Moan time.

Or perhaps I am feeling my 61 years more than I care to admit.

Is it my imagination or has Television .. . . .All television that is forgotten that some viewers are over 25.
No this is not yet another moan at the lack of anything to watch on my 600 channel TV set up as others have been this way. Many many times.

No I want to comment about music. . And the almost ubiqutous electric guitar . Almost all documentaries  and every single advert seems to require a thrashy guitar heavy metal background track. Even formerly serene nature programs seem to have dumped their entire music libraries in favour of what sounds like jam sessions from a "Top of the Pops" program. .

Now I  could live with all this but the contagion is spreading. . .This modern aimed-at-under-25s-only music turns up everywhere I go. Every single shop in the land seems to have the same music playing. What ever happened to the great variety of Music one once heard . . . Today it is only aimed-at-under-25s-only or classical with NOTHING in between.

Nobody seems to have the courage to play anything other than aimed-at-under-25s-only music. Now as a fully paid up old fogey I appreciate that my taste is not everyones taste but if one has what used to be called "light music" in the background, it can be ignored if one does not care for it. . But todays loud loud loud aimed-at-under-25s-only music is like a noisy machine. It cannot be ignored as it is usually too loud to allow normal conversation and too irritating to permit relaxation of any sort.

I think I can date when this musical malady set in. . . It was years ago when the BBC lost the Light,Third and Home radio programmes . What do we have now.
Radio 1 Excruciating if you are over 25
Radio 2 Plays what was on Radio 1 last year
Radio 3 Music from the highest stratospheres which is pleasant enough but pray come back to Earth once in a while.
Radio 4 Good. . .But I think "Desert Island Disks " should be sunk with all hands as the celebrities sharing their likes have never heard anything other than aimed-at-under-25s-only music which as I said earlier is everywhere anyway.
Radio 5 News. . . and phone ins. No music here and thank goodness for that!
Classic FM. . .Nearest thing to the old Light Programme but due to its name plays mainly classics!!?!
Jazz FM Nowhere to be found.

And as for the rest of the radio stations. They may as well combine as to me they are indistinguishable from one another.

Thank goodness for the iPod. I can now superimpose my own soundtrack on the worst excesses of aimed-at-under-25s-only music. . .