Yeah, that's pretty good - and she's nice to look at while she's "shakin' it off." Just a bit older, so generally take to other tunes ('though Shake it Off, is catchy).

The formula is x + y = 0 with very little since MTV turned music from an audio to mind experience to a mindless visual experience.

Not all...still some good music out there

In Classical I would look for anything that matched the ability of Sibelius' Finlandia.

Listening to music like reading has nought to with Y the X Generation ends sentences with a question mark and makes zero impact.

For your quest go to the beginning, the roots and follow them through the changes. Folk, Blues, the originals and the trend setters like Alan Lomax, Leadbelly, and Dylan. At some point they all were people individuallyl struggling for an emotional, spiritual and intellectual expression. And it's generational. My Dad always asked why I listened to rock'n'roll'even though my classical, folk, and blues collections were equally as large. One day i sang to him a song from his generation Oop Oop Diddim Daddum Waddum Chew... three fish swimming over a dam.

I started to say the same thing to my daughter then bit my tongue. Of course that was before MTV and when a singer became an instrument not a voice.

The great allosaur, always the optimist.

I'm guessing that that rubber tree plant wouldn't be much of a challenge ;-)