On 01/03/2011 08:33 PM, Darren New wrote:

> The problem with this kind of analysis is that you are disregarding the
> factor of time selecting the best.

For example, I bought a truckload of music from the 1950s. Listening to 
this stuff, you'd think that it was an entire decade of astonishingly 
good music.

In reality, you're listening to the 24 best tracks produced in 10 years 
of popular music. Out of the countless millions of recordings produced, 
these are the best 24 that anybody could find. No wonder they sound good...

Hell, if you took the music of 2000 until 2010, you could probably find 
24 good tracks even in there. (Amongst all the utter **** that most 
people seem to be producing these days.)

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