"dave weil" wrote in message
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On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 18:09:31 GMT, "Michael McKelvy"
wrote:


By the same token, the music companies produce
work that sells, so if it's crap, it's none the less crap people are
wanting to own.

They have a target market. The 12 to 14 year olds. There seems to be
little
product aimed at grown folks.

You're just not trying hard enough.

There's tons of interesting stuff out there right now.

Dave, I live in the LA area and have every kind of music format available on
FM radio. I have my tuner set for everything that's broadcast in English.

I used to like Metal but these days it all sounds like people copying each
other.

I like lots of different kinds of rock, but can't stand hip-hop. I want
music with a melody.

I hear some country once in awhile that's fun.

I like some jazz, but they only jazz station I can get is also an NPR
station, KCLU, and when they play music I like a lot of what I hear.

Still, I was raised on top 40 radio in the 60's when you could go from Mitch
Ryder to the Beatles to the Supremes, the Stones, Aretha Franklin, the Four
Tops, the Beach Boys, Simon And Garfunkel, and on and on without changing
the station. There were only 2 in Seattle at the time playing rock n roll.

Now everything is a format and if you don't enjoy one particular format, the
odds of hearing anything new and good is kinda remote.

I used to subscribe to CD review magazine and they had a program of
inexpensive samplers to help promote indy labels and I miss them.

Hopefully pop music will come back to something where it's more about music
than about dance. I just can't see people sitting around listening to
Beyonce or MnM and waxing nostalgic the way my peers might over an old
Beatles track.

YMMV.