Hey it’s the fat man and I have to say a lil somthing about what I hear on the radio today. I sure wish that there was a station here, or even a few more bands that would spare me from all the chart-topping tenny bopping prefabricated happy horseshit that brings up the bile from the back of my throat. It’s all a bunch of crap produced lame-ass tame-ass sorry-ass excuses for atrists and musicians who don’t even write any of their own songs. I’ve no time or tolerance for old wac shitty acts like that. I wouldn’t piss on their albums to put out a fire. And the radio seems to want to play this crap all the damn time, the same 10 songs over and over it’s all crap! It’s bullshit it sucks. I know this is a real juvenile rant and that I am not accomplishing anything, I just had to get this out of my head before I broke something and got fired! Thanks for your consideration.
Noonch.
Fat Guy in a Little Coat,
SDMB Self-Righteous Clique
buy more CDs. listen to college radio/NPR/talk radio
utilize car cassette player/CD player/MD player/8 track player/MP3 player
you have a neat little feature on your radio, called a tuner. USE IT! or, if it’s broken, another knob or button, customarily opposite of the tuner, called the ON/OFF button, or knob (often in conjuntion with the volume knob), can be used to silence the noise from the speakers. LEARN IT LOVE IT LIVE IT.
if you can’t buy many CDs, go to your local magazine store, buy a monthly magazine called CMJ Monthly. it’ll come with a CD, often with 20+ tracks. it usually has a wide variety of music on it, from rap, to alternative, to country (rarely) to dance and electronic. the best part? $5.99. (or at least it was)
or learn how to sing! it can be fun to entertain yourself on your way to work!
I’m with Satan on this one. (And I’ll go to Hell for that…sorry, I’m sure that line has been used before… )
Radio has always sucked, (except for Classical radio.) I keep my radio fixed upon the Classical station, and on long road trips I listen to “compilation” tapes I make of my favorite music. I don’t like fiddling with the radio dial when I am traveling long distances.
Also, with the 3000+ LPs my dad collected over his lifetime, probably 500 LPs of my own, plus an outragious CD collection (growing daily thanks to eBay and Amazon.com) why would I need radio? I can listen to whatever I want, when I want without it.
What gets me are the radio stations that call what they play “alternative”. Better than Hanson or Celine Dion, but not really “alternative”. For that you need a good college station. Unfortunately I can’t pick up KXLU when I’m at work (or for half of my commutes, for that matter), and they switch to Classical in the evenings and have Spanish-language broadcasting all weekend.
Yeah, new music “always sucked”. Grunge was hated by people who listened to New Wave, New Wave was hated by Punks (who often felt that their “purity” had been usurped by the new musicians) and the people who listened to Heavy Metal, whose music was hated by Classic Rockers, whose music was hated by Rock’n’Rollers (50’s rock), whose music was denounced as “jungle music” by those who listened to whatever-it-was-called before that, whose music came after Swing and Big Band, whose music was disliked by… and so on. There’s a scene in Amadeaus where Mozart’s music was denounced as having “too many notes”.
I had a roommate who listened to New Wave all the time! He didn’t understand why I rarely listened to it any more, since we are the same age. I told him I didn’t listen to 80s music because it’s the 90s. I believe in living in the time you’re in. Appreciate the past, and dream of the future; but remember you’re living now!
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Grunge was hated by people who listened to New Wave, New Wave was hated by Punks (who often felt that their “purity” had been usurped by the new musicians) and the people who listened to Heavy Metal, whose music was hated by Classic Rockers, whose music was hated by Rock’n’Rollers (50’s rock), whose music was denounced as “jungle music” by those who listened to whatever-it-was-called before that, whose music came after Swing and Big Band, whose music was disliked by… [\quote]
almost biblical in your phrasing Johnny…which enables me to say
“Do you have faith in Rock and Roll can music save your mortal soul…”
sorry…
J
“We should have as high a regard for the church so as to keep it out of as many things as possible”
Fluther Good -the Shadow of a Gunman.
Sean O’Casey
. . . And that awful new “jass” and “ragtime” music has the young folks shaking and twisting at tango teas, doing the Castle Walk and the Grizzly Bear!
Give me the good old days of the waltz and the mazurka . . .
People thought that Strauss’ music (waltzes) was the music of the devil when he first played it to the public… seems the “Old” generation will always dislike the “Young” generations music…
BTW: When we all get old, into our 70’s and 80’s, what will be the music we listen to?
Like the way that people who survived WWII
in Britan sing the old Vera Lynn song “We’ll meet again” will the Rest Homes be resounding to the sounds of “Freebird” or “Smack my Bitch up”?
sorry for the Hijack
J
“We should have as high a regard for the church so as to keep it out of as many things as possible”
Fluther Good -the Shadow of a Gunman.
Sean O’Casey
“When we all get old, into our 70’s and 80’s, what will be the music we listen to?”
—We’ll be sitting on our rocking chairs at the Old Folk’s Home and the help will tease us by playing “Last Dance” on the PA system and watching us all frantically trying to write our phone numbers on cocktail napkins.
The radio doesn’t suck. The stations ON the radio suck. I want to listen to Metallica and Nirvana, not Blink One-Eighty-SuckMyWeiner or Savage Garbage.
In some respects, I doubt the ‘Old generation vs. New Generation’ theory. Perhaps I am the exception, but I listen to old bands like Sting, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, and many others. I do not have a problem with any older music, I have problems with this ‘I’m happy so I’m going to irritate you with it’ crap.
Although, it shouldn’t last much longer. Music tends to go in waves, like television. About 10 years of happy expression, 10 of angry expression. Let’s hope…
Music today does not “suck.” The corporate trash you hear on MTV or the local Top 40 radio might suck. But you can always find good music, you just need to know where to look. It seems that as time goes on, you need to dig deeper and deeper to find music of and redeeming value. But it’s there. Go to CDNOW or Amazon.com or something, and type in an artist you like. It will give you a list of what other people who like that artist also like. It’s a good place to start, at least.
And if you are indeed a Limp Bizkit fan, you can shove that cookie up your own ass (or whatever). It doesn’t get much more corporate than LB and Korn.
“History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.” -Winston Churchill
Hey, wow, wiggum got it!
I was hoping someone would catch onto this. In all actuality, I listen to all kinds of music and don’t really have a problem with too much radio. I just wanted to see a response to a professional rant. Only seventeen responses? I should have tried it in MPSIMS first.
Thanks for all your help guys.
And oh yeah. Alphagene. Kiss my ass right in the crack, queerbait.
Guess what, Chachi, Limp Bizkit is mainstream pimp rock. They’re all over the radio and constantly on MTV. They’ve paid radio stations to play their music repeatedly and have freely admitted it.
You are right. The radio plays the same 10 songs over and over. Three of them are Kid Rock songs and two are Limp Bizkit. About as mainstream and overplayed as you can get.
What, no “Noonch”? Hit the road, junior. Tell the “strippers” I said hi. heh.
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