Arcade Fire could top anything made in 1977.
Even
if that were true, listening to only Arcade Fire will get old quick though.
Also, hip hop is thriving today with exceptional creativity when it was just an underground genre back them.
The fact that rap/hip hop dominates today's music and didn't exist in 1977 is not an argument in
your favour. ha ha
taste in music is entirely subjective.
If you think rap/hip hop is good music, or that your pants falling down is good fashion, or ebonics is a cool way to talk, or McDonalds is good cuisine, go ahead...it's all subjective right? (wrong)
Subjectivity isn't the issue here....perspective is.
Finally, don't blame popular music on today's youth.
I don't recall
blaming anybody. It isn't a case of being a blame game. It's just circumstances. There's quite a few reasons why the 70's had an advantage musically.
I don't need it "explained" to me, nor do I need lecturing about how there is music out there worth listening to...I already know that...I'm listening to it. But to yell "angry old man" at me as an excuse to counter the obvious fact that the 70's was a better decade for "music" is just lazy.
Unlike music, which remains, Yonge St has indeed changed culturally. It used to be the centre of gay Toronto...it used to be the centre of entertainment in Toronto. It had a certain cache it simply no longer has. It's kinda like the CNE...it's a shadow of its former self. I don't "lament" it...like anything great, just glad I was around to soak it up while it lasted. If kids want to spend their time on the internet, poking on their smart phones or playing video games or partly listening to bad "music" through low-fi means...have a ball...it's your life.
Physically it hasn't changed much...it's still "tacky & dumpy". Which is why I suppose making it look good is probably the best way to handle the street. What
goes on there seems to have become fairly boring though. I saw Yonge St as a "venue"...what it "looked like" wasn't really on my radar.