[FreedomPoster]

>>The music business as controlled by corporate music entities is not about music, it's about selling.

This is nothing new.

And the radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools Tryin' to anaesthetise the way that you feel!

Elvis Costello, Radio, Radio, c. 1978.

It was obvious 25+ years ago. It's just really "in your face" today. I have hope that XM and the Internet will kill the "star-makin' machinery behind the popular song".

[badfreeper]

"star-makin' machinery behind the popular song"

Surprised nobody mentioned Joni Mitchell. Okay, maybe she's more folk than rock, but she DID write Woodstock.

[weegee]

The machinery for making popular song has been in place since the 1880s, vaudeville, and sheet music. Listen to what you want to, the public tastemakers be damned.