It's unfortunate...

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

I'm a big fan of music. I'm always looking for something new... something exciting. I use stuff like Pandora to find new music, I ask friends what they like in hopes of finding new stuff. I browse other peoples' iPods and whatnot.

It kills me, though, when people just take whats given to them on the top 40 radio station. For example, I could be in my car with my girlfriend listening to Brothers in Arms, by Dire Straits. The most popular song on that album is "Money for Nothing". The only song that my girlfriend is interested in hearing is... you guessed it, Money for Nothing. There's 8 more perfectly good songs on that album that she could care less about. But it's not just that album; Dire Straits has lots of other albums, also with great music on them. Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits lead singer) has some amazing solo work. (Thanks, Thieroff)

It just bugs the crap out of me that every time a song that has been on the radio plays, my girl will go "OOO! I like that song!" Why are so many people so content just listening to what the DJ hands them? Especially with newer music... the stuff on the radio sucks and blows HARD. Your best bet for finding good new music is finding stuff that isn't on the airwaves.

/rant

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[mike11202 10+ year member]

happens all the time.. i have tons of good music but all they wanna listen to is the shit thats overplayed on the radio

 

[silvercookie 5,000+ posts]

i agree.

 

[btdickey99 5,000+ posts]

I do enjoy when an artist makes a quality cd with more than the 2 r 3 that are on the radio.... I hate hearing the same crap time after time from ppl that only listen to the songs on the radio

 

[Steven206Seattl 10+ year member]

Happens too much. Happened with the Bone Thugs cd and on the radio all you hear is lil love or whatever that gay song was and they had much better songs planned for the cd that were leaked but got cut.

 

[elementxero 10+ year member]

I'm a big fan of music. I'm always looking for something new... something exciting. I use stuff like Pandora to find new music, I ask friends what they like in hopes of finding new stuff. I browse other peoples' iPods and whatnot.
It kills me, though, when people just take whats given to them on the top 40 radio station. For example, I could be in my car with my girlfriend listening to Brothers in Arms, by Dire Straits. The most popular song on that album is "Money for Nothing". The only song that my girlfriend is interested in hearing is... you guessed it, Money for Nothing. There's 8 more perfectly good songs on that album that she could care less about. But it's not just that album; Dire Straits has lots of other albums, also with great music on them. Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits lead singer) has some amazing solo work. (Thanks, Thieroff)

It just bugs the crap out of me that every time a song that has been on the radio plays, my girl will go "OOO! I like that song!" Why are so many people so content just listening to what the DJ hands them? Especially with newer music... the stuff on the radio sucks and blows HARD. Your best bet for finding good new music is finding stuff that isn't on the airwaves.

/rant

In my experience that attitude is mostly from people who really don't care about music that much. It has no real role in their lives or minds and its just sort of something for catchy white noise to drown out the bad people in their brains that tell them to snap out of it.

It's fine with me really. I don't care what other people like, but I've found that the majority of people like that live continually under four hundred layers of mental buffer zone to keep as far away from the horror of life and death or anything even remotely existential.

Again, that's fine with me on a "do what you gotta do" level, but these people frustrate me in that I envy their ability to be so consumed with trivial shit all the time. You will find these people often have very 'people person' social personas, have very "business" type jobs, be very active and always be going going going all the time through life.

Good music is dangerous to this delicate balance of drowning out the scary thoughts because good music presents ideas and emotions that could throw everything off. I feel like these people have a sense of this "house of cards" dynamic in themselves, so they nervously shrug off things that make them think too hard.

Of course, this is a massive generalization and its not always true, but I feel like I'm fairly socially observant and I've noticed this consistently.

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

In my experience that attitude is mostly from people who really don't care about music that much. It has no real role in their lives or minds and its just sort of something for catchy white noise to drown out the bad people in their brains that tell them to snap out of it.
It's fine with me really. I don't care what other people like, but I've found that the majority of people like that live continually under four hundred layers of mental buffer zone to keep as far away from the horror of life and death or anything even remotely existential.

Again, that's fine with me on a "do what you gotta do" level, but these people frustrate me in that I envy their ability to be so consumed with trivial shit all the time. You will find these people often have very 'people person' social personas, have very "business" type jobs, be very active and always be going going going all the time through life.

Good music is dangerous to this delicate balance of drowning out the scary thoughts because good music presents ideas and emotions that could throw everything off. I feel like these people have a sense of this "house of cards" dynamic in themselves, so they nervously shrug off things that make them think too hard.

Of course, this is a massive generalization and its not always true, but I feel like I'm fairly socially observant and I've noticed this consistently.

That was poetry dude. IMO it's totally true. Music is very powerful; in fact, last night I was listening to Peter Frampton's remake of 'Black Hole Sun' and it reminded me of a friend who had killed himself a year and a half ago, and I found myself shedding a tear for him.

I don't envy people who 'live under four hundred layers of mental buffer'; they seem to be missing the world. Above their buffer, theres so much more to life.

 

[95ZJ 10+ year member]

Props for listening to Frampton's remake of Black Hole Sun.

 

[SyKo13 5,000+ posts]

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[SyKo13 5,000+ posts]

Shank those bastards

 

[Lingerfelt 10+ year member]

The girlfriend doesn't like / isn't familiar with Walk of Life?

She must not have gone to Major Magic's as a child. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[bds0688 10+ year member]

I feel I can listen to a lot of different music, including the dreaded top 40, once in a blue moon. However, the top 40 shit gets boring quick. And talking to most people about said music is equally as boring. People who listen to top 40 primarily don't give a shit about composition, muscality, technicality, style, or anything. They don't give a **** about the deeper messages in songs unless it's handed to them on a silver platter. It took me quite a few listens to get different messages/feelings out of a lot of Floyd's work. All new rock, angry about something, revenge, all made plain as day. There's no ambiguity, no room for discussion. Or they'r having remorse, sorrow, about things that have happened.

Some top 40 esque song writers and composers from yester year really don't fit this bill, however. Pink Floyd, Rush, The Who, The Rolling Stones, etc, have amazingly popular albums and songs, but still evoke a lot of emotion in their music, even today.

/senseless rant

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

I think even in the 90s there were some good top 40 songs... i.e. stuff like Closing Time by Semisonic. Very well written song.

BTW: If you don't have it, Fingerprints by Peter Frampton is a must-have. Very diverse album, with some amazing work. I think the process he went through to make the album is amazing. It is the true essence of music, IMO.

 

[cobra65427289 10+ year member]

I agree. There is much more to life than supermaning that ho.

 

[elementxero 10+ year member]

I agree. There is much more to life than supermaning that ho.

I swear to god that song makes me consider riding an atomic bomb into a major metropolis waving a cowboy hat, deliriously and tearfully joy-infused at the inevitable end of modern society that would be ushered in from that mushroom cloud.