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"Garrett Wollman" wrote in message ... [...] For that matter, "mass marketing" radio went the way of the dodo at least as long ago. Have you ever heard a commercial station with both Tim McGraw and Eminem in its playlist? Yet I remember, as recently as the early 1980s, hearing Kenny Rogers and The Clash on the same station. Even "We Play Everything" WRZA has settled down into its "males 25-54" niche; I venture to say (based on my admittedly limited listening experience) that their "everything" does not include either Celine Dion or Buddy Guy. Yeah, isn't that a shame? No, really! (I had to confirm that I wasn't being sarcastic, since a comment like that referring to Dion could be considered snarky). That's exactly what I miss in radio today....way too predictable, no coliones to just play something that's good, regardless of its genre. Gone are the days when you could have a crossover pop hit, as in the days when Country was so big it crossed-over to pop, or (from the sublime to the ridiculous) when the Bee Gees went disco, thus infiltrating AOR stations with the first beachhead for that abomination. This effect appears also on satellite radio, where the music channels are so researched and segregated that it's YOU, the listener, who has to go search out diversity, because you're not going to find anything outside of the channel's target. Given the rate of cultural fragmentation currently observed in this country, the days of any sort of sustained mass audiences are long over and unlikely ever to return. Which only goes to show that we, the American public, have lost our edge. If we can't embrace the slightlest little thing like music as a chance to see a little bit more of the world, then how in the world can you expect that we'll even listen to something as important as where our country is going? Ray Charles was, by most estimations, a great artist. In my opinion, the reason why he is considered so is because, as he said himself, the only thing he required of his music was that it was "good music." His search for "good music" changed our culture, adding jazz, blues, country, rockabilly, rock and so much more, making us the richer for it, and in large measure, even, makiing it possible for acts like the Beatles and other milestone rock acts to effect their own changes. So here we are....stuck at a wall we will not climb. I think I'm going to go out back and slash my wrists. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- If there's nothing that offends you in your community, then you know you're not living in a free society. Kim Campbell - ex-Prime Minister of Canada - 2004 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- For direct replies, take out the contents between the hyphens. -Really!- |
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