Originally Posted by
chaulky61
I don't know, we may be into a generational thing here. Keith Richards once said 90% of all music is crap and I think he might of been was on to something with that statement. I am sure that there has been plenty of good music in the last 15 years, if one bothered to search it out. I agree the mainstream is lame, but then again much of it has always been. That said, I mainly buy/listen to classical and jazz these days, catching up on all that I missed growing up - Bill Evans and Glenn Gould are currently on heavy rotation in my world.
This is one album
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kind_of_Blue that absolutely does it for me, has been doing it since I first heard it in 1972 and has been played constantly ever since. The dissonance, beauty, melody, it all takes me to a place of serene beauty. The way the music moves, seems to change with every time listened to, some new element coming out. At times I worry it will fall into cutesy melodic riffs, then it just skirts away, just in time and keeping the beauty intact. It is one album I always have with me.