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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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nonoise
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Granted. And probably never will. It's like when I was a kid: I'd spend a lot of my time in the library and dream of reading ALL the books and how wonderful it would be. Bad eyesight put a serious chink in that design.

Thank goodness my ears work well enough.

All the best,
Nonoise
csontos
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So what's stopping you?
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nonoise
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Nothing. I'm still looking, listening and absorbing. I just don't feel the urge to ferret out everything that's available.
You're point?
csontos
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Just my position in answer to the op's question that there's plenty of good music to find without having to settle for current new offerings. Rok2id hit the nail on the head though. I'm still stuck in the 70's. With me it's still all about the music. The gear really is secondary. I would not be interested otherwise. I don't care how good or bad the recording is. Good ones are a bonus, bad ones a challenge.
frogman
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I want to be proven wrong more than anything. The difference is that it is artists and songs like the ones below that we heard on the radio all day long without having to "look for them". Seems to me that this is an important part of what makes music "popular". Here are four that came to mind without any effort at all. What songs from the last, say, thirty years that are as well crafted and performed with a similar level of artistry come immediately to mind? Yeah, I know I know, it's subjective. Is it?

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9j7z3nQJj-0

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdw7kxD8eUc

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YLQYkbzSz5s

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WXV_QjenbDw
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