fall victims to the media’s die-hard insistence that the Gen X phenomenon was something restricted to people in their twenties (no matter when), I suppose. But hey, it’s us they’re talking about. I’ll give us that.

Ah, and let’s not forget 4AD!

An era long gone, of course, but I’ve yet to hear of death by nostalgia.