Skip nails it with this: ""Contemporanaiety" doesn't enter into the same realm as real live individual expression -- which probably does much to explain why certain people (Raymond Scott, Beefheart, Sun Ra) are perpetually being rediscovered." The notion that new generations ain't gonna get (insert critical touchstone here) is silly, a generational hubris. I'm 30, so I came to "Revolver" and "Pet Sounds" and "Ascension" and "Funhouse" long after they were recorded, and yeah, coming to "Ascension" as a fan of Naked City and Borbetomagus was less shattering than I'm sure it was for fans of "Giant Steps," or "A Love Supreme," but what makes great records GREAT is withstanding the test of time on both a large scale - seducing new generations of listeners - and a small one, rewarding years of repeated listening. It's important to remember, too, that most teenagers hearing "Revolver" for the first time are not the children of record collectors, so they're coming out of a very restricted commercial radio context & thus "Revolver" will still sound pretty alien. Chris Selvig