The chaotic Bebop jazz never did it for me, it’s just very annoying. I can’t listen to country music either. Dylan, Neil Young & CSNY are as country as I get. I like funk & soul of the 60’s-80’s but not rap, house or whatever other noise can be made when you don’t play any real instruments.
Grunge from the 90’s is my cutoff! Anything past that in the last 25+ years pretty much sucks, except for a handful of songs. Please help me out here, I’m sure that there’s much more good music during this stretch of time that I just don’t know about.
On the Boss: once he did that Nebraska LP, he jumped the shark, IMHO. His early stuff was great though. Now & ever since Nebraska every song has a midwestern twang to it. He just can’t even speak like he’s from North Jersey anymore.
The 80’s music was just fun music, mostly all of it, even the whiny New Wave stuff. Love the 60’s & 70’s music, even the terrible “Billy Don’t Be a Hero” kind of horrible 70’s music :)