Honestly I come up empty when I compare the last 15 to the 20 before that. I listen to a lot of music and buy a lot of CDs - sure I've found some pretty good ones - but in context of my entire listening life since the late 60s - they just don't measure up. It doesn't even have to be substantive but how many times do I hear a new song that gives me the same thrill as, say, Summer Breeze, Bad Bad Leroy Brown, Just an Old Fasioned Love Song, Draw the Line, More than a Feeling, Point of No Return, Rikki Don't Lose that Number, In Every Dreamhome a Heartache, 20th Century Boy and so on. I haven't even touched the 80s. That just don't write 'em like that anymore. Ok I found Sufjan Stevens pretty good, Paul Weller's done a lot of good stuff in the last 15 years.
