radio radio
So I still have a love affair with the radio, even modern rock radio. Modern rock radio is what got me to really listen to most music as a kid - I wouldn't have been listening to Morrissey or Echo and the Bunnymen if it wasn't for raiding my brother's music collection and listening to Q101 (the modern rock station here). There's still a romantic notion to radio that I still cling on to, like a song coming on the radio that you weren't expecting and it makes so much sense. I generally have no problem with a lot of stations like Q101 - K-Rock seems to be better at it than anyone else, with Indie 103.1 a close second. Of course, they're both California stations. New York no longer has rock radio. And Q101? They have moments of brilliance, sometimes when they do the "shuffle" and play "random" songs from their library. However. I was looking Q101's website and they have a little flash application where you can submit your own 5-song shuffle list to them. They give you a list of what is pretty much most of their music library. What I found was kind of shocking.
Now, I'm all for diversity, but this is stupid. They obviously haven't really weeded anything out since 1993. Who's been listening to most of these bands since 1996? No wonder it sounds like that year whenever I turn it on, especially with these neo-heavy/"grunge"-redux bands like Audioslave being played.
Here are the glaring ones:
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4 Non-Blondes
Ace of Base (!!!!!!!!!!)
Afroman (the "Because I Got High" dude)
Arrested Development
Blues Traveler
Crazy Town
Days of the New
Deep Blue Something
Dig
Dishwalla
Dovetail Joint
Dynamite Hack (that horrible cover of "Boyz 'N the Hood")
Eagle-Eye Cherry
Fastball
Geggy Tah (WHAT?!?!?!)
Gravity Kills
House of Pain
Jennifer Trynin (since when did Q101 ever play her even back then?)
Joan Osborne
The Judybats (although I liked them)
Letters to Cleo (DIEDIEDIE)
Live
Long Beach Dub Allstars
Loud Lucy
Lucas (aka "Lucas With the Lid Off", only had a good video)
Machines of Loving Grace
Mansun (again, since when did Q101 ever play them?)
Meredith Brooks (that "Bitch" song that makes me want to kill)
Milla (as in Johovovich, the actress. She put out an album in 1993.)
The Murmurs
Natalie Merchant (I mean, come on.)
Nerf Herder
Nine Days
Paula Cole (AGGGGH)
Primitive Radio Gods (who is listening to them/him now? Seriously)
The Pursuit of Happines (totally random)
Remy Zero (only famous because the lead dude was married to Alyssa Milano)
Save Ferris (ahahahahahahaha)
Seven Mary Three
Shaggy (I know.)
Smashmouth
Spin Doctors
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Seriously, if they ever want to EVER be taken seriously as a rock station in general, let alone an "alternative" station, they need to get rid of those. Ace of Base and Shaggy are funny - I remember that Q101 "broke" them because the station thought they were hot up-and-coming groups from Europe. No, seriously. They played "All That She Wants" and "Oh Carolina" ALL THE TIME. Whoever is programming this station obviously has no clue about anything. I'm not quite as indignant as much as just plain baffled. I wouldn't even care if they got rid of that music in order to play more crappy Warped Tour stuff - at least it would be "modern" like the station says, and not 13 years old and irrevelant. You can't argue with me on the irrelevant thing - the Spin Doctors? Geggy Tah? Eagle-Eye Cherry? Wow.
Now I'm going to have Geggy Tah in my head. "All I want to do is to thank you, evne though I don't know who you are, you let me change lanes, while I was driving in my car..." Agggggh.
Now, I'm all for diversity, but this is stupid. They obviously haven't really weeded anything out since 1993. Who's been listening to most of these bands since 1996? No wonder it sounds like that year whenever I turn it on, especially with these neo-heavy/"grunge"-redux bands like Audioslave being played.
Here are the glaring ones:
1000 Homo DJ's
4 Non-Blondes
Ace of Base (!!!!!!!!!!)
Afroman (the "Because I Got High" dude)
Arrested Development
Blues Traveler
Crazy Town
Days of the New
Deep Blue Something
Dig
Dishwalla
Dovetail Joint
Dynamite Hack (that horrible cover of "Boyz 'N the Hood")
Eagle-Eye Cherry
Fastball
Geggy Tah (WHAT?!?!?!)
Gravity Kills
House of Pain
Jennifer Trynin (since when did Q101 ever play her even back then?)
Joan Osborne
The Judybats (although I liked them)
Letters to Cleo (DIEDIEDIE)
Live
Long Beach Dub Allstars
Loud Lucy
Lucas (aka "Lucas With the Lid Off", only had a good video)
Machines of Loving Grace
Mansun (again, since when did Q101 ever play them?)
Meredith Brooks (that "Bitch" song that makes me want to kill)
Milla (as in Johovovich, the actress. She put out an album in 1993.)
The Murmurs
Natalie Merchant (I mean, come on.)
Nerf Herder
Nine Days
Paula Cole (AGGGGH)
Primitive Radio Gods (who is listening to them/him now? Seriously)
The Pursuit of Happines (totally random)
Remy Zero (only famous because the lead dude was married to Alyssa Milano)
Save Ferris (ahahahahahahaha)
Seven Mary Three
Shaggy (I know.)
Smashmouth
Spin Doctors
And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Seriously, if they ever want to EVER be taken seriously as a rock station in general, let alone an "alternative" station, they need to get rid of those. Ace of Base and Shaggy are funny - I remember that Q101 "broke" them because the station thought they were hot up-and-coming groups from Europe. No, seriously. They played "All That She Wants" and "Oh Carolina" ALL THE TIME. Whoever is programming this station obviously has no clue about anything. I'm not quite as indignant as much as just plain baffled. I wouldn't even care if they got rid of that music in order to play more crappy Warped Tour stuff - at least it would be "modern" like the station says, and not 13 years old and irrevelant. You can't argue with me on the irrelevant thing - the Spin Doctors? Geggy Tah? Eagle-Eye Cherry? Wow.
Now I'm going to have Geggy Tah in my head. "All I want to do is to thank you, evne though I don't know who you are, you let me change lanes, while I was driving in my car..." Agggggh.