I use a combination of Tag'n'Rename, Bulk Rename Tool and MediaMonkey to name, catalog, tag and sort my MP3s, and have discovered that there are a lot of useful features in MM - like the ability to sort tracks by year.
So I decided to see where the majority of my MP3 music collection is located, temporally. I guessed that 1970-72 would be my peak period, and I was right. So, from my point of view, the absolute best music ever was made in when I was 14-16.
I don't have *all* these albums on physical media, some of them are downloads from assorted places, but I do own the vast majority of them on vinyl and/or CD. Certainly my record collection is 15 feet long, and these are nearly all from about 1967 until 1988 (when I bought my CD player).
Anyway, it turns out that I have:
39 albums from the 50s (Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis and Dion/Dion and the Belmonts account for nearly half of these)
711 albums from the 60s (539 of these from 67-69)
1190 albums from the 70s (773 of these from 70-73)
474 albums from the 80s
237 albums from the 90s, and
169 albums from the 00s.
In the 70s, I have:
210 albums from 1970
236 albums from 1971 including what were, at one point, numbers 1-5 on the album chart - namely:
Tapestry
Sweet Baby James
Sticky Fingers
Ram
Jesus Christ Superstar
174 albums from 1972
152 albums from 1973
117 albums from 1975
Less than 100 albums each from the other years in the 70s