Why Lots of Current Music Sounds Miserable...

I usually find three things about threads about the recording quality of modern releases.

1.The person making them doesn't buy very much new music.

2.Examples of compression (and yes of course it happens)are thin on the ground.

3.Examples are given of genres which the poster admits they would never play in their high end system.

Just some observations.

Try hearing that crap on stats, all the flaws are exposed and multipied...OUCH

Yes but what "crap" are we talking about?

The current popular crap (notice that word is really "rap" with a c added), hard metal bands, and your adolescent divas to name a few are engineered to be played on a 3" car speaker or through mp3 player earbuds or through the club PA system- none of which has much to do with fidelity. Compression doesn't matter as long as you can feel the bass in your chest and the treble zings in your ears, I mean after all the music is only background to getting drunk and laid.

It is not a new trend though if you look at the music of the past 3 decades (rock/top 40) tipped up in the treble to "sizzle" and the midbass to "thump". Recording values designed to make cheap speakers and electronics sound at least marginal but who cares - I'm drunk.

Entrope which of these recordings you refer to have you heard in your system?