Answer for question 4595.

[Error: unknown template qotd]Let's not kid ourselves in thinking that our music is inherently superior to the music of today's young people, lest we become as smug as the Boomers claiming that the Beatles were the greatest band ever. We are all drawn to music out of sentiment. The music that I listened to as an adolescent—mainly 80s and 90s post-punk, goth, industrial, and alternative—is always going to sound better to me than anything coming out now, but it's because it's what I liked when my musical tastes were developing, not because it's the greatest music ever written.

I think pop music is on a downward slide because of autotune and—at the risk of getting repetitive, economic forces—but pop music has always kind of sucked.

As a counter-argument to "there is no innovative music these days," I present to you Tanya Tagaq, who I'm late to the party discovering: Animism trailer. And here she is covering the Pixies.

As for music I don't know why anyone would like—I can't think of anything. I know why people listen to music that's shit. It's because they have shit taste, like most people who aren't me. :)