Well let's look at the usual suspects - Loveless, Forever Changes, Pet Sounds, I Hear a New World, Autobahn, What's Goin' On, Metal Box, Shakey!, ooh the list is endless and debateable - albums that seemingly took music 'up' a level, or challenged the next generation to "go on see if you can do better", - is this now possible in an age where music seems to have reached another plateau and the media that now channels music seems far more important than ever than the actual songs and movements and ideas that are created?

I'd like to say yes, but what albums will future generations be talking about, trying to emulate/listen to in awe and wonder in the future - or will it just be about myspace/facebook/i-tunes/downloads and their not far off replacements?

Maybe it was always like this since the invention of the gramophone - is the technology or the songs that will be remembered from our time?