Totally agree. I play in a band specified on reggae music and can't listen to reggae outside the rehearsals very much, because it gets boring.

Additonally, I think that you can learn so much from old songs. The variations are very interesting and nothing goes over that good old vynil sound. But also some new electronic genres and songs are quite interesting when you know what work the artist put in the music. Virtual Instruments also have a really large(!) spectrum of sounds and harmonics.

I like listening to "old" instruments compared with some matching synths.