B. THE LACK OF GOOD MUSIC (CHOICE A) MAY HELP ACCOUNT FOR OLDER BA...

31. b. The lack of good music (choice a) may help account for older bands making a comeback, but this isnot the best explanation. More convincing is the notion that older bands were able to blend their oldsounds with new sounds to appeal to a wide audience—people who enjoyed their older music andpeople who enjoy the sounds of contemporary music. This would help explain their renewed popular-ity, because they still have a core of older fans as well as a large contingent of newer fans (youngerlisteners who were not necessarily familiar with their older music). Choice cis incorrect because a nos-talgia for the 1960s and 1970s would mean the bands’ older music would be in demand, not their newmusic. Choice dis incorrect because this does not account for their lapse into “relative obscurity.”Choice eis incorrect for the same reason as c—if a new generation of listeners discovered classic rock,then they would be more interested in the bands’ older work.