Definitely where I live it was. I used to cycle between all the rock radio stations when listening to music and around the time that song came out it was all the radios would play. I actually liked the song when it first came out but it got so overplayed.
My local rock station started playing straight-up modern pop hits a couple years ago. Could have at least left it at pop rock, there's no shortage of that ...
Though they never pretended to be brutal, they were always about classic rock and 90s pop rock. AFAIK they didn't even play Black Sabbath.
That's depressing. My local station is still rockin' hard with "A Little Bit Off" by FFDP on repeat, with some Metallica and Black Sabbath sprinkled in. They do the cringy "we do things the other stations won't" innuendos, but they don't gave a morning show and don't play ads on my drive home (except for their own station), so I'm happy.
If it's anything like I hear they just play Enter Sandman and Nothing Else Matters and lump it in with Ozzy's Crazy Train and consider that their hard core "classic rock"
1995 was 30 years ago, so that checks out. I'm currently really into 90s/early 00s Nu Metal, and that wave started in 1994 (release of Korn's debut album). Most of it was before my time, but my circle of friends was definitely listening to Linkin Park's debut in the early 00s. There are college graduates who are younger than that album ...
There was also a weird jazz station on AM (not 88.3FM) that'd show up on Sunday nights, but only for a few hours? I still don't know what it was but I loved it.
I am not sure how to read this. Is it a reference to something in particular ? are the two interlaced texts happening in parallel ? what is the link between a radio announcement and killing dogs in a nursery ?
So greentext is usually used like quotation marks or asterisks to denote roleplaying. Here it's being used to denote a soundboard like radio DJ's use.
The reference is to American classical rock stations that use very aggressive sound bumpers but play very milktoast music, usually the same 40 songs since the 80's
it's very common for radio personalities to be like "THIS IS THE REAL STATION FOR HARD ALT CLASSICS, KEEP YOUR GRANDMA AWAY!" and then play the same 200 song playlist as every other station because radio has been captured by iHeartMedia and homogenized to hell and back.
I'm grateful every day that my rock station is independent, and they still play Black Sabbath and Tool and whatnot. It's still pretty repetitive, but that's because there's not a ton of new rock music.
I've been on the lookout for new to me artists and new artists to explore the catalogues of because I've realized my music library is very much trapped in the early 2000s and I need to keep finding new stuff so my taste doesn't become stagnent and boring. My approaches are:
Go through current and former band members of bands I like and see what other bands they're in and see if I like them (for example the vocalist Howard Jones of Killswitch Engage fame moved on and is now the vocalist for Light The Torch so you can get more of his incredible vocals)
Watch smaller live music venues and see who is performing including who is opening for performers and dig through their music catalogues
Look up all of the bands that play in the morning and early afternoon at music festivals. (This is how I recently learned of The Haunt, a newish band that just released their second album and is brilliant if you catch them live!)
Awesome! This reminds me a lot of Flyleaf and old Paramore, and both are totally my jam. Thanks!
But this is kind of my point. I don't have a great way to find this type of music. I've been looking for newer music in genres I like, and I've largely been unsuccessful. I found The Interrupters just a couple years ago, and that's after looking for years for new rock bands and they're a bit outside my preferred genre and also started in 2011.
The Haunt is much closer to what I'm looking for, but they've also been around since 2015. Likewise for Light the Torch, they're pretty close to what I like, and they've been around since 2012.
I used to get most of my new music from radio stations, word of mouth from friends, and occasionally record stores, but the radio either plays old music (Black Sabbath, Metallica, etc), newer genres (hiphop, pop, etc), or old bands that are making new music (e.g. the new Linkin Park w/ Emily Armstrong).
I don't go to shows much anymore, and there aren't any record stores really anymore, and I don't use streaming services like Spotify because I hate subscriptions. So finding new music is incredibly difficult, and by the time I do find a cool artist, they're already like 10-15 years old and aren't really making new music anymore.
So yeah, I miss the days when radio stations were interesting.
Honestly I'm in the same boat, but if I can stay just 10 years behind I at least won't be like one of those boomers who only listens to glam rock when I'm their age and still listening to 90s/2000s punk rock.
I actually learned of The Interrupters when they opened for the Hella Mega Tour at Wrigley Field! One of the twins joked that they're an arena rock band now and played the opening riff to Sweet Child of Mine while other band members were drinking some water and catching their breath
Given the bands you listed, here's a couple of others that maybe you'd like that aren't new but certainly aren't as well known or receive much radio play:
Honestly I think the real problem is we don't really have DJs anymore who find those deep cuts to give airtime to and maybe take a small time band and give them to enough ears to grow. I knew a really awesome punk rock band that was stuck doing shows for tips in bars and whatnot that fizzled out despite the incredible talent they had because they didn't have any real ability to grow their audiences
Im grateful that Tool finally gave in to public pressure and allowed their music to be streamed. When ITunes first came out and other streaming platforms became a thing. Tool refused to let their music be streamed because they wanted to “preserve the album experience”. It wasn’t until 2019 that you could find Tool on Spotify.
iHeartMedia plays artists that they own, either record contract or catalogue.
When I lived in the UK my local gym always had the same shitty radio station on and I was like "Why do they keep playing these artists? I almost never hear them on BBC" and it turned out to be because the owners of the radio station also owned those artists. Vertical integration baby!
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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 137 pts · 346d
When it's not Radioactive by Imagine Dragons
Rusty@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 346d
Imagine Dragons are the new Nickelback.
DavidP@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 345d
Was that song overplayed?
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 345d
Definitely where I live it was. I used to cycle between all the rock radio stations when listening to music and around the time that song came out it was all the radios would play. I actually liked the song when it first came out but it got so overplayed.
Obi@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 345d
This is the only clip that makes me willingly listen to imagine dragons: https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginedragons/comments/dh21ul/city_blackout_perfectly_syncs_with_believer_sound/
(Sorry for link from "that site")
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 345d
That’s awesome.
BambiDiego@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 345d
Relax... Take a deep breath...
Iiiiiiiiinnnnn...........
Oooouuuuutttt.......
WAKING UP, TO ASH AND DUST
chrislowles@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 345d
I'M WAKING UP TO ASH AND DUST
InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 346d
Give it 5months
AZERTY@feddit.nl · 92 pts · 346d
More like Imagine Dragons - Radioactive comes on.
Denjin@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 346d
SomeAmateur@sh.itjust.works · 79 pts · 346d
Shotgun and 5.56 combo sounds like amateur sound design for sure....it's perfect
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 54 pts · 346d
It's the radio ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯
ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works · 24 pts · 346d
Red tailed hawk screech!
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works · 15 pts · 346d
And passing it off as a bald eagle
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 37 pts · 346d
My local rock station started playing straight-up modern pop hits a couple years ago. Could have at least left it at pop rock, there's no shortage of that ...
Though they never pretended to be brutal, they were always about classic rock and 90s pop rock. AFAIK they didn't even play Black Sabbath.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 346d
That's depressing. My local station is still rockin' hard with "A Little Bit Off" by FFDP on repeat, with some Metallica and Black Sabbath sprinkled in. They do the cringy "we do things the other stations won't" innuendos, but they don't gave a morning show and don't play ads on my drive home (except for their own station), so I'm happy.
lka1988@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 346d
Gross.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 346d
Yeah, I hear it 1-2x/day, and I only listen for about an hour. That's a pretty high hit-rate when there are so many great classics.
But at least they're still playing rock instead of throwing in random pop stuff.
scutiger@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 346d
All your favorite classic rock hits from Nirvana to Metallica!
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 4 pts · 346d
If only, Metallica is way too hard for them. Their main thing is 70s rock, minus Black Sabbath and punk.
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 345d
If it's anything like I hear they just play Enter Sandman and Nothing Else Matters and lump it in with Ozzy's Crazy Train and consider that their hard core "classic rock"
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 2 pts · 345d
Oh yeah, I forgot that Metallica had a buttrock phase ...
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 345d
Sadly, they are probably more known for that shit. I don't think I have liked any Metallica songs since the infamous "black album" came out.
scutiger@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 345d
Nirvana and Metallica are considered "oldies" now, and that makes me feel really old.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 1 pts · 345d
1995 was 30 years ago, so that checks out. I'm currently really into 90s/early 00s Nu Metal, and that wave started in 1994 (release of Korn's debut album). Most of it was before my time, but my circle of friends was definitely listening to Linkin Park's debut in the early 00s. There are college graduates who are younger than that album ...
paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 25 pts · 345d
The other classic
I'm a big fan of this very specific type of greentext
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 345d
the OG. i think I like that one more
lime@feddit.nu · 25 pts · 346d
rock you like a hurricane is way too edgy a choice. i'd go with i wanna rock and roll all night
turkalino@lemmy.yachts · 13 pts · 346d
Idk that song’s pretty edgy, it’s about le sex, if you didn’t know 😏
lime@feddit.nu · 2 pts · 346d
nah
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml · 22 pts · 346d
Every time Baba O'Reilly by The Who ends, my brain adds in "Q104" before the next song starts
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 346d
As happens to everyone who grew up in the greater Cleveland area in the '90s
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 346d
Must be more than one Q104. Mine was out of NYC.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 346d
Huh, looks like there were a few of them owned by the same group. Gross.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 345d
Same, steeped in that 104.3.
There was also a weird jazz station on AM (not 88.3FM) that'd show up on Sunday nights, but only for a few hours? I still don't know what it was but I loved it.
frank@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 346d
Q104.3 was dank as fuck
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 21 pts · 346d
This sounds like a GTA radio station
locahosr443@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 346d
My instant reaction to this was an overwhelming sense of vice city nostalgia
unmagical@lemmy.ml · 16 pts · 346d
This feels like a "Sex FM" thing.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 346d
What's sex FM and why didn't I think of it first?
unmagical@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 346d
https://youtu.be/cMOUp_XpblM
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 346d
It's Noodle! THAT'S why I could have never thought it before that genius. I haven't seen this side channel, thanks for showing to me.
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 8 pts · 346d
I am not sure how to read this. Is it a reference to something in particular ? are the two interlaced texts happening in parallel ? what is the link between a radio announcement and killing dogs in a nursery ?
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 32 pts · 346d
So greentext is usually used like quotation marks or asterisks to denote roleplaying. Here it's being used to denote a soundboard like radio DJ's use.
The reference is to American classical rock stations that use very aggressive sound bumpers but play very milktoast music, usually the same 40 songs since the 80's
Gustephan@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 346d
I think milquetoast is the word you want; milktoast is phonetically correct but that spelling refers to a breakfast dish.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 16 pts · 346d
Interesting. Milquetoast. I'll need to internalize that spelling, thank you
zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 345d
Please tell me that "milktoast" isn't something that people eat.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 339d
my stepdad used to tear up bread and eat it in milk like cereal. I've seen some shit
IronBird@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 231d
are you british?
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 231d
Nope, that was in the american rocky mountains. Dirt poor rednecks. I don't know where he picked that up
abbotsbury@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 346d
it's very common for radio personalities to be like "THIS IS THE REAL STATION FOR HARD ALT CLASSICS, KEEP YOUR GRANDMA AWAY!" and then play the same 200 song playlist as every other station because radio has been captured by iHeartMedia and homogenized to hell and back.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 346d
I'm grateful every day that my rock station is independent, and they still play Black Sabbath and Tool and whatnot. It's still pretty repetitive, but that's because there's not a ton of new rock music.
vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 346d
There is an absolutely insane amount of new rock music. More rock music is being made today than ever before in the history of music.
IronBird@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 231d
it's interesting to me how many people just...stop looking for new music, after they leave college/uni presumably?
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 345d
Idk, the rock music I find is either:
I just don't know how to find decent new rock music these days.
That said, there are a few decent ones I've found recently:
All of those are from Europe (hard for me to find) and were formed in the 2000s. At least Volbeat makes it to my local radio station, which is cool.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 345d
I've been on the lookout for new to me artists and new artists to explore the catalogues of because I've realized my music library is very much trapped in the early 2000s and I need to keep finding new stuff so my taste doesn't become stagnent and boring. My approaches are:
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 345d
Awesome! This reminds me a lot of Flyleaf and old Paramore, and both are totally my jam. Thanks!
But this is kind of my point. I don't have a great way to find this type of music. I've been looking for newer music in genres I like, and I've largely been unsuccessful. I found The Interrupters just a couple years ago, and that's after looking for years for new rock bands and they're a bit outside my preferred genre and also started in 2011.
The Haunt is much closer to what I'm looking for, but they've also been around since 2015. Likewise for Light the Torch, they're pretty close to what I like, and they've been around since 2012.
I used to get most of my new music from radio stations, word of mouth from friends, and occasionally record stores, but the radio either plays old music (Black Sabbath, Metallica, etc), newer genres (hiphop, pop, etc), or old bands that are making new music (e.g. the new Linkin Park w/ Emily Armstrong).
I don't go to shows much anymore, and there aren't any record stores really anymore, and I don't use streaming services like Spotify because I hate subscriptions. So finding new music is incredibly difficult, and by the time I do find a cool artist, they're already like 10-15 years old and aren't really making new music anymore.
So yeah, I miss the days when radio stations were interesting.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 345d
Honestly I'm in the same boat, but if I can stay just 10 years behind I at least won't be like one of those boomers who only listens to glam rock when I'm their age and still listening to 90s/2000s punk rock.
I actually learned of The Interrupters when they opened for the Hella Mega Tour at Wrigley Field! One of the twins joked that they're an arena rock band now and played the opening riff to Sweet Child of Mine while other band members were drinking some water and catching their breath
Given the bands you listed, here's a couple of others that maybe you'd like that aren't new but certainly aren't as well known or receive much radio play:
Honestly I think the real problem is we don't really have DJs anymore who find those deep cuts to give airtime to and maybe take a small time band and give them to enough ears to grow. I knew a really awesome punk rock band that was stuck doing shows for tips in bars and whatnot that fizzled out despite the incredible talent they had because they didn't have any real ability to grow their audiences
Pacattack57@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 346d
Im grateful that Tool finally gave in to public pressure and allowed their music to be streamed. When ITunes first came out and other streaming platforms became a thing. Tool refused to let their music be streamed because they wanted to “preserve the album experience”. It wasn’t until 2019 that you could find Tool on Spotify.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 346d
Do they not realise you can stream an album?
I think the only functioning CD player I have is in my car. Assuming it works, I've never actually used it.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 345d
I love buying CDs but almost never insert them into a drive after initially ripping them to add to my MP3 collection
Coldcell@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 346d
Anything to hear another cookie recipe.
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 344d
iHeartMedia plays artists that they own, either record contract or catalogue.
When I lived in the UK my local gym always had the same shitty radio station on and I was like "Why do they keep playing these artists? I almost never hear them on BBC" and it turned out to be because the owners of the radio station also owned those artists. Vertical integration baby!
IronBird@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 231d
and iHeart owns like 60-70% of all radio stations across the US, which is why every station plays the same stuff
chrislowles@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 345d
THERE'S TRAFFIC THERE'S TRAFFIC NO TRAFFIC THERE'S TRAFFIC
DJKJuicy@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 345d
I mean, do radio stations like that still exist?
Dasus@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 345d
More than you know.
https://radio.garden/
Juice@midwest.social · 6 pts · 345d
This does not boad well