yes  well i understand what your saying as in people complaining about manufactured/x factor type stuff,but people have always been complaining about that,they said that about the beatles,lol and bands they used to make fun of in the 80's are now classic

honestly i like alot of different music and sometimes just like to have a good time,i don't need meaning,i was also a big raver in my day and its not as esay as people might think to make so called electronic music,

there is a vast amount of music out there and humans really are quite incredible when it comes to making music/singing it seems never ending

how many people can do what mozart and all that classical mob did with orchestras and what not or modern film score makers

the pop charts and commercial radio is one thing and the world of music is another 

Rap will have a tinkle of hope for as long as Eminem stays active. Once he retires, Rap/Hip-Hop (at least mainstream) will be filled with nothing but idiotic accents, degrading language and no meaning.

FLORENCE AND THE MACHINE!

There's some good music still, you just gotta look a lot harder. I do agree though, the quality of music from the 60's to the 80's was way higher than the 90's-current

Some decent music from today is stuff like Rise Against, Breaking Benjamin, Stone Temple Pilots, Kings of Leon (better when they weren't mainstream IMO though), Three Days Grace (sort of), Finger Eleven (sort of), Sick Puppies, Shinedown, etc.

So there's some there you just gotta look hard. Nothing compares to old stuff like Boston, Steve Miller Band, Bruce Springsteen (older stuff), Van Halen, etc. though.

There's a couple good bands today, but nothing will match the quality of bands like the Clash, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, etc.

Face it Leo, people on this topic aren't really looking for Gaga, acoustic or not.

On topic, great music is still made - it's just becoming rarer as hits. Bob Dylan is making great albums again which are hits on the charts (will that mans career ever end?), Radiohead are still making albums (and are probably the greatest band in a generation).

Indie music isn't a bad way to go if you want to find great music. I just generally poke around on cokemachineglow.

I can't believe someone just actually posted The XX  ^^

I love infinity the most: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCBm5VbwJvY

I think you will appreciate this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFin1IG2yis

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhgxr47tAMs

EDIT: checking the other links you posted, you must be awesome!

I know and like their music since 1998 when they released Shrink, which is their best album. My favorite track from Shrink: Your Signs   The Notwist is one of the very few modern bands from Germany worth listening to imo.

I disagree with the apparent general premise that 'real' music comes from a very talented performer. In reality, a performer is not very important. A performer doesn't make good songs. A composer does.

The composition of a song is much, much more important to the quality of the music than any other stuff people (even you guys who think your music or your artists are the 'real' ones)  like to associate with music, like lyrics, song's video, artist's image, etc.. Somehow, the absurd majority of people have forgotten that and that's why today there's so much divergence to what makes good music.

Along these lines, I find performers to be way too overrated. When you see an invention, who do you credit? The guy who replicated it, or the guy who invented it? When you read a poem, who do you give credit to? The writer of the book you're reading that happens to have the poem in there for some reason, or the actual poet who first came up with it?

Therefore, I believe YOU guys bitching about 'real' music being gone should shut up if you don't know what you're talking about. Performance is a way of showing musical talent but certainly not the only way. Composition is far more important. If artists tweak their voice a little to make the song sound better, then why shouldn't they? It's about the sound. They're not any less talented musicians. Sure, they're not as good performers, but if they are in fact the writers of the music, and if the music is of good quality, then they deserve all credit.

That being said, I dislike the genres of music that exist now, but that's my own personal taste. Some of the newer music is of worse quality, but truly, bad music has always existed and will continue to exist.