Nerd Pride Radio

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New wave, Pop, Hair Metal, early hip-hop, and Smiths/Morrissey.

So when you guys listen to music, this is the majority (or at least plurality) of what you listen to?

not really, but that era had a all kinds of music coming out all the time...a smorgasbord of music

True. But Pete has an awesome point: if you want a huge selection, technology has assisted in creating a huge volume and variety of music in the last 2 decades.

But how much of it is better than Dvorak, Sibelius, Puccini (Tosca alone!!), Elgar, Brahms, Faure, Mahler (symphony 2!), Bartok, Debussy, Saint-Saens, Rachmaninoff, Scott Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag aaaaand:
You've been a good old wagon but you done broke down!!!

I like my years the more I think about it; this surprises me because I had been hoping for a serendipitous Beethoven/Mozart overlap!

New artists have released a multitude of versions of all of those things recently.

Oh I see, you mean if some orchestra does x in 2015, it counts. Eh, ok, but...

Does that work for everything? So I can say 2007 to 2017 and then still get to listen to Dwight Yoakum because he still has CD out?

Only if it's original release falls in that decade.

But then that does circumvent the spirit of the game a bit.