There’s a new station in L.A., it bills itself as "World Class Rock".<\/p>\n
Wow, I’m glad they told me, I was worried they were only going to play SHIT!\u00c2\u00a0 That’s the problem with radio stations today, they just won’t play the good stuff.\u00c2\u00a0 We want the hits, and they won’t give them to us.\u00c2\u00a0 They keep subjecting us to obscure cuts only geeks will like, that won’t play outside of Peoria, we need WORLD CLASS ROCK!<\/p>\n
You wonder why radio is in trouble.\u00c2\u00a0 It still believes it’s functioning in the happy news era of the seventies, like the Internet never happened.\u00c2\u00a0 Do these radio pricks watch MTV or VH1?\u00c2\u00a0 Have they ever noted the irreverence, the irony permeating our society?<\/p>\n
Oh, don’t tell me about the morning shows, all that crap on the other stations.\u00c2\u00a0 100.3 is trying to appeal to an upper demo, it bills itself as AAA.\u00c2\u00a0 Thank god we’ve got a station that will finally play the acoustic version of "Layla".\u00c2\u00a0 I haven’t been able to hear that in EONS!\u00c2\u00a0 Can’t fire it up on YouTube, can’t steal it, can’t rip the CD…\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve been living in the wilderness here in Santa Monica.\u00c2\u00a0 Thank god these bumpkins from Bonneville have come to my rescue!<\/p>\n
Your only hope of surviving in the terrestrial world is to serve your location, a paradigm given up when Clear Channel started broadcasting the same tripe in every market.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s the era of personalities.\u00c2\u00a0 The music is secondary to the CLUB!\u00c2\u00a0 Make me feel like I belong, in the era of social networking isn’t it hilarious that terrestrial radio has abdicated its power!\u00c2\u00a0 We’re not in a heyday of music innovation.\u00c2\u00a0 The music shouldn’t come first, the deejay should.\u00c2\u00a0 He should guide and inform.\u00c2\u00a0 With useful information.\u00c2\u00a0 He should show his rough edges and his smooth ones.\u00c2\u00a0 We can get aural wallpaper from our iPods, with guaranteed "World Class Rock", featuring the same oldies you’re playing, but with nothing we don’t like, why should we tune into your station?\u00c2\u00a0 Does anybody ever contemplate this when they’re doing the ethnic cleansing known as research that eviscerates tune-outs and leaves music with no character?\u00c2\u00a0 It’s kind of like Jennifer Grey…\u00c2\u00a0 She got rid of her prominent proboscis and it ruined her career.\u00c2\u00a0 She was just another cute girl, no different from a thousand Hollywood wannabes.\u00c2\u00a0 Whereas she had been Baby, the imperfect suburbanite who came alive by dirty dancing in the Catskills!<\/p>\n
Then there’s that canned voice that comes on every few songs to inform you that your music is back.\u00c2\u00a0 But this speech has been combed over by so many execs that the disembodied male isn’t really saying anything.\u00c2\u00a0 Just endless cliches, guaranteed not to offend.\u00c2\u00a0 How about saying that the other stations SUCK, and now there’s a new one, break the radio dial so it’s stuck on ONLY this station!\u00c2\u00a0 That would get the driver’s attention.\u00c2\u00a0 That would get him calling his buds on the cell phone to ask them if they heard this coming out of the speakers, that it’s a RIOT!\u00c2\u00a0 But no.<\/p>\n
It’s like there’s two codes in America.\u00c2\u00a0 The establishment, what you’re supposed to do, the mainstream vision…\u00c2\u00a0 And the Internet.<\/p>\n
Hillary Clinton voted for the war because conventional wisdom was you needed to do this to become President, to satisfy those leaning red, you couldn’t be a Democrat and be soft on defense.\u00c2\u00a0 This mistake singlehandedly doomed her campaign.\u00c2\u00a0 The press didn’t even catch on to Barack’s power until he’d strung together a run of victories that was impossible to ignore.\u00c2\u00a0 They’d already anointed Hillary, how could this be?<\/p>\n
The press, the government are behind the public.\u00c2\u00a0 And radio too.\u00c2\u00a0 The public is hip.\u00c2\u00a0 And time-constrained.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s got little patience for bullshit.\u00c2\u00a0 It wants honest information, instantly.\u00c2\u00a0 The way things are going there won’t be any music on terrestrial radio soon.\u00c2\u00a0 Because the stations are being programmed for automatons, people who don’t exist.<\/p>\n
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