I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s. — Jonny Greenwood

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

Author: Jonny Greenwood

Insight: There's something quietly sad about nostalgia calcifying into law. We've all met someone—maybe we are that someone—who genuinely believes nothing good has been made since their teenage years. The '60s had real magic, sure, but what Greenwood's really pointing at is how easy it is to stop listening once you've found "your" era. Your brain gets comfortable. You know the reference points, the mythology is thick enough to feel important, and new stuff just sounds thin by comparison. The trap is that every generation does this. Your parents dismissed what you loved. You're probably dismissing what your kids find brilliant. And it's not really about the music being objectively worse—it's about the effort it takes to truly discover something new versus the warm, effortless glow of rediscovering what shaped you. That nostalgia is real and valid, but it can become a excuse to stop paying attention to the world actually happening around you. The quietly rebellious move isn't rejecting the '60s. It's letting yourself get genuinely excited about something made last month, even if it's weirder or messier than what came before. That's the actual golden age energy—the willingness to keep listening like you're young and hungry for sound.