We're reversed then. I used to listen to Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, etc but switched to Metallica, Ozzy, AD/DC, etc. Actually, we're pretty much the same. I have all those artists' albums (vinyl, not CD) too. They all came out of the same timeframe...late 60's to early 80's.
By "today's rock" I'm talking about the anesthetizing, agonizing, one octave singers in the post grunge era. I can't even name any groups for an example, they all sound alike. And then there is the formulaic pop stars...Britney, Shakira and the boy bands...InSync, Boyz to Men and then cRAP music.
Guess I'm just getting old. :-)
Nashville has begun to turn me off too. That's why I've gone to Alternative Country or Americana. It adheres to the old style more than Nashville. Most of it seems to be based out of Texas with the likes of Pat Green (who is beginning to go Nashville on us {don't do it Pat}), Jack Ingraham, the Derailers, 1100 Springs, Larry Joe Taylor to mention a few. KHYI out of Plano Texas plays a lot of their music and they broadcast over the internet. Probably just screwed myself with the bandwidth usage now.