and it did for a while. Interesting to listen to REM and U2...compare their first albums with their latest. Sure, they matured as musicians, but it feels like they were maturing up until somewhere around 1990, and then they got popified, and started pandering a bit.
I still like to listen to a local college station. They play some popular stuff pushed by Big Music, but they play a lot of undiscovered, "rising to the top on its own merits" type stuff.
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