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18 years ago
Alright, so yesterday I was forced to sit through a session of Monopoly, but that wasn't the bad part. The bad part was the fact that one of the other players decided to have his cellphone playing music while we were playing this board game, and to be honest it wasn't necessary at all, and it was also rather distracting because all of the music that was on this guy's playlist were songs that are constantly rotated on the current top 'rock' radio stations, so I made it a point to make fun of it a little bit without actually doing so.
I mean, you can only hear "Bat Country" by Avenged Sevenfold, "Diary of Jane" by Breaking Benjamin, and "Land of Confusion" by Disturbed before it starts to wear down on your very being, but anyway I sufficiently pissed off this guy while still playing Monopoly (I went bankrupt so I lost.. oops), but he didn't quite seem to understand the concept of where I'm coming from when it comes to the world of music.
To be honest, I really do not like the radio. I used to listen to it all the time back home, but even then I was just recording stuff to a cassette to listen to whenever, and it wasn't the 'popular' shit that I was recording. Hell, even before I started really LISTENING to the radio I was into stuff that wasn't really rotated in the top 15 slots of the pop rock radio stations, or even those stations that proclaimed to be 'metal'. Even today I've come to realize that the radio is very limiting when it comes to the current music scene, considering they've had the same fucking playlist for the past 5 months on the local rock station, and it's not even GOOD stuff they play.
You wanna know what I consider 'good'? I consider it 'good' if its a song that portrays a band's traditional sound, instead of some crappy ass rock radio single where they compromised thier sound or lyrics just to get some radio time. I mean, Buckcherry has always had questionable content in thier lyrics but I'm really getting tired of hearing "Hey!!.. you're a crazy bitch but you fuck so good I'm on top of it" every fucking hour of the day!
Though I will admit there is 'some' talent out on the radio these days, its just a problem for only 15 songs to be rotated every other hour, but what's an even bigger problem are the pricks that listen ONLY to that, and consider anything 'underground' to be 'stupid angry screaming', when they haven't even really listened to anything but the fuckn' TOP 15.
I can't say they aren't stupid for sticking only to that 'scene' but in all respects they are like the fuckn robots of society if they just simply refuse to break off of what they are given, instead of going out to find something for themselves. Hell, around the time I had gotten access to the internet, I had literally forgotten about the radio, and my ears had been exposed to over 100 new bands within a year's time, and each one had something different and unique, and their ideas were much more refreshing than the mediocre over-produced crap that I've heard lately. I mean, props to the studio for creating a nice clean sound but when a band performs live after pulling that shit off, it doesn't translate over very well, thus the performance is a let-down, but it won't matter to the robots since they will be too busy drooling over the 'pretty-boy' or 'pretty-girl' image that most of the new bands today portray.
Nobody said metal had to be sexy, nobody said it had to be pretty. I mean, look at Strapping Young Lad, they are all ugly as shit but did that stop them from making damned good music? HELL NO IT DIDNT! This is where the phrase 'sex sells' comes to mind, and after seeing how the local music scene has been full of nothing but pin-ups who write songs about sex, I can pretty much say it's true as can be, but hey, we're all fucking perverts so of course we're gonna like it!
So I don't really have much else to say on this topic so I'll just conclude by saying that if you're into the mainstream radio scene and refuse to look beyond it because you're comfortable in your little chair listening to the same 15 songs every day, then you have no right to degrade people like me who have opened up their ears to the underground scene.
I mean, you can only hear "Bat Country" by Avenged Sevenfold, "Diary of Jane" by Breaking Benjamin, and "Land of Confusion" by Disturbed before it starts to wear down on your very being, but anyway I sufficiently pissed off this guy while still playing Monopoly (I went bankrupt so I lost.. oops), but he didn't quite seem to understand the concept of where I'm coming from when it comes to the world of music.
To be honest, I really do not like the radio. I used to listen to it all the time back home, but even then I was just recording stuff to a cassette to listen to whenever, and it wasn't the 'popular' shit that I was recording. Hell, even before I started really LISTENING to the radio I was into stuff that wasn't really rotated in the top 15 slots of the pop rock radio stations, or even those stations that proclaimed to be 'metal'. Even today I've come to realize that the radio is very limiting when it comes to the current music scene, considering they've had the same fucking playlist for the past 5 months on the local rock station, and it's not even GOOD stuff they play.
You wanna know what I consider 'good'? I consider it 'good' if its a song that portrays a band's traditional sound, instead of some crappy ass rock radio single where they compromised thier sound or lyrics just to get some radio time. I mean, Buckcherry has always had questionable content in thier lyrics but I'm really getting tired of hearing "Hey!!.. you're a crazy bitch but you fuck so good I'm on top of it" every fucking hour of the day!
Though I will admit there is 'some' talent out on the radio these days, its just a problem for only 15 songs to be rotated every other hour, but what's an even bigger problem are the pricks that listen ONLY to that, and consider anything 'underground' to be 'stupid angry screaming', when they haven't even really listened to anything but the fuckn' TOP 15.
I can't say they aren't stupid for sticking only to that 'scene' but in all respects they are like the fuckn robots of society if they just simply refuse to break off of what they are given, instead of going out to find something for themselves. Hell, around the time I had gotten access to the internet, I had literally forgotten about the radio, and my ears had been exposed to over 100 new bands within a year's time, and each one had something different and unique, and their ideas were much more refreshing than the mediocre over-produced crap that I've heard lately. I mean, props to the studio for creating a nice clean sound but when a band performs live after pulling that shit off, it doesn't translate over very well, thus the performance is a let-down, but it won't matter to the robots since they will be too busy drooling over the 'pretty-boy' or 'pretty-girl' image that most of the new bands today portray.
Nobody said metal had to be sexy, nobody said it had to be pretty. I mean, look at Strapping Young Lad, they are all ugly as shit but did that stop them from making damned good music? HELL NO IT DIDNT! This is where the phrase 'sex sells' comes to mind, and after seeing how the local music scene has been full of nothing but pin-ups who write songs about sex, I can pretty much say it's true as can be, but hey, we're all fucking perverts so of course we're gonna like it!
So I don't really have much else to say on this topic so I'll just conclude by saying that if you're into the mainstream radio scene and refuse to look beyond it because you're comfortable in your little chair listening to the same 15 songs every day, then you have no right to degrade people like me who have opened up their ears to the underground scene.
SYL. They're all like, balding and shit with the bad limey teeth. xD
Priceless.
But yeah, i totally know hwat you mean. when i go down to bigger cities to visit old friends, it's like all they know and care about is what OTHER people know and care about. it's like, if you're the only one listening to something, that makes it not good.
it's not about being "cool" or "in." it's about the music and how it interacts with you.
I have met maybe 3 people that i don't talk to on a regular basis that have heard of half of the music i listen to. shit, i'm probably the same way back.
I guess that's mostly because we have:
a.) KISS FM. hip-hop shit and poppy singles.
b.) oldies. like, 4 stations.
aaaand
c.) country.
That's it in good 'ol montana.
i haven't listened to the radio in a SERIOUS manner in about 5 years. It's rediculous, it is.
And the only good song as of late about sex is Say Anything's "wow, i can get sexual, too."
That song = <3.
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