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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

The Generation Game

There are lots of words that become so overused they begin to lose their impact and their meaning.

Hero - anyone who does anything we wouldn't do
Diva - any female singer, no matter what age or how she behaves
Legend - anyone who's been around for more than six months

But my current bugbear is generation, as in 'the best band of their generation' or 'we've not seen their like for a generation'.

Isn't a generation meant to be 35 years? In which case Oasis, currently being touted as the best band of their generation, should by rights lose out to Sailor. I think this whole generation thing is now taken to mean the last 10 years. Correct me if I'm wrong of course - and I know at least one person will - but I'm sure this can't be the correct usage of this phrase.

Here's the best band of their generation, then:

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