1.   Merely striving to maintain any standard at all in the face of the power of commercial pop is an accomplishment in itself.

2.   They presented themselves as preservers and disciples of venerable styles, holding onto music that was homemade and proud of its distance from the machinations of commercial pop.

3.   Its repertoire ranges from rhythm and blues, jazz and country and western to evergreens and commercial pop.

4.   THE Ways, who belted out country pop songs in their first two albums, has attempted a different genre - commercial pop - for their third album.