I understand what you're saying, but I love those songs so I'm kind of biased. Sorry, although, I have to admit that some of the new songs are awesome too!!!

I don't think I've ever heard the Stones or Fleetwood Mac at my local Wallingford hangout.

Sorry but everything is horrible now. I had to listen to Captain and Tenille at my PT appointment yesterday.

"Just tune it out", they tell me. I can't. Close. My. Ears.

If only there was some music -- maybe even some local music! -- which was crafted as a critical counterpoint to the music Charles here described.

A faint echo sounds down a Seattle street, at night, in the swirling, misty rain:

"Here we are now, entertain us!"

I mean, yeah, I agree to a point. It's great when there is something new or unusual or whatever. But let's be honest: how many times have you been to a bar where a bartender is playing music that's not the Stones or whatever and it just completely sucks? "Here is this amazing Bulgarian throat singing duet from 1972 where they got a didgeridoo player to sit on the jam session. They only pressed 150 of these records, it's super rare maaaaaan." And it also sucks. Stones, et al. are better than running out all of your customers because your bartender thinks he's a DJ.

Bars should play the music I like, or music I've never heard that I will like once I've heard it.

Stones and Fleetwood Mac are both indefensibly overplayed for sure, but also quality artists and deserving of much of the praise they otherwise receive. A question I've been struggling with of late is who represents the fourth face on the Mt Rushmore of utterly and insufferably reprehensible (and also sickeningly overplayed) 20th century artists. Aerosmith, Steve Miller Band and Red Hot Chili Peppers are obvious locks for three, but the fourth eludes me. Nominations?

8: Gotta go with Nickelback. If people object because they're Canadian- there are Canadians who object to them being Canadian, for the record- then Smash Mouth.

As a start, can we at least ban "Feelings" and "Proud Mary"?

You (should) know you are old when you don't like the music young people play.
Service people don't want (us) old folks dictating the music.
It's their work environment also, comrade Mudede.

@6: very rarely. how is that common in your world?

Charles Mudede is just admitting with this article that he is really old. My millenial daughter and most of her friends basically don't drink, so aren't in bars. Not sure about the Gen Zers, but I doubt they would be in any bar Charles would frequent and are so poor, working three gig jobs to make rent, they can't afford to buy alcohol in bars anyway.

The owners can't let the gen Z and Millennial staff pick music, because their choices would drive away the old farts who can actually afford to drink in bars.

It is very telling the Charles pulls out a track from 1971 for his religious musical experience in a bar. How old is he? I am f***ing old, and I was not yet a teen in 1971. What, no Chappell Roan nor Doechii nor someone else who is Gen Z for his religious music experience in a bar?

Independent coffee shop owners tend to be more flexible, allowing the staff to pick the music they play. Mudede is looking in the wrong places for new, or even new to him, music.

I like the Rolling Stones and Fleetwood Mac, so you can fuck right off.