Easy Listening rant

So I'm loading a bunch of CD's to iTunes.  The category pops up automatically.  A bunch of my jazz albums are showing up as "Easy Listening." 

Well OF COURSE it's easy to listen to.  If it was hard to listen to it wouldn't be very good music.  Stuff that's hard to listen to is, to my mind, generally garbage.  It's someone showing off their skill with seventh chords and ninth suspendeds and all manner of whatnot that "theoretically" works but sounds .... well, less than pleasant. 

So, yeah, it's easy listening, but so is my Bluegrass and my Rock and what little Pop I have (by the way it puts Jimmy Buffett into Pop... What the heck is that about?). 

I think Apple should hire me to rate the music categories.  And I guarantee you NOTHING would be categorized as Easy Listening.  Some things might be categorized as "Elevator Junk", but nothing would be categorized as Easy Listening.  Some things might be listed as "Theoretical Exploration Showoffs", but nothing would be categorized as Easy Listening.  Well, maybe the Ray Conniff singers.  But that's it! 

And maybe Lawrence Welk. 

But that's it.  Really.  Ray Conniff and Lawrence Welk.  Sure as heck not Dizzy Gillespie! 

And Buffett would get his own category.  It would just be Buffett. 

- Zurf