Your favourite band is my least favourite band.

The problem with these arguments is that they always revolve around popular music. Of course that's going to be bad for the most part as the target demographic seems to be 13-16 year olds. This however does not in any way mean that music today sucks, popular music but not music in general. Instead of just looking at what's popular and proclaiming that "today's music sucks" I recommend trying to find lesser known, truly independent artists. Sure they may be harder to find but that makes it all the more rewarding. Lately I've been listening to a lot of stuff that I've found through places like CBCRadio3 which features exclusively Canadian indie music. A lot of that stuff is truly great.

Ain't got a care in world, but got plenty of beer
Ain't got no money in my pocket, but I'm already here
And now, the dudes are lining up cause they hear we got swagger
But we kick em to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger
 
Duders, seriously...this is art.  The beats are solid like snake, she's cute, and has good taste in music.  This is the rebirth of humankind and puts Ode to Joy to shame.

" Ain't got a care in world, but got plenty of beer Ain't got no money in my pocket, but I'm already here And now, the dudes are lining up cause they hear we got swagger But we kick em to the curb unless they look like Mick Jagger  Duders, seriously...this is art.  The beats are solid like snake, she's cute, and has good taste in music.  This is the rebirth of humankind and puts Ode to Joy to shame. "

" You seem to be taking the easy way out, by listening to a few songs on the radio and posting that it sucks and that "all" music today sucks. But really, pop isn't the only music around right now, and you seem sort of oblivious to that. "

Obscura has been good to me.

@Djeffers03: There is a reason why they only sold 1000, it's more than a million for lady gaga, it's triple platium. It's not that these indie artist art good, rather it's your taste is obscure, listening to no name metal trash groups no one cares about.  
 
On December 2, 2009, The Fame was nominated for six Grammy Awards and won Best Dance Recording for "Poker Face". The album was nominated for Album of the Year, and won the Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album at the 52nd Grammy Awards. On February 16, 2010, it won Best International Album at the 2010 BRIT Awards. 
 
I don't see how ppl can think madonna is talented and lady gaga is not. They are both performance artist with catchy tunes and lady gaga is the next madonna.  
 
Maybe it's you who has lousy taste in no name alternative rock music. There is a reason why no one cares about it because maybe it sort of sucks. It's obscure and isn't all that appealing, they are like the noobs of the music industry and honestly deserves to only sell a thousand records because they are nobodies who appeals to nobody. Maybe you have a really bad taste in music, hating on the popular. Your the one who probally hate on good popular movies like avatar too and praise trash no one cares about that didn't make alot of money either, well that's your problem and it's called bad taste, bad taste in music and everything else. You probally play indie games too, idie is small budget trash with less talent. In the rap industry, these ppl are called haters and haters gonna hate on the best.

Really? Complaining about music videos being too sexual? 
 
There's plenty of excellent music out there. You just won't find most of it on the radio. Why? The radio is owned by corporations who want to sell you what they want.
 
Also Lady Gaga is actually far from talentless and I'm not a pop fan.

Most of today's music sucks, with the exception of a few bands who are still active and still make good music. (Not Weezer.)  
 
(Foo Fighters, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Hives, etc.)

" @Metal_Gear_Sunny: How do you know this? "

There is always going to be good blood and bad blood in the entertainment business.
 
Back then, music execs considered "talents" as good blood; now it's the "catchiest rhyme" and "potential one hit wonder" that makes you a good blood in their eyes.
It's not really a "decline in overall quality" as you said, it's just "the stupid shit" getting all the recognition.
And then a change in takes over creation of music by artists (from expression to money making), we listen to Soulja Boy and Autotunes all the time. 
And then somehow people got hooked up to that catchy "Just Dance" by Lady Gaga, so she made it. Now she's doing all those bizarre stuff and wearing weird clothes, and most disturbingly, many people approve of those things.
 
Back then it required some unique talents for you to succeed, now it's all luck.
 
You should blame that on today's teenagers. Not everyone is as innovative as some of us are. They just listen to shit they can dance to and sound good on ringtones.
That's why I listen to mostly underground tracks. Immortal Technique owns every single wack rapper out there added up and times 100.

I like Radiohead.

I definitely agree with the post about how  "Mainstream music" sucks. For the past decade we have been subjugated to listening to horrible songs by everyone from NSync to Lil' Wayne to Lady GaGa, in fact when I redid my car stereo I left the radio out and simply listen to my iPod now. With that said there have been a lot of really talented people making great music, the post about Foo Fighters is a great example, for every no talent rock band on the radio there are a dozen bands like Foo Fighters that make quality music for the love of music. It is like this in every genre, sure Lil Wayne and the New Boys are garbage, but Jay-Z, Eminem, T.I. have been around, and newer cats like Drake are slowly taking back the radio. Look at country music, they cram garbage down people's throats but artists like Brad Paisley are still out there. The key is to avoid the radio and its attempts to control your mind and wallet and pick your own music. And to the dude that keeps begging us to like Lady GaGa, do you honestly think a website of mostly young men are going to want to listen to bad techno-ish songs by an ugly broad?

look harder for radio station. i do listen to radio because i found a radio station that has alternative rock type of music. MTV only shows green day really as for rock. i kind of noticed that rock type of music went to underground where people have to search for their music. 
 
i've just been listening to my good metal, rock type of music.

I don't like 2000s music much, either. But I like Shinedown, Velvet Revolver, Audioslave, Airbourne(TC, you might like them if you like AC/DC), and Black Stone Cherry.

Lady Gaga is the music industry.

You don't deserve to hear good music if you're not willing to look for it.  I don't care how big the industry is, larger culture feeding you music is NOT how you're supposed to do it.
 
There always has been good music but looking to anything resembling a radio to just give it to you is a fucking waste of time.
 
Being an old codger but ignoring older music are both equally valid ways to be a douchebag about music.

I listen to older music because the wheat has already been separated from the chaff. I could follow music blogs and download torrents from sxsw but I dont want to spend hours listening to garbage to find the good stuff.
 
My old roommate is a music nerd who spends hours a day on last.fm and 4chan's /mu/ board. He introduced me to Fucked Up and Bomb the Music Industry!, the only current stuff I listen to. I know there is more out there, but I cant be bothered to hunt it down.

I like James Blunt. His music is fine to me. Umm Goldfrapp's Rocket is fine to me. So yeah some music today is a bit great.

I cant stand today's music. All we have are stupid screamo scene bands, crappy pop stars who spend more time making music videos than on their music, crappy generic rock like nickleback, stupid singers from talent shows, stupid disney singers, and overrated indie bands that only pompous jerks who read pitchfork could like.Its crap everywhere you turn.

it's a pretty ridiculous thing to say that all of "today's music" is bad. radio music has and always will be bad - it's what the majority wants. easy music that provokes nothing. if you want better music, you're going to have to dig around. 

" I cant stand today's music. All we have are stupid screamo scene bands, crappy pop stars who spend more time making music videos than on their music, crappy generic rock like nickleback, stupid singers from talent shows, stupid disney singers, and overrated indie bands that only pompous jerks who read pitchfork could like.Its crap everywhere you turn. "

Vinny said it best, Lady Gaga has some fucking catchy tunes. that's right, i said it!
 
I think it's time to turn in my male card >_>

What happened to Korn and Limp Bizkit? If that is the barometer you are using to gauge the quality of music, you're pathetic.

"

@Djeffers03: There is a reason why they only sold 1000, it's more than a million for lady gaga, it's triple platium. It's not that these indie artist art good, rather it's your taste is obscure, listening to no name metal trash groups no one cares about.  
 
On December 2, 2009, The Fame was nominated for six Grammy Awards and won Best Dance Recording for "Poker Face". The album was nominated for Album of the Year, and won the Grammy Award for Best Electronic/Dance Album at the 52nd Grammy Awards. On February 16, 2010, it won Best International Album at the 2010 BRIT Awards. 
 
I don't see how ppl can think madonna is talented and lady gaga is not. They are both performance artist with catchy tunes and lady gaga is the next madonna.  
 
Maybe it's you who has lousy taste in no name alternative rock music. There is a reason why no one cares about it because maybe it sort of sucks. It's obscure and isn't all that appealing, they are like the noobs of the music industry and honestly deserves to only sell a thousand records because they are nobodies who appeals to nobody. Maybe you have a really bad taste in music, hating on the popular. Your the one who probally hate on good popular movies like avatar too and praise trash no one cares about that didn't make alot of money either, well that's your problem and it's called bad taste, bad taste in music and everything else. You probally play indie games too, idie is small budget trash with less talent. In the rap industry, these ppl are called haters and haters gonna hate on the best.

"

Most mainstream rock sucks.  That's why.

" Mainstream music nowadays is so boring and dull. They lack soul, meaning and good beats. Now it's all about money, fame, sex and gangsta wannabes. Today's music is dominated by all these clubbing and R&B artists, and they suck. I hate them. I basically stopped listening to the radio a few years ago because all I hear are just utter nonsense. Same goes with music videos. All I see on MTV are artists dressing like prostitutes, club scenes, sex scenes and again gangsta wannabes. It's just so revolting to look at. I mean, I'm fine with having sexy scenes on music videos because who won't want to see them...but there's a limit to it. And they say video games are bad for the kids.
 
What happened to all the alternative and rock bands? I don't see them or hear them anymore. They've suddenly gone underground as they are dominated by these foolish genre. At least that's how I see it. Last time there was Rage Against The Machine, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Three Doors Down, Evanescence, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Staind, Green Day, Sum 41, etc. Even though most of them haven't been active in terms of making new albums, what about the new rock artists? I'm sure they've been wanting to release some new rock tunes of their own but they can't because today's music is dominating the ring, making the rock genre fall on deaf ears. Does that make me only a heavy metal and rock enthusiast? No, not true at all. I'm a universal listener because I grew up listening to all kinds of music ranging from pop, dance, hip-hop, techno, classical, oldies, even R&B's. Toni Braxton, Boyz II Men, 2Pac, Coolio, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston. They were all great when suddenly the genre slowly turned sour and the music became souless and meaningless.
 
So what do I do know? I go back to basic. Over the past few years I've been listening to old music ranging from the 60's until the late 90's such as Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Duran Duran, Pink Floyd, Abba, Run-DMC, Beastie Boys, Ace of Base, AC/DC, The Beatles, Three Dog Night, The Police, etc. I never thought I'd be doing it but it felt really good. I find 80s and 90s boy bands to be more relaxing and fun to listen to than today's garbage. Oh, and let's not forget video game soundtracks. Akira Yamaoka, Masafumi Takada, Frank Klepacki, Koji Kondo, Nobuo Uematsu; they're simply the best. "

 I hate to be that guy, but there is plenty of good music being produced right now; you just need to look beyond the mainstream crap. You can also look at foreign bands, because there's some good rock being produced in other countries. 
 
But for the most part sure, I agree with you.  

The reason pop music from the 60's-90's was better than todays is becuase they used instruments.

Mainstream sucks yes, but music as a whole doesn't
 
The last days where the bulk of Mainstream was awesome was in the 90's when bands like Alice in Chains and hard rock ruled the 90's era, The only mainstream bands i listen to now is probably Deftones & Killswitch engage, but thats because Deftones is different, they actualy make kickass unique music, Deftones while mainstream their music is a tad bit to complex for the "Pop" masses to decipher. The rest i listen to are either all old hard rock/metal bands or not so  popular  current bands like The Black Angels, Band of Horses, Sylosis etc.

The best new music is online.  The shit they play on the radio is all produced by the record companies scraping up the American Idol crowd.  Seriously.  If you listen you'll notice that every other song on the major radio stations is and AI star or wanna be.   
 
Personally, I admire Lady Gaga's talent and I appreciate her willingness to be out there.  She's a PiTA of a Human Being though.

Meh, pop music sucks but Indie music also sucks.
 
The only album I am looking forward to this year is Avenged Sevenfold's Nightmare. Everything else is meeehhh

" You're not looking hard enough; music is amazing today."  

Rush 70's and 80's > everything else 
 
 I'm not a fan of todays 'Mainstream Music', I'm more in to classic/alternative/prog/rock (and roll). 

OP is into some terrible music. Im sure its been said plenty of times already, just chiming in on that. Terrible.

I think you should title the thread that music on the radio sucks because there is so much good music being produced at the moment. Sure things like Akon and N Dubz are a cancer on society but have you listened to Crystal casltes new album? How about 65daysofstatic new album? Ever heard of a band called Twin Atlantic? You can't just write off all music because you only hear crap. Thats what mainstream music is; crap. 
 
And don't diss Lady Gaga, she put on one of the best live shows I've seen in a long time. 
 
By the way, you said you like techno, try this on for size.