Perhaps age is catching up
In the last few years, I'm finding that as I've hit a certain age a lot of the recent music irritates me ( there are still some new tracks I like). But the stuff my daughter likes, I consider shit. I would describe most of it just as you have.
(M61A1 CUPID- STUNTS, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 9:25, 1 reply)

There are a lot of great bands out there;
I listen to most music from the last ten years and its great but its not listened to by the masses. I am not exaggerating or just being a cynic and its not something thats just opinion... it is SHIT:FACT Katie Perry, Lady Gaga...Take That. A beat looped over and a little melody in the chorus. Shit any tom dick or harry can write. Its a serious matter as music is vital to happiness. Btw if you haven't checked them out The Horrors are a really good band atm.
(shezam slouching towards nirvana., Thu 20 Oct 2011, 10:21, closed)

and moon monkey makes an excellent point.

(shezam slouching towards nirvana., Thu 20 Oct 2011, 10:22, closed)

With you on this
I have always hated the soulless contrived boy and girl band crap ever since the days of Stock Aitken and Waterman (which is where the rot really started to set in). I haven't heard a song in ages that has made me want to go out and buy an album and i have pretty eclectic tastes. Lately i have found myself attending more live gigs from old bands rather than listening to new stuff.
I do have a theory about music from the last 10 to 15 years that the more skimpily dressed men/women in the video there are the worse the track is.
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 10:44, closed)

Pop music is, always has been, and always will be
aural slush that sells in large quantities. 30-somethings don't buy singles, hence the pop charts are full of music that appeals to youngsters (whose chief concern in life is getting drunk and coping of with another young person).
Learn to appreciate pop for what it is, whilst disregarding the bits you don't like, and you'll be much happier.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 10:46, closed)

the beatles were 'pop' though
and the kinks...real nice catchy songs, but non the less 'pop music'
Pop music now is catchy but def lacks any soul.
No music in the last ten years really ? Name a few: Radiohead, the white stripes, the artic monkeys, the strokes and QOTSA
(shezam slouching towards nirvana., Thu 20 Oct 2011, 10:51, closed)

I'd respond.
If this made any sense at all.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 11:04, closed)

Agreed
But the difference is that the Beatles wrote their own songs and played their own instruments. The Kinks could play instruments hell even the monkees could play. Give a guitar to one of Steps and they would probably chip a nail and then disgard it with disgust (or try and eat it).
There is nothing wrong with pop music and i have nothing against it. It isn't meant to be taken seriously but recently with Cowells corporate Karaoke machine everything released is a different variation on the same old soulless, ball less, edge less shit that everyone else is producing. Ok i'll give you that some of the bands that you mentioned are pretty decent(Saw the Arctic Monkeys when they played Sheffield and they were great) but they aren't pop and they are vastly outnumbered by the shit peddlers out there.
Where are the musicians of this generation who produce music that is torn from their souls?
(andythepieman Is surfing the waves of indifference on, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 11:23, closed)

Pop music is entertainment,
not art. It doesn't need to be ripped from your soul.

Fucking emos.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 11:33, closed)

You'v summed everything up beautifully.
Jelly of you for seeing the Artic monkeys and yes Cowell is a demon, an evil evil demon.
(shezam slouching towards nirvana., Thu 20 Oct 2011, 11:34, closed)

"Where are the musicians of this generation who produce music that is torn from their souls?"
Hopefully bypassing SonyEMICowellspunk inc, and getting their music directly out there on faceplantbook or whatever else you kids use these days...
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 11:58, closed)

I'd be willing to bet
that both the Beatles and the Kinks were sharing the charts with some absolute drivel.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 11:30, closed)

Get out of here with your logic and mature understanding of the way music has always been

( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 11:44, closed)

I can't.
I've lost my zimmer.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 11:52, closed)

And don't forget that McCartney was responsible for Mull Of Kintyre and The Frog Song...

(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 12:00, closed)

I like the frog song

(shezam slouching towards nirvana., Thu 20 Oct 2011, 12:02, closed)

We had that on VHS.
There was a naked lady during the Oriental Nightfish segment.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 12:05, closed)

may I suggest 6music over radio 1?
The Horrors aren't bad I saw them supporting Depeche Mode at the RAH but they weren't really looking that good, not sure they are used to engaging a crowd of that size though so that may not be fair gig to judge them on, they sound ok on the radio.
(cmouse is pondering about life in other jobs, Thu 20 Oct 2011, 12:27, closed)