Music.

[icebluenothing]

You know -- "Pride (In the Name of Love)" by U2 is, in my opinion, a perfectly decent pop song. Nice instrumentals, decent vocals, I even occasionally get a little misty-eyed at the Martin Luther King Jr. part sometimes if I'm in a particularly emotional mood. I like it just fine.

But do I really need to hear it three different times on three different radio stations in a 24-hour period? I am out of line for considering that further proof that modern radio is just a vast cultural desert?

There are thousands and thousands of bands out there. Why can't I be amazed every single time I turn on the radio? Why can't it bring me great new music all the time -- picked for me by a real human DJ who actually cares about what he plays, instead of pre-packaged and pre-assembled by some computerized demographic statistics program?

I know, I know. Because that wouldn't sell as much soda pop.

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On the bright side, I happened to wander by Aurafice tonight, not knowing that seelenschwester had brought dozens (hundreds?) of CDs for sale at the ridiculous price of one dollar each, and mix CD-R's for free. I walked away with four albums and five mixdiscs for the price of a cup of coffee. Schweet.

Comments

[jwz.livejournal.com]

It's funny you should use that song as an example. Because I remember listening to the radio one day back in 1994, and that song came on, and I thought, wow, I used to really like U2 until they started doing crap like this. Then the dj came on and said, ``that song was released ten years ago today!''

And I shockedly thought, wow, U2 has been sucking for ten years!

Of course, at this point they've been sucking for closer to 19.

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[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Crap! I was at goffee last night and I forgot to look for the discs. Did they sell out before I got there?