I think you're right as well. A lot of the distinctiveness of sounds in popular music were driven by improvements in technology in the 60s through the 80s or 9

I think you're right as well. A lot of the distinctiveness of sounds in popular music were driven by improvements in technology in the 60s through the 80s or 90s, but that's no longer the case. The same can be said about movies up to the last several years. With the exception of (the scourge of) Autotune, has any technology really changed how music sounds since the tidal wave of digital sampling in the early to mid 80s? Similarly, the massive advances in computer graphics have radically altered movie making in the 80s through 2010 or so, but those advances are becoming much less noticeable from year to year.