Tastes change with age?

real music 777, we SHOULD get wiser as we get older but many/most do not .
I find some in my age group(80+) to be dripping with wisdom whilst many are swimming in ignorance .
To paraphrase the Budda , we are either getting better or getting worse .

I've been into jazz somewhat for a long time really, used to go to a late night jazz club in Honolulu after gigs, saw Monk when I was a kid (opening for Peter, Paul, and Mary at the Hollywood Bowl…my first exposure to serious jazz piano), saw Joe Pass, Ella, Oscar Peterson, blah blah, and have been WAY into a few newer geniuses such as Vijay Iyer and Craig Taborn…Brad Mehldau…my oh my…and I think a love of art and music (I'm a musician also, by default), and actually actively listening to music (which most people simply don't do) keeps the brain in shape. Art is all that matters…you think people hundreds of years from now will remember the great investment bankers? No they won't.

Always liked Rock & Roll,Heavy Metal and some Blues.I have recently discovered and added some Jazz into the mix and some Blues from the Gals like,Sena Erhardt,Janiva Magnuss,Debbie Davis,Joann Shaw Taylor. Joyce Cooling does some nice Jazz Guitar work,Jeff Golub,Lee Ritenour-Captain Fingers although i did get some of his albums years ago.The Mark Lettieri -Spark and Echo CD is pretty good.I found him through Snarky Puppy.It seems like the Jazz segment has really good mixes.I avoided Country growing up but I can do a little of it now a days.A splash of Classical.I still crank the Heavy Metal out tho.Tool sounds great on the system as well.Yep,some of the old faves were really recorded horribly!It's like"did you guys even listen to this?"

boxer12, if you want to see what lead up to Smile, there is a great documentary on the making of the Pet Sounds album. PS contains what I consider the "best" song ever written---"God Only Knows". Paul McCartney feels the same about the song. There is a video on You Tube wherein a musicologist sits at a piano, discussing, explaining, and demonstrating the incredible construction of this very sophisticated (almost Baroque in quality) song. It was light years ahead of what anyone else in Pop or Rock was doing at the time (or has done at any time).

bdp24, Thanks for the info