My middle son has been in a band about 5 yrs now,I think todays kids have as much or even more talent then in earlier years,it's just when we get older we tend to like same old things,I too like the old blues and rock and roll from 60's and 70's but face it,my parents used to hate music I listened to,and my father was a singer for a hile on TV,I thought his music sucked lol

I think there are some good new groups out ,I grew up in 50's 60's and remember when listening to music my dad would say"How can you listen to that crap,music isn't the same as when I was young" so I think it's just a matter of taste,seasons and people change apparently so does music,remember the hardest thing to do in life is to change,so as much as I like old stuff I like a lot of the new stuff as well,and in my opinion music is the same as it always was,just different

The thing with music is only Black Metal is the purest form of music in terms of freedom of artistical views, any other band just mostly sings about drugs, violence, sex, how crap their life is, or whatever the record companies want them to sing about.
With Black Metal you have bands like Darkthrone, Winterfylleth, Aes Dana who play what THEY want to do, 99% of people dont listen to it because of the ignorance from such things as NME or MTV who only want people to buy 1-hit-wonders instead of actually sitting down and listening to a album.
Its like Rob Zombie once said, Metal isnt "Casual" music, you dont listen to Slayer "one summer" and then put the CD away never to hear it again (although with recent Metal bands its turning that way.)
Any form of individualism is frowned upon because the labels want to make money instead of seeing to the needs of the artists, if everyone supported underground Labels like 7kingdoms then bands like Dragonforce wouldnt exist and TRUE talent such as Winterfylleth would emerge with a big fan-base, but without selling out.

I disagree with the black metal statement...

I used to listen to a lot of black metal as a teenager but soon got very bored with it...

Now i'm a big fan of electronic music such as psy trance, drum and bass and the like..

I also don't like people who moan about 'modern music' as though Madonna and Britney Spears are the ONLY artists out there. Get of your arses and go underground, that's where the best music lies... not the diluted, spoon fed crap that dominates MTV , but the culture swaying intelligent music that throbs with energy and drive.

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You can blame the Big 8 Record Companies and the RIAA for vanilla Pop Music with no talent and no substance. Mainstream music has been homogenized for your supposed hearing pleasure.

For decades we have been told what to like.

The dangers to the Big 8 Record Companies and the RIAA with P2P and File Sharing is that finally people have the ability to listen to music that they would never normally hear. People no have the ability to hear music that is never given airplay on the radio or MTV. People now have the ability to listen to music that they actually like rather than what they are spoon-fed by the corporations and told what to like.

Yes, the Big 8 Record Companies have been losing money hand-over-fist and have called in the RIAA to protect their monopoly over music. However, people are still spending as much (if not more) on music today as they have in previous years. The big difference is that money which they spend is being redistributed to smaller, independent labels.

Many Independent Music Labels either encourage (and I know of a couple that require) the posting of their Artist's music on P2P File Sharing Networks. In turn, their sales have consistently gone up 1500% every year since! Steve Roach of the Projekt label testified to the US Senate about this, begging them not to give in to the RIAA's request to criminalize P2P because it is actually good for the music industry, not harming it.

On another related subject that was asked by the OP, I have been asked many times what happened to Folk Music and Anti-War Music of the 1960s and why there wasn't an equivalent today. There is! It just isn't in the Folk Genre...but it is in the Industrial Genre. Groups like KMFDM, VNV Nation, Front 242, Apoptygma Berzerk and many others have spent the last decade or more producing Anti-War music, condemning the actions of politicians and the crimes they commit against humanity. The ideals the Music of the 1960s stood for is still alive today, just not under the same Genre. It is in a format that is more acceptable to today's audiences, not catering to the artifacts of the past.

I ask the same question sometimes. People will laugh probably, but I really liked the 90's music and the stuff now I'm not that into. Fastball was one of my favorite artists from the 90's and it seems like they're gone. Anyone else miss the 90's or do I just have bad taste?

WHERE HAS THE MUSIC GONE?

I can tell you where it didn't go...

Hollywood and MTV.

People today like pretty and shiny. Eye candy is where its at.

Todays music "looks" good, but sounds bad. The music back then "looks" bad, and sounds great.

If you are shopping for food - how will you choose if you have no previous knowledge of something?

I am a teenager and I love 70's/80's rock. I listen to rap, but do not think it matches classic rock AT ALL. It does offer a sound rock does not - which is the only reason I do listen to it.