A major point is that it's easy to forget/never to have heard songs from 20 years ago that aren't in any canons and aren't still popular, whereas we'll have heard and remember much more from 2005 or whatever. This accounts for an awful lot of this phenomenon, though that isn't to say the canon doesn't also shape our ideas of what is good, of course.
Re: Hmmm
Date: 2007-02-15 01:44 pm (UTC)