[skeeter]

What you also loved about the 60s and 70s is that the music was the music of your youth, and so it has instilled a heuristic in your mind that makes you less likely to perceive the creativity and hard work that go into contemporary music.

Thats part of it.

But more than ever music is a reflection of public tastes, and no one can accuse public tastes of becoming more nuanced and refined since the 60s.

I also believe its harder for innovation, Pet Sounds in 66 for example, possibly because of the corporatization of the industry.

Just my uninformed opinion.

[skeeter]

I also believe its harder for innovation

I should say its harder for innovative music to reach a wider audience & so influence the direction of popular music...