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[โ€“] niktemadur 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Some artists transcend their eras, like Bowie or The Beatles.

Most bands remain in a straitjacket of their times.
From the 70s-80s, Billy Joel is a fair-sized-not-huge "no" for me. So is Rod Stewart, and more or less for the same reasons.
Then some things feel utterly impenetrable and were ripe for parody even in their times, like Emerson Lake & Palmer.

Thin Lizzy, however... there are always some true-blue jewels hidden in the seas of music from their times.
Roxy Music! Roxy NEVER gets old, there's still a freshness to their music, unaffected by nostalgia, even decades later, after countless of listens, they still sound like "now" to me.

[โ€“] Delphia 2 points 2 weeks ago

"The classics are 'the classics' for a reason. Otherwise its just old shit nobody cares about.