I can't speak for the others but I consdider bad music to be music with little or no melodic structure; take some of the rave music as an extreme example: a comupter program could churn that out without human interaction.

I do not feel that because I don't like a song, it is necessarily bad music. Although I tend more towards folk music (especially Celtic and English dance music) my tastes are quite varied. The only consistent dislikes I have are rave, rap, modern classical and modern jazz.

I believe that marketing does lay a big part in getting poor quality music played by the masses and that people tend to listen to what the owers of the tv and radio tell them is the in thing to be listening to rather than judging for themselves and this has been demonstrated on several occasions. Altough I happened to like this music weren't the Monkeys created as a sort of American answer to the Beatles? A more recent British example is the Spice Girls. They are certainly not the most talented group of performers but they were created, their image was cleverly marketed and all of a sudden a group of second rate performers are one of the most popular bands in the UK...

Ewan McVicar commented that he didn't think much on some of the songs in the DT. I do not think that anybody is suggesting that if it is folk music, it is good and I am sure that there would be quite a few that I don't like for one reason or another. Altough I would suggest that because of the nature of folk music and the way it expresses the views of people, it is only to be expected that some songs might be "politically fascistic" or considered "grossly insulting" to some. I have a lot of Irish rebel songs in my repertore but I don't sing them any more because I don't want to upset people but I still regard a number of them as being good songs.

Jon