Sorry, but modern music creativity started before my time in the 50s and really began to develop in the 60s and culminated in the 70s. In my opinion, the 70s was the golden age of modern music creativity. Today almost no musical act can fill arenas all across the country as 70s bands could - and did.
No apology needed. Most of my favorite music is from the 1970s as well.
Let’s just forfeit this thread and listen to The Electric Prunes and Johnny Cash.
But.... Disco????
Music from the Sixties was absolutely different and creative, and often beautiful, but my overall impression was that there was a good deal of innovative and raw music.
Music from the Seventies from beginning to end had a more polished and musical quality to it, very melodic, lot of great harmonies, very smooth, good lyrics. Here is one I just remembered recently that highlights what I mean-the music is interesting, unique, and nicely performed...good to listen to: Starbuck: "Moonlight Feels Right"
The music from the Eighties took on a more harsh, electronic tone to it, but there was still a lot of good music. I felt like in the 90's, it kind of fell off a cliff.
Now, that is just MY opinion!
Radiohead is the only one I can think of. And no "Millennial Whoop" from Thom York.
And the reason for that is that internet music distribution and affordable quality home studios did what the courts, litigation and music fans could not.
It killed the power of corporate payola dead dead dead.
Music listening has now fragmented to a degree even greater than the live performance days before we had functional recording.
That you can no longer fill stadiums with huge crowds who want tomhear the same performance isn’t a bad thing at all.