I'll have to disagree with nickleback being a diamond in the ruff in modern music. Personaly I would put them in that list of crap music. I do love pearl jam! There tons of great bands popping up all around the world but I stick with my eastcoast of Canada music scene as the best. Matt mays and el torpedoe, Joel plaskett, wintersleep, and the trews are all great bands making REAL music. I love them!


Will p

I think there is a lot more garbage out there then in years past covering up any good new music that comes out. There are too many corporate-made and marketed no-talent hacks being created for the quick-buck minded "producers" and they have ruined music as we used to know it.

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I heard a band called Cross Canadian Ragweed that was pretty good, ever hear of them?

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No but i'll definitly check 'em out!

Theres good music out there today, you just have to find it.
For example:

Biffy Clyro
Chicken Foot
Fleet Foxes
Foo Fighters
Franz Ferdinand
Jet
Kings of Leon (most recent album wasnt great)
Manchester Orchestra
Manic Street Preachers
Muse (again new album is pretty bad)
Radiohead
Steel Panther
Them Crooked Vultures
The Zutons

The list goes on man, you just gotta know where to look.

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When I'm talking about today's music I'm mentioning new pop icons... today's music is just business. They dont put their souls into the music. They just care how much have they sold records... Rock N Roll can't mixed with Businesss!!!!!

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rap should have never made it. I don't know what any of you think. Anyone can talk in a microphone

Today's rock is good. it's not the best i've heard, but I can definitely listen to it

there's not a lot of new music i like. however, my parents probably felt the same way when i listened to the beatles.

i have satellite radio in the car and at home. i can listen to the type of music i like, and ignore the other stuff

Pop music today is like pop music 20 or thirty years ago............music in a can - a recipe for the masses. The only difference today is that we can see the rise of the next great "Pop-star" on American Idol.

Personally I prefer listening to the blues and therefore I am not too familiar with the "idols", or the gagas, or the go go's or any other Hollywierd type.

Gimme a bit of Ronnie Earl, or Lightning Hopkins, or Los Lobos, or Jonny Lang......that's what I am talking about. I simply choose not to listen to the "Music in a Can".

By the way ..............try some Tom Waits on for size........

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yep, try some Tom Waits +1
Timeless.

Doesn't every generation reach an age where they feel disconnected from the current trend of manufactured, diposable pop music? It just means somehow you grew up without even noticing it. Same thing happened in the 50s man, there has always been 'plastic' music and acts who were desperately trying to ride a wave of fashion to make a buck, or who were cynically packaged to do so. It's not news.

Lucky for all of us there are still talented and passionate musos working hard to produce 'real' music in every genre, and it's easier to find the less mainstream ones now than ever before. Go find some new music and get inspired, it's always too soon to become a grumpy old man, man!

I can't tolerate most of the vacuous Muzak that is being spread over the airwaves by "Top 40"stations these days. 99.9% of it is generic mass produced audio pablum with little musical merit or originality and no virtuosity whatsoever.Plus radio DJs still have that annoying habit of talking through the intro of a song until the vocals start(which can be a blessing in disguise in some cases)I wonder what they'd do if they inadvertently put on an instrumental.I now listen exclusively to Sirius Satellite radio or Last Fm on the net at least the programers there have an idea what good music is and on Sirius some are musicians such as Little Steven on the garage station.When I buy music these days it is almost always alternative or classic rock as in these genres you're most likely to find consistantly good music and musicians.

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I guess were all a bunch of Rock and Rollers and/or Blues fans.
Todays music, Top 40 etc. just isn't Rock or Blues, at least to me.
Im trying my best to like "new" music but every time I hear it, I just change the channel.

I hope Im not showing my age here. I recall many heated discussions with my Dad, on what I was playing. Anyway try to keep an open mind... er ear..

Bill

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I'd give anything a listen to sometimes it's the singer I'm not getting into then hear it getting played live by some old rocker putting his slant on it like Lady Ga Ga's pokerface and lovin it or it could have been the beer?
yeah probably the beer, but, also got a few CD's I skip a few tracks

Oi, don't even get me started about today's music!! 99.9% of it sucks CRAP.

And it's not so much the instruments being computerized, it's the vocals.
For me, especially, the one thing that bugs the living s**t out of me is when they mess with one syllable of a word to make it go up; I don't know how better to describe it than that. You can find it in a lot of stuff by Beyonce and singers like that.

I mean, if you need a computer to alter your voice to make it sound "good", then why even try at all?

God.

And all of these "rock" bands--they all sound the same! It's all just chords and screeching, or, sometimes, seemingly "clever" lyrics. But when all of these new bands try to concoct "clever" lyrics, all of these new songs sound the same--music-wise and lyric-wise.



....And when did yelling and screaming into the microphone with the endless bashing of cymbals and twanging of power chords become known as music, let alone a genre known as "screamo"?

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i agree with riley, i hate it. However there are a handful of musicians that i do like

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