Woke up this morning to my clock radio blaring out some insipid rock tune that sounds like every other insipid rock tune made in what seems the last ten years. It's like they were all carved off the same slab of donair meat or something.
I'm sure someone out there is making good music, but you'd never know it from the two main rock stations in town.
It's no wonder that filesharing has taken off like it has. If that's the best you can offer, guys, then vivent la révolution!
Maybe the best song I've come across in the last year was The Hives' Hate To Say I Told You So. It's kick-ass rock and roll with energy and sass like I haven't heard since The Clash and Sex Pistols. A swirling guitar attack, snotty lyrics,
and a great dynamic range (just a fancy way of saying that they quickly go from very quiet to very LOUD).Do what I please
Gonna spread the disease
Because I wanna
Gonna call all the shots
All the no's and the not's
Because I wanna
And where did I hear it first? Not on radio. I still haven't heard it on radio.
On TV, hockey games to be specific, when they fill in between faceoffs. It's a sad commentary when your average arena music director is hipper than the sausage pushers on FM radio.
Oh, yeah, there's a campus radio station in town which occasionally plays some interesting stuff. But they're just as likely to broadcast a 3-hour Peruvian nose-flautist hootenanny.
Multiculturalism is fine, but I draw the line somewhere just past Swedish punk bands.
I give you the UN, which is as about as multicultural as it gets, and you don't want to listen to that Musak, either.