Why does most new music suck?

Producers want to keep costs as low as possible. No one asks for quality. The quality guys are all retired and mass market production has its own rules.

It doesn't all suck but it is increasingly difficult to find the great stuff burried in mountains of garbage. It is also true that there isn't that many "cool" radio stations that people listen to religisously anymore. The really big ones don't exist period. So where can you get to hear it? It's tougher than it used to be.
As for recording quality well most commercial releases are digitized and it's true that a miniscule portion is aimed at the audiophile audience. That stuff is usually really well known re-releases like some of those obscenely expensive Japanese dics.

I totally agree with the posters to this thread so far.

I find myself buying new improved, remastered, SACD, High definition versions of the songs I played in my youth. That is, primarily classic rock.

I think it has to do with when we were young, music was the primary way the youth of that era expressed itself. I mean there was no internet, cable, electronic games, mass media etc.

When we were young. We were part of a massive baby boom generation that wanted to be heard. We had protests, Vietnam , and drugs, sex and "rock and roll' after all. The music of today lost that soul of what drived us.

This doesn't mean there isn't some good new music, but to me it is rare when you hear an artist that truly feels as though they are part of the music, not just going through the motions as so many cookie cutter artists/groups today do.

Oh well, and stay off my lawn!

people who think new music sucks are not exploring music enough, there is plenty out there.

I think every generation prefers the music they listened to when they came of age and generally thinks that most of the music that followed that period was a step in the wrong directions. There are some current artists that I like and have actually bought their CD's or even LP's but the quality of the recordings are generally so poor that I find them hard to listen too. Cold Play comes immediately to mind, I like a lot of their music but only listen in the car.