Why Lots of Current Music Sounds Miserable...

I usually find three things about threads about the recording quality of modern releases.

1.The person making them doesn't buy very much new music.

2.Examples of compression (and yes of course it happens)are thin on the ground.

3.Examples are given of genres which the poster admits they would never play in their high end system.

Just some observations.

Yes but what "crap" are we talking about?

Entrope which of these recordings you refer to have you heard in your system?

Different points about different things.

Entrope you are totally entitled to an opinon on anything that's a basic human right.
However despite making a very valid point about examples across the decades (which surely is at odds with the original point)-my main point was a general one and not aimed at you.

I stand firm on my examples above and I think some of the other replies speak for themself.

Chadnliz that is some statement.
POP music stinks well POP could include The Beatles,The Beach Boys,Mowtown,Stevie Wonder etc etc and dare I say people like The Police who are usually liked by audophiles and artists who are POP and don't appeal like George Michael and Maddona but who actually clearly take time to make sure their recordings sound good.
Generalisations are mostly pointless and I am yet to be even remotely convinced that any Audiogoner can give me copious examples of badly recorded new music.

Nobody truly expects people to investigate a musical genre that does nothing for them, that is truly acceptable but to deride whole genres just because you don't like the suface is silly.

To completely misquote Dylan "Don't criticise what you ain't even heard"