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Originally Posted by SATCHMO
It puzzles me that we always seem to use the 50's as the starting point (not picking on you comus, we all do it). It was the beginning of the rock-based paradigm, but the foundation of everything we listen to today goes back much further than this.
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That's true but think Comus is right, it has to do with how recording changed in the 1950s. It's really the first decade where you can talk about specific albums by an artist. Prior to that music wasn't really released in the same way. Not to dismiss music before the 50s at all, I love a lot of it, but there really aren't classic albums you can point to pre-50s. Classic songs and classic performances definitely, but not really classic albums.