Just something I'm thinking about here at work, as I listen to Black Hole Sun by Soundgarden (gotta keep it work-friendly).
The music that was on the radio from the 90s was so much better than that screamo shit I hear on it today. I don't really listen to the radio at all anymore, but the bands back then were so much better. Alice in Chains, Live, Soundgarden, Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, etc. The fucking shit on the radio today doesn't even hold a candle to this stuff.
Yea, I know. They're still on the radio. I'm talking about the current status of radio-friendly rock music. All the new stuff just seems like a bunch of pissy emo-kids who think they play hard rock or metal.
I can't do the radio. It hurts my soul. I try and listen to NPR when i can, but all the bad news depresses me, so i try to listen to classical, and the two stations in boston play the same 30 pieces done by 100 different orchestras, and lastly i try sports talk radio, and they yell over each other and all the callers till i run over a pedestrian in rage. I bring my IPOD in the work van with me now.
i almost never listen to the radio. if i do, it's usually weei or zlx.
post by AndrewBastard at Dec 12,2008 11:25am
I listen to talk radio at work, back and fourth between 90.9 and 96.9..
I KNOW....total opposite agendas but both are interesting/entertaining.
I cant do 'music' radio either. It's so bad and I'm even sick of all the classic rock stations...I can only listen to the same Led Zeppelin / ACDC songs so many times before I start to hate them.
During certains portions of work, I can wear my iPod and thats when I listen to whatever I want.
you're right.. ZLX and HJY play the same 3 Zepp songs over and over.
When I worked in construction, they'd always have HJY on and we literally heard the same 10 songs throughout the day.
They have WBOS on all day at work, and it is torture. They play the same 30 songs over and over and over again. I think I've heard every single hit RHCP ever had about 3 times a day.
i love not knowing what the current popular songs and bands/singers are. sometimes i hear about something if it gets so popular that it's hard to avoid, like that i kissed a girl crap or lil wayne, but usually it's pretty easy ignore it.
i stopped talking shit about bad music to people who like bad music because i don't care what other people listen to. it got to the point where i was focusing more of my attention on music i hate than music i like.
i love not knowing what the current popular songs and bands/singers are. sometimes i hear about something if it gets so popular that it's hard to avoid, like that i kissed a girl crap or lil wayne, but usually it's pretty easy ignore it.
I saw the kissed a girl one on another message board and didn't click the video cause I thought it was the other kissed a girl video from the 90s.
i love not knowing what the current popular songs and bands/singers are. sometimes i hear about something if it gets so popular that it's hard to avoid, like that i kissed a girl crap or lil wayne, but usually it's pretty easy ignore it.
I saw the kissed a girl one on another message board and didn't click the video cause I thought it was the other kissed a girl video from the 90s.
i love not knowing what the current popular songs and bands/singers are. sometimes i hear about something if it gets so popular that it's hard to avoid, like that i kissed a girl crap or lil wayne, but usually it's pretty easy ignore it.
I saw the kissed a girl one on another message board and didn't click the video cause I thought it was the other kissed a girl video from the 90s.
i thought that at first too
Dude, I just checked my other message board and someone had just posted this in the music video thread. wtf.
I hear more 90s music on the radio today than I ever did in the 90s.
post by Mark_R at Dec 9,2011 11:26am edited Dec 9,2011 11:27am
I honestly never liked most of the grunge and/or post-grunge bands. Never liked Soundgarden or Pearl Jam, barely liked Alice in Chains, although I did like Nirvana. Mudhoney was never on the radio at least in my area. My dislike of the radio giants (PJ, SG) meant that I never went back to check out Green River or Mother Love Bone. Hearing Megadeth - Symphony of Destruction got my attention fast though.
I liked Primus, 311, Offspring, Weezer, 90s Bad Religion, all from the radio too.
post by arktourO‘s at Dec 9,2011 11:27am
corporate radio has never been a bastion of creativity. i can thank 90's radio for making all those decent grunge bands unlistenable to me today. throwing copper was alright, again, i stopped being able to hear that stuff years ago. i would enjoy led zep a lot more if the radio didn't overplay them to death. i'm still catching up on all the underground releases i missed because of 90's radio. THANKS A LOT, OPIE & ANTHONY
post by RustyPS should be working at Dec 9,2011 11:32am
Radio always has and always will beat you over the head with the same 15 songs played over and over and over and over again. I tend to like this styuff more after completely giving up on music radio while I was still in high school. If you're still listening to music radio, I suggest you find an alternative method of listening to music. Then, give all the stuff your sick of a chance again a few years from now. I bet you'll find a new appreciation for at least some of it.
post by FuckIsMySignature at Dec 9,2011 11:53am edited Dec 9,2011 11:53am
they are now for sure. but they used to be really fun live and their first couple albums are really good. i hardly expect many on here to agree with that though haha.
post by RustyPS should be working at Dec 9,2011 12:00pm
I was a big fan of 311's s/t album back in the day, but I grew out of it.
I can appreciate their musical talent but I don't know why I just can't listen to them now. I use to love them back in the day, but now I can't stand them.
post by KEVORD at Dec 9,2011 1:39pm edited Dec 9,2011 1:40pm
To get back to the topic I like a lot of the radio stuff in the early 90's,saw the majority of the bands live in my teens and went to a few lollapalooza's in my day but I can't listen to that shit now. It just sounds so stail to me. But yet I can listen to classic rock and still love it.
I get my dose of Pearl Jam for sure, they've been my dad's favorite band as long as I can remember. Half the time I'm in the car with him if he's driving something with Sirius on it (he works for a rental car company and drives rental cars instead of having his own) then it's on the Pearl Jam station. Saw them with him once when I was 16. Had fun.
To get back to the topic I like a lot of the radio stuff in the early 90's,saw the majority of the bands live in my teens and went to a few lollapalooza's in my day but I can't listen to that shit now. It just sounds so stail to me. But yet I can listen to classic rock and still love it.
I am with you 100% on the classic rock statement.
post by FAG IS SLAGHAT at Dec 9,2011 1:49pm
I think that if you're listening to ONLY same music you've always listened to, you are not growing as a music lover or as a person.
It's a big red flag that says "i've given up trying to expand my comfort zone".
To get back to the topic I like a lot of the radio stuff in the early 90's,saw the majority of the bands live in my teens and went to a few lollapalooza's in my day but I can't listen to that shit now. It just sounds so stail to me. But yet I can listen to classic rock and still love it.
I think that if you're listening to ONLY same music you've always listened to, you are not growing as a music lover or as a person.
It's a big red flag that says "i've given up trying to expand my comfort zone".
in some ways, but i for one can attest to how happy i am sticking with what i know. i have spent so much money and time expanding my horizons, and i have found some amazing work, but generally i end up going back wondering why i stepped out in the first place. actually the only time that doesn't happen is when i delve into music written before 1990. so i guess my music does still expand, just in reverse.
But, as a more serious answer, you do realize that most people prefer they music they heard in their teens, right?
you're right, but if the current generation was as exposed to 90's music as they are with what's deemed popular now, i wonder if that would stay the same. it is entirely subjective.
I think it would stay the same. Music changes enough each decade to make the earlier generation go "ew". Your parents did it, you do it, and your kids will do it.
I thought 90's popular music was absolute garbage, so there you go.
I was growing up in the 90s with two parents that usually listened to WBRU and I still think 90s popular music blows. I've never been much for sentimental value or viewing the past through rose colored glasses though.
