Why Lots of Current Music Sounds Miserable...

Regarding bass boost, it seems like there was a time in the 70s / 80s where the opposite was occurring - thinned out bass, I'm guessing to help improve clarity on boomy speakers of the time (before "perfedct sound forever", too). Specific examples: Cheap Trick, live at Budokan, Blondie, Eat to the Beat, great albums that sound way too thin on a high end rig. Anyone else notice this?

Let's hope that modern music is in a state of flux and will eventually evolve into something better. (I guess things are always changing.) I was listening to some of the old "talking blues songs" recently, ala Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, Woddy Guthrie, Johnny Cash (especiallly "I've Been Everywhere, Man"} and I couldn't help but hear "rap" in there somewhere. I don't think that many, if any, rap mucicians would ever admit to being influenced by folk/country. I'm not a mucicologist but I would bet that rap and talking blues hearken back to something from the roots of music; let's just hope that it evolves into something better.

I see alot of great points on here, face it POP music stinks, Rap is the worst followed by the divas, the Idols, blah blah blah...yada yada yada, I am also curious why there is someone so intent on finding out what everyone is listening to?

Nevermind my last post, I didnt notice Ben was a reviewer. my bad