Michael Makunas:
quoted 7 lines It's the same with all MTVish radio stations. A few
>It's the same with all MTVish radio stations. A few
>weeks ago I was
>listening to WBCN in Boston and while the DJ was
>intoducing the next
>crappy track he was going to play, Borads of Canada
>was playing in the
>background.
Same with Icelandic radio stations...I guess it's the same, everywhere
you look. Doesn't it just get to ya, though, that the progressive
music - the music a lot of thought and effort has been put into - is
being used as background music while the watered-down, carbon-copy,
bland-as-hell crap comprising 90% of today's pop is presented as "the
main course"? Annoys the hell out of me whenever I'm bothered to think
about it, although granted, I realize they have to think about ratings
n' all...appealing to the 'lowest common denominator' (yech). Just
messes with my sense of, erm, artistic justice or something.
And, seeing as how I'm on a radio station rant anyway...don't know if
any of you list peeps receive Coldcut's Solid Steel radio show
syndicated on your local stations like I do - assuming someone's
reading this who does, does your station feel the need to insert their
own messy trailers smack bang into the middle of one of the sets? How
annoyed I was when, in the middle of an astonishingly beautiful ambient
breakdown on the show the other day, I suddenly hear this jingle (in
Icelandic, roughly translated): "You're listening to Solid Steel -
Musical Mash-Up From Hell, on Radio X", done in this amateurish, messy,
white-noisey digitized voice, like a weak imitation of that robot voice
CC use during the show. Promptly ruined the ambience for that
particular set, thoroughly pissing me (and a couple other Ninja purist
freaks) off in the process. Jeff from Ninja, if you're reading this
(and feel like commenting on this admittedly not-so-earth-shaking
complaint)...is this something Coldcut encourage or would they be at
all miffed about it?
Phew, a bit of a rant there. Thanks for your bandwidth folks, sorry to
those who feel I'm posting pointless nonsense...these things just get
to me, y'know?
Gosh, am I tired.
Gauti
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