Why does most new music suck?

Frogman,

My point about progress is that as music moves forward, it may lose me from time to time. Maybe I'll catch up, maybe I won't. Maybe the music took a bad turn and there's nothing to catch up to, because the way forward may involve some temporary steps backward.

All I'm saying is that I tend to view my own dissatisfaction with....say electronica...as a disconnect rather than an inherent problem with the music (or with me, for that matter) .

Music is such an abstract art form that I'm hesitant to be dismissive of new and unfamiliar variants. I feel comfortable making judgements about rock n roll (though I don't expect everyone to agree with me) because I have a context in which to judge it. I don't feel like I can discriminate good electronica from bad electronica, so I conclude that I don't "get" the genre, rather than conclude that the genre sucks

Hope that makes sense.

Marty

Doesn't Suck.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZ-_4A4gGjg

Nonoise, I think a little of everything you've said applies to all of us. I certainly relate to your last statement. Don't we all long for the 'good ole days'? I knew they were happening when I heard Carly Simon sing about them. There's a lot of music from that time frame I haven't heard yet. Why would I sweep it under the carpet in favor of something that by necessity is sub-par. The gear does matter but it's secondary. My interest has not evolved. The goal is still to make the best music sound as good as it can. Every time I put a poor recording on I rescue it.

Acman3, I rest my case. It's virtually impossible to distinguish one of those bands from another. There must be some kind of a generic hat they all draw their material from. They could interchange members and still not change a thing. On the suck meter they're off the scale. I'd like to see you whistling or humming one of those tunes at your work place or walking down the street. Yeah, sure. And the slow tunes are no different, just more pathetic. Nothing but an act of desperation as Nonoise stated. However in this and most if not all other cases we're not talking about actual artists, just greed.

On the suck meter they're off the scale.

I'm still smiling from that one.

Every time I put on a poor recording on I rescue it.

It's the very act of listening to it that can make up for a poorer recording. The quality of the music itself calls for resuscitation now and again. :-)

All the best,
Nonoise