Fad? Seriously? “Fight for Your Right” came out 20-plus years ago. There’s no fad here. If you don’t like them, hey, fine - I’m definitely a fan but that’s far from my favorite song, it’s overplayed and eminently get-sick-of-able. I think the band is very funny, though.
Most radio sucks. What else is there to say? I started keeping track once of the times I switched from one station to another and found the same song playing on two rock stations. Usually it was Led Zeppelin or Pink Floyd.
I listen mainly when I am in one of two places:
On the train is easy. I have a 32 GB iPod Touch I take with me. I haven’t listened to something I don’t like in a very long time.
In my truck, I have XM and an input for another iPod that is mounted to my dash. If my own music gets boring, I listen to XM Comedy, liberal talk radio (Channel 167) or one of the niche rock stations.
With today’s technology, it’s entirely possible to create a shield around you that deflects all shitty music. My question is - why don’t you?
I forgot to add:
The Beastie Boys peaked with Licensed to Ill (the one with the crashed airplane on the cover that spells out “Eat Me” when you hold it up to the mirror), and haven’t put out anything remotely cool since “Paul’s Boutique.” When they got socially conscious and all that, it cranked up the suck-o-meter big time.
This past December, DC101 (local rock radio) played “Fight for your Right to Party” literally over and over all afternoon. Maybe three hours solid of “Fight for your Right to Party.” No other songs. Just a stunt as far as I know. After a while, it became strangely soothing.
I just hope no bad people show up in this thread.
It was really fun to watch Tommy Lee do this song with the Univ. of (Kansas? Iowa? Nebraska?) on his reality tv show. The drums on the marching band were great.
I just admitted I watched Tommy Lee’s reality show, didn’t I?
That’s hilarious. If it was up to me, though, I think I would have played it backward for the last hour and a half.
They got the guitar riff from “Smoke on the Water,” or does it all just sound the same to me?
There’s the story of when a cluster of tornados were threatening the Upper Plains, and the authorites contacted the local radio stations to send out warnings, but discovred that they were just transmitters for Clearchannel. Good point, but no cite.
The latter. There’s a bunch of sampling on that album (Rhymin’ and Stealin’ starts with the drum intro from Zep’s When the Levee Breaks and the guitar part comes from Sweet Leaf by Black Sabbath), but I’m sure that guitar part is theirs.
Gotta disagree here - Paul’s Boutique was a much higher peak than Licensed in every sense except commercially. Listen to them in chronological order and it’s like going from black-and-white to color. No comparison, IMO.
That guitar is Kerry King if I’m not mistaken.
As for the fm transmitters I’ve tried that but my cavalier doesn’t seem to want to pick the thing up no matter what stations I try it on.
I think people are missing the point. It isn’t actually about the song itself. It is about activism in the same way that the 2nd amendment calls for activism. If you don’t fight for your right to party, who else is going to do it for you? If you aren’t out there fighting for your right to party every single weekend, you could wake up tomorrow morning with a hangover only to find that the Supreme Court has overturned your right to party. There are no lobbyists or NRA equivalents out there to help. It is all grass roots hence the call to arms being broadcast so often.
Consider moving to northwestern Ontario – I’ve never heard of this song before. (Just now I googled it – it truly sucks – i look forward to continuing to never hear it.)
You terrestrial radio users are so funny
I just hate short playlists. Period.
There’s a radio on in my workplace, and given that songs are like smell in bringing back the memory of a certain place or time, there are 80s songs that I knew and loved then and that always subsequently took me back there, that now take me back to… ooo. .say, 2007. You fuckers don’t have the right to hijack my memories like that.
Look, I LOVED the Eurythmics in the mid 80s, but I don’t need to hear the same couple of songs off Be Yourself Tonight EVERY FUCKING EVENING in May 2008. Sometimes… as in NOW AND THEN… sure.
Then of course there is the LOVE SONG REQUESTS segment with the same three bland late 90s yokel wedding tunes in strict rotation.
There’s a reason wghy, in my car, I listen exclusively to the government broadcast news services.
Rock stations are one of the last sources of palliative consistency in a topsy-turvy world. I was a daily listener in my teens: aimless, long-haired and stoned, delivering pizzas in my '75 Corolla. Years dropped away. A series of tumultuous relationships, five years of four-year college, graduation. Dark days and light. Love, marriage, a career, a house—overnight twenty years and several Presidential administrations have passed, and I’m on the doorstep of middle age in a very different, often dire world.
Homebound one moonlit evening—purposeful, short-haired and sober enough to maintain lane, just for kicks I flip the tuner to the “classic rock” station, and hear the same motherfucking Bad Company song.
Whoah. Flogging Molly is finally getting popular? Nice! I’ve been waiting eight years for that to happen!
Oh, I can think of plenty of sentences where they both go together:
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[li]Linkin Park and Death Cab are terrible.[/li][li]Linkin Park and Death Cab have the songwriting talents of developmentally disabled simians.[/li][li]Linkin Park and Death Cab have fanbases mostly comprised of teenagers who don’t know any better.[/li][/ul]
I could go on…
As far as the rest of the thread goes, yeah… I ranted about that stuff for years - until I moved back to Pennsylvania and discovered WXPN - Philadelphia, an NPR affiliated station that belongs to UPenn, but uses professional DJs. No commercials, no screaming DJs, no ratings grab bullshit, and so little repetition that I actually wish they played stuff more often because no sooner do I like something that’s in their rotation than it gets yanked and replaced by yet another deserving tune. I never, ever, ever change my radio dial anymore. It’s auditory bliss. 
I pit all of you that still listen to corporate radio.
I’d fight for a nationwide ban of “We Will, We Will Rock You” (clunk, clunk, crack, clunk, clunk, crack) from sporting events for at least the next two decades.
When you’re actually at the ballpark, you can’t change the damned channel.
Nothing substantive to add to the thread, I’d just like to say that this thread’s title is the most succinct and on-point thing I’ve read on this board in quite awhile. I didn’t even need to read the OP to know exactly what the thrust of the matter was. It’s the ‘Snakes on a Plane’ of thread titles.