Originally Posted by duga

This is all psychological. If you had never heard music before and started listening to stuff that is being put out now, you will think it is ****ing magical. Then, once you crave something new, you will inevitably look to the past for music you have never heard before. It has nothing to do with one decade being better than another, just what your personal tastes happen to be at the time. There was no one period of time where the musicians were much better than the best musicians of today.