While I was pulling together the XDU wrrld music tops yesterday, I noticed that fully half of the top 20 is music that was recorded in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Nothing wrong with that. I loved some of those albums. And a lot of it is stuff that's never been released in the US until now. But it's still kinda odd that 40 year old music is so dominant on the charts. It's as if college radio in the mid-70s was spending significant time spinning works by Django Reinhardt or George Formby. Which I'm pretty sure it wasn't. I didn't really discover college radio until late in my high school years (and, obviously, one or two stations do not represent the entirety of the college radio spectrum) but there I don't remember hearing anything much older than Bonzo Dog Band.
Not sure what it all means, exactly. I'm sure it tells us something about the modern condition, the world we live in and life in general but I'm damned if I can figure it out just now.