What music are you listening to?

[malcs]

An article I'm currently editing for one of my exams says this:

Kids are listening to their parents' ... music.

Young fans open ears, minds and wallets to rock's roots.

Jamie Horton, 14, sees himself as a fairly savvy music-loving teen. The L.A. ninth-grader trawls the Internet for rock discoveries and totes an iPod packed with 3,000 tunes.
His favorite band? Queen. [...]
Jamie is not alone in his obsession with the sounds of the '60s and '70s. Though difficult to quantify, the trend of youngsters craving oldies seems to be gaining momentum. [...]
"I could be some of these people's grandpa," singer Greg Allman, 56, says of his band's current flock. [...]
"As long as it's good music, it doesn't bother me that my dad likes it too," Jamie says. "He took me to The Who, and that was easily the best concert I've been to." [...]
In the '60s, coming of age meant reinventing pop culture, rejecting heritage and distrusting anyone over 30. Not so now.
"There's not so much peer pressure to identify with a particular genre or even a generation of music," says, Jeremy Hammond, head of the artist development at Sanctuary Records. "It's much more about defining one's own unique tastes. Back then, you had to choose a lifestyle associated with a genre. In England, you were in a gang of rockers or skinheads or Mods. Potheads wanted psychedelic music. Those boundaries are gone."
Classic-rock icons, like classical composers, defy fashion and "overshadow any perceptions of coolness," he says.
Jeffrey, 17, doesn't mind that his heroes were also his parents' faves and that many of them are dead or eligible for Social Security. "They're just very cool old people," he says, adding wistfully, "I wish they were still young so I could experience them in their heyday. Music back then was about the sound, not about the image like it is now." [...]
Oldies fill a void, says Christine Clark of Park Ridge, Ill. "Before I listened to classic rock, there was nothing I really liked," says the Lincoln Middle School eighth-grader. "Every new band has one great song while the rest of the CD is garbage. [...] On old rock albums, every song is great. I'm always hitting the repeat button." [...]
Says Beatles expert Lewis, "So much of original music today is clouded by cynicism, a blasé attitude, irony and flippancy. [...] Artists in the '60s and to a degree in the '70s dared to hope, perhaps naively, that things could get better. Teens should be joyous and optimistic. There's plenty of time to be bitter and twisted later."

So what do you people think of this? Is this trend still going on? The article was published in 2004. What are the virtues of the oldies compared with the newies?

I listen to all sorts of old music my mum and dad listen to, so Ilove anything from some country music, 60-70's pop/rock right upto a lot of new pop/rock not a huge fan of R&B but there are some good tunes lurking out there!