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 - 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.
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.

I never said they did. What I'm asserting is what was available was easily accessible/attainable, always. Then, and now. One way or another. When you add that stuff together with the shitload of crap being produced today, of course there's more being offered. No argument there. This 'owner's budget', 'offering preferences', 'physical store size', etc. is another load of you know what. Any decent establishment was happy to order what you were looking for. They had catalogues and I was one happy customer:)
Csontos - you just don't get it. Not going to waste any more of my time dealing with your skewed perspective.
Oh I got it alright and they're in my collection. You torch bearers seem to think that us so called new music 'haters' are a bunch of lazy whiners. Show me one post where some one's lamenting 'oh woe is me'. You guys are the lazy whiners who can't seem to get it through your heads that there's more music than you'll ever be able to listen to just once not including this new garbage which is basically noise. We're just wise enough to not engage in a futile exercise.