Maggoty Lamb wonders if nostalgia might be as good for us today as it's always been

The funny thing about the past is, as it gets further away, it starts to look different. Just ask Q, Mojo and NMEIn musical terms, January used to be a month of forward-looking excitement. Now it's all about bemoaning the pernicious impact of the BBC's Sound of 2011 poll.The truly disturbing truth for media professionals with navel-gazing tendencies (and what other kind is there?) is not the huge extent to which the annual tip-sheet jamboree distorts the marketplace or strangles careers in their...

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