@ncscswitch:
Speaking for myself…
Rap would be the biggest detriment to modern music. Modern R&B has NOTHING to do with classic R&B.
And Pop has again been dragged into oblivion, perhaps even more severely than it was during Disco.
There are a few groups out there doing some half decent stuff (Hoobastank mentioned above, I also like a couple of White Stripes tunes…) but by-and-large the only folks BUYING music today are buying trash; and the labels are controlled by either Disney “artists” or gang-bangers.
Music is on a cusp again, like it was circa 1981. The current era has done all that it can, and each “new” song is only a rehash of what went before. EVERYONE is waiting for the next Van Halen so that music can “run with the devil” again for a while and grow into something other than the current TRASH.
And you know… it is really SAD that the most trite Hair Bands of the late 80’s had more originality and more SKILL than anything currently aired on Top 40 stations today. It is enough to make me ALMOST long for a return to Bow Wow Wow…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNHcaIJETZo
At LEAST they had a good hook…
I tell you what, I could go for a piece of candy about now :-D 80s chicks were so friggen hot…