And the Music Sucks BECAUSE....

Payola Payola Payola.

I think the time long since passed when commercial radio had anything at all to do with the art and joy of music. I have to disagree with Dr. X about the quality of music being made although a comprehensive suckorama it is certainly true of the music one normally hears in pop sources.

The best stuff - ironically the best pop - is off the pop radar because of the endless droppings of cultural moose turds like those issued by Sony Music. Mall-core, gangsta-shop, country nazi pop are all abominations bought and paid for by the suits. (It was impressive to hear Chuck-D the other day taking thugs to task while talking up public broadcasting.)

10 mil is far too little for robbing the world of its best music. Tie these suits in a bag with a cobra and toss them in a river - unless you consider this too cruel to the cobra.

Cheer yourself up, or over: Queens of the Stone Age, Old 97s, and even the Medieaval Baebes, (new cd was #1 on the classical charts, which suggests that SEX is the long-missing ingredient in classical) there was a band called Denali with an impressive singer - the point is its' actually out there, but like all of us I am generally failing to go out and find it live,which is naturally where it lives.