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Is there a "there" there?


Listened to the radio today. I know! That old thing. Local station WXRT used to be what passed for "alternative", back before the term was co-opted for crappy neu-metal and rock-rap.

I made it for three songs. The first was by Emmylou Harris & Mark Knopfler. Now I think Emmylou Harris is one of the most beautiful women alive. But her singing voice is really flat and listless. And Knopfler has done some really beautiful, tasteful guitar playing (I love the guitar at the outro to "Tunnel of Love", I can't keep from playing it every time I pick up a guitar). But this was just, umm, not good.

Next was Matchbox 20's "3 a.m." The most non-descript song by the most non-descript band of the most non-descript decade.

The third was by Deadboy & Elephantman. Pitch correcting technology was made for singers like this. Not only tone-deaf, but tone-blind as well. It made my fillings rattle. They're playing Lollapalooza. Now I don't want to go.

Finally, a promo for their "Friday Feature", Peter Gabriel (okay) and Lenny Kravitz. Lenny Kravitz? What the fuck. How can that guy keep milking a career that had 1-1/2 good songs. I swear, Lenny doesn't write the songs until after the CDs are released. So little effort. So little craft. So little music. Though he's a lyrical genius:
"You are the fire of my desire/ We can go higher/ Through the wire of desire/ Into the fire that's higher."
I am so happy that I don't have to rely on crap radio for music anymore.

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6:21 AM

Thank you for making me feel better.

"Alternative" doesn't exist; it has been marketed and packaged, as has rap.

Now something even angrier than punk and rap will come along in response, but we may never hear it.    



8:48 AM

You hit the nail right on the head, Übermilf.

Sysm, I will be giggling all day over that Lenny Kravitz quote.    



5:50 PM

Used to be, the drive today to Milwaukee would have been pleasant due to jammin' tunes on the radio. That was 10 years ago. Instead I took the XM and Ubie was mad at me for leaving her with nothing.    



6:32 PM

don't you guys have iPods?    



7:18 PM

Nick - what the hell are you talking about?    



8:04 PM

"alternative" is like punk kids going to the mall to chain stores for clothes covered in tim burton film shit. grr.
I hate radio and gave it up a long time ago when I broke down and bought a cd alarm clock.
One time I was stuck in an office for 8 hours with nothing but data entry and a radio, I actually called the radio station and bitched them out for playing the same song every half hour.    



2:32 AM

My car radio has 6 channel presets, and i often marvel at how all 6 of my chosen stations can be playing ads at the same time. Either ads or that Santana / Steve Tyler song that makes my ears bleed.    



1:03 AM

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