In the 1970s there must have been 50 great bans, each putting out at least one album a year, plus live albums. Meaning usually at least a couple awesome albums came out every week or so.
Did that happen in the 80s, or any time since? No. There were an endless parade of hot women on MTV vids, I'll give you that
That last sentence sounds like something a "get off my lawn" Baby Boomer would say. The '80s had a ton of great hard rock and heavy metal bands and songs, as well as CDs. Even album rock (AC/DC, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Van Halen) was close to the Me Decade. Judas Priest hit their stride then when they released "British Steel". Guns And Roses and Metallica appeared on the scene, and Iron Maiden was huge in the UK. You had great new artists (Depeche Mode, U2, REM, Simple Minds) and great old artists (Rolling Stones, Kinks, Paul McCartney, ZZ Top), as well as great cusp artists (Cars, Police, Blondie, Talking Heads) playing on the same radio stations. Also, new wave, synth pop, hard core, hip hop, goth, rockabilly, reggae, and ska could be heard on the airwaves during this decade, and college rock (the Cure, the Smiths, Violent Femmes, etc.) was huge, which gave birth to the alternative rock scene. Man, it was the Golden Age of music, and it had much more going for it than hot chicks on MTV, although that was fun too.