http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-retro-rock-20110710,0,3613794.storyThis article almost passes the test to be included as a Beach Boy thread... One of my attorneys had mentioned to me quite a while back how fortunate The Boys were to be celebrating their 50th. so early in this decade. He asked me to think for a minute about how many fiftieth anniversaries were going to be commemorated in the next ten years, and then proceeded to rattle off a litany of them!
This article kind of hits the nail on the head how overdone this is becoming:
Retromania: Pop's past is taking over
Once, pop buzzed with energy. Now, that momentum has been overwhelmed by its past, fueled by reissues, revivals and recycling. Here's hoping a massive jolt reshapes music's future.By Simon Reynolds, Special to the Los Angeles Times
July 10, 2011
We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band reformations and reunion tours, tribute albums and box sets, anniversary festivals and live performances of classic albums: Each new year is better than the previous year for music from yesteryear.
Could it be that the greatest danger to the future of our music culture is ... its past?
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-retro-rock-20110710,0,825709,print.story"
there has never been a society in history so obsessed with the cultural artifacts of its own immediate past.
This kind of retromania has become a dominant cultural force to the point where it feels as if we've reached a tipping point. Is nostalgia stopping our culture's ability to surge forward or are we nostalgic precisely because the culture has stopped moving forward?"
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