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It's been recognized for years that the music that was popular in your early teens -- 14 or thereabouts -- will become the standard for what you will refer to as "classic" music for the rest of your life.

Add that to an era of exceptional music being created/performed by exceptional musicians with a relatively small amount of corporate interference and you have the perfect storm, popular musically speaking.

Review playlists created by subsequent generations and it quickly becomes obvious that their tastes are all over the place. This could be taken as support for the notion that there has been a lessening in overall quality. I don't think many people will argue that over the past few decades the majority of 'popular' songs are mostly interchangeable within their genre.

My point being that the songs such as OP lists are enduringly popular for a good reason, and not just because a whole generation is frozen in time.

Though Hotel California is and always has been laughably bad. Which just goes to show that there's no accounting for some people's taste.

[edit] adjusted my wording

The worst thing about growing up listening to classic rock is that I know songs and band names, but not which bands did which songs.

Stupid fucking DJs never told us what was playing. They probably expected every listener to be a boomer.

You sound like me, I've had this rant a few times. It came from working in a shop environment where the only stations they allowed on was "rock" stations.

I now hate all of the bands you've listed and most of their songs. Some of them are objectively shitty music, like KISS. Some of them are good musicians with good songs, but after hearing it for the millionth time at age 17, you start to despise this oldie bullshit.

Post-rock is better than anything out there, and I will fight anyone on that. Here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wc0YsC_cII&t=1310s

I see young people wearing Doors shirts.
Talk about standing the test of time.

As I've long said, "Boomers are the generation that never had to finish growing up..."

They are, generally speaking, still stuck in their early to mid 20s. That's actually what it's like to talk to them.

I'm in my mid 30s. When I talk to other people in their mid 30s it's as if I'm talking to people who are more mature than the average boomer.

And then there's this...

If your at a good party and everything's great, but you're the guy who's in a bad mood and pissed off at the world, then yes, you are the asshole in that situation, BUT...

If you're in a shit situation and everyone's pissed off trying to fix things, but you're sitting their smiling like everything's fine, then YOU are the asshole, for not being pissed off. That's the boomers, everything fucking sucks...has sucked...for well over a decade now, and yet the muscle in your brain for responding appropriately to a situation that sucks has apparently atrophied in them. Everything sucks and it appears they, quite literally, don't know how to even adult.

And even worse, as young people respond appropriately, meaning by being pissed...they laughed at us like our attitude was the problem. Well...look who's laughing now.

Some of us showed up for the party on time, the others have to scrounge for unfinished beers and half eaten tuna salad.

I'm not a boomer and my world also stopped. I don't listen to new music, don't play new videogames, don't watch new movies (with very few exceptions). I basically refuse to consume post-2000 mainstream media. I also kind of figured out what the bigger problems of the world are, what's going to happen next and why, so I don't even care much about staying informed about the small details either.

Watch the first episode of My favorite Martian.
You'll see why.

True but everything that came out after the 70s really just isn’t that good comparatively

Tangerine is far better than Stairway.