For every Led Zeppelin in the mid-60s there were 100 Hermans Hermits...
I'm surprised you can hear any music at all with your head so firmly lodged up your ass.That's my point, they're not putting out good music anymore though, at least not as great as the music they previously put out.
I have little respect for artists who build a career on their past. It's like a former pro athlete making a living signing autographs.
Mrs. Brown you've got a lovely daughter,<Tourette'sGuy> Don't fvck with Herman's Hermits !! </Tourette'sGuy>
Something tells me you're into something Bad
Ahh, OK .. I'll agree with ya, even if I admit to listening to the ultimate pop crafted band of the 60's, the Monkees.
The music you want to hear is on the radio. Maybe it isn't easily found on the radio. Radio makes it possible for anyone, anyone who has access to it, to discover music they would not otherwise be exposed to. As a long time DJ I know that a lot of my listeners know a lot more about a lot of the music I play than I do. They call me all the time and this is clear to me many times. As a DJ I don't have time to dig deep into this and that, I have the overview, so to speak. I'm very eclectic. I know a lot, but I know that I've barely scratched the surface. Music is wonderful stuff!College radio is usually pretentious as fuck and satellite radio has a ton of stations that play nothing good. The music I want to listen to isn't found on the radio. I'd much rather just listen to my own collection on random.
Well, I guess that settles it.Rush was mentioned a few pages back and was quickly discredited as not being relevant by JMapleton.
Rush was mentioned a few pages back and was quickly discredited as not being relevant by JMapleton.
knowing when to tune in is pretty important... as much as I love some of the stuff on WFMU, some of the other stuff is just really fucking out there.A lot of the stuff you hear on college radio stinks, I agree. But there's a lot of great music, terrific stuff that you will never hear on commercial radio. You pick and choose what you want to listen to. Some DJs have it, some don't. Some are young and shallow, some old and shallow. Some are deep. I have been DJing college radio for about 30 years and I have to say, there's no DJ who's always hot. But I know great radio when I hear it, and the only radio I've heard since the 1970's that's great is college and pirate radio. Well, occasionally some Pacifica.
Agree, WFMU (NY) is great. I work at KALX, Berkeley. We have a pretty great reputation too, and a phenomenal record collection (around 100,000 separate items). There's more than one WFMU DJ that used to work at KALX. The DJs, while having to play 4 "feature" play/hour (i.e. newly released disks/vinyl), are free to play whatever else they want. The management pressures us to not play obscenities, because of the fear of getting fined by the FCC. We also are supposed to have some diversity in our shows, but aside from that, we are FREE! You can dismiss us as pretentious, but that's unfair. If you think you can do a better job, you can join our staff, get trained and be a DJ yourself.
Who cares about this trash today? Put in your Hall & oats or Rod Stewart and have a nice day.