I just turned 60 on my last birthday. It is the way of things for people to mature and grow older, and hopefully wiser. When I was young the music I liked was not particularly appreciated by my parents either. That's okay. It didn't mean that the Beatles weren't any good. It was simply a milestone of the passing of time. I am a musician and I also compose music myself. I reject the idea that there is no one out there writing good music anymore. There are those of us who still do. We are simply in a growing minority. You have to search it out but it is out there. I write instrumental listening music for malls, elevators, restaurants, movie backgrounds, TV beds, commercials, etc. I think that when a musician who has been a musician for as long as I have weighs in on this topic we do so with some level of tolerance. I have seen much change during the passing of my time. I entered the world of music as a musician in 1963 at age 14. I am now 60 (46 years and counting). I tend to look at new music today as more of a sign of its time than anything else. Each generation has their sound that they associate with. When I was coming up the music I listened to was a sign of defiance, protest, rebellion, anything that would make my parents cringe and go against the establishment. That hasn't changed. In fact I think that cringe factor (and the good old fashioned profit motive) does more to shape popular music than we imagine. I take things in stride and play music I like. I don't have to listen to stuff that doesn't appeal to me, but that's not going to make it go away. Young people have as much right to try and make me cringe with their music as I had to try and make my folks cringe. It's not about that. When the dust settles and you look back over successive generations what we tend to remember as the "good" music from that decade means something different to everyone. When I write music I tend to write in the style of the old masters like Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, Rodgers & Hart, Mancini, Irving Berlin, Duke Ellington, George Gershwin, etc. To me that's the stuff of real substance. It contains more than just loud one four five chords. It actually employs some musical theory and harmony to create an interesting melody and rhythm that tells a story, a tone poem if you will. So, look a little harder, there is still lots of good stuff being written today that is worth the search. We all define "good" according to our own tastes and preferences. The fact that there is so much "bad" stuff out there only helps us appreciate the "good" stuff that much more when we do run across it. Check out CD Baby. Do a search for whatever you're looking for and chances are you'll find something that you do like. You could even do a search for Piece Offering or Rounding The Bend. ;-)