Spokesperson for a generation?

[leutin]

Originally Posted by matt

I'm also curious as to just how many drugs your friends must have taken if they feel older UW lyrics reflect their lives?!

Hehe - let's just say that most of us walked on the wild side a little more than perhaps was good for us and that contributes partly towards my question (not comment) about the generational and maturity aspect.

You see most of us are older and wiser now and while Skinner's observations don't really reflect our lives too much nowadays (I'm talking in respect of me and some friends here) Karl's still seem to resonate. What I find interesting about his words is that they're observational without being judgmental or acerbic. Lines like "Young blokes cuss outside the job-centre" or "many predators" are reasonable examples - observation with an edge of danger without being scathing or judgmental in anyway.

Okay, 'spokesperson for a generation' is probably a bit OTT but as a kid John Lydon & Paul Weller reflected my life in the same way The Streets reflects my son's now. As I've matured, that old commentary become nostalgia and largely irrelevant. But I've found a calmness and acceptance portrayed in some of what Karl writes these days which does speak to me. Partly because it's a calmness that an angry middle-aged git like me works hard to find now that the days of excess have largely gone.

I guess my question was me just wondering if there was anyone else here who felt the same way? But as dubman so correctly said "ah fuck it you get the picture"