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Originally Posted by jackhammer
My answer-there is always good music out there. You just have to look. A lot of mainstream scenes for any genre of music are pretty poor and music video channels and mainstream radio will never dictate what I should be listening to or tell me what is really happening.
I never listen to the radio these days and I don't have a clue what's top of either the album or singles charts. The whole point of being on sites like these is to share and enjoy different viewpoints on music that is NOT mainstream.
Of course i like a lot of mainstream music but it has always sucked.
Every decade has had good and bad music but some of us don't hear about them because only the good bands remain behind. It just seems that mainstream rock is sucking now because you are growing up with it. Trust me there has always been plenty of crap music around.
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Yeah this is true, but it's not the essence of what I'm trying to say. What I'm saying is that really GOOD bands of old (Beatles, The Who etc.) still recognized as being great today, were hugely popular in the mainstream back then. Today, very few bands that people on
these forums for example would consider good are particularly big in terms of MASS popularity. For the most part, only the bands that we insist are garbage have truly huge commercial success. And THAT is a marked difference in the times. Hell, check it out, Nickelback's last album sold like 7 million. No band that dedicated music fans consider good (except maybe for the Chili's? 'cos a lot of people here seem to adore them) can rival that.