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39. There's plenty of good music out there, BUT

Thu Apr 18, 2013, 04:35 PM

Apr 2013

it's almost impossible to find without a ton of digging. What passes for popular "music" on the radio these days is worse than at any time save for the awful period between Elvis going into the Army and the arrival of The Beatles. (Yes, there were the Beach Boys and some cool girl groups. But they did not begin to hold the tsunami of awful at bay during those years) Formulaic, processed, lowest-common denominator swill. Popular music has been dumbed down to a point that was unimaginable even 25 years ago.

During the 1960s and 1970s if you listened to commercial radio for 40 minutes you were sure to hear two or three really good songs. These days you could listen for months and hear only things that make you want to stick an icepick in your ear.

On the other hand, the intertubes have made it possible to widely disseminate weird and cool little alternative cultures like Bronydom, in which I am a very enthusiastic participant

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