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?
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?
