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Article Title:	In That Day
Author of reported comment:	Clark Byron
Comment Date:	03:03 on Aug 22 2014
Comment:	It's quite all right with me when people don't care for my music and even when they're critical of it, as critics are expected to critique. But I am a bit flummoxed by this young Brit's self-contradictory assessments. He has some positive and some neutral comments about it. His most negative comment in assessing it is that the songs were memorable in the sense that he couldn't get the songs out of his head. In popular music, that's the goal. Plus, the critic had some idea of my age and therefore, should have assumed the age demographic of my audience, in which he is obviously not included (I have things in my fridge older than this kid). Critics in magazines like this, especially young critics, think a lot more of their opinions than anyone else, and they represent the cutting edge of what's hip (sorry for the 70's expression. I don't know the modern nomenclature for "up-to-the-minute"in music speak, particularly as Her Majesty's subjects might coin it). Had he considered that my audience is the early '70s generation, he might have taken a different view. What's most amusing to me is that the reason he could not recommend this album is that it is only 34 minutes long (fashioned after most vinyl LPs of my generation). In other words, he hated it but couldn't get enough of it (?) Really? One thing critics like this chap who thinks he represents all things "Now" hates, is when he discovers he likes some music from his parent's generation. He feels he may not be so hip or that he may be loosing his edge with age. They call that maturity, something he will grow to appreciate as time goes on, and the lack of which is obvious throughout his entire review. Cheerio!

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