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Did you not grow up with the radio blasting out all those golden oldies??? Or even those clunky old 8 tracks, cassette tapes or CDs...so necessary for cruisin'...
Great response...I see what you are saying and generally agree...I have always been very particular about my music so I was not very radical in my musical tastes (Bobby Vinton, Beach Boys...etc)...but you do make a good point...I grew up in the 50s-60s and things were not as bad then...but I am sure music was hijacked as a way to indoctrinate the masses...like everything else in the 60's...I was always a church musician and so I always enjoyed that music...I am pretty ultra conservative for the most part...
I know...but that is akin to great authors/composers/musicians that were alcoholics or even involved in more "acceptable" drugs...I know the BB's were badly affected by drugs...but it doesn't take away from their best musical harmonies(early)...I never did drink or do drugs and I wish the rest of the world was like that...but they aren't...
And what about people that are morally corrupt in other ways...it just appears the entire world is sin sick...can you only produce good literature or music if you walk the straight and narrow...I think we speak to the issue by whether or not we listen or support certain people/groups/authors...everyone chooses their own limits...
Actually, almost anyone could make records, and they showed up in record stores. There's no telling how many albums my father brought home of odd things that the record store couldn't sell until cut to 3 or 4 for $1. I have thousands of records by artists that never made any kind of chart or radio station list. They were never played on the radio at all.
As far as the big record labels, when I was growing up, they signed anyone with talent that might sell records. They didn't just want the next Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley. They knew there was a very diverse market out there. Most of the record companies sold black records when it was a very minor market. They did the same for all the other ethnic minorities in the country, such as Jewish, Hungarian, and dozens more.
You might want to try Sirius-XM in your car, and in a home player or the computer. They don't have commercials, and they have channels for almost anything you can think of. Willie Nelson started a channel, "Willie's Roadhouse," where they play nothing but classic country. On Sunday mornings at 9:00 AM, Riders in the Sky has a show where they play western records and movie soundtrack recordings from the 1930s on. Gene Autry, Tex Ritter, Sons of the Pioneers, etc. They have an easy listening channel that's good to listen to in the car when driving as it helps keep you from going into road rage because of all the stupidity out there. There's jazz, big bands, comedy, old time radio shows, the variety is endless.
If you don't want to pay for a service, there is a lot you can get on the computer for free. For example, Archive has tens of thousands of old time radio shows that you can listen to or download. There are Usenet newsgroups on the internet that you can access with a newsreader software, such as NewsRover. There are millions of files there, old movies back to silent days, old TV shows, radio shows, and all types of music. I have over a million MP3 files I've downloaded. I can set up a playlist of any type I can imagine and have my own person radio show. I have my computer hooked up to my nice stereo system and some huge speakers.
Don't give up.
From 1996 on, sure, with the available music. Pre-1996, though, there was a lot of variety, local stations would be involved in the local music scene, and DJs would get to play whatever they felt like, or people wanted, during non-prime hours, and even mix up the regular playlists a bit. Deregulation brought it back to the old Payola system, just slightly more complicated.
I grew up back in the time when a DJ would actually bring an armful of records from his own collection to play on the air. There was no such thing as country stations or pop stations. Every station was like TV in that they had different shows at different times throughout the broadcast day. They would have farm news in the morning. In the evening, they might play an hour of country music or a couple of hours of pop like Frank Sinatra and Peggy Lee, and then end the day with relaxing easy listening music to help you sleep. There were even some of the old time radio shows still on the air until I was in 1st or 2nd grade, such as "Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar." Look that one up on Archive for a fun detective show.
On the other hand, because that type of radio is gone, I have my 1,000,000+ MP3 files of every kind of music, old time radio shows, talk shows, and more that I can play any time. My desktop computer is connected to my good stereo with huge speakers. It's great.
I love the classic rock but I think what he is saying is... it is all paid for by people that want to change our society. That timeline from what we thought was good to gangster music of today. Kind of like Disney movies.
I have wrestled with my “knowing” and my “enjoying”.
I have finally reconciled that if the music makes me happy and raises my vibration (especially if I sing along), and I spread that vibration with people I meet, I can’t be mad about that.
Call it discernment or circular logic, but I’ll be damned if the fuckers take that away from me too.
Oh, and my husband is a working musician whose current audience is senior citizens. They are thrilled with live music.
On Monday night in a park we saw a world class orchestra playing patriotic American classics, themes from all the military services, John Phillip Souza, etc. It was wonderful and uplifting. People were waving flags, cheering and clapping to the music.
8 Tracks, ah yes remember them well. Good times with friends for sure.
I still have hundreds of them, as well as a restored like new Pioneer 8-track player/recorder. Yes, I've been able to record my own 8-tracks since the mid 1970s.