Kind of a bourgeois question but whatever. People do actually listen to these radio stations. They will actively seek out radio stations that really do just play the same five or ten rock hits from the seventies, maybe mixed with some modern garbage. Why do they do this? What is going through their minds on the conscious and unconscious levels?
Alrighty, so then what do you like to listen to so I can tell you all about how you are wrong and have no taste then.
i refuse to engage with this nonsense. You’re trying to flatten all of the human experience of music into a single bucket of “good music” based on a laughably narrow standard.
It’s naive and juvenile, and I’m not going to encourage your ego by getting pulled into a “which Beatle is the cute one” debate
That’s not at all what I am doing. I’m saying that classic rock has plenty of shit music. The Monkees are just a Beatles rip off that had some hits, but contributed little to the wider movement. But the greatest hits are what built the foundation of modern music, and you can hear it’s echoes in modern music. There would be no techno or modern EDM without funk and disco icons from the 70’s, no metal without Rainbow and Black Sabbath. All music is a reaction to what the creator has heard before. Classic rock stations playing the same 50 songs from the 60’s-80’s is no different than orchestras playing the same rotation of classical music, no different to why everyone recognizes Beethoven’s Vth symphony, but only nerds like me recognize his Pastoral symphony.