I remember Simon Reynolds' book Retromania
arguing something similar, but half his examples just made me realise that what new technology defined the time was access to all music ever, plus people being able to easily make and publish from home. That level of reflection was new. And as quickly as we burnt through things like mashups, they were novel for a while.
The charts did die, however.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Sun 15 Jun 2025, 15:23,
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