September 26, 2005
MY ENNUI CAN BEAT UP YOUR ENNUI
Rankin' Rob posts of the thin gruel that is commercial radio in the ATL. I can believe that. As I commented, however, I think I have him beat. By my last reckoning there were 2 or 3 stations in Jax that play All Skynyrd, All The Time! The worst part, of course, is on the three day weekends, when, instead of a Battle of The Rock Gods, they will have a Skynyrd battle. Instead of facing off 100 rock bands, and take votes and winnow it down by single elimination to the Greatest Rock Band Of All Time (!) they pick 100 Skynyrd songs, and square them off.
Hint: Free Bird ALWAYS wins. Although there is a rumor, urban legend, I'm sure, that Sweet Home Alabama knocked it off in the final round in 1989, however after the brandishing of a pistol, and an asscracking on the offending DJ's ass with a Confederate battle flag, the results were declared compromised, and Free Bird prevailed.
'Round here, "classic rock" means two Rolling Stones, one Beatles and one Who in every half hour.
I have to listen to the kids rock station to hear Hendrix. Sheesh.
Posted by: Ted at September 27, 2005 6:31 AMANY great music gets tiresome after the first 10,000 times you hear it. But with Clear Channel muscling out all the competition, the choices are either Jax's local yokels or Five For Fighting twenty times a day. Which somehow adds up to 100 percent boring.
Posted by: Joan of Argghh! at September 27, 2005 7:33 AMUnfortunately, we are watching the death of an era. FM radio is going the way of AM years ago. If you want to listen to good music these days, the future is in satellite radio. I am starting to understand old timers more and more.
Posted by: Kelly at September 27, 2005 11:20 AMXM is the shit.
I love it. Don't like the station? There are plenty others.
And Free Bird is the most overrated, mundane, blow-hard, tripe of a song ever written. Even after only hearing it like, 2 times, it sucked. If the song ended after a couple minutes instead of maybe 45, it would be more bearable.
iPOD means never having to listen to radio again.
Posted by: mike at September 27, 2005 4:04 PMI couldn't finish reading the rest of his post after he mentioned John Mayer.
John "I Have a Vagina" Mayer.
Posted by: rightisright at September 27, 2005 4:44 PMThese are the reasons I listen to nothing but talk radio.
One thing that I've always found odd: at every Jaguar home game, for some inexplicable reason, they play about a minute of "Sweet Home Alabama" (which I have personally retitled "The Redneck National Anthem"). The second those guitar notes begin, most of the crown goes nuts and starts whooping and dancing at their seats.
I can only think of two things:
"Hey, assholes, we're in Florida."
Or those night in 1973-75, shooting pool in Morrisville, NY, under the influence of God-knows-what, while that crap played on the jukebox. Evil flashbacks.
Posted by: Joe at September 28, 2005 7:30 AMThank the gods my city has a good classic rock station that's been in bidness for over 25 years. Any time I get a hankerin' for some Led Zep, Pink Floyd, or Hendrix, I can count on them. Every Sunday night, they play full albums, and Saturday evening is for blues. They love their Stevie Ray.
Another decent rock station in these parts has Mandatory Metallica every day at 5 (3 songs). The morning show is syndicated Lex and Terry out of Florida. Drunk Bitch Friday is hilarious.
The two stations have some overlap, and where one might suck (Motley Crue, Warrant, or Black Crowes), the other can make good (Alice In Chains, Jimi).
As for Free Bird versus Sweet Home Alabama, both get my vote for Most Annoyingly Overplayed Songs Ever. Chevy commercials get the MUTE button as well for overuse of Magic Carpet Ride.
Posted by: Skwerly at September 28, 2005 6:04 PMYou really need to listen to the new John Mayer Trio. He's working with at least a strap on on this record...
Posted by: rankin' rob at September 29, 2005 3:09 PM