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i certainly see what Glice is trying to say.
for once, i'm all but too happy i wasn't of age musically in the 80's because i enjoy hair metal, new wave and a lot of those pop radio hits from that era (and before, really), and i have thought that maybe i wouldhave hated with a passion all that music since radio and tv would have been trying to cram it down my throat day and night and i of course would have gone outside the mainstream for good, inspired music; so, seeing it at a distance makes me appreciate it without the social connotations, without the "i can't believe you are listening to that"
for me, also growing up, i wasn't born into a scene or anything so i never stigamtized any sort of music by it's own (it took critics to do it for me), i was a metalhead with the uniform and everything in junior high school but i never even blinked that i liked punk too, i liked everything from the pistols to green day (hardcore and all that was very different to get here at that time) and i also liked grunge, from like alice in chains (which were accepted for metaldom) to like candlebox and collective soul. so i don't know, had i gotten into music by association, maybe i wouldn't be so open minded and stuff, so maybe i'm not some regular guy you can ask stuff about.
for the past couple of years, i've had opened up to styles of music i had not gotten the chance to get, stuff that i might have once thought it was crappy music or maybe i did think of it as such (case in point: sonic youth) and some of it has been very rewarding; sure, it sucks to find out you were just late enough to not enjoy certain bands when they were still together but whatever. today i'm even less concerned about the social implications of music than before, i have gone to concerts where people are completely different than me but i don't care since i want to watch the show, before it was something i would ponder; there was a time i ran from anything remotely hippie and now i enjoy stuff like jefferson airplane...
i guess what i'm trying to say is that, in my opinion, not liking certain music because of the people who like it, the social context in which it started (read: scene) or the historic connotations it may have is petty and superficial, at the end of the day, what matters is if the music is good to you or not.
like it was said by someone wise (i've read it from everyone from lemmy to hendrix): "there's only two kinds of music, music you like and music you don't like"
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