Donny, all I was saying that, for every one of your favorites that you remember from that era (you are too young to have actually been around during the big band and doo-wop heyday, I'm the same age as you!), there were a dozen that were not as good, hackneyed and bland, with poorer material, etc., etc..

In fact, the very music that you prefer had ALREADY gone through the filtering process of time, before you even got into it! The good remains and the bad gets forgotten. But if you listen to CONTEMPORARY music, that filter has not yet been applied.

But good and interesting current music DOES exist. Unfortunately, no-one has done the filtering, yet, so you have to wade through the slime to get to the good stuff. If that's too much to have to do, you may have to wait ten or twenty years to find out what was good in the early 21st century!

Me, I can't wait that long...