Test 1: Is the music seen as having made a lasting contribution to the art form? Is it something that others copied or built on?
Test 2: Do people still actively listen to it N years later?
Test 3: N years later, is the band / album / song "remembered" in any way beyond an exhaustive record of all music? Would the band make a list of the top bands in it's genre in its era? Are they historically relevant?
These are probably in priority order for me.
Test 2: Do people still actively listen to it N years later?
Test 3: N years later, is the band / album / song "remembered" in any way beyond an exhaustive record of all music? Would the band make a list of the top bands in it's genre in its era? Are they historically relevant?
These are probably in priority order for me.