The effects of corporate music

There is more great music than ever being released these days. Unfortunately, finding it is the hard part. Much is recorded and released on small labels and ignored by the mass media outlets.

I'd recommend listening to some internet channels. Find one that caters to the sort of music you want. It won't be audiophile quality, but you may find just what you're looking for. One big outlet covering a large variety of styles is
http://www.live365.com
Their service is free,though they'll keep asking you to upgrade to VIP access, which gives even more choices, and stops all the ads. You can even start your own station there if you want.

Other choices are the cable TV music stations, and satellite radio like XM and Sieius. It takes more of an investment and is not as "grass roots" as many of the internet stations. Will be much more diverse than the regular radio airwaves.

Great music is out there are needs your support. But don't expect that it'll find you.

I hope others will suggest good outlets.

Just my 2 cents,

Roger

PS
I have no affiliation with any of the
businesses I mentioned.

Slappy, I never thought I would disagree with you, but the bands you mentioned are all very negetive and hateful. I remember liking some of the angry music from my own youth like The Who. Behind Blue Eyes among other, but they were not nearly as nihlistic as so much of the music people put into their heads now. I'm too old to believe that what goes into your head is neutral, and does not affect the psyche. I have enough problems without living those of Marilyn Manson et al.

Jsonic do you really think people over 25 have not listened to the rap music they dislike. I have heard too much of it and I really don't think any of it was any good Since Grandmaaster Flash was doing it in the 70's. Maybe my life is just not trivial enough to be interested in other peoples sex lives or who they want to kill.

Even Classic Rock stations are so locked into what they play that the vast majority of what was recorded and heard in the 60's-70's, and was played on AOR stations cannot be heard anymore. The playlists are so narrow that it's only a few hundred songs available. The stuff I heard on the radio in the 70's would land a DJ in jail now because it was just too wierd! And we loved it! Most of the time.

I wish I could start a station that was not controled by Viacom or Cumulus. I would play the old wierd/fun stuff along with the new talanted artists that cannot geta second of airtime on corporate radio. Although I wonder if a station like that could succeed. Most people turn the dial (I must be old!) when a song comes on that they don't like. How many people wouyld sit through Careful With That Axe Eugene, or Stargazer, or a twelve minute song by Yes or Jethro Tull?

Much of it is VIDEO. Yes, it killed the radio star. Janice would not have looked good on MTV. Of course, you don't have to limit yourself to clearchannel or mtv. My wife belongs to a house party music club in Berkeley. Every week new folk artists come to perform to the audience of about 20. Why wait for radio play that will never happen? Afew clicks of the mouse will research whatever genre you want on google. Here's folk:
http://www.jg.org/folk/info/artists.html#A

most of these sites have music to listen to. Bypass the corporate filter!

Darryl- do you live in New Jersey? My governator can whip your governor's butt- he's just afraid your guy will like it.

Hammy in CA.

Slappy- chk out "the string cheese incident" http://www.stringcheeseincident.com/htsound.htm or the "Austin Lounge lizards" demented hillbilly Pink Floyd cover http://www.austinlizards.com/songs/brain_damage.mp3 How about their lyrics to:
"Jesus Loves me but he Can't Stand You"
I know you smoke, I know you drink that brew
I just can't abide a sinner like you
God can't either, that's why I know it to be true that
Jesus loves me--but he can't stand you

I'm going to heaven, boys, when I die
'Cause I've crossed every "t" and I've dotted every "i'
My preacher tell me that I'm God's kind of guy; that's why
Jesus loves me--but you're gonna fry

God loves all his children, by gum
That don't mean he won't incinerate some
Can't you feel those hot flames licking you
Woo woo woo

I'm raising my kids in a righteous way
So don't be sending your kids over to my house to play
Yours'll grow up stoned, left-leaning, and gay; I know
Jesus told me on the phone today

Jesus loves me, this I know
And he told me where you're gonna go
There's lots of room for your kind down below
Whoa whoa whoa

Jesus loves me but he can't stand you . . .

You want humorous UNcorporate music with social commentary, these guys are it. Highway cafe of the damned is hilarious. Too bad it's not on the website.