Why does music on the radio suck so bad?Follow

I've burned up an 11 dollar package of batteries from Costco (that's like a metric ton of batteries) with my MP3 player and outside of Howard Stern and NPR I've heard maybe 2 songs worth listening to. So many of these songs are done by try-hard male-******* and bands that were told that "'cool' sounds like this!'. This decade is nearly half over and I'm forced to listen to Hieroglyphics songs from 3 or 4 years ago. Is this the future of music? Will Gwen Steffani EVER stfu about her ex-boyfriend? Please, someone point in the direction of some hip hop or any other music that isnt horrible. Actually, I heard a cool song by some punkish type band where the chorus goes something like "You say, I dont know. I say bla bla bla" I just butchered the chorus but it almost sounds like that, can anyone tell me the name of that band/song?

I think its partially due to an entire generation that suffers from ADD...

Yeah, most music on the radio sucks.

The song and band that Yusame was looking for is "Take Me Out" by Franz Ferdinand.

I've found that there are actually some pretty good radio stations in and around New York State; while I was driving to the Adriondacks I found that Albany actually has some pretty nice stations, and of course around New York City you get some decent stuff.

Yea Atlanta has a grand variety of Stations. What part of Atlanta do u live in Ghana? ... Back to topic..

I swap between Real Radio 105.3 for news during the week and phil hendrie lol love it. And then on the weekends for some music.

96.7 the buzz even though its clear channel =\ its still good music from time to time.

99.7 has always been a favorite of mine. they are one of the very few independently owned major stations down here.

and yes Q100. Simply cause my gf tells me they always have kick *** contests going on that I should try to enter.

Welp thats bout it.

So in atlanta radios al good.
Except for those darned commercials!!!! Male enhancement this, feeling depressed that, lose weight now, i have a horrible rash here, prozac is the way to go here.... blah blah blah. I wish there was a radio station with NO commercials(idiom huh?).

In central florida there isnt anything worth listening to. on weekdays i have been listening to AM talk radio and on weekends i spend most of the time scanning on FM for pretty much the entire drive

airborn, where bout' in central florida you in. im in sarasota, i only listen to 102.5 or 103.5 the classic rock stations. 101.5 has some good 80's too sometimes.

cool. ill bet your pretty pissed you moved to orlando for charley ehh? lol. You see that on the whole entire map of florida. It did almost a complete 90* degree turn right when it came 30 miles from sarasota. god loves sarasota ha ha ha.

relation ship music doesnt make money. Its called emo. I've been listening to alot of it for a while. Your thinking of punks who sing about hot girls. Big diff. But I agree with the rest of your post.

Radio sucks because there are precious few true talents that get airplay. They mostly are prepackaged, overproduced, one-hit wonders that you won't remember in six months... Thier lyrics are meaningless drivel. This, IMHO is why, in general, the most profitible and popular radio stations in ANY city are the "Classic" stations. Why do the Beatles and Pink Floyd or Al Green, just to name a FEW of the greats, still get MAJOR airplay? Because it was special. It meant something.
Will anyone be listening to Brittany Spears or "Jamiriqoui" or Lisa Loeb or one hundred others in 40 years? I strongly doubt it.

I threw in Al Green because I didn't want to be pidgeon holed...

EDIT: Yousami, I was with you all the way until you asked for Hip-Hop. I think Hip-Hop barely qualifies as music. It is more like "Rythmic Poetry" It lacks melody, not to mention harmony. The artists rarley "sing" They talk. They are not really creative in my opinion. There is alot of sampling. Soon in that Genre, the only songs not sampled will be "Mary Had a Little Lamb" and "The Hokey Pokey"...
As a matter of fact, I think those are the only two songs not "Sampled" by Hip Hoppers
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Edited, Wed Sep 15 22:02:44 2004 by KwaiChang

Because the people singing it are so bad.

I think, we should just send anthrax to who ever runs these radio stations. But, modest mouse said that? As big a fan I am of them... they just made it main strem, and theyve been on sony records for... like 4 years I belive? Btw, you do need to search good music. Just dig deeper into record labels, youll find links from band sites to other band sites to others and others and so on. Its like a chain.

Now I'm no big advocate of sending such a deadly desease as anthrax to the radio stations and record companies, however if we send Anthrax (you know the early 80's thrash band?) I'm pretty sure the problem would be solved. :)