Old Rockers never die, they just get more wrinkly?

In the Summer of ’68 Music From Big Pink appeared, and I didn’t get it AT ALL.

Big Pink? In 68? I thought it was only recently Victoria's Secret started using the plus-size models? 
 The music I didn't get at all was U2. AC/DC at least I could understand. Didn't care for it then but at least could see why others did. U2 though just seemed the most repetitive thing, same damn chord over and over and over again. 
Now though I put on Joshua Tree all the time. Maybe its my copy, people have told me its flat, but mine is deep and wide and liquid and detailed and just about as good as could be. The Edge guitar I found boring, now I can get that it rings like a bell, or a chime. 
There's a video about great guitarists that shows him playing with tubes or whatever tweaking to get the particular sound he wants for each song. Been long enough now to no longer remember which came first his explanation or my appreciation but either way its there now. U2 used to be like a Jackson Pollock. Now its van Gogh. Only louder. A lot louder.

Head East, Never Been Any Reason Save my life I'm going down for the last tiiiiiiiiiimmmmmmmme!

One of my fondest memories of college was people rocking out with their windows open, sometimes even with a speaker pointing out, blasting music all over the place. This was back when there was music good enough to be worth doing this with. Music everyone actually wanted to hear. This was 76-80 and so you could be walking along and hear the classic sax hook from Gerry Rafferty Baker Street all over the place.

Every once in a while I put on Styx Equinox. Suite Madam Blue, no matter how it starts out, cannot be played loud enough. Loved it in the 70’s when as a student I got the metaphor. For some reason its even better now. Oh yeah, I know the reason! The chorus!
AMERICA! America america america!AMERICA! America america america!AMERICA! America america america! AMERICA! America america america!
Whoa! Head rush!Didn’t know it then, but know it now: mastered by Doug Sax at The Mastering Lab.Sweet madam blue, gaze in your looking glass, you’re not a child any moreSweet madam blue, the future is all but past, so raise up your heart, make a new start, lead us away from here
As it once was. So shall it ever be.