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First off, kudos to Glice, Pork, Dead-Air, etc for quality discussion.
I wasn't alive in the 70's, not even close. My parents moved to the USA from Brazil in 73. They're musical preferences were quite different from most of the stuff on my list and most of the lists here, save for your bowie,eno,talking heads. I was raised in a house where playing music and records and in fact the whole culture behind these things was and still is held in high regard. So, my choices reflect not so much on my parents, but yes, music I found out about through various media. Most of it was from books about the 70's new york movement and really the start of ''punk'', which I was reading about 12 years ago. Especially now, with the internet so vastly available, there is no excuse to finding out about cool, older music.
Books still help, especially ones with lots of interviews, for instance when someone says ''I wanna be your dog is the ultimate punk song'', it may have little effect on your previous opinion of said song. But when Lou Reed says it, you think,'' wait a minute, this guy has penned great song in his day and is highly influencial, and has done this and that....''. The point is new perspectives are realized and sometimes even your thought process changes.
God what a sprawling nightmare of a post. here it is: if you're young and weren't around, that should never stop you from doing some accurate research, reading, and lots of listening. Just cause you weren't there, doesn't mean you can't accrue some knowledge and cold hard facts in your head about old music, which is still a lot better than so much of the crap floating around now.
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