New music, Old music

[Brian37]

Old music is cool, but new music has that sweet, sweet novelty value.

It depends on which music you're talking about, and of course its subjective.  Not everyone appreciates the same musical elements.  I don't like any music because it's old.  Like most people, I prefer music I grew up with.

I don't even know what "sweet novelty value" means.  "Novelty" usually means something that's weird and difficult to find, which really doesn't describe much music at all.  If anything music is getting more and more repetitious and less original.

Well yes. I overlap of late 70s and 80's music, and very little of early 90s music. But by the mid and late 90s I lost interest. I think that is always normal in every generation. I will say however, with my late mother, we had some common overlap in a couple ABBA songs, and our common favorite song we both love was  "My Life" by Billy Joel. So certainly there are generational gaps, but it isn't impossible for for different generations to find overlap even if small.

But I had no idea when the TV show Moonlighting redid songs "Blue Moon" and "I Told You I Now Get Out " that they were covers of days of old. I'd bet my life, even today's young popular rock and pop artists are drawing from the past.

I agree, it most certainly is subjective. 

If I had a billion dollars to pay Metallica to cover "Offbeat Of Avenues" by Manhattan Transfer, I would do so.