I love to listen to music but you know what I really hate about it? All the none sense songs that have no substance always make it to the top of the charts. Whereas all the good songs hardly ever make it at all. It’s gotten so bad I can barely listen to the radio anymore because all they play is stuff I hate. It’s disgusting and I hate it! Anyone else feel the same way? I wonder if anyone, no matter what kind of music they like, is ever completely happy with what the dumb radio stations play. :mad:
Everybody, da’ cook is the friend I mentioned in this thread and who has just today managed to sign up. She has gotten off to a bad start with FallenAngel in that same thread(everyone has to have a cyber enemy!), but oh, well. Anyway, yes, I feel the same way, especially with that stupid Afro man and his drugs. And Bull Shit(BS=Brittany spears[eep!]) I have always hated.
It’s the way of the world, kids. Personally, I haven’t heard any decent original music since about 1976. Well, except for most of that little grunge flicker of a movement in the 90’s.
You do make a point, though. I’ve only ever heard derogatory comments from people about “popular” music. If everybody hates it, why is it so popular? I can only guess that there are a ton of 13 year olds with pockets full of money for CDs and posters.
Wait a minute, I was once 13 with a penchant for buying records and posters. Go figure.
A lot of old “classic” music doesn’t make any sense either. Not that I’m a fan of most of today’s pop music, I’m not. To tell you the truth, when I take the music away from most of the lyrics of songs I know from every decade–the words sound pretty stupid.
I love music, and while I understand your beef with the industry–and they do overplay the more vapid songs–well, all I’m saying isn’t it hasn’t changed a whole lot.
(We just have less protest songs, especially since Rage Against the Machine parted ways.)
For what it’s worth there are plenty of great bands out there. It’s just nowadays you’ve got to really seek them out. A tip, if you want, would be to download Realplayer and use it to listen to dublab, a fantastic internet based radiostation. You won’t regret it.
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The words aren’t all that important all the time. There are a ton of songs with silly, stupid, or nonsensiscal lyrics that are still alot of fun - “Rockin’ Robin”, “Henry the 8th”, “The name Game”, “I am the Walrus”, “Just a Gigolo” etc.
That said, I agree. Radio for the most part sucks. Not only do they usually pick crappy songs, the songs they play that ARE good they play and play and play until it is so beat that you just want to break something next time you hear it. Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t worry be happy” is a perfect example. The first time I heard it I loved it. The 45th time I heard it (later that day), I started to have a different opinion.
Even though radio stations play some good songs sometimes, they are mostly commercials, stupid people saying stupid shit, and the same list of songs played over and over.
Fortunately I have a kick ass record & cd collection. My advice, stop listening to the radio. While you’re at it stop watching TV. That’s mostly garbage too. Except: The Simpsons (hell all of fox Sunday), The History Channel, The Cartoon Channel, and the Spice Channel.
DaLovin’Dj
You’re right, dalovindj, which is kind of surprising because my friend bobevilsquid said you were a jerk.
I guess it takes one to know one.
Thanks Da’ cook. Nice use of the slang form of the word THE.
I think your friend probably got that idea from my responses to her closeminded OP and ensuing remarks in this thread. Her thread is similar to this one, but she attacks hip-hop instead of the just the radio. Attacking hip-hop is a no-no, unless you’re looking for a long flamed filled thread.
You be the judge. What I often do around here, for fun, is play with words and characters to illustrate a point. Alot of people seem to get mad over this style of communication (you’re friend included), but many others see it for what it is: Fun with language. Sarcasm, irony, funny voices, and trash talk are all tools I use frequently around here. Close-minded people will attack me for it, when they should really just be laughing and nodding.
Welcome! Hope you enjoy it here! I sure do.
DaLovin’Dj
That’s a lie. I never said dalovindj was a jerk, just a bit annoying when he gets to his playing on words habit.
Radio is, for the most part, a self-fulfilling prophecy. Things are radio hits simply because the radio says they’re hits.
But let’s look at movies for a second. The majority of hit movies are stupid. Look at the top ten in an y given week and most of them are awful movies that have gotten terrible reviews. yet people defend the fact that they saw them, saying, “Well I don’t expect everything to be Citizen Kane” or “I just go to movies for entertainment, I don’t expect great art.”
Fair enough. Except most of these people will then attack popular music for being stupid and vapid unlike their favorite artsy band like Radiohead or Rush or Pink Floyd or whatever.
So in other words, it’s okay if a movie that you pay to see and that lasts 90 minutes is mindless and derivative, since it’s just entertainment, but a free, four-minute song on the radio is intolerable if it isn’t incredibly thoughtful and original.
That’s why Satellite Radio is coming, children. Commercial-free radio without boundaries.
XM Radio starts in November. 100 Channels of the pure goods. I can get the gear for my truck for about $350 and then it’s just $9.95 per month.
Hey, we pay for cable to get better options, don’t we? Then I’m there for its radio equivalent.
Legomancer; It sounds like you’re making a generality that the people who decry the radio as being vapid are the ones that go drop good money on “Deuce Bigalow” -
Instead I’d say that based the fact that popular radio and popular movies are generally crap, the ones who listen to the vapid crap on the radio are the same as go and waste money on crap movies.
Besides which, there’s this thread in CS which touches on the same topic; What I got out of it is that there’s ALWAYS shit on the radio, and generally it’s the best selling because the buying force are the impressionable youth towards whom the shit is marketed.
MLC All I’m saying is, I have seen on message boards, time and time again, that the same peopel talking about seeing Tomb Raider and American Pie 2 are the same people telling me how stupid I am for not liking Radiohead.
Fair enough 
I wonder if there’s a percentage of people who will only watch art-films, yet listen to Bspears or Nsync?? I wonder if it’s a function of the media-form, rather than the ‘taste’ of the audience? In a moment of introspection, while I’m a self-described musical snob, my reading selection wouldn’t necessarily be described as ‘Great Literature’, and while I try to avoid the more adolescent films, I’ll catch the occasional mindless action flick, though I prefer the non-formulaic ones. shrug As music-snobbery, I’m a musician so I’m definately biased.
“That’s a lie. I never said dalovindj was a jerk, just a bit annoying when he gets to his playing on words habit.”
You know you said that so don’t try to deny it.
So, let me get this straight, da’ cook…
You wrote the OP and you’re a Savage Garden fan?
Yep, she is.
Yeah, and your point being. . .
I find that individual stations have their own all-too-small collections or subscriptions to songs that we quickly tire of but the times I’ve driven across the country I hear all sorts of oldies butt goodies that I wish my station would play.
One alternative I’ve enjoyed recently are the sattelite channels from my dish.
Jonathan C, are you serious? We’ll be able to access those from the road shortly? Well tickle me pink and call me a clitoris, that’ll be one fine day.