I was buying 8 tracks of Grandmaster Flash with food stamps
I was watching this on VHS when I was 9
That sure stirs up some ghosts for me. Don't know Nucleus, but know all the rest.
"Pop", "Rock", "Rap", "Country" and any other genre you can name has been manufactured, homogenized and packaged since its inception. Just that some make it more obvious than others (Fabian, Paul Anka, Monkees, Bieber etc).
When it comes to music, add a "suit" into the mix and it will happen.
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