Why does most new music suck?

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

There is a lot of good sixty/seventies music. Good luck guys!

The WHAT has happened to music is easy to SEE / HEAR. The problem is discovering the WHY.

In the visual arts, we have gone from the Sistine Chapel.. Mona Lisa... Dutch Masters.. French Impressionist, to a Soup Can.
And now they just throw the paint at the canvas. And people go gaga and pay real money for it.

Have they forgotten how to paint? Do they have the talent to paint?
The great works are forged all the time. They even fool the experts. So the talent to do the art is there, maybe it's just the creativity and vision that is missing.
The skill set and training / education is top tier, they just aren't able to connect with humanity on a mass scale.

Many of today's music 'artist', have all become niche players. Each with their small group of followers / fans.

The decline is national. Cosby, Playhouse 90, All in the Family, etc... to, The Real Housewives of 'reality' TV!!

We are in a state of artistic decline. Music is not spared.

There is some hope. European Governments will use tax money to encourage, create and preserve their great art and artists. While here, we continue under the mistaken belief that people CAN BE, and have a RIGHT to be, whatever they WANT to be.

And everybody wants to be, The Stones or Miles or Dylan or etc..... And don't forget the GREED! Which is the root of it all.

Get Mingus while you can!! :)

Cheers

Who do you think you are? God? Only He is infinite. If there is somewhere further to go, it is He that will light the way. Otherwise, use your math skills, quantum science, geometry, etc. to calculate your limited existence and face it!