This is very true. When I first heard The Darkness's I Believe In a Thing Called Love, I figured it was some track from the 80s I'd missed the first time around

This is very true. When I first heard The Darkness's I Believe In a Thing Called Love, I figured it was some track from the 80s I'd missed the first time around. There were a lot of those, after all. When I discovered how relatively recent it actually was I was quite surprised. Then I went back and listened to it again, and realized that since I'd first heard it I'd learned a ton about recording techniques. There's no way a recording from the 80s would have drums sound like that. They just didn't record or mix them that way back then.