Why does most new music suck?

" I can't listen to the same stuff thousands of times any longer. "

I'm with Don on this, though I find I am able to listen to the same old stuff some more, as long as there is other newer stuff to listen to as well. Newer means new to me, it could be old stuff I have not listened to before, or new. Lots of good stuff in both categories. Doesn't matter when it was made. I either like something or I do not. I find something to like in most everything I listen to. My listening time is limited, so I try to listen to as many different things as possible, mixing in the stuff I know and already like as needed. Breaking any habits of always just listening to the same old "favorites" helps find new ones.

You'll never find anything worthwhile if you keep treating music as a competition. Stop comparing everything to something else and just enjoy it for what it is. Soak it all up.

"Newer means new to me, it could be old stuff I have not listened to before, or new."

Yes!!! As an example of some music I've recently purchased that is 40 years old and I had never heard. Shuggie Otis Inspiration Information. I was listening to an interview with him on NPR on my way home from work. I ordered the CD that day and it was at my door 2 days later while it was fresh in my head. The first time we played it, my wife and I danced in the living room. Loved it.

Last weekend we researched St Vincent because we had never heard her (them?) and she's traveling with David Byrne right now. We watched at least a dozen You Tube videos and found her to be extremely talented, quirky and overall enjoyed what we heard. My wife looked at me on Sunday night and said "order everything she's got out". Three Cd's showed up yesterday and that's our plans for tomorrow night.

I stopped recommending music to people because it's such a personal thing. I do truly believe there's a lot of great music for everyone that just needs to be discovered. I think it's out there, you just need to find it. It used to be delivered via radio waves. Now we have to find it. Maybe a one hour radio program that airs once a week, maybe a interview in a magazine. I like it this way because finding it is a hobby in itself.

I agree that there's plenty of drivel being produced, but now I'm listening to internet radio and I can't get enough. There's so much variety. Most of the bands/people I had never heard of before. There's plenty of good stuff out there. You just have to have the time to search and listen. I wish I had more time...

GEtting a good internet radio feed into my system was probably the best thing I ever did to help me break my ruts of listening mostly only to old favorites and giving "new" stuff a chance. It can be a mind opening experience.

Soon after I added my own music server and started buying "new" CDs again to build up my own collection and I listen to my own personal "Mapman Radio" station in essence now. Its format is eclectic with lots of variety.

Many artists and recordings featured from old 78's from the 1920s to more exclusively modern acts, including some newer pop/rock acts like:

Muse, Arcade Fire, Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, Gorillaz, Kelly Clarkson, Flo-Rida, Eminem, Ne-Yo, Sean Paul, Radiohead, Broken Bells, The Black Keys, Alabama Shakes, Porcupine Tree, Dream Theater, The Mars Volta, Massive Attack, Motorhead, Killswitch Engage, The Decemberists....many more with new stuff added to the rotation all the time.

Access to Mapman Radio is limited to my houses Wifi by invitation only. :^)