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

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.

It was the backdrop of what happened during the 60s and 70s that made the music of that era so memorable, along with what were at the time, some technological advances that helped fuel the fire (FM stereo, the lowly cassette), along with live events like Woodstock and the Monterrey Pop Festival. Social upheaval drove much of what made the music probably more relevant than it's been since.....the Kennedy/King/Kennedy assassinations, the Vietnam war, man landing on the moon (take that Elon Musk/Richard Branson!), the Kent State shootings, and Watergate all happened within a ten-year span. Throw in the deaths of some of the major rock-stars (Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Duane Allman and Jim Croce) in the early 70s and the hits just kept on comin'. A big cultural touchstone of the mid-60s that I left out was the Civil Rights Act, maybe the most important single event of that era. Make no mistake - the music played a big role in helping everyone survive that seemingly continuous $hitstorm, and even helped inform our moral responses to the madness. This is why the music from that period remains in the forefront of the memories of those who endured that particularly horrendous time-frame.