For me most music has a shelf life in my head. My Dad on the other hand still plays Stones records over FIFTY years later. I couldn’t handle that.
See, I just can’t understand that. I do know tastes change, I just can’t listen to Black Sabbath these days, and there are others from the 60’s and 70’s I used to like, but that’s true of any time/year. If something’s good, then it should be timeless, like King Crimson, who I saw last year on their 50th Anniversary tour; I discovered them in ‘69, and their music is timeless, being largely jazz-influenced, like many early Prog bands, before the rot set in and self-indulgence took over!
There are others, like John Kongos ‘He’s Gonna Step On You Again’, which must be nearly 50 years old now, but just doesn’t age, unlike the crap ‘Monday’s ‘Step On’ version, which does sound dated, I mean, a lyric like ‘You’re twisting my melon, man; you talk so hip man, you’re twisting my melon man’! It makes me cringe just typing it out. Good music should be ageless and timeless.