My local rock station has a segment where the host looks at pictures of women and tells the audience how hot they are
rock radio station personality must be the primary career path for guys who are your friend's older brother who works at the gas station and smokes you out
In my experience it’s the career path for people who collect comic books and nerd out about music trivia & audio gear. How these shock jocks got hired let alone popular is beyond me.
From my experience, usually just because they're fucking weird and go to all the events or know whoever owns the station.
I feel like 90% of them are likely regional air guitar champions.
They also played a Dio song the day Ronnie James Dio died. I don't mean the anniversary of his death. I mean that one day that he died.
Half those bands are actually good though.
Disturbed guy is a comrade(nevermind apparently Draiman is vaguely pro-zionist =( I just remembered him correctly pointing out that Trump was a symptom and not a cause of hatred in the US) Nirvana obviously Red Hot Chili Peppers newer stuff wasn't as good but they're still all time greats, Korn, Godsmack and Linkin Park are all good nu metal IMO.I definitely can relate to the cringe parts though too. Our teenage selves were a land of contrasts.
Hybrid Theory got me into rock and is still one of my favorite albums so I def agree. Too bad most of the adults I know who listen to this music are complete chuds.
Paul Ryan said his favorite band was RATM you can't blame musicians like that who are so in your face with their politics being completely misunderstood (or more commonly deliberately misrepresented) by chuds.
Chud Rise Against fans are almost as bad. Like how can you listen to stuff like that as a chud. Multiple of their songs literally advocate for burning Amerika. It's not as in your face as RATM, but still
RATM lyrics are about two things: disliking authority and references to leftist struggles that come across as esoteric to most Americans. Hardly any American knows about Mumia Abu-Jamal or the Zapatistas. Chuds hone in on the points of reference they understand and internalize the lyrics as about the things they like.
Also in 2000 they did a free protest concert in front of the DNC that turned into a small riot against the police. I remember my chud uncle at the time saying something like "I don't like their music, but those boys are doing good if they hate those Democrats."
Josh Homme takes the "drugs" part of sex drugs, and rock and roll a bit too seriously
Rise Against, Queens Of The Stone Age, Royal Blood, System of a Down, Rage Against The Machine, and a tiny bit of AC/DC
I honestly still enjoy Disturbed or Breaking Benjamin from time to time.
some artists from my phone playlist in no particular order: nine inch nails, red army choir, danzig, motley crue, tear da club up thugs & three 6 mafia, judas priest, the coup, jimmy hendrix
Missing Breaking Benjamin
Best enjoyed through your new stang you bought with your fresh new enlistment bonus
He would be the first person to tell you that lmao, I remember an interview with him where he was pissed that he had to keep doing Nirvana because of his contract. Dude just wanted to jam on his porch.
94.5 has been playing the exact same rotation since like 2007
also 101.1 mega is pretty lit tho, they're numero uno en exitos 😎
"Hey pal, hope you don't mind listening to "classic rock" radio station for the duration of your 7 hour work day every day." :desolate:
Making fun of people who call all music with drums and electric guitars rock
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
Mainstream music has been complete trash since 1988. If you listen anything the average person knows about from past that year then you're doing yourself and the world a disservice.
It is okay to only like older music but music made after 1988 in the mainstream can still be good. Dont get me wrong, a lot of it is bad, but that was true of all eras we just have survivorship bias
Sturgeon's Law applies: 90% of everything is shit. It's possible that only 85% of post-punk and New Wave was shit, though, which accounts for the different impression.
I "got into music" by constantly streaming this college radio turned public radio out of Minneapolis while I'm working. It's not perfect, but the hosts really like music and generally keep up on the cutting edge while avoiding top 40s. After a while you'll atleast be able to talk to young folk about music that they like.
I've wasted the past year getting into music, so if you like, I can recommend you at least a little bit of music in the bounds of: hardcore punk and a few of its subgenres, most styles of emo, neofolk, hyperpop, post-punk, and post-rock; though metal is my favorite, and I could give you recommendations for most sounds in black metal, death metal, doom metal, power metal, thrash, and traditional heavy metal. I haven't gotten quite as deep into these styles, but I could also recommend you the basics for a handful of other styles if you want them, mainly slowcore, shoegaze, no wave, noise and noise rock, and kosmiche musik
What kind of stuff do you already like? Most of my arcane knowledge is in punk, goth, new wave, industrial, weird arty stuff and things along those lines.
What kind of stuff do you already like?
Working on that. I'm not a very musically inclined person. Punk is fun I guess? Idk what new wave or industrial music is like but that sounds interesting.
Ohhh, I'm starting on the ground floor here, this is way harder than listing some super niche bands.
So for a first timer for punk I'd start with The Clash's self titled UK release (the American one has some tracks swapped out for singles). Most first wave stuff is pretty poppy but that stops very quickly. Other good first wave bands are The Damned, The Buzzcocks, The Tights, Siouxie and the Banshees (kinda started goth), Cocksparrer, The Sex Pistols and The Boys for first wave UK 77 stuff. For America you have The Ramones, The Stooges, Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers, The Dead Boys for early CBGB New York bands and then a bit later in California there's The Germs, X, Dead Kennedys, TSOL for early American pre-hardcore punk. The Kids are also a sick first wave band from Belgium. Anyway, most importantly on this journey is Crass who were the first anarcho punk band and basically started off underground DIY punk with serious politics, their music is significantly harsher than other bands at the time as well. Check them out last and maybe read up about them, they're the chronological jumping off point for 'real' punk
You are now covered somewhat for punk history from 1976 to 1978 or so now.
Happy to help. I'm a huge nerd about punk music and bands and shows and history and whatever. Having been part of it, DIY punk has been astoundingly good at creating a massive worldwide underground network. The division between performer and audience is just not there by default and anyone can and is encour to just start your own band regardless of ability. There's a good amount of bands even on that first wave list that I could get into contact with members just by asking around.
By the time your training is complete you will love this album as the classic that it is:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tWt-Q-ZacOA&t=209s
well if you like punk, i can recommend you some hardcore stuff. Check out Germs, Black Flag, Bad Brains, Rites of Spring, and Subhumans. Also maybe Wire for some artsier/postish punk, and Kommunity FK and the Christian Death debut for gothier punk.
Industrial is kinda hard to get into, but check out Einstürzende Neubauten's albums Kollaps and 1/2 Mensch for some weird dancier more rock sounding industrial, Leichenschrei by SPK for more weird soundscape stuff, and if you like metal, check out Streetcleaner by Godflesh.
I was gonna cover hardcore/UK 82/first wave anarcho punk in the next lesson.
I'm not huge on most 80s US hardcore. I know it very well but it's probably not gonna be a massive focus. I find a lot can just be suburban teenage boi rage where other countries were more political and poignant
I still love a lot of it but it's quite a bit off from what the rest of the world was doing. I'll spin Void and Siege for days.
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Check out the Indieheads podcasts Butt Rock number 1's series they did about this type of music. They have been doing more decades number 1's and even got Chris Wade and his wife on it.
Minion Death Cult has a couple buttrock episodes with one of the guys from Street Fight
The whole streetfight butt rock series is 10/10, its on their patreon feed
