Why Lots of Current Music Sounds Miserable...

I see alot of great points on here, face it POP music stinks, Rap is the worst followed by the divas, the Idols, blah blah blah...yada yada yada, I am also curious why there is someone so intent on finding out what everyone is listening to?

Nevermind my last post, I didnt notice Ben was a reviewer. my bad

Ben-

To name a few:

70's - Santana -self titled
Aerosmith-Get your wings
Led Zepplin - self titled

80's -Beastie Boys- Liscensed to Ill
Ozzy Osborne-Speak of the devil

90's Aerosmith-Pump (technically 1989 but fits the bill)

00's- Avril Lavigne & Brittany Spears (courtesy of my teenage daughter)

All heard on different iterations of my system through the last 5 years. Do I have your permission to have an opinion now?

There are two self titled Santana albums and both are actually quite well engineered. It's possible that you've listened to a poorly mastered edition or there could be problems with the iterations of your system.

I think these posts where a bunch of old farts bemoan the state of current music trends are the height of hypocrisy. Way back in 1955 your parents (grandparents?) were pointing to rock as the downfall of western civ. The early Beatles/Kinks/Who recordings were all criticized for being overly compressed. You've become your parents!

Onhwy61, you raise a point that I has amused me too: are we becoming our parents as we piss & moan about current music being crap? Mark Twain (I believe it was) said 90% of all art is crap. It was true in the early days of rock & it's true now. I work with a guy who's in an alternative hip-hop band who plays me alot of what he thinks is cool. While I can't say I'm a convert, some of is interesting and witty. The one thing that gives me pause in some cases is the overt promotion of crass materialism, violence, & Neantherthal sexual outlooks. Yeah I know, the same things were bemoaned by authority figures when Punk was around. Bad attitudes seem to keep getting ratcheted up though, where does it end? How low a common cultural denominator do we need to promote? I don't presume to know the answer, I'm just aware of the cultural tension. I know Rap/Hip Hop just reflects the world of those making the music and that world can really be miserable. An honest reflection doesn't bother me, art can be ugly and frightening. At what point does cultural reporting become agrandising promotion of negativity?