An Infinite Number Of Things That Pisses Me Off About Music

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17 : Radio 1 DJs
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Radio 1 DJs have always been a shower of shit. It used to be that there the place was filled with old men with about as much of a concept of youth culture as Clive Grandad Dunn. Now that it's all hip & trendy it's still filled with a shower of shit.
Although for a period in the late 90s it did have something going for it and I did used to listen to it regually both at work and at home. During the day you had Simon Mayo who was a lot better than people give him credit for and you got the impression you were listening to someone with a brain in his head. Following that was Jo Whiley , i'll get to her later. After that was the highlight of my afternoon . Mark Radcliffe & Lard (aka ex-Fall guitarist Marc Riley in his comedy sidekick role) Who actually put on a decent show to say they were only allowed to play 4 recorRAB of their own choice during a whole 2 hour show. Then you had Chris Moyles when he was actually funny , I'll never forget his feud with the Daily Mirror 3am girls and the time Paul Daniels told him to fuck off and put the phone down on him. The daytime playlist sucked but at least the DJs themselves kept you entertained.

Then it was back home after work to listen to the serious music with Steve Lamacq and then finally John Peel. All in all things were pretty good on Radio 1 around 98/02.

Sadly after that most of the best DJs left and sadly John Peel died , and it turned to shit pretty much instantly.
Moyles was moved to the breakfast show and has basically bored people with how drunk he got the night before for about the past 6 or 7 years.

Jo 'Indie Queen' Whiley has been living on past glories for about the past 15 years and we're supposed to give a shit about what she says because she booked Nirvana & The Smashing Pumpkins in 1992 and apparently she's still 'hip & trendy' for repeatedly playing every turgid british guitar band going.

As for the rest of them I don't know why they suddenly decided to go with celebrities but i don't think there's anything Sara Cox , Jamie Theakston or Ferne Cotton can tell me about music , or anything for that matter. It seems quite obvious to me Radio 1's policy seems to be get a known name and people won't notice how bland the playlist is. Oh and Zane Lowe gets on my nerves just doing a voiceover for a 30 second long TV advert so fuck knows how anyone makes it through his whole show. The rest of the roster seems to be made up of faceless dance DJ's who seem to have permanent residence in Ibiza playing to total mongs.

And as for Tim Westwood , hell that guy deserves an entry of his own.
 
I heard the () album of Sigur Ros is not supposed to be called "untitled". There was more of a concept behind it.
They felt it was more appropriate for the listeners to name each track the way it sounded to each one of them.
They didn't want to tell the people what to feel or think about when hearing their songs. It's more of a personalized album. [even in the inside of the album there was a 12 page booklet, so that the listener would draw whatever comes in mind].

I'm just a sucker for concepts.
 
All the local radio stations here in Houston are shit. All they play is the same 20 songs all day long, except the classic rock station, which is the only half-way decent one we have.
I don't even listen to the radio anymore. :(
 
ITAOTS is one of the few albums I like that my mom loves. It's got mass appeal, yo. But yeah, I'm also going to be uber-hip and say On Avery Island is a lot better, mainly because it doesn't have the mass appeal.

That having been said though, I do prefer NMH to Radiohead. They pull off the angst a lot better.
 
I am really enjoying your list Urban. I have been working on it for a few hours and I made it to pg 38. I still have quite a way to go, but here are a few things you said that I must see to--



Gasp. Lets just get this straight here. I have never listened to any Southern Rock that talks about pick up trucks or shooting furry animals, and I fully enjoy Southern rock while driving a purple oldmobile car and I would never shoot a furry animal as long as I live. I think you have mistaken Southern rock for new country or something of the sort. I live in Kansas, I know these rednecks of which you speak. And I also know the difference between these two genres. Yes, you will see the occasional redneck blaring Sweet Home Alabama, but I have NEVER seen a redneck blaring Marshall Tucker Band (great Southern Rock).

Proof
Marshall Tucker Band "Can't You See"

*Flute Solo, mind you

I'm gonna take a freight train down at the station, Lord
I don't care where it goes
Gonna clirab a mountain, the highest mountain, Lord
And gonna jump off, ain�t nobody gonna know
Can't you see, oh, can't you see,
What that woman, Lord
She been doin' to me
Can't you see, oh, can't you see
What that woman, been doin' to me

I'm gonna find me a hole in the wall,
Im gonna crawl inside and die
Cause my lady, now a mean old woman, Lord
Never told me goodbye
Can't you see, oh, can't you see,
What that woman she been doin' to me
Can't you see, oh, can't you see,
What that woman, she been doin' to me

Im gonna buy me a ticket as far as I can,
I ain't never comin' back
Im gonna take me that south-bound,
All the way to Georgia now,
Till the train it run out of track
Can't you see, oh, can't you see,
What that woman, she been doin' to me
Can't you see, oh, can't you see,
What that woman, what she been doin' to me


This below is what I believe you are thinking of. Yes, terrible I might add.

Summertime - Kenny Chesney

Summertime is finally here
That old ballpark, man, is back in gear
Out on 49
Man I can see the lights

School's out and the nights roll in
Man, just like a long lost friend
You ain't seen in a while
And can't help but smile

And it's two bare feet on the dashboard
Young love and an old Ford
Cheap shades and a tattoo
And a Yoo-Hoo bottle on the floorboard

Perfect song on the radio
Sing along 'cause it's one we know
It's a smile, it's a kiss
It's a sip of wine, it's summertime
Sweet summertime

Temperature says 93
Down at the Deposit and Guarantee
But that swimmin' hole
It's nice and cold

Bikini bottoms underneath
But the boys' hearts still skip a beat
When them girls shimmy off
Them old cutoRAB

And it's two bare feet on the dashboard
Young love and an old Ford
Cheap shades and a tattoo
And a Yoo-Hoo bottle on the floorboard

Perfect song on the radio
Sing along 'cause it's one we know
It's a smile, it's a kiss
It's a sip of wine, it's summertime
Sweet summertime

This, sir, is what the rednecks are playing in their pick ups. NOT Marshall Tucker Band



This neeRAB to be on a super huge billboard for all the world to see
 
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62 : The Other 3 Blokes In Coldplay
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WHO THE HELL ARE THEY?

As much as I can't stand Coldplay you can't dispute their popularity. Their albums are some of the most eagerly awaited recorRAB this century.

I mean the singers done alright for himself , A hollywood wife , endless media interest , tons of charity work , cameos in TV shows he's got the lot , he's living the rock n roll lifestyle , even if their music is about as rock n roll as your average Roger Whittaker album.
The last I checked the recorRAB had COLDPLAY written on them , not The Chris Martin Band or Chris Martin the solo project. To be so in such a band and to remain so anonymous is astonishing , you'd have to be REALLY fucking boring to be able to pull that one off. I mean John Deacon in Queen was the boring one in that band but at least you knew the guy's name. I don't have a clue what the names of these three guys are. If someone came up to me and asked who John Deacon was i'd say without batting an eyelid 'oh he's the bass player in Queen'. If the drummer in Coldplay's mum came up to me and said (As I have no idea what his name is we'll call him Jeff Smith for the sake of argument) 'Do you know who Jeff Smith is' I wouldn't have a fucking clue.

So come on you three , stop being so dull and make yourselves known.
Get caught snorting coke off a porn actress's tits in the toilets of an award ceremony.
Trash a few hotel rooms
Punch out Martin's wife after a 4 day drinking binge
Dump a supermodel by text
Call Liam Gallagher a cunt in the press

Just DO something.
 
^Why?

I like Rush, personally.

I used to be like, obsessed with them, but now they're just a band that I listen to every now and then. I'd buy a CD though.
 
I don't know about which track you're talking, I'm just saying in general. I agree a that a symphony can't be compared to to 'modern' song. But they work on the same concept.

I hate it when people try to explain an instrumental song or a painting.
And I donno how we can know which 'untitled' is hypocrite or lazy or just not being pretentious. As for me, I got no problem with it.
 
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64 : Scenes​

It doesn't matter which part of the world it happens in and when it happens. It's always the same thing. Whether it's Merseybeat in Liverpool in the 60s , Punk in London in the 70s , Bay Area Thrash in the 80s , Britpop in Camden or Grunge in Seattle in the 90s the same thing happens every single time.

One or two good banRAB get a bit of momentum behind them and then all of a sudden about 100 shit banRAB copying them suddenly appear from nowhere. And the worst thing is that these anonymous fuckwits without a single original idea ALWAYS get signed by some durab label trying to make a quick buck. Of course they all get dropped after one album , sometimes two but they still spend the next 10/15 years or so stinking up the music industry refusing to die (Pearl Jam , 17 years and counting ... Oh yes , you have an entry all to yourselves and boy is it going to be a fucking long one).

And you can bet when one of these scenes pops up in a city the next time you go there it'll be full of scruffy youths and japanese tourists looking for THAT pub where THAT guy in THAT band drinks in.
 
aside from the fact that you're just as likely to hear nirvana / pearl jam / alice in chains / soundgarden on classic rock radio in the middle of the afternoon as you are to hear led zeppelin / aerosmith / pink floyd / genesis?

grunge / alternative rock was THE mainstream about 12-15 years ago. period. it's not quite as predominant in the mainstream now but there are still a fair amount of throwbacks still trying to rock out like it's 1994 (ie: anyone associated with chad kroeger / mark tremonti). it might not be as trendy in your highschool as it was back when i was in grade 11 but thanks to nirvana, grunge rock is very much part of the mainstream history of rock music.

ps. we're not you're highschool peers and we REALLY don't care about them.
 
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