This is three worst it's ever been. And the funny thing is, the younger generation doesn't even know it. They eat that shit up.

Reminded me of John Entwhistle, said "(rock) music is like farts, everyone else's stinks worse than your own"

I’m sure just about everyone with any taste, but lemme burst your bubble for a second daddio: baby boomers are the reason the music industry became shit so don’t whine to us millenials ? I want things to go back to the way they were before y’all ruined it. (In general, not you personally. You’re cool). But when the hippies sold out and became yuppies in the 80s that’s when the media companies all combined into an oligopoly of 3-4 companies. Clearchannel started buying up and programming every radio station in existence with the same crap, and they figured out they could fire anyone in the business with passion and run the record industry like a chain of car dealerships. There’s still just as much great music by geniuses now as there ever was, but it’s harder to find because they can’t get paid and you’re never going to hear most of it on the radio thanks to the way business is done now. No artist development deals or patience from the suits, they’ll just use ya up n spit you out if you try to sign with a major label as a young talent these days. If you want to find better music listen to independent labels n public radio stations. Ask the hipsters where the funks at ?

Every generation thinks that. Given that, though, a lot of the music from "our generation" sucked too, but I'm a musician (as in a couple of degrees and a professional player) and tend to be a lot more picky about what I consider to be quality music. It brings to mind Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap.

Much of today's music is shit.

I noticed this at an amusement park recently. The music was crude, repetitive, thump-thump-thump and most crucially devoid of melody.

I have friends, younger than myself who prefer music from the 60s, 70s and 80s.

Many music stars today can't sing without batteries (Katy Perry etc) and much of what we hear is the product of computers and over production.

Now I sound like an old fogey. I'll start ordering some retirement home brochures.

In the 80s music went from being a creative art form to an industry. Original talent doesn't fit in.

Awhellyeah!

Where's the bloody SOUL to it? In my day it was all 'bang bang bang', you couldn't hear yourself think.... And that's exactly the way I liked it.

Music should get INTO you. MOVE you. Now it's mostly become bland and processed. We had Stilton and Cheddar and Camembert, the kids now have Cheezestrings.

GenXer here, and I think music declined after the 80s. Sure a lot of 80s stuff was slick and synthy, but it still had some kind of musicianship to it, and a kind of emotion that Reagan and Thatcher era Cold War politics was pretty much directly responsible for, a kind of perfect storm of economic optimism and political pessimism, the last gasps of the U.S.com/Soviet space programmes and the beginnings of the information age that will never be recreated. It frothed with energy and ideas and anger. I miss it, especially now.

I enjoy a lot of different types of music. There are things I like today and things from other decades...but other decades had some pretty awful music too. MacArthur Park? Tiptoe through the tulips?

No, I couldn't disagree more. I used to think like that and then I started to open myself up to other genres and style and I have found great pleasure in finding a whole new world of music that is out there. Of course this may not work for everyone.

For me there are only 2 types of music. Good and bad, in every genre and time period.

Since Edison invented recorded sound music has got cheaper and more transitory. Before him you had to listen live to Beethovens 5th now you can listen for free whist jogging. Each new technological innovation has lessened the depth of music. The reason why it is crap now is because we dont pay for it. In the 60s-70`s an album would cost you all your spare cash. You played that sucker out. Now we just youtube and flick to another track. The Beatles stopped gigging in 66. No new band could do that now. They would starve.

So true ! I discovered (for myself) rock 'n roll in 1956 at age 8. My father listened to Mantovani and such, my mother listened to a "pop" AM station (ex. - "How Much is That Doggie in the Window" , so lame. The nearby supermarket had records at the end of an aisle by the checkout stations. First I bought Presley 45s, then some other artists. When the Beatles hit "gold" in '64 there was a huge improvement and I started buying LPs . Prior to that the rock music scene had deteriorated to the "song of the week", cleancut only vocalists, and the "new dance" of the week. After a few weeks the record companies "threw away" these vocalists for some new fresh faces. The era from the Beatles "intro" to the end of the 60s was my favorite, particularly the "British Invasion" Pretty good through the 70s, the "hair band" era of the 80s was rather boring but some good music existed. The Rap scene came about, little of any merit, though I liked ToneLoc's "Funky Cold Medina", "Wild Thing", and a few early Eminem tunes. The 90s brought on the "Grunge Scene" and I found a number of bands to my liking. Very little worthwhile music since, I sure don't watch any "music award" TV shows. Fortunately, where I live their is a strong local music scene, with many good rock "cover" bands in the bars. Weekends find me catching the best of them, listening, watching the musicians perform, and "dancing my ass off" !

Ha ha ha... This remaind me a T-shirt I saw sometime in one of my bar excursions.... "Country + Rap = Crap" ...... I thought it was pretty funny

Yes, the highly produced megahits leave me cold but I find many, many indie bands that bring a lot of talent and passion to their music. Spotify has helped me discover artists that would never get attention from the corporate labels. The current streaming music model is really changing the music creation game.

Oh, just music of the times - leave the kids alone!!

It had all been done by the 80's. That is why there is no 90's oldies stations. I don't hear any music, country or pop, that will have any legs down the road. There is a finite number of ways to put chords together.

Most older geezers like us think that about our own high school and college day music...it's almost a cliche.

But, although I love music from my youth, I also like current popular US music, ethnic music, pop music from around the world, classic, jazz, bluegrass, 1930s-40s music, etc.
Maybe it's because I have streaming music in any genre I wish on accuradio.com, and usually have it playing when I'm online.

Absolutely!!!!

Definitely if you mean what you'll hear on the radio.
But the web has opened up opportunity we never had. There's good original music out there, just turn the radio off.

Tail-end boomer here - born 1955 - and a musician.
I think there's as much crap as there ever was along with a lot of really good music most never hear. If your listening to radio, or the big name online "stations" you're never going to hear it.
I think too there's an adversity to sampled, looped, one person and a bunch of computer hardware as opposed to a real band. But even there there are loads of progressive bands out there, but you have to look for it rather than judge from the shit pushed by standard outlets - you're only hearing what we called bubblegum.
all that said - there'll never be another Jimi Hendrix.

I refuse to listen to it.It is horrid

Todays music is pathetic crap that will not live on . I describe it as disposable noise.

There are some really good film music being composed these days. Most of it can 'stand on it's own' without the actual film.