The State of Radio...

Hello, hello, hello...is there anybody in there?...

I read a study recently that decided pretty much conclusively validates the musings of older generations that the 80s really were the golden age of music. Of course this was based on the general trend that music (pop I can only assume) is getting louder and more repetitive - but no shit!

Pop music nowadays is a vile institution that churns out track after track of manufactured copycat rubbish that panders to the masses and you know what? It works. They can't get this stuff off of the shelves fast enough and no matter how much you try and avoid it; CDs or Ipods in the car, busses, trains etc. you will at some point end up tuned into a radio channel that's playing it because they all are; at least in the UK, and it won't take long for silence to become the less offensive option.

There're really only two options other than that commercial crap firstly, a favourite of drunk people in cabs everywhere; the easy listening channel - mellow magic, peaceful pop, affable anthems or lazy lullabies. However they package it whispered into their microphone like sweet nothings into a lover's ear it doesn't change the fact that they're playing absolute crap that nobody, of any age, has heard of. Nobody. And if this one "hit" wonder's song, and it pains me to use the word hit so liberally, can't be recognized it really shouldn't be played. Anywhere. These guys have a CHOICE they CHOOSE to play it to you and I bet they don't want to but these "DJs", used in the loosest way possible, are selling out every single day harder and faster than Snoop Dogg in Katy Perry's latest candy covered project. So instead of doing what's right. They choose instead to just repeat the same volume of tracks at the same time every day, week after week, year after  year.

The only alternative isn't that great either; classic/rock channels who claim to be "Playing those classic/rock tunes all day long" but some how manage to pick and choose everything that has been wrong with rock music between the 70s and the mid 90s instead of the real classics or anything made in the last 15 years. The thing is, I understand crappy radio station. It's not your fault I guess good music is expensive to play and you guys don't have enough money from the 30 minutes of shameless plugs and advertisements for every 40 minutes of airtime, I really do understand. What you need to do is remove that large stick from your ass and realize that the only people left listening to you are people that really have no other choice.

Having said that I've recently found one diamond in the rough but alas, as soon as I go back to University it'll be gone again. And they wonder why everyone pirates music!

By the looks of it, better burn some more CDs for the drive back...