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Makes sense. You'd think people would want to hear the groups for what they are, though, rather than how they turned out. Nothing particularly wrong with this, of course.
Though in the pre-70s American music wasn't really...what's the word...
...I couldn't listen to it today because it's tone is far too...not somber...no, actually I'd say somber's pretty accurate. It's a type of somber that completely dims my mood. Or the 50s, rather. Hell, I guess I'm generalizing overall. I don't particularly mind the Beach Boys or the Bee Gees, and the Harlem Renaissance was 20/30 years before that and the music that spawned from that managed to be of a very particular quality and also fun.
So it varies by genre, I suppose. No way I could all music prior to the 70s was boring, because swing was way before the 70s. Same with Jazz. It really just depends on the side of music that I'm focusing on that determines whether its cringeworthy-level bad or just plain fun times. And the same could be said about now, really.