[hindsightbias]

Great advice, until you run out of genres. I tend to get more excited about finding something I hadn't heard from an old album/band. It gets rarer, and takes a lot of scrounging around.

New music - as I age, most of the "new" music falls into a handful of categories: 1) Sounds like band/song from the past - in fact I get driven crazy by my brain's pattern recognition trying to remember where that melody is originally from. Or older favorite band/musician singing the same old thing. 2) Just another male emo voice. 3) Autotuned. It's like unrealistic movies with too much CGI. Nothing there once you take it away. 4) Instrumental/jazz/weird, will let it play through but very rare to add it to a playlist

But ultimately, it's 98% boring out there. I want to be wrong, but I don't think there is ever going to be another year like 1969 or 1991 where any one of 10 albums would have been album of the year any other year.

It was really refreshing when Guitar Hero came out and that generation fell in love with older music. I didn't have to yell get-off-my-lawn for a few of years.