As I became conscious of music sales and commercial success in the early eighties, I was arrogant. Though there was popular music of the time that I loved, like Grover Washington Jr. with Bill Withers doing “Just the Two of Us,” for the most part I categorically rejected, ignored, and/or insulted any mainstream music. I heard it as a product created for thoughtless people that didn’t really love music. They just did what they were told and embraced the pabulum forced down their throats so they could get laid. Squares and lames. If everyone liked it, it couldn’t be good. Gimme the underground
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