Dear All
 
Music today seems to be all the same and all tech and no inventiveness.
The other day I listened to the B side of the Small faces Ogden Nut Brown Flake and what a refreshing piece of Inventiveness.
Well That Is on the English side of what I think
on the American side I would say Chicago are one of the greatest USA bands,with lots of clever and enjoyable brass work.
Bring back music not lego brick cut and paste!!!!!
Any Dj can do that
I am so greatefully to the great being upstairsy for half of the musical makesy only, see's the moon half dangly!¬!

What music are you listening to? Plenty of good stuff going on if you look for it, I'm enjoying the new material from Big Big Train, Willy Porter and Bros Landreth.

Exciting, creative music is alive and well. The "big" business is not! What you are describing appears to be the "fast food" the industry to trying to force on everyone.
 
Industry staleness is nothing new but it does appear to be worse than ever. On the plus side, we have never had access to alternative choices like we do today. Read some forums, watch some you tube, listen to some samples and let each link lead you to something new. There is plenty of great "new" music to be found.

Although the music industry is worse than stale cheese, there's a lot of potential for musicians who play real instruments having "real talent", and yet incorporate some of the current "culture" into their own.
 
You can only saturate the market with whatever the current trends are (EDM, Dubstep, Looping, etc...) up to a point (everything's going to start sounding like everything else), and what will really shine through is hearing someone just playing an acoustic instrument while simply singing from the heart.   

Some more "new" stuff to try:
 
Republic Tigers - Keep Color (Alternative - Indie)
TransAtlantic (Progressive)
Freedom Hawk (Heavy Metal / Stoner Metal)
Toseland (Rock)
Tin Spirits (Progressive)
Poets of the Fall
 
No idea exactly what you're looking for, but there's some good stuff out there if you go looking for it.
 

You're never going to find much in the way of great music in the top 40. You have to hunt it out. There is some fantastic music around these days that is every bit as good as the music from decades ago. And that includes "technical" music that's done entirely on computers. Of course since it's so much easier to record music these days, you're going to have to sift through more crap to find it. 

I like codamedia's fast-food analogy. Sure, McDonald's targets the lowest common denominator. But down the street there's usually something for the more discriminating palate - if you look for it.
 
Teenagers are a highly desirable target demographic because they are easily manipulated and have no well-formed consumer preferences. Consequently, that's where the effort goes, whether you're talking food, clothing, movies or music. If you're over 40 you naturally feel neglected by mainstream popular culture. But that's OK. We know what we want, and we're slowly figuring out how to get it, even if it means making our own music in the garage.

craigb
Some more "new" stuff to try:
 
Republic Tigers - Keep Color (Alternative - Indie)
TransAtlantic (Progressive)
Freedom Hawk (Heavy Metal / Stoner Metal)
Toseland (Rock)
Tin Spirits (Progressive)
Poets of the Fall
 
No idea exactly what you're looking for, but there's some good stuff out there if you go looking for it.
 

I'll add;
 
Rival Sons (classic 4-piece rock)
Vintage Trouble (rock/soul)
 
..and the new Squeeze album is great stuff.

I'm an old fart now. I've recently come to the realization that I don't need really new music and started questioning the mentality behind this form of consumerism. which seems to have been made even worst in the age of the internet. Why the need to always have new songs to listen to?  IMHO, that's how music becomes irrelevant. Me, I need to grow fond of albums, to let them become a part of my life.
 
Pop music is a relatively compact and somewhat restrictive format - it seems a bit illusionary to think that we can keep on piling up song after song after song, decade after decade, w/o the well drying up a bit.
 
I see friends of ours putting out record and I keep asking myself - why? Do you really have anything to say, or do you simply want to have your album, to take your turn?
 
Furthermore, a lot of the new bands I would listen to are actually recreating what was done in the past - they sound and even look like transplants form the 70s. That's fine but personally, I don't need new pseudo-old music. 
 
There's so many things I've never heard going way back centuries ago. I find it sadder to think that I'll never had time to really get to know this or that pice of music by Schubert or Mozart than the latest bunch of pop songs, which are often only as different as one from another as Burger King from McDonalds.

igiwigi
Dear All
... 
The other day I listened to the B side of the Small faces Ogden Nut Brown Flake and what a refreshing piece of Inventiveness.
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on the American side I would say Chicago are one of the greatest USA bands,with lots of clever and enjoyable brass work.
 
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Ohhh , yah got a few peeps here that know and love some different stuff.
 
Ogden's is magnificent, beginning to end ... and the first 3 Chicago albums are all a must have for most serious music collectors.
 

jbow
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 feel for new artists, it is like everything good has been done. Artists 1969-71 just hogged pretty much all the good stuff. LOL.
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I still believe that the main reason for it, was all a part of the anti-establishment thing, and the desire to not give in to the commercial and enslaving side of things out there. The freedom, helped define a lot of music, and the one thing today, is the lack of freedom ... even though it is all available ... it's being known or heard is almost a joke for all our friends around us ... my neighbor at work likes music ... but you know how many comments he has made about anything I gave him? ...only one ... Yes -- Close to the Edge ... wow ... what a discovery!
 
I ended up telling him, no more music from me ... he goes why? You have not heard anything, and the music I gave you mattered to me and my life. You can't see that or appreciate that. You have exhausted my desire to give you music! He apologized and next day he talks about Jethro Tull ... these folks, sad or not, are so commercialized that listening to something different is impossible ... they will not get it, or find a thread in it that helps them learn something about listening. 
 
It's not sad, per se ... but it is the society that we're in and vote for ... more of the same! The same old ugly codgers for office. The same old codgers for music. The same folks for top ten ... different boobs this time under a different top, or nearly no top, which ever is the case. I guess it doesn't say much about the cover of the Blind Faith album, does it?