Nothing good after the 70s.
I pretty much despise POP.
“Muskrat Love” Brrrr...
No 'Dire Straits' with Mark Knopfler and a little steel-body guitar? Go to youtube and you'll hear young kids say about them, "Why don't we have music like this?"
Really? That's as far as you go? There were a lot of really good tunes in the early 80's from the New Age and later with 1 hit wonders and some Arena Rock groups.
Pop music (Beyonce) and such is what killed rock/pop music. Every song sounds the same. Without all their dancers prancing around, what do they have?
I predicted back in the 60's that rocknroll would die eventually. There are only 12 notes to western music. Yes, you got minors, flats, 7ths, 5ths, and variations on those, but how long could it go on?
Again, the 70's was the end? I believe the mid-90's was the end since they were just repeating the same stuff, maybe at a different tempo. I'm a musician and pretty much listen to the classics from The Platters to REO Speedwagon to Journey to Guns & Roses and others like them. Think Foreigner, Billy Idol, Bon Jovi, Prince, even the electronic stuff from Europe like Duran Duran. "Hungry Like a Wolf".
What a shame you don't like those melodic rockers or the slow melodic ballads like, "I Wanna Know What Love Is" by Foreigner.
To each their own.