Old Music (great) versus New Music (crap)?!

Last week, a friend of mine sent me a link to a Rick Beato YouTube video about an unusual 4 lp box from 1973.
This Superstar of the 70's set consisted of 49 tracks by top artists back in the day, covering a wide range of music, from rock to pop to soul to ballads, and more.
Artists and bands included Alice Cooper, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, America, Seals and Crofts, Beach Boys, Stones, Roberta Flack, and many, many others.
Most of the songs I know, but I certainly hadn't heard them in this particular configuration.

Weird, this box didn't include any liner notes!

Rick's reason for posting this set was as follows: "In today's video, I discuss an album released in 1973. Would a similar album of today's music have any meaning in 2079?" He further explained that most of these songs are still wildly popular on streaming services!

While listening to snippets of some songs, he showed how much he appreciates 'good' music. 

Fair enough, I do enjoy most of those tracks as well.

But to put them on a platter, present them as timeless masterpieces, and imply that today's music can't compete with these, seems a bit much.

First of all, let me make it clear that I'm totally not up to date with modern music; I have no clue what's happening, as the amount of music available nowadays is staggering.
Back in the early 70's, if you had asked any of those artists if they thought their music would still be relevant 50 years later, I doubt if many would have given a 'Yes, sure!' answer...
The other factor is how we experienced music in those days, radio was number 1, TV would follow later, but sitting with friends, playing records, discussing songs, articles in music magazines, concerts, etc., was about it.

Nowadays, as mentioned earlier, music is easily available 24 hours a day, whether streaming, videos, online, or all kinds, but for more obscure sounds, you may have to do some digital digging.

In other words, the way of experiencing music is changing all the time, therefore to me it seems that Rick's question doesn't make much (if any) sense...

At the time of writing, Rick's post got 8,340 comments, most of them totally agreeing that modern music can't compare:

'I’m crying. Born in 1965. 

Feeling like Charlton Heston at the end of the Planet of Apes movie, looking up at the ruins. 

At all of what once was.'

'I firmly believe the peak of western civilization was 1984.'

'From 1955 to 1995 was probably the greatest period in American music. 

I'm including everyone from Elvis to Nirvana. After that, we just seem to have Autotune, AI and flash and special effects.
It doesn't seem like most artists don't put their hearts and souls into their music they way they once did and a AI generated song being number 1 on the charts seems crazy to me! 

Just crazy.'

'The voices sound like voices! 

They haven't been compressed, eq'ed, compressed again, pitch corrected, processed up and down an octive and then compressed again in mastering until every bit of life has been stomped out of them. 

You can hear the flesh and bone and spit and teeth. 

It sounds like Humans. Not bits.

But there are also a few who lean towards a more (imo) realistic view:

'I am mid-fifties, but an old songwriter, myself, and I do keep up with new music. 

There are a lot of factors going into why what's big now likely won't be remembered. 

That doesn't mean there isn't great music out there. But it belongs to Indy creators for the most part, and each of their followings are so compartmentalized and segregated from one-another that they can't generate the critical mass needed to create the cultural zeitgeist that existed "back when."'

'I think it has to do a lot with the demographic. 

I grew up with the music of the 80s and 90s and could easily compile a list of songs from back then. 

In contrast these songs from the 70s presented in the video I don't know. 

This kind of music was already too outdated so no one of my age group cared about. 

I would have trouble to provide a list of the 2020s but as well I would have troubles to provide one of the 70s. 

I think if songs stand the test of time can only be answered if the generation that grew up with it died and they are still listened.'

I Googled a bit to see what more I could find out about this superstar set, and it turns out that quite a few bloggers have written about it, BUT I didn't find any MP3 version!

Therefore, I decided to make one myself, correctly tagged and arranged into 8 albums for anyone interested.

But really, how do you feel about this issue: old music (great) versus new music (crap)?!