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Todays Raido Stations suck

Is it just me, or does todays Radio suck?
When I was a teenager FM was cool, it had laid back D,jays and they played cool new music. That's were I first heard Alex Harvey, Hawkwind,Atomic Rooster,Zappa,The amboy dukes,
Robin Trower,Roxy music,BOC,Captain Beyond,Audience,
Bowie,Steely Dan,etc.

The AM of that day used to be Hit Radio, and played the top hits of the day.

FM today has become Hit radio, with a lot of cookie cutter stations all playing the same old hits, with a few of those old fm classic hits as well.

Does it only bug me, that they only play the one hit off the LP over and over again. When in fact the lp had even better tunes on it, but they never play them.

Recently with the advent of eBay, I have been able to collect a lot of rare and Great music that I never new existed before.

When my friends here the new tunes I have They get the same Idea that I always get, to start a new radio station that plays this unknown treasure. As well as the songs like "Candys gone bad" off of the Golden Earring lp with Radar love on it, you know the one.

You know what I'm talking about, am I alone here.


I must state that I live in a smaller town now, but we can still pick up the Jacksonville Florida stations.
Does this kind of practice go on all over the country?

The new music of today no longer interests me with Rap and the Rock of today all sounds the same, with only minor exceptions like Radiohead.

WHAT do you think, is their some stations that I could pickup on the internet that would satisfy my craving?

would you like to be able to get in you car and tune the radio to a station like the one I described?

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unclejeff
1,313 posts
 
Hey Ohlala---don't retreat. I love it when someone who is eloquent can take folks on.

I just got back from a very good friend's home. He lives about two hours from me. His daughter graduated from High School so I went down for the event. The point being that her 16 year old brother is developing his interest in the guitar and it turns out that he has been waiting for some time for me to pay them a visit. While anyone who knows me can see I would never buy his music, I can appreciate it. He put a DVD with some group called 'CORN' --or was it KORN?--anyway it seems he couldn't wait to get my opinion of the group. These guys played on their feet, bent over at 90 degrees at the hip. The vocals were abusive---the kids were swaying and shouting and loving it. My friend's son asked me what I thought. I said "Sweet Jesus---that guy on bass is one of the best I have heard in a long time" The kid jumped up into the air, slapped me a high-five and yelled "Yeah, yeah, I knew YOU(!) would see it!" As a matter of fact the bass player is really good. But as too many of our parents were distracted by Alice Cooper's dress, this kid's parents couldn't get past what the group looked like. I really don't care for the music, but folks, there is plenty of talent out there. We are just stuck in here!!
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onhwy61
5,254 posts
 
Some of the above posts sound like middle age people rambling on about how good things were back in the day. As far as I'm concerned there was great pop/rock music being made in every decade since the 1950s and it's continuing thru the present decade. It's never been easier or cheaper for musicians to record and distribute, at least on a limited basis, their music. Rock/pop is youth oriented music and half the point of youth oriented music is that old people won't like it. It's music created by young adults for teenagers and other young adults. Some of you are just old, deal with it.
ohlala
1,238 posts
 
Thanks, Unclejeff, nice of you to say. I was wrong about equalizing the 1965 and 2000 Top 40, but neither represent what I consider the best music. While I don't care for Korn's songs (maybe I'm too old by six, seven years), they definately can play their instruments. The 7-string Ibanez is very difficult. Even Sum 41, covered Metallica's "Master of Puppets". I sure can't play that song! Being frusterated when my elders complain about my generation, my point is that there are cool, smart, talented youngsters running around. Their efforts are just not on Clearchannel. And I think a lot of talent, with less music-purist mindsets(not to judge them at all), are being currupted by commercialness.
zaikesman
3,017 posts
 
The commonly held theory about getting too old to appreciate something new just doesn't hold up under scrutiny. That is, if you construe "something new" to mean something new to the listener - which is what is pertinent - and not necessarily to mean only the latest thing. Looked at that way, it becomes clear that we never lose our capacity to keep expanding our musical horizons as we grow older. Don't believe the hype (and yeah, I think Korn sucks, no matter how many strings their bass has).
treyhoss
287 posts
 
First off I'm not THAT old - Hell, I'm "ONLY" 35! That said, the suggestion that getting on-line to go to different websites, download the music or go to a band's website is a little bit like the suggestion my old man had when I couldn't spell a word; "Go look it up in the dictionary". My answer was "but I don't know how to spell it!" The point is that a little too much effort is required to "find" new bands and music. My point about radio when I was growing up was that the only "effort" involved was flipping on the radio and tuning into a station. Today it seems you have to "actively" be exposed to new music. As I said before, I think radio today is so fragmented that you just can't get the diversity that you could back in the day. I've got satellite and there are 30+ digital music channels. The way they have these broken down into so many categories almost requires that you constantly flip channels to get any diversity at all! This trend, unfortunately, is found in almost all mass media these days - radio or otherwise - THAT is the problem with radio today IMO!
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