Did I Mention All This Music Sucks?

So tonite I sit down to listen to some Dashboard Confessional, a reasonably new band, which the kids love. The best song I've found so far is a cover of an old REM song, Drive. Well, not exactly a cover, since Michael Stipe sings. It's good. However this reviewer points out that the song owes a lot to David Essex's Rock On, which might actually be better...and we're back in 1973 again.

Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?