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At home for music I've been listening most often to the Singers and Standards channel on the cable box. The recordings date from about mid-last-century to the present, but most of the songs were written, I'd guess, 1920-1960. I really love it, especially with the convention of the genre wherein the recording starts off with two bars of lyrics unique to that recording, before it goes into the first line of the same old familiar song you know so well, and your spine says, "Ah, this one. I know this one."

But it makes me worry I live in the past. Is this just nostalgia (for a time before I was even born*)? Do they really not write'em like that any more, or in another seventy years will there be forty-eight-year-olds who'll feel about Boulevard of Broken Dreams and Oops I Did It Again the way I feel about All of Me and The Way You Look Tonight?

*Actually the oldest recordings are of performers I remember from the tv variety shows of the 70s when I was a teenager, even if the recordings themselves may be older than that.