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To: SMGFan

The music buying public today is only exposed to one hit wonders and short lived superstars with a few hits before they fade. They don’t get exposed to artists that can turn out hit after hit.

The Eagles, like many superstars of their day, are now on the oldies but goodies playlists—but it is proof that their music has lasting power.


10 posted on 08/20/2018 9:46:46 AM PDT by wildbill (Quis Custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches the watchmen?)
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To: wildbill
The Eagles, like many superstars of their day, are now on the oldies but goodies playlists—but it is proof that their music has lasting power.

I can identify over 100 music artists in the 60's and 70's that had superb albums. I can't name one from the 90's.

26 posted on 08/20/2018 10:05:05 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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The music business in America is controlled by communists. Music that is promoted is dissonant and not melodic.

It’s all in the communist manifesto. Ugly, foul “art,” music with no imagination or interesting hook. Tom Petty called out the music industry and it got his last 8 or 10 albums banned from radio.

I actually called a radio station to request a song of Petty’s that was really good but not one of his classics like American Girl and the DJ said they weren’t allowed to play it. Petty’s album The Last DJ is about this exact subject. And it’s very good with 3 or 4 songs that could have been huge hits. RIP TP.


46 posted on 08/20/2018 10:20:28 AM PDT by subterfuge (RIP T.P.)
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The music buying public today is only exposed to one hit wonders and short lived superstars with a few hits before they fade. They don’t get exposed to artists that can turn out hit after hit.


Not true at all Beyonce, Swift, Mars, there are lots of stars with ten or more top ten singles out there. I bet people could name 20 current pop stars with more than 10 top 25 hits.


69 posted on 08/20/2018 10:40:30 AM PDT by poinq
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