Why does most new music suck?

"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. :^)

Snore. I grew up listening to The Beatles, The Who, Led Zeppelin, and so on. I listen to The Beatles, Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones once a year. I can't stand The Who or The Doors anymore. I can't listen to the same stuff thousands of times any longer. When I hear The Doors 'People are Strange' I want to watch television.

If you eat filet Mignon for dinner every night, you will also grow tired and bored of it, and you might even reach for McDonald's for a different flavor. But at the end of the day, filet Mignon is still filet Mignon and McDonald's is still McDonald's, and the fact that you no longer want to eat the former can't change it.

"But at the end of the day, filet Mignon is still filet Mignon and McDonald's is still McDonald's, and the fact that you no longer want to eat the former can't change it. "

Yeah, but it still may still taste pretty darn good when that is what you are hungry for.

All music is low fat, low sugar, low salt and no carbohydrates last time I checked, so no physical harm is likely. :^)