Greg wrote:It's almost like everything being made now that doesn't suck is just a continuation of something from the 80's.
Sorry, I can't seem to locate anything of which you speak.
I can't find any proof that music as it's commonly understood didn't die circa 1990.
Right around the time music executives decided that census be damned, the entire population of the country must be illiterate crack fiends living in a racially monochromatic housing project.
I believe your problem is that you're still listening to the radio. Generally only illiterate crack fiends still do that. Sign up for a Pandora account (or any of the other services, we've had at least one thread where we argued about them, what we do here....), tell it what you like and be prepared to thumbs-down a lot of crap (Sturgeon's Law always applies). Do that for a while and you *will* find music of recent vintage that you like, that doesn't suck.
That you will never, ever, hear on the radio. Or see for sale in a bricks-and-mortar music store, which nowadays means the 'music' section at Wal-Mart. (They still make CD's that don't suck if you prefer your music lossless and stored on a durable physical medium, but you have to buy them from Amazon.)
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I've been on Pandora for several years, and for exactly the reasons cited. Like much of internet media, they still suck hard, but they're all there is at the moment.
I also have access to one of the last decent record stores (they still have a vinyl section!).
Nonetheless, I've seen nothing that leads me to believe that when Tom Petty and U2 stop touring, there will be any reason to venture beyond my own collection again for a long, long time.
The radio is for the local news, weather, and freeway reports, about 6 minutes out of each half-hour, as it should be.
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Aesop wrote:I've been on Pandora for several years, and for exactly the reasons cited. Like much of internet media, they still suck hard, but they're all there is at the moment.
I also have access to one of the last decent record stores (they still have a vinyl section!).
Nonetheless, I've seen nothing that leads me to believe that when Tom Petty and U2 stop touring, there will be any reason to venture beyond my own collection again for a long, long time.
The radio is for the local news, weather, and freeway reports, about 6 minutes out of each half-hour, as it should be.
U2 was good for 3 albums, then went right over that shark. And even when they were on their game, they still weren't the best around. (I kid, I kid.)
You haven't found anything worth buying on Pandora? Amazing. A disturbing portion of the music I find there is from bands that are already defunct, but they did all make worthwhile music after 1990.
Maybe we're just jaded, but your villainy is not particularly impressive. -Ennesby
If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. -Unknown
Sanity is the process by which you continually adjust your beliefs so they are predictively sound. -esr
Minneapolis in the '80s (and not his Royal Symbolic Self-Indulgence, neither).
The Replacements
Hüsker Dü
Soul Asylum (if all you've heard is "Runaway Train," which ain't all that bad, go rustle up While You Were Out or Hang Time).
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You haven't found anything worth buying on Pandora? Amazing. A disturbing portion of the music I find there is from bands that are already defunct, but they did all make worthwhile music after 1990.
I've been getting good results from iHeart nowadays, believe it or not. I listen to the iHeart original station "Country Blues" and turn the "weird" knob all the way up.
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Aesop wrote:
Nonetheless, I've seen nothing that leads me to believe that when Tom Petty and U2 stop touring, there will be any reason to venture beyond
Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!
A gun is a tool, Marian; no better or no worse than any other tool: an axe, a shovel or anything. A gun is as good or as bad as the man using it. Remember that.
Also, I live on the free side of Pandora. I don't buy anything from them, I just create (to date, about 40) personal stations, and mainly use them to discover old music I either couldn't find, forgot about, or never knew the names to, at which it usually excels. Not to mention squelch the near 50% of on-air radio that's nothing but obnoxious commercials. There oughta be a law to the effect that commercial time was limited across the board to 5-10%, 24/7/365, and violations would start with one day license suspension and proceed up to permanent forfeiture of license.
I like that if I give Pandora one song - which invariably it won't retrieve - it will genre-surf, and serendipitously blunder into other things I either wanted anyway, or might not have found on my own.
If it's something I really like, then it's time to acquire hard copy either in person or via Amazon.
"There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy." -Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
AC/DC, Molly Hatchet, Van Halen, Kansas, Journey, Def Leopard, Phil Collins, ELO, etc.....
Motorhead, Manowar, Metallica, Slayer, Exodus, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Overkill, Dio, Nuclear Assault, and the list goes on and on and on my friends..
Rock may have achieved perfection in 1974, but Metal surpassed it in 89.
Poison, Skid Row, Boston, Peter Gabriel, KISS, RATT, Whitesnake, Foreigner, Eddie Money, Jon Bon Jovi, Motley Crue...and more.
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Termite wrote:And let's not forget that smokin' hot piece of Brit ass, Samantha Fox.
I googled her, and she's the face of the 80's. I think she was on a poster I had - petite blond with giant breasts, covering them with her hand, rope for a bikini bottom, facing straight on.
I put her on the door of my dorm room with the peep hole going through her navel. My girlfriend (now wife) hated it. It "disappeared" from storage one summer. She claims to this day that she had nothing to do with the disappearance.
Note to self: start reading sig lines. They're actually quite amusing. :D
CByrneIV wrote:The Black Keys
Cage the Elephant
Muse
Foo Fighters
Avenged Sevenfold
Rise Against
Arctic Monkeys
Paramore
Queens of the Stone Age
Black Country Communion (which, to be fair, is a supergroup composed of mostly 70s and 80s rockers)
Chickenfoot (another supergroup)
Some Cage the Elephant has been showing up on one of my stations, and I find I like them. I think I'll explore this list a bit.
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Termite wrote:And let's not forget that smokin' hot piece of Brit ass, Samantha Fox.
I googled her, and she's the face of the 80's. I think she was on a poster I had - petite blond with giant breasts, covering them with her hand, rope for a bikini bottom, facing straight on.
I put her on the door of my dorm room with the peep hole going through her navel. My girlfriend (now wife) hated it. It "disappeared" from storage one summer. She claims to this day that she had nothing to do with the disappearance.
Chrissy Amphlett.
Maybe we're just jaded, but your villainy is not particularly impressive. -Ennesby
If you know what you're doing, you're not learning anything. -Unknown
Sanity is the process by which you continually adjust your beliefs so they are predictively sound. -esr
(I kid, I kid.)
It "disappeared" from storage one summer. She claims to this day that she had nothing to do with the disappearance.