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Why does most new music suck?

Ok I will have some exclusions to my statement. I'm not talking about classical or jazz. My comment is mostly pointed to rock and pop releases. Don't even get me started on rap.... I don't consider it music. I will admit that I'm an old foggy but come on, where are some talented new groups? I grew up with the Beatles, Who, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Hendrix etc. I sample a lot of new music and the recordings are terrible. The engineers should be fired for producing over compressed shrill garbage. The talent seems to be lost or doesn't exist. I have turned to some folk/country or blues music. It really is a sad state of affairs....Oh my god, I'm turning into my parents.
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czarivey
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Because of money that recording industry needs.
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tostadosunidos
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The Ellington quote reminds me of another--Townes Van Zandt (allegedly) said "there are two kinds of music: the blues and zippity-doo-dah."
siddh
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The amount of new music is unfathomable. To subject this to a generalization of "sucking" is not only unjust, but incomprehensible. Not sure what the audiophile audience is looking for, but quality is out there...in all genres. Certainly, it is evolving. Listen to jazz. Most purists denounce it's innovative progressions....been this is an issue since Parker broke the rules.
czarivey
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Is classical music blues or zippity-doo-dah?
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onhwy61
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Take any single year over the past 100 years and the majority of music produced that year sucks. The same goes for movies, art, plays, etc. The music that gets remembered 10 or 60 years later is obviously the best music from that period. To compare the best music of the past 100 years to whatever is being produced now is not an apples to apples comparison.

The economics of the recording and music distribution industries has radically changed in the past 20 years. The end result is that there is vastly more music being commercially produced, but it is now the listeners' responsibility to find it. Radio stations, magazine reviews and record stores only hint at what's available. Another economic change is that streaming services make it impossible for a songwriter to live on the proceeds of their songs.

And if anything above is too complex or just plain wrong, we can always blame Sweden.
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