I truly love music, which is why I do not “do” TOP or POP 40. And because of that, I can proudly say that I am not at all disappointed with what I listen to! I love my tunes so much that I give it 12-14 hours of dedication, everyday! The entire time I am at work my speakers are pounding or my eyeballs are shaking (headphones).

I stopped listening to the radio (mainstream) ages ago because it simply did not please me and rarely did it radiate what I like! Okay, ONE university station plays one-hour of what I like! And the publicly funded CKUA offers -->A<-- funky show called Tongue and Groove. Am I supposed to give my time to something that offers me a few hours a week? NOT!

Give me jazz, house (disco mainly), Detroit techno, Goa trance (NO LYRICS ...trance does not have words!), black gospel (uplifting), soul, west coast R&B (no, not gangster rap! Stuff by gods like The Hardkiss Bros) and so on!
Hell, I still have not touched on the brilliant genres (started by the likes of Warp Records), previously known as “intelligent” techno (bands such as Autechre, Aphex Twin etc), or even “experimental”. Nobody listened to them because they were “too different”. Well, I that is what one thinks, odds are they returned to listening to what was comfortable (same ole).

I strongly believe the common problem is people only listen to what is fed to them! They look to popular media (news papers, magazines, music video channel) for popular opinion of --- you guessed it --- p_o_p_u_l_a_r music!
They’ll never search the obscure forums.
They’ll never go to underground clubs.
They’ll never swing their thingaling @ theYardBirdSuite!

No kidding you're disappointed - I would be to, in myself, if I did popular, simply because there is so much MORE!
I can see it now: one decides they are sick of their current favourite, so they scan until they hear a “new” station, whom is playing a tune they like (??) so they lock the dial!
WTF: the station plays exactly the same stuff, however it is fed to them by a different nanny (I refuse to soil the title DJ). Makes no sense.

When I am shopping at Winners (or other stores that play god-awful music such as classic ?? 80's ??); ripping up the slopes (skiing); playing disc-golf, kiting &/or whatever, I am constantly asked, "What is THAT your listening to – I am not familiar with it”. So, like an idiot, I proceed to explain, all the while they look at me as if I just blew hard in to a whistle.

I attribute my listening pleasure to the fact that I simply insist on walking a different line (I utterly refuse to follow trend!!!)!
Even when big badass skis come out, that EVERYBODY loves, I do not touch, because I am not interested in the cults!

One last thing: I am simply stunned at how people will embrace technology, and new innovations, and say they “love change” yet they refuse to listen to “electronic” or truly new music. And lets not kid ourselves with the I like real instruments excuse: exactly which popular artists record their albums live (no production what-so-ever, such as editing)?
I'll venture a guess and say NONE!