OBJECTION, YOUR HONOUR! Nostalgia is only part of my music taste (ignore the lifelong Deep Purple crush for a moment!). It is true that I still like everything (literally) I used to like as music as a teen, but I've added loads of stuff to it over the decades (quite a bit of it thanks to what I see and hear on this forum). I buy a lot of releases of new bands too, though you can probably say that it mostly has a basis in rock.
The striking thing of the music period of, say, 1967 to 1977 was for me that so many bands back then felt no inhibition to experiment. And, admittedly, I dig improvisation/a solo if it takes you on a journey. Both aspects have been pushed into the background since the late 70ies though there are exceptions to the rule: While no Metallica fan, I admire how they have morphed from a thrash metal outfit into the "beyond-metal-audience"-behemoth they are today that is still unafraid to take chances. To me, Metallica is artistically braver than REM, U2, Bruce Springsteen or AC/DC. In that way they are 70ies-ish. And I'm writing that even though there are way more REM, U2, Bruce Springsteen and AC/DC songs I like than ones by Metallica.
