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

"Gen Y and people who think Green Day is punk."

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Green Day/Blink 182 era of "rock" is an embarrassment  for the genre. 
Apologies to the fans I've offended. Putting Green Day in the Punk category is a double insult.

IMO Punk was done by the late 70's. Big 80's Brit Alt  fan-Smiths, Stone Roses, Joy Division etc. 80's and  early 90's were the last gold rush years of highly creative/unique music. Things seemed to get recycled and mutilated by the late 90's early 2000.

Crawling back in my hole to play my Zeppelin and Stones LP's.

If anyone gets board with music, go backwards towards the source-Classical and everything in between, there is ENDLESS discovery to be heard.

There is a very emotional connection with music from the early teens into the twenties. With all those hormones coursing through your body, first connections with the opposite sex, events, freedom, and music get conflated in a wonderfully profound way. My niece is profoundly connected to music of 2000 -2010. Tchaikovsky, the renegade of passionate music of his time. I love listening to the jazz of the fifties and sixties now, although I wasn’t yet old enough to appreciate it at its time. Actually, over my life more and more genera appealed to me. I lived in Scotland for a year and fell in love with contemporary traditional based music there. I lived in Japan and was swept into the wonderful world of music there. The world of music is endless and wonderful.

We can all listen to any music we want on vinyl just go to a used record store and buy all the classics as well as anything else.

@michaelsherry - I’m about 42, definitely feel like I missed out big time!  

Weep for us not. While there's undoubtedly a plethora of great music whose existence preceeded my own, the following are post-birth:
Gang Of Four
Joy DivisionBjork
The Cure
RadioheadD'AngeloAlan Parsons Project
The B52's
Talking Heads
Beastie Boys
Public Enemy
Rage Against the Machine
Beach House
Blondie
The Clash
Cocteau TwinsDaft Punk
Broadcast
The Flaming Lips
DeerhunterDigable Planets
A Tribe Called Quest
Echo & the Bunnymen
Prince
Portishead
James Blake
Khruangbin
Sufjan Stevens
Lower Dens
M83
Mac DeMarco
Mazzy Star
Massive Attack
Men at Work
Mogwai
My Morning Jacket
OutKast
The Pharcyde
The Police
The Psychedelic Furs
The Ramones
The Roots
The Shins
The Sound
Spoon
Stereolab
The Sundays
Television
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Thee Oh Sees
Bunch of others...
Some context...first real concert was Floyd (Division Bell Tour - saw Water's at a separate show). Seen Petty live - thankfully. Grew up on wide range of stuff (Motown, classic rock). Discovered Jazz and classical later. Also discovered early progressive rock and motorik later (King Crimson, Can, etc). Beatles are in my stable. Point is, music for me is like time travel...gems to discover past, present, and glimpses of the future.

Put me down Old Yeller style the day I can't find something new to listen to regardless of the period in which it was born.
(Typed while listening to Bjork's Post on my headphone rig.)