Well, that's fair enough. Before, you just made sweeping blanket statements that really didn't make you sound good. I just get tired of these people that obviously make no effort to give a fair chance to anything, and then sit around and complain like it's everyone's fault but theirs if they hate everything. That was the impression that I got from you before. You just gotta think twice every now and then about how you come off when you word something. I know most people here probably know you or whatever, but remember not all of us do. So yeah, sorry if I was a bit harsh, but you gave the impression of an attitude that I really have little patience for.
Also, while you do have a point about corporate radio stations (it is true that Clear Channel are evil demons from Hell), I still maintain that there's a lot of great stuff out there, even just in the mainstream. Maybe that's not true of where you live, but for instance here, they have a great rock station that has an all-request metal show every friday night, which plays a lot of great underground metal bands, a four-hour indie rock show every sunday night that plays a lot of fantastic cutting-edge bands, many of which aren't even signed to a label. And, they have a cool "flashback lunch" every day where they take requests and play a lot of cool 80's and early 90's stuff, and there's a DJ that plays a song of his choosing at 3:00 every day, and it's usually something really cool and eclectic that you don't often hear on the radio. And no, you don't hear anything from the oh-so-hallowed Inside Out catalog, but that's definitely a lot of cool variety.
Oh, and one more thing: not to attack your tastes or anything, but don't you find that a lot of modern prog bands are pretty much just the same old same old? I mean, I don't really hear a lot of innovation in the modern prog scene. There's stuff like Pain of Salvation and the Flower Kings, who are cool and creative, and of course Enchant have great melodies and songwriting, but I mean a lot of these newer prog bands to me sound just as formulaic as a lot of the things you hear on the radio. Just my personal opinion, of course.