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I'm not sure I ever had my feet in modern music. My parents raised me on what they liked, ranging from the 1950s rock & roll and 1960s soul to late 1980s AOR and almost every kind of popular rock between those decades sans punk and grunge. I drifted towards electronic genres at a young age, mainly techno and trance, but also dance pop like Eiffel 65 and such. Vice City in 2002 turned my dial hard to the 1980s, and I went on to buy compilations of 1980s music, through which I discovered one of my fave genres: Italo disco! It's like the 1980s sound distilled and refined into its pure essence, and it's oooooh soooo goooood!

Anyhow, ever since the 1980s music got its hooks in me, contemporary rock sounded abrasive, unmelodic, and offputtingly deriative to my ears. Electronic genres were still fantastic, though. Well, not dubstep. That stuff's atrocious. But after 2006 or so, my understanding of mainstream music has become extremely tenuous. I have never heard a Lady Gaga song as far as I know, and rap as whole is meh. Early 1980s rap is my jam, because Vice City.

Lately, I've been exploring music from the 1950s onwards and discovered many new genres: jazz-funk, southern rock, blues rock, dub, rocksteady, western swing, progressive electronic music, ambient, power pop, philly soul etc. In doing so, I've heard a lot of quality music that seemingly never cracked the top 100 or has become undeservedly neglected despite its popularity back in the day.

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