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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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lowrider57
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There is some good music out there, but the Rock releases in recent years suffer from the Loudness Wars. I'm shocked that some of the "studio savvy" musicians have let these CDs be released. These are artists who have been around since the 70s and 80s and would have some control over their releases.
As far as the classical and jazz I buy, the quality of CD just keeps getting better.
But I haven't found much music from new bands that I would buy...but when I have, they suffer from over-compression.
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lowrider57
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Electroslacker,
I googled Max Martin and thanks to you I now know why 90% of new music sucks.

Funny thing, a few years back I was thinking about the sorry state that music was in and that you could substitute any artist's vocal with another artist's music and the end result would be identical.
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