Should give you an oversight...it's a bit of a wormhole.
https://open.spotify.com/album/3WkDWD8ycVO7kHfQPXWDSJ
https://open.spotify.com/album/64BIQfXdqgzg6mh1UJxzEY
Well I like it.
I think this era more than any other in pop music history shows how fine the tightrope is between innovative, creative art and pretentious, self-indulgent bollocks.
Without wanting to sound pretentious, a pertinent song with 'soul' (can't think of another way of expressing it) would Shirley be oblivious to technological advances.
On an aside, I feel music has so much power in the mind
A compilation video for example. Whether it be a wedding, a school sports day or a Brighton promotion.
Play it with relevant, emotional music, then play it silent.
As someone who's made quite a few of these, the double whammy of vision...
The most pleasure we get from music is emotionally, usually from moments in the past.
You hear a song, it takes you back to a particular moment in your life.
Unless you were there too, the person you're trying to convince will be none the wiser.
I have a favourite year, not because the music...
Therein lies the beauty of music.
We all have a billion songs at our fingertips, and find it surprising, sometimes deflating or bewildered when we say 'here, you'll love this' and you get a :shrug:.
Long may that last. On car journeys to aways we have a mixed playlist to accommodate everyone...
To which year are you referring?
My point was that this scenario plays out in any given year.
Don't forget, music is highly subjective. There is no wrong or right (unless you disagree with my views of course).