Every generation thinks it has cornered the market on the best music...
The 70s is no exception... I will do my best to make a case for this decade.... (I appoint myself as an expert of course).... /s
I think my generation is finally coming to the conclusion that their most popular "music" stinks.
Thanks to reruns, the Internet and growing up with "oldies" on the radio, we can now judge for ourselves... and there's a lot of new appreciation for the older stuff. ('Course, there's a nugget of nostalgia in every generation.)