What music is not derivative?


I was just reading up on some older posts about peoples opinions of some new bands. There are often times people complaining about music being so derivative and unoriginal. My question is what music released in the post Beatles era has been truly original?

I have a few ideas in mind, but will let y'all have the first shot at it.
jposs

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Dire Straits, to me, on first hearing, sounded strikingly fresh, original, unique and worth listening to, compared to the thrash heap surrounding them at the time. The trash heap, many years later, is just bigger and stinkier. Good day.
To Clueless: the French author Sacha Guitry is quoted as saying, as translated by yours truly, "originality is the art of concealing one's sources". Push come to shove, everything is derivative, save for the work of the most naive, I guess.

I, also, am fast becoming clueless.

Good day.