[Fidatelo]

I went though several phases of older rock appreciation in my teens. Beach Boys, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Beatles, and CCR are ones that stick out.

I'd say there are two big changes that impact how my kids discover (or don't) older music:


1) When I heard a Buddy Holly song and thought it rocked, I then dug up whatever albums my parents had and listened to them in totality. Or maybe went and bought some CDs if their catalog was sparse. But I went deep on the whole artist, whereas my kids will just come across a single song by some 90's rapper and then end up hearing "songs like it" from Spotify or whatever so instead of going deep on a single artist they end up listening to a bunch of songs by various artists of a similar vein.


2) Until my later teens we didn't really have walkmans/discmen, and even then we didn't have any other 'devices', which meant when my parents listened to music in the car or at home on the stereo I was quite often hearing them too. Conversely my kids are almost always watching a video or listening to their own music or whatever and ignoring the stuff I'm doing, so they aren't picking up songs through osmosis in that manner.