I have a similar breakdown, though not with the same artists -- I really felt my "one step removed" generational break from you in this post, haha, where the artists named were what my brother and I thought were so cool because it was what our worldly older cousins would listen to (or because the All-American Rejects were the credits song to, of all things, the Bionicles movie).
For me, it's childhood albums which I find myself "stuck" in without necessarily moving beyond them. I listen to the Queen albums my family had, which didn't include Made in Heaven, for example, and I've never really tried MIH. Or, indeed, that specific All-American Rejects album. I'm sure they have others, but I don't even know what they are! I just know the one my brother got as his first-ever CD in elementary school.
I do have albums that are 100% "of their time" for me, but as long as I was a teenager or older when I found them, I do continue to explore that artist's catalog. Melodrama is like this for me. In fact, I almost can't listen to it because it's so deeply evocative of that period of my life, but I do listen to Lorde's other stuff which isn't so tightly tied to a particular time.
(And lastly, do try out Transatlanticism!! It's now an album you've heard of through a friend :D)
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For me, it's childhood albums which I find myself "stuck" in without necessarily moving beyond them. I listen to the Queen albums my family had, which didn't include Made in Heaven, for example, and I've never really tried MIH. Or, indeed, that specific All-American Rejects album. I'm sure they have others, but I don't even know what they are! I just know the one my brother got as his first-ever CD in elementary school.
I do have albums that are 100% "of their time" for me, but as long as I was a teenager or older when I found them, I do continue to explore that artist's catalog. Melodrama is like this for me. In fact, I almost can't listen to it because it's so deeply evocative of that period of my life, but I do listen to Lorde's other stuff which isn't so tightly tied to a particular time.
(And lastly, do try out Transatlanticism!! It's now an album you've heard of through a friend :D)