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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Felon" data-source="post: 3416971" data-attributes="member: 8158">Yes, there was always pop music. In the 1970's, there was The Monkees. In the 1980's, there was The New Kids on the Block. The difference? Those bands were considered jokes back then, and whatever success they experienced was considered a fluke. They were for little girls. To be a teenager back then, and to hear that the guys this in this band weren't friends who played in their dad's garage--that they were, in fact, a bunch of strangers who couldn't play any instruements or sing, they just met some formula for attracting girls ("heartthrob","big brotehr type", "bad boy")...man, that's not a real band. It was time to turn off the radio and put some good stuff in the cassette player. But now the industry has refined the science of creating pop music. They don't need to have agents sitting in seedy clubs looking for garage bands. When was the last time a song with a killer electric guitar solo hit #1 on the billboard charts?</blockquote>