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Originally Posted by Table 5
The thing is, the Beatles was popular music too. And so were the Beach Boys, Queen and a whole other bunch of great "acts". Good music used to be what commerce liked, it's just that the standards have totally fallen off.
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Bingo. Guys like Sam Phillips and others later on, it could be argued had a genuine ear for good music and that accounts for their legendary successes.
Maiden may be "mainstream" but no one can deny the quality of their artisanship.
Today... it just sucks. I don't know. I blame it on the 80s and MTV. Seriously, video DID kill the radio star.