What percentage of music today is Doo Doo?

[Khyber53]

Check out your local college radio stations. You'll hear a lot of new stuff, not all of it will be good, but you'll hit something interesting now and then. You might even catch a DJ that does an entire show of the stuff you've been searching for.

Here in Greensboro, WQFS 90.9 FM from Guilford College has some good shows, particularly those run by non-student DJs.

 

[rayzor]

Good music is always being made. It won't necessarily be the stuff that is mass marketed, but it's always being made. You really just have to search for it, but usually you can find some new stuff that us like the stuff you want.

It all depends on 1) you really want good new music and 2) you really believe it's possible that good music can be made today. If either one of those are negative, it's going to develop a bias in your mind against any new stuff.

The truth is, good music is always what you like to listen to. It's always subjective. If you are super attached to the music of yesterday and, for one reason or another, are really attached to the last, then nothing you find today will match what once was for you....and that's fine. 

Listen to what you want to listen to. Enjoy it and don't sit around and wait it hope for others to appreciate it. The only opinion that ever matters about the stuff you like to listen to, that you think is good music, is yours.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

Steve Albini, a guy who has produced multiple classic albums including Nirvana's "In Utero", speaks for a few minutes about this exact topic in this interview

I tried to link it at the right time but if it doesn't work it starts around 7:47

e: Also around 12:57 there is a bunch of interesting commentary on how artists can be successful while being decoupled from the "music business" now

[natty]

Music is better than it has ever been.  But most people think otherwise for a number of reasons.

1.  The survivorship bias already mentioned in this thread.  You don't remember the old 'crap' music because it wasn't worthy of being remembered.

2.  You're old.  Spotify did some research and found that most people listen to music that was released when they were around 14 years old.  Odds are you still favor the music you 'discovered' when you were at that age.  It's an impressionable age because you're defining yourself, your parents are lame and don't know anything, you're figuring out what to do with that boner that's been popping up for years, you're testing the limits of who you are(it's not a phase mom!). Even if you're very musical and your tastes have changed widely over time, that music you listened to when you were 14 still has a special place in your heart.

3.  The commercialization of music, which started as soon as the technology to record music was created, is so finely tuned that 'all pop music sounds the same'.  The music industry exists to make money, not music.  This was happening with Elvis and the Beatles too, it just wasn't as finely honed as it is today.  Just because Katy Perry pays writers and producers 100s of thousands of dollars to create her music doesn't mean it sucks.  It's good music, it's catchy, it built on a solid foundation of music theory, it's perfectly mixed, etc.  You probably don't like it because of #2 - it wasn't created for you.  Pop culture is for teenagers.  

Fantastic music is out there for people that really want to find it.  Everyone likes music, but I'm willing to bet most don't like it as much as they think.  If you truly love good music you'll find it, it won't be force fed to you like the 'awesome music' you loved growing up.  There's zero doubt that decades from now someone will say 'music sucks nowadays, what ever happened to the great artists like Justin Bieber?'