No, Today's Music Doesn't Suck

It's a trope that's been around as long as the phonograph: Old folks griping about how today's music sucks. Wall Street Journal music writer Jim Fusilli has a word for these people: the Gee-Bees -- the Generationally-Biased. It's your uncle who just can't hear anything from today's artists without telling you that Dylan got there first. And while some people will just never be able to get over what they listened to as teenagers, Fusilli thinks there are structural ways in which musicians and the music industry can help older listeners discover new sounds without feeling threatened or condescended to. His new book is called Catching Up: Connecting With Great 21st Century Music, and he tells host John Schaefer about the music he's included in his book as a sort of primer, and thinks through the generational differences between the Sinatra and Beatles age groups and more recent examples of generational rift.