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

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.

And boomers missed out on the 80s 90s.  🙄

If you think you've missed out then you got stuck in your teens, like most people, and haven't kept pace with the great music that followed.

Remember, the 60's gave you a lot of songs like Yummy, Yummy, Yummy by Ohio Express which reached #4 on the charts. Pop was just as bad then as it is now. And "album rock" is also generally better now. The difference is the choices now are exponential compared to back then. You don't have to wait for a label to pick you up. Anyone with a $300 PC can release a well-produced album. You just have to dig a lot more to find the gems. For instance, I think the best rock guitar album in the last 30 years is Nick Johnston's Remarkably Human, and if I'm not mistaken, it's a self-release. So only other guitar players know about it.