poetbear68 said:

About my only complaint of today's music is that it seems like it's been aimless for the longest time. This seems to be changing, and I wouldn't be surprised to find a correlation between the quality of a generation's music and what that generation has to say. If today's generation only has things like "Boom Boom Pow" and all that to say, we're screwed.

But the caveat to this question is that just like people from a generation or two ago complain about the music that's out today, so did their parents complain about the music they listened to, and so on and so on. Everyone thinks their day was the hey day and that nothing that comes after is worth anything.

In general that is true but there's a helluva lot of people who appreciate quality music from whatever era. My mom was 77 years old and she loved everything from Tchakovski to Prince to Public Enemy.