I learned JUST enough Windows 98 to find out what was being said about me.....*grin*...

You know, I have a little card I bought years ago...it is on the wall next to my stereo...it has a cute drawing and a message:

I like the right kind of music-what kind do YOU like?

When it comes right down to it, we ALL know that values in any field are pretty relative and seldom easily definable.....yet, we all know that values are assigned to many things, by 'experts' as well as by the masses. The thing is, they don't all use the same criteria to assign! .....Some choose some pretty bad stuff because it fills a need...(greasy french fries....loud, raucous music...bright, gaudy, ostentatious clothing...[some even dote on Flamingos!]) It doesn't make it 'good', just popular...and in many ways, 'bad' is simply less work to find or create.

As much as I love the genre' of traditional music, there is a lot of it that IS bad. The neat thing is, that BECAUSE so much of it had been sifted and processed for many years, a lot of the worst gets lost and what survives has a lot to recommend it. Are there some 'good' songs being written today? Sure....call me in 40 years and we'll discuss 'em. I simply do NOT have the time or energy to sort most of them out right now............

(and I am writing this MUCH to late, after coming home from a Louis Killan concert...he does some 'good'music!)