Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site mit-eddie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!mgnetp!ihnp4!mit-eddie!nessus From: nessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Top 40 Radio Message-ID: <2119@mit-eddie.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 22:45:43 EDT Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.2119 Posted: Wed Jun 13 22:45:43 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Jun-84 07:08:31 EDT References: <1429@unc-c.UUCP> <2089@mit-eddie.UUCP> <1821@dartvax.UUCP> <2095@mit-eddie.UUCP> <1832@dartvax.UUCP> Organization: MIT, Cambridge, MA Lines: 24 > From: merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) > Uh, Doug, Thanks for correcting me. You're welcome. No problem. > I'm rather curious, though. If Top 40 is such a bad form of > music, why are lots of radio stations playing it? Is it > because, in theory, the people of America have no musical taste? I suppose it's for the same reason that "The A Team" will probably last ten seasons and "The Paper Chase" only lasted one. For the same reason that your average person instead of having a Dali on the wall, has a Christine Brinkley. For the same reason that the people who bring you Harlequin Romance Novels (each with its very own identical plot) are rolling in dough. And probably for the same reason that a person like Ronald Reagan could ever be elected President. -- -Doug Alan mit-eddie!nessus Nessus@MIT-MC "What does 'I' mean"?