I think part of that issue is that 20 years gives time for the cream to rise to the top. There was a LOT of terrible music in the 60s and 70s. The music from that era that you listened to in the 80s ...

This is part of a larger assumption that more repetitive music must be worse. I resist this assumption, because some of the music I love most in the world is extremely repetitive, from James Brown to ...

Well, the idea of music genres is dying these days. I wouldn't even know how to genre-classify half of my liked songs from this year. Tags are more useful; what instruments are in it, what is the ...