@Broken Adam
I was actually going for low standards (at least low standards for that time) with that.
If i went for high standards, people would inevitably say i wasn’t looking hard enough, and in fact, i’m not actively looking for them, and i did manage to find a handful of good national albums this decade by pure chance.
But this? that stuff was popular to a certain degree - some older people (less than what used to be when i was a kid, though) still play their songs at bars 40 years later, the street radio in the neighborhood next to mine occasionally plays them too, they aren’t
bad, but they can’t touch the classics by any means.