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So compare it to present-day Top 40 radio. There is no contest. There really was a great variety of good music. Check the Top 100 lists through the decade. The

So compare it to present-day Top 40 radio. There is no contest. There really was a great variety of good music. Check the Top 100 lists through the decade. There was a lot of utter dreck as well. Even that might have been at least somewhat interesting. Punk wasn't exactly evenly distributed. The only reason I knew about it then at all was from people writing about it, which made it appear to be an artifact of journalism.

stevefolta 11y ago
Also, in 1975, punk was just getting started, and it wasn't yet clear that radio was not gonna play the Ramones. I remember hearing "Bohemian Rhapsody" on the radio for the first time, and thinking they'd never play it again, 'cause it was just too weird.