Back when "The Message" came out it was the first rap song I'd ever heard and I thought it was so good I went and bought it.

I had no idea I was going to be hearing the same damned song every time I turned on the radio for the next thirty years.

Apart from that, and the factory-produced pretty girl/pretty boy "singing" the same thing the last pretty girl/pretty boy sang, there are a lot of reasonably good pop songs about.
Can't think of any offhand, but I guess I don't pay as much attention as I used to.

I think it's unfair to compare any era with the sixties. The sixties was an exceptional period in music.