I was pondering in an idle moment how popular music can be peeled, layer by layer, from today's big new thing all the way back to the caveman banging on a hollow log.
Simultaneously I wondered why, if I listen to the music which influenced a favourite artist, I seldom like it or even see the join.
So have you ever peeled back the skin and found you liked or even preferred what lived underneath?
I can give one example. The Two Tone craze of the late 70s is directly responsible for my love of 60s Jamaican ska. However, peel that back to Mento and I don't dig it So I manage one step! Once.