Pendulum are the sound of youth – just not mine

Being a music critic is no barrier to enjoying big, loud, dumb music. But age most certainly is ...My dad always prided himself on bening open to new music in middle age. When I started buying records and going to gigs myself, he embraced the Jesus and Mary Chain, Nirvana, Radiohead and the Prodigy. But one day in 1996, when we were watching the Fugees perform their cover of Killing Me Softly on Top of the Pops, he said: "It's a lovely song but why does that bloke [Wyclef Jean] have to talk over...

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