skyjedi2005 said:

When the symphonic score soundtrack was replaced with crap, that would be the worst decade.

Star Wars started the modern Renaissance of symphonic film music and brought it back from pop song tie ins to films.

I'm not sure that's entirely accurate. While Star Wars had its imitators, a quick glance at the films of the decade before "Star Wars" shows mostly classic orchestral scores.

A quick glance at some of the best:

Dirty Dozen-67, 2001- 68, Planet of the Apes-68, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid-68, True Grit-68, Patton-70, Airport-70, Godfather- 72, The Exorsist- 73, Young Frankenstein, Murder on the Orient Express 74, Jaws- 75, Rocky- 76, King Kong 76,

Except "The Graduate" and maybe "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" I don't know what pop songs might have given you that impression.