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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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mapman
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One thing for sure about most modern music compared to 60s and 70s classic rock, psychedelic is definitely not "in" these days. Not very groovy, baby.....
mechans
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The silly part of this question is the absolutism "why does most music suck? is riridiculous. Thousand upon thousands of songs are written arranged and played for some music decision maker. That persom has to decide whether this or that song by th this or that artist will even have a remote chance of reaching our ears. Maybe most music is pretty decent but we just don't get to hear it!
csontos
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Maybe but not likely.
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tostadosunidos
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With home recording available on the cheap and with the media options we have today, the big labels are less important than before. Everyone has a chance to have their music heard. So the labels' influence over what we hear is on the wane.
rockadanny
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Hearing crap 'back in the day' and hearing it now brings you to the same conclusions. There's no mystery. We have plenty of examples from way back when too.

Agree! There was tons of crap back then as well. Always has been loads of crap, always will be. But also will there continue to be plenty of great stuff IF you know where to find it. (Clue: it likely will not be on your car's FM radio dial or played at your local Kohl's store.) IMO, it is not that today's music sucks (any more than yesterday's or tomorrow's), but more an issue of accessibility - are you looking in the right places for it?

And back then, what made it worse than today for consumers (yes, it was far worse back then), was not so much the amount of crap, but that there was no youtube, samples, internet, podcasts, self-produced releases, etc. where you could research and/or listen to weed it out from the good stuff BEFORE you plunked your $3.99 down for an album. Nor were there self-produced releases so much great music went unrecorded, or at least poorly distributed, due to record company twits who were unable to categorize the music or recognize great talent. FM radio was better back then, depending on your city, but most of the time you had to just take a chance on a musician's reputation or album cover art to try to predict whether you were buying crap or gem.
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