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

I recently saw Janis Ian live on the first SNL ever. I highly recommend it.I was blown away at how powerful it was.

Where has that kind of songwriting and performing been for the last 50 years?

Poetry has been reduced to text messages.

I’m listening now to a stream of the Temptations’ "My Girl". It was "new music" when I first heard it in 1965, I was 13 years old. It meant little more to me then than a good dance/party tune. Cool tune, but, eh, no big deal. That is definitely NOT my experience with that song, or any of that music, today...steaming in 2021 from Tidal off my macbook to an iFi hip dac to my Grado Hemps (not my main setup..just working at the desk). Good God...I almost missed it then, and I was living in it. It just washed over me. But today, old salty dog that I am now, I can appreciate it’s art and it’s genius. I was too inexperienced back then to fully recognize it. And I certainly didn’t have the tech then I have now. I listened to that record on 45 rpm, spinning on my mom’s Sears/Roebuck turntable, embedded in a hulking piece of furniture. I’m not so sure if youngster’ have missed out, but I realize today I didn’t always know what gold I had in my hands back then either. Ah..the paradox of finally figuring it out, but nearer the end of everything. Thank God for these recordings...in whatever decent format they can be found. I use them all, but prefer vinyl, though I’m not hung-up on which format is best. Just listening to all that wonderful genius again, appreciating it. Bliss.

I'm 70 years old and as far as I'm concerned, there's been plenty of wonderful music that I love and plenty of rubbish in any decade you care to mention. If I start going on about how 'today's music is no good', please remind me not to be my parents. 

Yes I was born in jan 1952...my grandfather always had the radio on.There was always music in my house.My uncle used to tape American band stand after school it was on every week day,and he had a Reel to Reel.My Stepfather had a nice Rca stereo ,then have it to my grandfather and he bought a Motorola  stereo with reverb.OMG the Beatles in Reverb,Four Seasons ,Stones.He used to play it for hours on Sat and Sunday mornings,.Bway show songs ,Dean Martin ,Nacy Wilson, Nate King Cole.I wasn't aloud to play  at it ,but when he went out lol...my music played.I remember going to a neighbors house and seeing his AR speaker a amp and tuner ,reel to reel and turn table ,man it was crazy nice...That got me from high school until now I have been buying audio equipment. But ,going to concerts were so cheap 4 or 5 bucks .I lived in Astoria, Queens NY ,right over the bridge to Manhattan. There was music played live every where.What ever you wanted Classical,jazz,rock of soul.To be a teenager in the 60s,and 70s was Great.

@recluse: have you heard Mary Gauthier, Iris Dement, Lucinda Williams, or Julie Miller? There are dozens more like them, but they're not on radio or TV. You have to dig to find them. Check out the No Depression website and/or print zine.