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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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csontos
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No. Don't know where you were during the vinyl days but the record store, A.K.A., Sam The Record Man let you either play albums already open, or open and play on a pair of probably 6 or 8 available ear phone sets. Mind you, you had to be an established customer to open one up. And there was always scuttlebutt about the non-worthwhile crap. So still no comparison to today, I'm truly sorry to say.
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mapman
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Well, I do miss being able to go into a record store like that and look at records, but once CDs did records in, there was really not much to look at much anymore. Now the Internet has put those days to rest for good, for the most part, FBOFW. THough it does seem that most metro areas still have a couple of specialty record/music shops around, so not totally extinct quite yet. There are a few near me, but gotta admit I only get there once in a blue moon these days and buy most of my new music via internet.
csontos
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There's a music store I frequent up here with both loads of vinyl and cds. They'll play a cd or album for you but they won't open a new re-issue vinyl which stands to reason. I really don't see how choice has been compromised at all in any way, shape, or form as it relates to any era.
rockadanny
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Csontos - You think pre-CD era stores offered as much information and selections as today's Amazon, AllMusic, band web sites, YouTube, A'gon, E-Bay, etc.? They did not. They could not. You cannot be serious. They were limited to owner's budget, offering preferences, physical store size, less access to out of prints, almost zero information outside of album jacket printings and perhaps a few potentially knowledgable employees, etc. Today, these numerous, expansive, world-wide, lightening quick, at my finger tips, on-line sources/outlets easily beat record stores of old for finding new music.
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mapman
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I have fond nostalgic memories of record stores as well, but Rock is right. There is no way one can compare what is at one's disposal today in terms of music resources to back then. It's night and day.

Nostalgia can can clearly be a factor regarding why old music has more appeal than the new for so many. There were experiences attached to that music for many as well as the music itself.

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