Thank 60s artists. Before rock hit in the 50s, popular music wasn't the money making institution it is now. Then the 50s and 60s hit, the Depression was over, and all of a sudden an entirely new group of people (middle class adolescents) had money to spend on music and all of a sudden record companies were making money hand over fist. Enter disco when the record companies first realized how to manufacture music for mass consumption, enter the next few decades when they slowly managed to perfect their formulas, and record companies bought other record companies to the point that their was damn near a monopoly on popular music companies, AND BOOM. You get the modern system of a few companies using the same formulas to produce the same music, to the point that the radio is entirely useless to find new music that isn't formulaic.
Now you just have to put actual effort into discovering music. Sorry that you have to work.
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Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien
There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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