Why do the radio hits become hits and popular songs that people love? The masses get programmed, told it's great, then they like it, from that program, then because everyone likes it, others like it too...
I stopped listening to the radio. The music sucks. Most of it anyways. I listen to music that I like, people find that it sucks. It's okay, I'm not listening to the radio lol
He's funny the way he delivers. And the uses the term "tentacles" :p And tentacles are totally my thing (not in that way lol).
As the mass grows, so does its gravity and attractive power. This works with the programmed or the free but, there are a lot more programmed.
Wise words!
I had this unique experience. My friend bought the newest Poison album waaaay back in 1980s. He wanted me to here a song, and as he fast forwarded, stopped listened, and fast forwarded some more, I had the unique experience of thinking they all sounded the same, that is sounded like noise, and I couldn't differentiate anything that I was hearing.
Now, as an adult, I look back at that time and wonder how I was entrained to hear and enjoy those sounds, much like eating a food until you get used to it. (you can do this, if you don't resist and hate with every bit... you will began to enjoy it).
I don't know that we enjoy it, but it becomes familiar. It isn't until we are expose to something better, something to contrast it with, that we see it for what it is. Even then, it seems if you listen to bad music long enough, good music doesn't sound good to them. It takes time to learn to appreciate anything, but some things, it seems to me, would be better of not doing that with.
So I use great discernment with what I listen to now. I am often shocked to consider the lyrics of bands from back in the day. But also pleasantly surprised by others that speak to me of a younger me that heard such wonderful ideas too. So it goes both ways.
I had the same experience with one of the first Thrice albums, before they started to expand on their talents a bit. I really liked one song, and then found the other songs sounded the same. After listening to the album several times, I could hear the slight nuances, but still. They aren't my preferred band. And bands I do really like, like the Offspring, I don't like their more popular songs. I like the really different songs, unique to them and their style.
But as an aside, dang, that girl is poison! (Do I have the correct album? P-p-p-poison!) lmao
hmm, can't remember which band that was. i'm listening to a bit of Poison now, to their credit, they never lied about what they were all about. in an interview they said they started the band to get laid and have fun. and in their later years wrote some deeper songs, this one still holds up pretty well.
Cool. They are not who I was thinking of, but a lot of music in the 80s was similar, unless the artist was one of the rarer talents of the time.
indeed. there was alot of 'me toos' back then.
i did like poison, but they weren't very original.
my favorites where:
pearl jam/sound garden /alice in chains /stone temple pilots / NIN
I was still a kid back in the 80s, but when I was a bit older, I did enjoy some Iggy Pop and some David Bowie. Oh, and let's not forget the cassette tape my sister got of MC Hammer and I was so jealous haha
Just saw Star Trek 6: Undiscovered Country, it has David Bowe's wife. I recalled that I've tried to listen to david, and beyond a few songs couldn't get into it.
My very first tape was Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet .. I'm actually glad to see the he is still alive and kicking and producing some decent music ;)
I also remember my first CD. Tesla - Five Man Acoustical Jam... I still love it, perhaps more than any album they have produced. It just speaks to my soul.
MC Hammer... lol, that man literally has done nothing since, and still riding on the fame of the past... kinda sad..
Strange days.
Indeed :p