In Moore's mind, Bob Seger is a mediocre artist at best, and the radio would be better off playing a new artist instead. This generation, in terms of size, has the heaviest population of all the generations in this country. As a result, they have a lot of clout. Out With the Old I grew up listening to classic rock. And while I enjoy a lot of it, some of it is outdated and some of it is just redundant of other classic rock that came before.
Humans have the tendency to look back on the past with proverbial rose colored glasses.
In fact, the ratio of good to bad movies heavily favored the bad even back then. Although the ratio remains the same, there were more good movies simply because there were more movies made back then. But we don't remember the duds. Most of them are wasting away in film canisters in warehouses somewhere over Mulholland Drive. That's why surviving movies from that era are automatically held in high regard - not necessarily because they are good, but because they are associated with the other quality movies of the 40's that have withstood the tests of time.