neardeathexperience

If you look at all the bands that participated in the pop music of the 60s and mid 70s they dwarf pretty much everything that is out there today!

Urban Hat€monger ?

That's because people have had 40/50 years plus to familiarise themselves with those songs.
I could just as easy say the same thing about the songs I grew up with in the late 80s / 90s. Someone a lot younger than me will say the exact same thing about the songs they've grown up with in the past 10/15 years.

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neardeathexperience

I personally don't think so. It only took me a couple of days to familiarise myself with a new Beatles, or Rolling Stone's song. It did not take 40 years. I can't actually imagine anyone today remembering 90% of what is out there these days even a year after it's come out.
or the record there was some interesting music being made in the 80s and 90s still.

Necromancer

I agree, and that's the part a lot of music enthusiasts leave out of the equation when versing an opinion concerning a particular era/decade of Music (the eras they have personally experienced first hand). You have to transcend yourself to that particular era in order to give a more accurate description to what was actually going on concerning music during a particular time/era in question. So it does have its advantages as well. I can go back as far as the late 60's and early 70s myself, I have to mainly surf the web and visit music forms like this one in order to learn anything before then. Documentaries on TV have helped a lot like, Behind The Music for example. Everybody! and his brother is a 'Music Critic' these days, in the modern times of the internet and both Music combined.