I agree with Diki. There's a lot of current music I like and a lot I don't Same as it ways when I was a teen or in my 20's. The one difference, as someone who appreciates a good recording, many today are over produced and compressed in some cases to compensate for poor singing. But there are still some great young singers as well as good recordings. As I mentioned before I think the predominate use of headphones and MP3 have lowered the overall quality of recording. MP3s do not do justice to pianos and strings. I just finished a book on current recording, balancing and mixing techniques and the amount of plug-ins, compressors, etc that are commonly used is fascinating. Other than Classical recording and some unplugged recordings natural acoustic space has disappeared from recordings. Of course multi-track recording has been around for a long time but today a recording is really created in the cyber-world.