hey bardsley it's only my opinion, you dont have to agree with it, and i know that most people wont. anyway yes its kinda stupid to say that people should stop doing new music but instead i can say that people should stop ruining the 70's music and the blues, because everytime a new rock band or a metal band apears, it seems to me that they took like 10% of what was already done in the 70's 90% of their original stuff, and the result: we've got another crappy band ... i mean i didnt hear a single band yet, that didnt remind me something of the 70's and that didnt sound worse than the original 70's stuff, and about radiohead and all those bands of their style, and bands like rem:
maybe they dont worse than any 70's band , but there's one thing i really like about the oldies and hate in those bands:
when you look at band like Ac/dc they are really average players, there are thousands of players around there who can solo 10 times better than angus BUT the band posses a great ammount of life and stage energy, it something hard to explain but people will understand me, if they like 70's
while when you hear most of today bands, especialy the alternative bands, it seems like the players will fall asleep in a second, and there's a great lack of energy in today music... so that's why i liked the oldies

offcorse it's only opinion...