On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 12:43:45 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 19/04/2012 9:43 PM, Bryan wrote:
>
>>> We also learned what music we liked. The top 100 was list of the music
>>> that was being pushed by the record companies. Teenagers, despite their
>>> rebellious nature, got sucked into the peer pressure that was being
>>> exerted on them.
>>
>> Still, there was a lot of good stuff. The Rolling Stones... Man,
>> from the first of their self written songs, through at least Exile, it
>> was all so good. Tell you another good thing, spinach with Gouda
>> cheese sauce.
>
>
>Sure. There was some good stuff, but there was a lot of crap too. When
>the British Invasion hit there were some great bands, but there was a
>lot of crap that got sucked into the teen music market along with the
>Beatles and the Stones. Then there was the imitators, like the
>artificially created Monkees, recruited to play parts in the band that
>was based on the Beatles.
....

As far as pop music goes, much of The Monkees stuff was not bad at
all!

But you are correct. The public's appetite for crappy music never
ceases to amaze me.

John Kuthe...