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reminds me of New York City music writers and their willful blinders. Many NYC writers continue to tout the Talking Heads, Lou Reed, the Ramones, Velvet Underground decades after these bands are no longer relevant or important.
Meanwhile, they ignore a whole world of new great music being born elsewhere. One egregious example in particular is their ignorance of West Coast music achievements and trends.
Decades after Fleetwood Mac, Van Halen, Red Hot Chili Peppers and tons of other West Coast bands redefined pop and rock, New York music writers still flog their marginal, fruity, irrelevant, shopworn New York bands.
