You can't trust tastes by listening to classic rock. It's all corporate playlists determined to appeal to broad audiences.If they wanted to divide by quality and oringality, they would not be announcing Def Leppard alongside Jimi Hendrix. Instead, there'd be Beatles, Stones, Hendrix, Cream, Who, that kind of thing, then a 70s program with Zeppelin, Clapton, all that, then 80s, with AC/DC and those pals. Instead, it's all mish-mashed together and the poppy-stuff (which makes for easier listening) is played more often than material from the 1960's.
But I don't have much to do with classic rock stations anymore since they don't play much 80s pop or 60s rock. Instead, it's hair metal stuff, 70s crap (like Steve Miller, who I'm absolutely sick of), and that sort of thing. Of course, if this city had more radio stations, I'd definitely be tuned in to them -- like an 80s pop channel, similar to the one on the internet I'm using to create my ultimate collection. But the closest thing we have to 80s is a soft rock station and a classic / modern rock station. Sadly, the latter one is unbearable due to their playing modern rock. I'm lost on the youth of today and their capacity to listen to absolute dissonance. In the 80s, people knew how to rock and throw a party and have funk while still retaining melody and a positive attitude. Now, most rock sounds like the Passion of the Christ on electric guitar sung by zombies and most pop is dumbed-down studio magic sung by a pretty face. And don't even begin talking about bad hip hop. There are two dimensions to that -- the unoriginal, Escalade-rapping, mass-marketed bullcrap and the glossy stuff that appears in every hip-new-device-that-you-must-buy commercial ever made. It's staggering how many commercials now rely on a hip hop beat. At least in the 80s, hip hop was original and political.
