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Re: There's plenty of fine music out there...

"The other day, I was waiting on maintenance work for my car, and in the background played a mainstream pop station."

Yeah, and if you were doing the same thing 35 years ago, listening to an AM pop station you would have heard music that could have easily been as equally ...forgettable. Maybe the production qualities then were better in some regards, and possibly the writing a bit more interesting, but most of those songs you would have heard then would probably sound pretty crappy now.

Peruse some old Top 40 - 100 radio station lists from 20-35-50 years ago and you'll see MUCH crap, pop songs that were inane then and haven't improved over the insuing decades.

I didn't hear any of the production shenanigans you mention on the new Ry Cooder, the new Lucinda Williams, the recent Los Lobos, the recent Dixie Chicks, etc. Mind you those aren't Top 40 artists, but the music on " a mainstream pop station" is not generated for my particular demographic, so there is really NO point in my listening to one. Doing so would just make me miserable. But, I'll bet the audience it's geared for loves it.

So that IS NOT the place for me to seek new music, just like it seems it isn't the place for you to seek it. That music is specifically produced for a certain market, just as the pop music I listened to 35 years ago on AM radio was. I could relate to much of it then because I WAS THAT MARKET, but most of it sounds pretty crappy now because it was, and is, pretty crappy pop music.

Pop Radio never really was a great way to get exposed to new and interesing music. Good, but not great. FM was until the mega corporation got their greedy hands around its' throat and instituted strict programming. Honestly though I haven't listened to radio in some 20 years and don't depend on it for new or exciting music. Reading, familiarity with a wide source of musics, friends, WOM have been sufficient for my discovering new or different recordings for the past 10-15 years. I also know what I like. That helps.

Then again, Ry Cooder's new CD sounds for the most part like it could have been recorded 30 years ago, so maybe I'm just living in the past in some regards. There is plenty of new and exciting music, I buy about one new release a week. That covers almost all genres of music. Plus I'm still discovering new to me older recordings, most recently "classical". There is good and new music out there. I just put some effort into it and am thankful I'm not dependant on radio to lead me to lt.

"I always play jazz records backwards, they sound better that way"
-Thomas Edison

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