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by thebigspacefuck 2137 days ago
Make sure you have some decent headphones/speakers before you start, which will allow you to pick up the subtleties in what’s playing. Then get a streaming service with high quality. RateYourMusic is pretty good for organizing best albums of each year or decade, by genre as well. It might not have what was popular from a historical perspective but is probably a good start. I check out different genres and then read about them on Wikipedia, which has a ton of information about every genre and chronology of music.
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This.

My mind was blown when I heard the 2013 remaster of The Eagle's "Taking It Easy".

Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0ZZHNRHA2g&t=1m36s

Remaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v8KEbQA8kw&t=1m36s

I never knew there was a backing bluegrass guitar on the track!