Radio Rot

commercial rock radio sucks!

it has been sucking for a long time. someone, somewhere, once said about radio; "music is what happens between the ads." yeah, true, and the music isn't all that happening.

new bands -mostly- blow. i'm not going into minute details here, but really, as far as most "new" bands go, they just make me want to go listen to joy division, or velvet underground. whatever, i'm 40 now, and really, i don't think that i'm supposed to like most of this stuff, in fact, it's weird when oldsters like myself are all up in the youthful scene, i remember being young and kind of looking shamefully at the older people like this.

oh yeah, digression, back to my curmudgeonly rant about the shit state of rock radio. the music happens between ads for hamburgers and cars, okay, what else happens? the dj talks...yes, the almost obsolete dj. really, do we need them much anymore? i'm not talking about college, or public radio stations here, commercial rock, that's what. yeah, dj's are killing it with the whole 'know it all' 'tude that seems to prevail with their smarmy delivery about how "you're a loser if you don't have this nirvana album, and the stooges are proto punk....blah, blah, blah, we know. we get it, now shut that god damn hole under your nose and play some music, will ya.

there's nothing worse, really, a dj spouting off about all the little intricacies and details about this band, that song, it's like going to a restaurant and having some condescending shit of a waiter tell ya how they raised, and fed, and butchered up the cow from which your steak dinner was coming from, yep they saw it all the way through, who needs that?

yeah, we get it dj people,obviously, you are all up in it. that's why you work in the radio/music biz in the first place, so pie hole shut! nobody needs the spiel, especially now with ipods, internet access to music, and the fact that record companies seem to have become irrelevant as diy takes over. really, it is different now. back when i was a kid, (did i really type that) radio stations were important for being the soundtrack of our lives, so to speak. now though, there is so much music coming from so many different places that people are putting together their own soundtracks, and changeing them at will. suck radio! i have re-discovered my cd collection for the commute to work, and am better off because of it.