Why does music on the radio suck so bad?Follow

no, your messed up for not agreeing.

{Radio} = {death}

I can't stand Radio! I get woken up by my step brother every morning by the shower radio, which firstly sounds terrible, secondly has presenters that talk as if theyve smoked about 1million **** a day (including the women...actually, especially the women), and thirdly theres only about 10 songs that are ever played, and they all suck more than a vacuum cleaner on heat! (this is my opinion on English Radio, i hope US radio is better!)

Even though theres the new invention of Digital Radio, which have stations for different genres now, they still all suck, because the number of songs is now limited to 2, and the songs are about 10 years old! Not that i like modern music (well, popular music) anyway, there is never any decent music played! i just know its safe to stick to my CDs...

Try your local college radio stations... they usually play the best stuff.

and Modest Mouse... heh Talking Heads wannabees!

modest mouse and talking heads are alike, very abstract bands that always sound different. I still think modest mouse is independent from most any other band. Then again, thats what indie is.

[link=www.youhavebadtasteinmusic.com] Listen to the man [/link]

Second step: Turn off your radio and television.

Something to say about Hip Hop



Music: (myzk)
n.
The art of arranging sounds in time so as to produce a continuous, unified, and evocative composition, as through melody, harmony, rhythm, and timbre.

Hip-Hop
Many deny it the well deserved classification of music, and it saddens me every time. Now if one were to look at the definition of music, and understand that to have a melody, you must have rhythm. For without rhythm, there would be no melody.

Hip Hop and rap emphasize rhythm, so sometimes the subtle melodies get ignored. In fact, there is only one song that i can think of that can even qualify as not having melody, until the chorus come on. It's called "Grindin'" by the Clipse, where the entire song excluding the chorus is completely percussion. I swore it had no melody until one day, I whistled it. The melody is played by a percussive instrument, which sounds like, and may in fact be the sound of thumping the cheek with the mouth open at different degrees to produce different pitches.

Some people say that the melody is too simple and repetitive. However in groove based music, which includes Funk, Disco, and Drum n Bass, this is key to making people dance. You must have the beat, and it has to be simple enough for everyone to hear and groove to.

Harmony is not truly necessary to have a song, yet, knowing and applying harmony make it easier for the listener's brain to recognize the direction that the melody wants to take the listener. Without actual chords, there is ALWAYS an implied harmony. Harmony is always calculated by the lowest bass note being played, and ladies and gentlemen, what is hip hop known for?

That damn bass. In fact, many hip hop producers are replacing their acoustic bass drum sounds with a hip hop legend. An analog 808 drum machine, created in the early 80s by Roland. The reason people favor this is because the sound it produces is like no other. The wave form produces for the bass drum is coincidentally one of the most naturally beautiful waveforms to the human ear. It is a sine wave. The sine wave is a very clean sounding tone, very round, with an exteremely well defined pitch. It is the trademark of Lil' Jon. Pretty much all the songs that shake your car, house, and brain cells from down the street are because of the very resonant tendencies of the sine wave.

Many people say that sampling ruins music. I can understand where this arguement comes from, yet you must understand that ALL MUSICIANS SAMPLE. The way they learn to play is by playing other people's songs. There is not a single interval or melody that hasn't been used before. To actually use one in the same way as a previous artist intentionally is genius. Part of making good music is playing with people's memory. You repeat a theme a few times, and then its stuck in memory. Then you change it, and the brain gets excited. Then you change it back, and the brain has an ******. To use one that the brain already recognizes is not cheating, it's genius.

Many, many, many songs use the most natural chord progession in music, known as IV-V-I. You hear it everyday, and you love it every time, the only thing that makes you think the song is different is, the rhythm, and the melody. They just remix the same songs over and over. So in a sense, all music is Hip Hop, and Hip Hop is all music.


Edited, Mon Sep 20 16:14:39 2004 by laviont

By the way, that song is "Take me out" by Franz Ferdinand. Wasn't that one of the main topics of this? Well I guess I was the only one that caught that. But I gave up on radio about three years ago. If you want to find some music that isn't on the mainstream radio, all you have to do is find a local music site and/or music store and see what they say about local music in your city/town. Also your local college radio is a good idea or local TV music shows if you have them. Believe me, once you find ONE band you like that isn't mainstream, it leads to chains and chains of underground/local music love ^^. I'm fifteen and I got involved in my local scene about 2 years ago and I will never go back ^^.

Neither does Nelly.

Led Zeppelin(with John Paul Jones) "Hats Off To (Roy) Harper":

Gave my baby a twenty dollar bill,
If that don't get her, Sure my shot, shot, shot-gun will,
Yeah, I gave my baby a twenty dollar bill,
If that don't get that woman, I'm sure my shot-gun will.

so much for not wanting to 'pop a cap in ya ***.'

And the Foo Fighters(Dave Grohl) did a remix with Puff Daddy of the song "All About the Benjamins." And I'm pretty sure someone was walking around the streets wanting to 'pop a cap in ya ***'...

Oh, and one of John Paul Jones' friends, named Jimmy Page did a song with Puffy. It's called "Come With Me".

Edited, Thu Sep 23 11:53:06 2004 by laviont

Yeah, yeah, ok. BUT...

The guys that do that, they do it for fun. The problem with that not only it being one of the most idiotic leisure activities to carry out, it influences people who look up to them, and they then think its cool to shoot people too! I have no problem with Rap, Hip-Hop or whatever (one of my favourite bands Incubus has a DJ in it, and its great!) in general, if people like the music, its fine. Its just the reputation that some have, as just plain idiots.

Also, just a question, but why does Nelly have a white plaster on the side of his face?

About sampling, you are pretty correct. But whats the difference between using a sampler as your instrument, or a piano. Rhythmic poetry in itself is music. The thing that you are looking for is a obviously melodic lead line. Rappers are not as monotone as you are saying. Subtle melodic changes are present and obvious to people who listen to the music. You are thinking in semitones and larger intervals, while there are many complex in between notes, that in fact decide the harmonic scale in use. But besides the voice, if you take just the instrumental alone, would you say its music? And if so, once you add the voice, is it no longer music? Why? Because the pitch is a B flat through 90% of the verse?

Good point. Now if they could only lose the violent content. Kanye West has some talent but he's a flash in the pan schmuck.

Anyone who lives in the Chicago Area like myself will agree that 93.1 WXRT is one of the greatest radio stations on the planet. It's a cross between an indie college station and a '90s nuevo-folk/oldies trading post.

BTW- Is anyone aware of legal ways to download Beatles tunes? This Apple Computer/ Apple Corps legal battle is really irking me.

Holy ****, man... what the hell is everyone's problem with hip-hop music? Are you people upset that it was once considered to be a fad in the 70s, but then grew to be THE most popular form of music, and is constantly used today in the mainstream to sell products? What the hell is all this talk about "Hip-hop is all money, sex and violence"?! Would you like it if I stereotyped all rock music being about doing cocaine/heroin, hating life because your girlfriend left you, and being eager to slit your wrists!? **** no, and I know better than that because not all rock is like that!

Do you ********* even KNOW what you're talking about, or do you just group every black person with a mic as a gangsta rapper? Do you just group them all as hip-hop? Rap music comes in a ******** of forms, and most of you idiots are stuck on the idea that all rap is gangsta rap... wtf are you smoking?! What about Talib Kweli? Mos Def? Common? The Roots? Hell, even the Black Eyed Peas! AND, many of these "gangsta rappers" have much deeper content in the actual ALBUM than that of a ******* single... dammit, do some research before you talk any **** on something you're absolutely clueless about!

Do you even know what REAL hip-hop heads listen for when they pop in whatever record they did?! LYRICS. DELIVERY. CONTENT. Punchlines! If the wordplay is put together in a clever way, we LOVE it! Ugh... man, you one track minded fools have NO idea about things, you learn about 5% of something, and then base the rest of the 95% off of the 5%...

And about your views on people sampling... oh boy, don't even get me started there...

/slaps idiots

/end minirant

And the moral of the story today kiddies, is don't talk about what you absolutely have know ******* clue about...

because you're old and "un-cool".


/sarcasm off