You can find a lot of examples of bass-friendly songs from the 60s, 70s, on into the 80s. But roughly by 1990 or so there don't seem to be as many. If people want to flat-out ruin music, that's the way to do it. The dates themselves may be hard to determine, but the point is at some point somebody decided bass shouldn't be as prominent in the mix. I don't like to hear complaining and I try not to do it myself, but I just don't like this.
A case in point would be Aerosmith. I was never really a fan, but because I've been around someone a lo who is I've been around their music quite a bit. Sometimes I even ended up playing bass on Aerosmith songs. That caused me to really admire Tom Hamilton. He's actually very good, IMO. But who the hell even knows that because his bass is almost never loud enough in the mix, with of course a number of exceptions, like, of course "Sweet Emotion."