Odd that the same people that dismiss Rap groups, buy music from Rock groups who incorporate rapping in their music. Talkin'about groups like Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rage Against the Machine, Limp Bizkit ( DJ Lethal was in House of Pain previously.). Guess it's like all the people who didn't buy Chuck Berry's music until The Rolling Stones covered it. BTW when those groups I mentioned incorporate rap into rock songs it sounds horrible and contrived. Fred Durst? He's like that kid in Malibu's Most Wanted.
The effects of corporate music
I'm old enough to remember AOR and being able to listen to music that at the time I thought was just bizzare, and that was on the radio. There were so many stations around with a huge variety of music to hear, including things I had not heard before.
In the last thirty years music radio has changed so much, and for the worse that I no longer listen to music radio. I can't help but think that cumulus and others of their ilk have destroyed radio, but I also wonder how big their influence has been on the quality of music.
There used to be more of an edge to music, and I'm not talking about the trash made up of violence and sex that is todays rap music. People had more to say, and better ways of saying it when I was young. The musicians did not try to substitute shock for substance when making their records.
Are there still musicians around that are great artist, but we never get to know them because they don't fit the formula of corporate radio stations? Is there still a place for small stations that are unwilling to play the drivel that passes for pop music, or the oldies that comprised our youth, but are getting old even to those of us that love those songs???
In the last thirty years music radio has changed so much, and for the worse that I no longer listen to music radio. I can't help but think that cumulus and others of their ilk have destroyed radio, but I also wonder how big their influence has been on the quality of music.
There used to be more of an edge to music, and I'm not talking about the trash made up of violence and sex that is todays rap music. People had more to say, and better ways of saying it when I was young. The musicians did not try to substitute shock for substance when making their records.
Are there still musicians around that are great artist, but we never get to know them because they don't fit the formula of corporate radio stations? Is there still a place for small stations that are unwilling to play the drivel that passes for pop music, or the oldies that comprised our youth, but are getting old even to those of us that love those songs???
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There's old slappy, sittin' on a bench. Starin' down those young punks who pay him no respect! "Kids these days! I think they're all on drugs- don't listen to their elders- they're stupid and they're smug! Their minds are rotted out from they're music and they're porn! I wish they could hear classics like metallica and Korn!" Hammy Ps. Metallica? Taht was old news twenty years ago! You're old already! Hammy |
P.S.- am now listening to http://www.wazee.org/ which is streaming alternative rock. I have no doubt you can get metal, whatever. Ain't the internet grand? |
Hey Nrchy- what is AOR? Short for aorta? Music with heart?There is still plenty of music with "edge." Much of it rap. Of COURSE much of rap is mysogynistic, L.C.D. (lowest common denominator) poser crap...but you have to separate the WFTC (wheat from the chaff), just like T.G.O.D. (the good old days). College radio has bands with an edge. Once again, you have to sort through acres of crap. The jewels of the sixties play everyday, but thankfully the crap is rarely played. (I suppose "woolley bullie" was somebody's 'special song'). There will always be sugary brittany crap, and somewhere, in the midst of bad art, bad music, and bad literature, some real meaning to those who still have the energy and impulse to search for it. That was my SOTD (sermon of the day) |
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