So I don't really get where you're going with this line of thought.
Again....I'm just saying that much of the music that we have some stronger connection to, one that goes beyond pure music appreciation like/dislike stuff, is often the music we grew up with.
Not ALL the music we grew up with, as there are always many genres at play during any given period...but we are affected more strongly by some specific genre that is present during our growing years that we develop a taste for, and one that is also in many ways tied to our growing up environment at the time....the shit that's going on around us.
You like punk rock a lot...sure, you can trace its roots back probably to before you were born, though it actually became a genre in the mid-late '70s...but it's
evolution and mainstay, and the more
hardcore punk, went on through the '80s up until grunge/alt took over. You were a teenager then...right?
That applies to everyone, not just you....we are all most affected by things during our growing years...and not just about a given music style. The real point I was making was about how people will judge something that they did not really experience during their growing years. It's not the same.
That's all I'm saying...and that just "looking back" on some music you might find it good, or bad today, whatever....but it wasn't necessarily perceived like that during it's heyday, and IF you were a teen then, I am confident you're views/tastes would be affected by it.
... I really like Mac back in their Peter Greenwood days....
I have NO idea why I said "Greenwood"....it was Peter Green.
I guess I had some kind of mental mash-up with Mick Fleetwood and Peter
Green.