What?

So I'm here listening to seventies and eighties music on the YouTube, astonished by how much more it has to it than todays garbage...
I ask??How is it possible for people twenty or thirty years ago to make far superior music utilizing 'inferior' instruments and technology? There has to be a missing factor, something that today's droning boredoms lack, or something that is intentionally removed by record executives... My guess is that missing factor is --... My god, what has happened to us? Kelly Clarksen, "Fiddy Cent", or that annoying weiner Clay Aitken!