[Yardstick]

The big national FM channels like Jack FM and The River which are designed to appeal to a wide audience play older music. They play some newer stuff too but their "center of gravity" is the old stuff. And it's not because they're trying to appeal to an older audience. It's because young people like that music too.

It makes me wonder what will ever replace it. Will people still be humming along to Motown and A-ha tunes as they're out doing whatever 100 years from now? It's conceivable that it will endure as the common popular music forever.

[dfwgator]

It’s becoming like Classical Music. The Beatles are the “Beethoven”, the Stones are the “Mozart”, etc.

Who listens to modern symphonies?

[dfwgator]

And there’s a lot of great music that was made in the 70s and 80s, that went mostly ignored back then, that people are just now discovering. And as they say, if you haven’t heard it before, it’s new to you.