…but how would I have been exposed to that music without the show?

How would I find music that I’ll possibly love, but I won’t be exposed to?

Doesn’t have to be rock at all.

  • “Underrated” and “awesome” tend to just… mean roughly the same thing in this context, and it’s so individual it’s hopeless to try to recommend stuff based on that alone. Popularity or unpopularity doesn’t necessarily speak to how much you’ll like it, either.

    Recommendations are easier to give the better you know your tastes, and the better you can describe them.

    You can also do some thinking about what you like and why, and see how others describe that song/album/artist/whatever to get some useful starting points. If you want to nerd out, Wikipedia and the like can tell you a lot about musical influences that shaped this or that style, and you can track it down and see if it resonates with you.

    • I’m really talking about quality material I’m not familiar with. I grant that even though it of high quality I may still not like it. But I would like to discover objectively good music that isn’t going to be played on the radio, or XM Sirius, or any other common interface.

      So underrated speaks to popularity; underrated material isn’t going to be appreciated as much as it deserves. Whether I find that underrated material awesome is my own decision. But if like to have the exposure.