The main difference I notice is that the music was actually pretty damn good.

No, the stuff that people remember is pretty good. Several decades of filtering out the wheat from the chaff had resulted in a 'survival of the fittest'. There's plenty of good music and complaining that there isn't just exposes yourself as a lazy, sloven fuck that refuses to actually go looking for it.

The main difference I notice is that the music was actually pretty damn good.

No, the stuff that people remember is pretty good. Several decades of filtering out the wheat from the chaff had resulted in a 'survival of the fittest'. There's plenty of good music and complaining that there isn't just exposes yourself as a lazy, sloven fuck that refuses to actually go looking for it.