Hi All,
I think if you could beam our kids of the new millenium back to the early 70's, they'd all be fans of Arlo Guthrie or Don Mclean or the Bay City Rollers (S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y Night!, remember?) Styx, Boston, Rush - that was GOOD music. The average person exposed solely to what is popular at that time would enjoy it just as much as the next, after all, we've been making really good music for quite some time now. It's definately linked to memory in a special way, though. The first three bars of an old song can instantly transport me back 25 years. Amazing.
My kids all groan with displeasure when the Credence Clearwater Revival CD goes in, but I think had they been raised on it, they's love it as much as I do.
My real passion is classical guitar and good classical orchestra. Mozart was a genius! Why is that still universally popular after 10 or 15 decades? I have my doubts that the Backstreet boys will be filling Carnegie Hall 150 years from now, but that's just my opinion, I could be wrong.