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For instance, here in Santa Barbara, we don't have a CHR station. Santa Barbara is a very unusual town... a CLASSICAL station is one of the top 5 stations, and our classic rock station KTYD is dominating the ratings, along with alternative station KJEE.Ok back to the point, so let's say you're a dude that wants to hear the latest Black Eyed Peas song or something like that... where do you go if you're town isn't street enough to have this sort of station like Power 106 or KIIS FM in LA? My solution as of right now is... dammit I'll create my own station!
but anyway, do any of you live in a place where there isn't a real CHR station to listen to? and yes I know about iPods and MP3s and bittorrents...
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Get a satellite radio or hang out at record stores that have listening stations.
Give me rhythm or give me death!
Sorry.
thanks for the laugh J.no kidding, the stuff on the radio is mostly unimaginitive junk released by the dozen or so "big player" record companies with infrastructure in the dozen or so media conglomerates. it's lousy music that's intended to be disposable on purpose. just drill the same bland songs into the heads of most sheep 10 times per hour, and some of them will actually buy it.
i remember getting into an argument with a former roommate one day. i said something about "the beatles" to which he replied that they suck. i asked why... his reply was "they're so old!". he was a big fan of the mostly defunct "alternative music" that was the rage 5-7 years ago. i easily won the argument when i asked him "will you remember any of these songs 10 years from now?" to which he could only reply an honest "no".
music that still sells 40 years later can't be bad. i also remember reading a gal's recount of almost the same exact story with someone she knew.
the big players have turned consumerism into a science.
if you want a taste of REAL music that's a way better value than those $18 for one "good" track "hot hits" artist discs, pick a rykodisc CD up.
imagine $10 ("the best of both worlds") for a 2 CD set with AMAZING music in a wide variety of styles. that's what i consider "hot hits", and i'm FUSSY when it comes to music.
I do think we're coming at this from slightly different directions. There was disposable pop music 10 years ago, 25 years ago, 50 years ago. Sounds different but in a lot of ways it's much the same. Some of what I like from 5-7 years ago might well fit into that description of 'all the rage' alternative music. Yr pal's ridiculous stance on the Beatles aside, will I listen to that stuff in 10 years? Yes. Just like I still listen to the stuff from 10, 20, & 30 years ago (or longer) that people who thought they knew something told me I wouldn't listen to or care about. Like...the Beatles, for instance.There haven't been a dozen big record labels in awhile, it's down to 4, possibly soon to be 3. No, Ryko's not one of them, but I've come across a clunker or two that they've managed to put out. They're darned good, but it's not all gold. And there's plenty of music that's still selling 40 years later that yes, I'd say is bad, at least in this house it is. Meanwhile, there's a guy who recently opined on Music Lane his distaste for Billie Holiday & Bob Dylan's music, which is certainly 'bad' to him, so to that statement, I'd ask, bad to who? We shouldn't underestimate the power of the nostalgia market. But when it comes to radio playing pop stuff, I don't figure that audience to be regular visitors to this site, that's for sure.
there are a variety of tastes here i'd venture to guess. i'd bed there are alot of jazz and opera *gag gag cough vomit gag wretch gag vomit* fans here.of course not everything on rykodisk is awesome, but only someone with a tin ear could pick the $10 2 CD "the best of both worlds" compilation and not be blown away by something. the entire $5 "steal this disc" series is another great example.
pop music is pretty much disposable. i do listen to "hot hits" stations sometimes, and when there is an occasional song that i like, i'd rather buy it as a CD single (especially for the STFU instrumentals) than spend twice that amount on an album with the same song and a dozen fodder tracks.
there are still hundreds if not thousands of labels out there, but only the big players get to brainwash the sheep, i mean public. "rhino records" offers a ton of killer discs and compilations still, but none of it is new.
i just view anything on the radio these days as DELIBERATELY mediocre to foster a "must keep up with the jonses planned obsolescence" market. the people that buy the crap don't stop to think for a minute that they're being duped. they just go with the brainwashing program.
there are surely OTHER labels out there producing music with real integrity. i've always been a big fan of "roir records" for as long as i can remember. they do have alot of junk, but they also have some awesome cassettes for mere chump change. 1/2 of the cassettes i gambled on in my order were pretty darned good at just $4 a pop i think.
the big corporations are ruining music... the little guys are the ones keeping it alive.
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