Mainstream music makes the baby Jesus cry

The BBQ Pit
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An alternation of Sturgeon’s law:

90% of the stuff you find on the mainstream radio is shit.

90% of indie bands are shit.

Filtered through either nostalgia or selectiveness, it seems to you that your favorite genre is mostly non-shit. This is a fallacy.

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oh no, I just think that 99% of the mainstream music of the last 1/2 decade is crap.

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There’s a lot of good music out there these days, but I agree that it’s not on the radio.

Sirius XM U - good new music

Sirius Classic Vinyl and Classic Rewind - good old music

Youtube songs you like and surf the recommendations down the right side of the screen

Google “best music of 20XX” and peruse the lists

Go to Wikipedia and type in genres you like. Start browsing bands in that genre and related genres

If you actually buy CDs, you can do what I did before the internet: buy albums by the bands that appear in the “thank yous” inside albums you like

Finding good art takes effort, because it tends not to be popular. That goes for music, movies, books, paintings, etc etc etc.

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My grandparentsh had a radio - I think it was some kind of remedy for shingles.

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Sorry man, completely forgot about Roky. Definitely good stuff. oh, and just for the rest of you who critiqued this post…you’re just as bad as I am so STFU

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Well, I’m pretty much a rock omnivore…but I will say that heavy rotation of songs absolutely drives me nuts.
I know there is way, way more good music than that, so why did I hear the same lame song three days in a row during my workout?
And why is it that a good quarter of the stuff you play the same stuff I was listening to fresh out of high school?

Repetition has a way of ruining something that sounded good or okay the first time, and turning it into an OH GOD TURN IT OFF moment.

That said-sorry, but I will never turn off an ACDC song unless I’m in the worst part of a migraine. Because ACDC is special. And I don’t care what you think. When I turned thirty I decided that I would officially stop giving a rat’s ass about what other people thought of my cheesy musical tastes.

To the OP:hope they nuke out that damn tumor successfully-get better, ya cranky bastard!

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OP, please consider suicide. You’re obviously too pure and clever for this corrupt world.

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If you like Roky Erickson I can only assume you’re a cool dude into my kind of music. I’ve been active in the Austin scene for a few months and have made a ton of friends and heard some amazing new stuff. I’d suggest you start out with this guy and if you like what you hear hit me up for more suggestions.

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Or, at least, a move down I-35 to Austin to live with the other hipsters in the state. I recommend the North Loop neighborhood.

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Jesus fucking Christ, dude, the guy has a brain tumor. It’s not like he attacked your mother.

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Your mistake is thinking that this distinguishes the last 1/2 decade from the rest of the history of popular music.

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Nah, so much cool music up here lately,and Pete is bout as far from hipster as you can get. I know him IRL and he’s a decent guy.

You get spoiled around here, we have so many really good live bands, and the crap that acutally gets attention nationally is made all the more irritating for it.

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I must agree. Clearly the OP’s opinions on music are vastly superior to everyone else’s.

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Before the internet, you had to work a little harder to find non-mainstream stuff. Avid listening to college radio was one approach.

Thanks for showcasing your current rave-faves pete. The rant was a little lame, but hey…

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Christ on a cracker. I thought I clicked on the Dope link, How’d I end up on 4chan?

/Cringing in fear from the internet tough guys hanging around this thread.

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Why are you even listening to the radio anyway? Do you not have an MP3 player so you can listen to the bands you like, that nobody has ever heard of (probably because they are shit), and stop whining?

Bullshit. There’s quite a few excellent bands who have mainstream success.

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I was like “LOLOLOLOL” until I realised this was not a parody.

Now I’m like “LOLOLOLOL” for different reasons, including but not limited to that hilarious list of band names.

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As to number 5 on your list, I think the OP may have already been here before. Sept 2010 and every post of his has some sort of in-joke, it’s fishy.

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It’s not often I get a set up so completely, well, set up…

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Yeah, i always get a bit suspicious when someone who joined five minutes ago uses a whole lot of Board in-jokes in their posts.

Of course, the usual response is something like, “I just joined, but i’ve been lurking for ages,” but i never really buy it.