Do you all agree when Prince said the 60s, 70s and 80s were the golden ages of music?

@emailists  +1, Agree with everything with exception of my mind can crave both the familiar and repetitive, and the complex and new within a singular listening session. In fact I suspect every listening session meanders in this way.
Nostalgia likely correlates greatly with favored music, new experiences allied to adolescence creates powerful emotional responses that stick with us for life. I retained strong attachment to music of my adolescence for many years, still, always open minded to new forms of music my entire life. Finally, there came a point when I intellectually analyzed this attachment to music of my youth, ever since then I've been less nostalgic about that music. Funny, but now I hear music from that time with new ears/mind, listening to the music rather than the memory.

'Rubber Soul is a much better album, as is Revolver and the s/t white album. As are The Band's first (1968) and second (1969) albums, but you already know that. ;-)"

YES!  

"But I really feel that different minds crave repetitive music or familiar vs. more complex or perhaps unfamiliar music"

Yes. . . 

"We are the oddballs of society that place a massive premium on making music the focus, not just a narration for our activities. I believe the audiophile brain has its reward system more wired into the auditory center than most, hence our musical appetite will tend to be broader than most.".

Richard Thompson dubbed the US a "culture-free zone". 

I really wish the moderators would simply remove any and all political references, here. 

What you mean is you wish they would remove everything you disagree with. Isn't that the way censorship always works? Somebody gets to decide what everyone else gets to think. Only reason you would suggest that is out of the arrogance that what they will decide we are okay to think is what you already think. In other words you want to be the one to decide. Only you won't come out and say it. So you pretend to believe in your moderated utopia. 

There's a reason that word literally means "no-where", you know?