Why can't it be like the mid 1990s on pop radio? I am so sick of the shit that we are getting today. Back when KDWB was independent, we got decent variety. Its getting to the point that I don't even know the #1 song on the Hot 100. I used to know the majority of the songs in the top 50 without even listening to the radio that much. MTV played videos. This is why downloading is out of control, because the listener has no choice on what to listen to. Shit like the entire G-Unit crew gets shoved down our throat instead of Mos Def or De La Soul. We get Nickelback instead of Ryan Adams or The Shins. Think back to Oasis and Bush, Nirvana and Pearl Jam. Never would have gotten airplay today because they don't fit a small demographic. It has gotten really bad, to the point that I am thinking about joining Christian on the XM Radio bandwagon. I want to hear new music. I want to hear old stuff that I didn't know existed. And I am not going to get that listening to freaking Dave Ryan play Ursher 12 times a day.
A good angry column in this vein can be found on Rhino Records homepage. Here is the address.
http://www.rhinorecords.com/rzine/columnists/lefsetz/index.lasso
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You should do it..XM is the sheeit! http://www.xmradio.com. Check out all the channels they got. They have no commercials and the only thing you hear sometimes is a dj saying the name of the song or whats coming up. your player lists the artist, album title and song everytime too so you can know who it is if you dig the song. It's definitely the future. Plus they don't censor the cuss words.
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