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

IMHO this is a rather strange thread. Good music is good music regardless of genre. There is plenty of good music created today. The main problem is there is way more garbage. You use to have to be good to get a record contract. Now anybody with a computer and an ego can pump out files of rubbish. But then you have Arctic Monkeys, Fiona Apple, Haley Williams, Jack White and many more. 
My kids grew up listening to a vast collection of music. I turned them on to all the older music, they turn me on to new music I did not trip over myself. My kids also listen to Beethoven and Brahms. But the vast masses just listen to the popular music of the day as it has always been.

Urg….. please, do not weep for me. As a former record store owner and musician I missed nothing. In fact I can do you one better- I can cherry pick only what I like as an outsider. I am so happy that punk rolled in and washed all that hippy BS down the tubes where most of it belonged.
Ill take the MC5 , Stooges, Radio Birdman, NY Dolls, Heartbreakers, Ramones,Dr. Feelgood etc. over any patchouli drenched love and flowers. Rock and roll is blue collar and should stay that way. FTW

discopants

"OK boomer"? Like most everything about the overly privileged generations that came after the boomers, even your putdowns are lazy. Learn to put together a good put down, you conceited, lazy, crybaby about literally everything (don't take that personally, it was meant for all generations after the boomers). Boomers didn't sit around complaining, they worked their butts off so you could have a better life. Even your music is lazy, all stripped down, uninteresting, and totally dependent on not much more than a loud beat.

Gen x, z, l, alphabet crapola!


   I was born at the greatest time ever, the birth of NWOBHM, metal, crossover scene /metal/hardcore/punk.
  My personal fav that, classic 80’s thrash sound,..if your a rivet head,you know the sound.
birth of metal, the decline of it from those scuzzy Seattle bands.
   And the rebirth of metal ......

 I love rock/blues/ 

And I feel bad for my fellow Baby Boomers who, believing there is not music as great as that of their youth, have missed out on the music of Phish, String Cheese Incident, Green Day, Foo Fighters, 10,000 Maniacs, .moe, Keller Williams, Cranberries, G'ovt Mule, Susan Tedeschi and some amazing newer groups like Goose and Turkuaz. Art keeps moving forward and some of the music being created today is so much more nuanced as musicians learn from those before them, just like painters learn and photographers and engineers. Cars today are SO much better than the really cool cars of the 60's and 70's (tho tough to find many U.S. cool cars from the 70's). There's amazing music being created. Get a subscription to Tidal and discover what's going on. A friend of mine says that, "No good music has been written since 1989." He's a nice guy, he's also an idiot. We can argue that the music of the 60's and 70's was incredibly influential, incredibly important, but the best that's ever been made??  Nah, brah, not even close.