Vice Student guide

You've got me wrong there Clive. It wasn't about you at all. And I was not listening to it in an ironic way; I have no time for that so-bad-it's-good nonsense or 'secretly' enjoying stuff that you 'know you shouldn't like'. I like early Genesis, have done since about 77 when I first bought some. Not anything mentioned in the other post above though, Sussudio and all that crap. Don't care what anyone else thinks; I could, but mercifully won't, put up a defence of their 70's stuff. Don't need to drop the names of hipper or more obscure bands I like to prove anything. I only mentioned it as a counter point to Vice which sounds like it concerns itself with the up to date.
Perhaps I was being ironic; I've heard a lot of members don't get it. ;)

I don't mind what people like. If you enjoy early Genesis, enjoy it. My objection is to people who feign enjoyment of music or other culture, whether it be opera or Pink Floyd simply because they feel they ought to and in so doing close their ears and their minds to other things that wuld actually inspire them.

In the early 70s at a grim boarding school not too far from where you grew up, listening to the VU was a lonely and much derided occupation. It has, however, sttod me in good stead. It prepared me for punk which came to life when I went to UCL in 1976 and it meant that my kids now know all the words to everything that VU, The Clash and the Ramones ever sang which, apparently, counts for something in teen hipsterdom.