Music Appreciation
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The Classic Rock format has been doing its part to destroy the audience for quality music since I was tiny
On a side note, Blue Oyster Cult is synonymous with fucking cowbell to an entire generation and it infuriates me
Foghat has plenty of great songs that aren't Fool for the City
Thin Lizzy is much more than Jailbreak or the Boys are Back
The Clash single "Rock the Casbah" is garbage, but that's about all you'll ever hear on the radio now
stevil
(1,537 posts)Diamond_Dog
(31,660 posts)Shermann
(7,355 posts)Sirius is actually quite repetitive as well, however there are so many channels to choose from.
FM radio is not kind to Rainbow, their whole catalog boils down to "Since You've Been Gone".
Loge23
(3,922 posts)Sirius/XM is falling into predictability also.
The other day, I noticed "Running on Empty", the commercial radio Jackson Browne standard playing on Deep Tracks.
A "deep track" it is not. Even Jackson must hate playing this tune by now.
The Loft still is a good mix, relatively, but even that has a repetitive playlist at times.
The Polack MSgt
(13,159 posts)I no longer have Sirius, but when I'm on the road I get it in my rental...
It's no better than broadcast radio at this point
Shermann
(7,355 posts)It is playing "The Gamma Goochie" by Joe Walsh right now.
It is better in the way you are concerned with.
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Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Really infuriating to me along these lines is, the iconic KFOG of San Francisco went out of business a few years back after they were bought up by some conglomerate who changed the format to be much more 'what everyone doing AOR plays' vs what it had successfully been for decades ... which was a place to hear both the more obscure artists, and more obscure tracks by popular artists you know, and also live tracks.
Then it died shortly after. RIP KFOG, so many memories
It's all just about dollars and cents man. The public, in general, who listen to rock stations ... listen in order to hear the shit they already know and heard 100 times.
Frankly, it's not much different in the MAG group, as you of all people would know
highplainsdem
(48,727 posts)stations. It's so damn boring. Besides misrepresenting the artists' achievements.
Not that "Radar Love" and "Twilight Zone" aren't great songs -- and thank God they're still getting airplay -- but the Earring were so much more...
The Polack MSgt
(13,159 posts)Than I ever knew about them before.
Which is the point of the forum after all
highplainsdem
(48,727 posts)and others here.
VMA131Marine
(4,124 posts)Tom Sawyer, Time Stand Still, and Spirit of Radio
Then again, what stations will play the entirety of 2112, or Xanadu, or Hemispheres, or Natural Science, or La Villa Strangiato.
Dr. Strange
(25,898 posts)Nineteen studio albums and eleven live albums...I guess that's why they called them
They called them the working men.