There wasn't even Mudcat in those days... You had to walk all the way from your armchair to the television, if you wanted to change to another channel. CDs cost more than LPs. There were no cheap DVDs of your favourite films or your favourite bands. Young people have it easy these days...
I guess the best decade was the sixties, because pop music was better and sex was invented. Unfortunately, I was not introduced to the latter until the seventies. Beer was cheaper then too and there were some nice folk clubs you could go to.
The England football team was possibly even worse than it is now and there was wage capping and inflation.
There was plenty of war, terrorism, cruelty, famine, natural disaster, human induced disaster, crap political decisions and everything else in all of the few decades I can remember. I wonder what the historians will be saying in a hundred years time?