Why? the 80s had great music, The Smiths, The Cure, The Flaming Lips, Talking HeaRAB, The Stone Roses, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Tom Waits, Dinosaur Jr., Violent Femmes, Pixies and so on
The present has tons of great music too. Patrick Wolf, Bright Eyes, Beck, Radiohead, Death From Above 1979, Explosions in the Sky, Rilo Kiley, Spoon, Bright Red Paper, The Shins, Animal Collective, A Silver Mt. Zion, Arcade Fire, Okkervil River, Architecture in Helsinki, Broken Social Scene, Stars, 65daysofstatic, and so on.