See post #15.

 
LOL, yep.  I believe it is relative to where and how they have grown up, also.  I would say this is true for a good share of today's youth.
 
On the other hand, a couple of years ago while visiting some of my family farm land in southern Minnesota, my brother and I were standing in a freshly combined corn field, while hunting pheasants and a combine drives over to us and stops.  I expected it to be the neighboring farmer who farms our land.  Instead, the door opens and out jumps his 12 year old kid.  I thought to myself, dang, my son does n't even know how to turn the car headlights on.  

Modern music:
 
The Coffee House Band
The Forum Monkeys
The Coffee House Collaborators
Straumpu & The CHC (aka Coffee House Chior)
The Bapu
 

Nice shameless plugs, Ed.  

bapu
Forget IQ, just go on maturity.
 
I have two doctors I go to for psychotherapy that told me modern studies have shown men over 40's that post in the FSF (generally speaking) have the maturity of the 12 year old of 20-30 years ago.
 
Nuff said.

Coffee House'd.

I like the direction this thread is going but truth be told I know plenty of stupid old people.
 
 

tom1
I like the direction this thread is going but truth be told I know plenty of stupid old people bapu.

 

@ Bapu
 
Actually, admitting you're stupid is a sign of intelligence.
 
 
The people I'm referring to are not smart enough to know how stupid they are.
 

tom1
@ Bapu
 
Actually, admitting you're stupid is a sign of intelligence.
 
 
The people I'm referring to are not smart enough to know how stupid they are.
 

Membership helps.
 

Yep, they just don't write like they used to, do they?  Today it's:
 
Who run the world? Girls (girls)
Who run the world? Girls (girls)
 
But in my youth we had real poetry!:
 
I met him on a Monday and my heart stood still
Da do ron-ron-ron, da do ron-ron
Somebody told me that his name was Bill
Da do ron-ron-ron, da do ron-ron

Seriously though, from my perspective things have improved a lot (although it might have a lot to do with living in the San Francisco Bay Area).  In the sixties and seventies in the Midwest, if you went into a supermarket, you'd be forced to listen to gag-inducing arrangements by the ever-present 1001 Strings.  If you got Montovani, you'd consider yourself lucky.
 
Now when I visit a Safeway in the suburbs, I hear songs by Neil Young, and believe it or not, even by Pink Floyd.  Except of course during the month of December.  I try to stay out of all retail establishments as much as possible during the weeks before Christmas.  Every time I get frustrated about my job, I just think of those poor sods who have to listen to that crap eight or more hours a day.

 
Music is just music.
 
What makes 'pop' music 'popular' is that it appeals to the lowest common denominator. And it sort of sells, whatever that means nowadays.
 
The blame lies with the people in the music industry who really make the money, and in the main, that's not the artists. If you go to the bar and all they sell is lager, you're going to drink lager.
 
I do agree with the general consensus that pop music isn't as 'good' as it used to be though. With a few exceptions, everything seems to sound the bloody same, a homogenised mush of pure sh1te.
 
And to me, that's the rub - there doesn't seem to be the variety that there used to be. When the BBC broadcasts old editions of Top Of The Pops from the 70's and 80's, you're likely to see 8 or 9 different groups/solo artists performing (or more accurately 'miming') maybe 6 or 7 different genres of music.