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

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.

I totally agree with MS59. My wife and I say that to each other all the time.

However, although we never saw these bands live, we did enjoy discovering them on the am radio night and day :-)

The 80s are mixed bag, 90s few and far between, and 2000s on, end game.

No Thanks to Napster.

I am Gen X. And I love music from 60s-80s. Great music was made then. And I enjoy music from all eras. The problem is during 50s-80s the music production was limited and probably they had quality over quantity. Now-a-days any Tom/Dick/Harry without proper vocals can make music using auto-correct.The point is modern music has lost the "staying power" that the older generation of music had. At least from my observation, this is happening throughout the world. Think of the "most watched" music videos of the past 3-4 years ago. I would not listen to them today. They have been overplayed. During the 60-80s, music was not this overplayed. It was scarce and radio was probably the biggest source, unlike streaming or CD or Napster.

While I think great music was made then, even now there are amazing artists making great music that has the "staying power". In my view though, these artists are not in the main pop music but rather in other genres like Jazz, Folk, Indie, etc.