I feel bad for GenX'ers that missed out on the 60s and 70s.

@tostadosunidos,

There's a ton of 'new' lions out here in music. You just have to be open to hear them. For example, Erykah Badu, who's voice is hauntingly familiar to Lady Day's, Billie Holiday. Ericka can sing her face off. 

Esperanza Spalding. A massive young talent who can record in any genre of music.

D'Angelo, who single handedly brought back music soul back to music with him reintroducing us to the Fender Rhodes and the band actually playing and singing.

I feel bad for baby boomers missing out on their youth in the 80s. The generation that completely changed the music. Often referred to as Rocks First Wave.  The only thing that was good from the 70s was the birth of punk rock. Disco sucked, and the Beatles were horrendous. Rock was ok.
80s saw the birth of a new sound, New Wave, HairBands, Metal, Pop, post punk, Country music superstars,  raves, Acid House music, electronica, EDM, Rap becoming main stream by the end of the decade to name a few. Arena Rock was takin to the next level with better technology , stages, lighting, and special effects bringing the band closer to the audience than ever before.  Having freedom of music to listen on your own terms with Creating mix tapes then moving to CDs and it’s increased dynamics and bit rate and increased audio quality.  Newer and better technology for speakers, amps and CDs and cassette players. The 808 Synthesizer Was at the heart of this new sound and could be heard in any genre.  The birth of MTV that took music to the next level and completely redefined pop culture . 1982, 1983 the most influential years in music and for this new decades wave of music.  Then the clubs.  Bass that made your hair stand up on your neck, the eclectic style and nature that spawned more top artists than any decade combined. Period.

The 60s and 70s……..well you can have it with your 8 tracks, horrible fuzzy audio, shitty sound equipment, disco, and racist culture. I thank God I didn’t experience that time period.  It’s 2021 and the basic sound of music still closely resembles all from the 80d. So profound that we are still waiting for Rocks second wave to come along.

The initial threads wording is somewhat antagonistic, many responses are crotchety.

Music appreciation has nothing to do with when someone was born or even what system they use.  It has to do with passion.

I appreciate the constructive aspects of this forum and certainly some of the banter.  Though I'm not sure how much is the banter is really friendly after this thread and some others.

I’m a boomer. Started listening to Motown and Elvis along with the stuff our parents listened to... Perry Como Dean Martin Eddy Arnold Tony Bennet... still singing... Johnny Mathis Andy Williams and so on. Then The Carpenters came out ... what a voice. As I matured into the early 70’s I discovered stereo... blew me away. THEN I discovered Led Zep BOC Pink Floyd Bruce Springsteen and on and on. Wow what a time. Yes later generations did miss out on the time... the lifestyle and the lack of cell phones and social media. We laugh and say our social media site was a beer keg in the woods. The link below is Live Aid. My girlfriend who is now my wife of 32 years were there. I took the picture.
https://www.getdieselpower.com/gallery/upload/2019/07/14/20190714064426-1d2f05de.jpg
Seen many many concerts including Yes Peter Frampton and Gary right at the JFK stadium in Philly with 120,000 other people... same venue Live Aid was at. Also same venue Peter Frampton / Lynyrd Skynyrd / The J. Geils Band / Dicky Betts / Great Southern

Great times for sure. Partied a little much though LOL

Check out the concert list of JFK Stadiums 103 concerts starting in 1966 with the Beatles. I posted the last page of the list first because that’s how it listed.
https://www.concertarchives.org/venues/jfk-stadium?page=5#concert-table

I was born in the 60’s, and you are welcome to keep listening to the same old classic rock crap - if I never here another Zeppelin, or Eagles song again, I’ll be perfectly happy. There is so much music out there, that it blows my mind that classic rock stations still exist. Listening to “Whitest Boy Alive”at the moment.