[kahljorn]

look guys there's a very interesting conversation going on in this thread! i think what you guys are missing though is some objectivity, so let give you a hand
everything has always sucked, all the time. Music doesn't escape it, the only reason there's so much shitty stuff now a days is because the amount of shitty people who have the ability to make music has increased. Other than that it's the same old story.
Beides music in other decades sucked people just didn't notice it as much because it was often "Novel" or "Original" to them, but that doesn't mean people with good taste weren't griping. Plus there's probably been well over a hundred thousand music groups in the last century and you know, what, 200 of them? there's plenty of suck to go around, everybody likes to think the time they are living is somehow special though. Probably because life is so suck boring.