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Dang color schemes...
Malachi-From The Beginning
American Gomorrah-Better Man
Glass Hammer-Junkyard Angel
Tellus-Innocence Is Bliss
Awful Truth-It Takes So Long
LS Underground-Beg & Kick
Salem Hill-
Rick Ray-Modified Universe
Joey Tafolla-The Summon
Fountain of Tears-Carousel
Phil Keaggy-A Royal Commandment
Ockham's Razor-Lunatic Liar Or God
Animator-Weary
Ken Tamplin & Friends-Every Day is Precious
Neal Morse-The Door
Daniel Band-Its Over
crushed outThough Im convinced they have wrote themselves into a hole they and cant get out of it....
Anyhoo, heres this week's show...
Malachi-From The Beginning
American Gomorrah-Better Man
Glass Hammer-Junkyard Angel
Tellus-Innocence Is Bliss
Awful Truth-It Takes So Long
LS Underground-Beg & Kick
Salem Hill-
Rick Ray-Modified Universe
Joey Tafolla-The Summon
Fountain of Tears-Carousel
Phil Keaggy-A Royal Commandment
Ockham's Razor-Lunatic Liar Or God
Animator-Weary
Ken Tamplin & Friends-Every Day is Precious
Neal Morse-The Door
Daniel Band-Its Over
irritatedA response to Neanderpaul of 98.9KQRC re"F'ing Music Snobs"
Current mood: 
discontent
Category: Music
This is in response to a post 98.9 The Rock DJ Paul Marshall's recent posting on his My Space weblog, which you can read here:
From Paul's Blog...F&*!ing Music Snobs!!(4/21)
First of all...if you happen to read this, Paul, dont take this as hate mail or anything. You and Johnny Dare are the the two main reasons I listen to The Rock anymore--rather than the music--cause you both can put on a great, entertaining show. In fact your show reminds me more than anything of the Mighty Z-Rock from days past(in spite of your using Atomic Opera for voiceover music
!)
Maybe I am a bit of a "music snob," being a prog fan, but while Id like to hear Dream Theater or Neal Morse on radio I know that aint gonna happen. My beef is how restrictive active rock radio's format is. Maybe more people like 3DG, Breaking Benjamin, et al than Testament, etc but do have to hear the same artist(if not the very same song) EVERY 60-90 MINUTES?? At what point did 90% of music made between 1980-1994 become something that had to be rationed out or avoided all together? And could it be that the reason the overwhelming majority doesnt give a flying F about Converge, Lordi or Caradle of Filth(or for that matter many new bands) is because rock radio wont play them?
Radio to me quit reflecting the preference of its consumers over 15 years ago. Between things like computer automation making it more economical to fire DJ's and voicetrack(pre-record) whole shows, ownership laws loosened up so that the majority of america's radio station are owned by a small group of large corporations(such as The Rock being one the 8-plus stations in the Entercom group), and(as Paul mentioned) the tons of money spent on "market research,"focus groups and(as the media has quietly found out)PAYOLA, radio is about the bottom line-ad revenue-therefore the stations are made to be as inoffensive as possible so we wont switch the channel.
Sure there are alternatives if youre ready to spend monthly fees for XM or Sirius, or streaming internet radio(at least until royalty fee increases drive most of the edgy shows off). So why not just pry open that playlist a leetle more rather than calling us all dirty names?
I had such high hopes when 97.3 was The Max. I was actually pleasantly suprised to hear something I hadnt heard for years every once in a while, or something new..case in point--Lacuna Coil, whos coming here next Mon. Supposedly a song from their new album was one of last year's Top 20 songs on Active Rock radio...not that we'd hear them on The Rock! But then again The Max's ownership has issues so's thats another story.
And given Gene's prostitution of the KISS name for cash Ill take his word as a businessman but not on what good music is....
I go out and buy Kings X, DT and cds from other talented bands...but I still long for a day when radio will take a chance on new bands again and stop settling for the musical "least common denominator" and telling we the people thats what we really want....A guy can dream cant he?
 | Currently listening : Sola Scriptura By Neal Morse Release date: By 06 March, 2007  |
irritatedA response to Neanderpaul of 98.9KQRC re"F'ing Music Snobs"
Current mood: discontent
Category: Music
This is in response to a post 98.9 The Rock DJ Paul Marshall's recent posting on his My Space weblog, which you can read here:
From Paul's Blog...F&*!ing Music Snobs!!(4/21)
First of all...if you happen to read this, Paul, dont take this as hate mail or anything. You and Johnny Dare are the the two main reasons I listen to The Rock anymore--rather than the music--cause you both can put on a great, entertaining show. In fact your show reminds me more than anything of the Mighty Z-Rock from days past(in spite of your using Atomic Opera for voiceover music!)
Maybe I am a bit of a "music snob," being a prog fan, but while Id like to hear Dream Theater or Neal Morse on radio I know that aint gonna happen. My beef is how restrictive active rock radio's format is. Maybe more people like 3DG, Breaking Benjamin, et al than Testament, etc but do have to hear the same artist(if not the very same song) EVERY 60-90 MINUTES?? At what point did 90% of music made between 1980-1994 become something that had to be rationed out or avoided all together? And could it be that the reason the overwhelming majority doesnt give a flying F about Converge, Lordi or Caradle of Filth(or for that matter many new bands) is because rock radio wont play them?
Radio to me quit reflecting the preference of its consumers over 15 years ago. Between things like computer automation making it more economical to fire DJ's and voicetrack(pre-record) whole shows, ownership laws loosened up so that the majority of america's radio station are owned by a small group of large corporations(such as The Rock being one the 8-plus stations in the Entercom group), and(as Paul mentioned) the tons of money spent on "market research,"focus groups and(as the media has quietly found out)PAYOLA, radio is about the bottom line-ad revenue-therefore the stations are made to be as inoffensive as possible so we wont switch the channel.
Sure there are alternatives if youre ready to spend monthly fees for XM or Sirius, or streaming internet radio(at least until royalty fee increases drive most of the edgy shows off). So why not just pry open that playlist a leetle more rather than calling us all dirty names?
I had such high hopes when 97.3 was The Max. I was actually pleasantly suprised to hear something I hadnt heard for years every once in a while, or something new..case in point--Lacuna Coil, whos coming here next Mon. Supposedly a song from their new album was one of last year's Top 20 songs on Active Rock radio...not that we'd hear them on The Rock! But then again The Max's ownership has issues so's thats another story.
And given Gene's prostitution of the KISS name for cash Ill take his word as a businessman but not on what good music is....
I go out and buy Kings X, DT and cds from other talented bands...but I still long for a day when radio will take a chance on new bands again and stop settling for the musical "least common denominator" and telling we the people thats what we really want....A guy can dream cant he?
| Currently listening : Sola Scriptura By Neal Morse Release date: By 06 March, 2007 |
coolMy first thought when I heard of all this was..."Dang that old fart is STILL on the air?"
But this sez it best....
hug meI decided to do two-fers of my favorites so heres how it played out..
Dream Aria-Blue Lady/Dreamland
Iona-ChiRho/Revelation(live)
Lovewar-Clearview/I Cant Believe What Im Told
Spocks Beard-Looking for Answers(acoustic)/Crack the big Sky
Tellus-Ignorance is Bliss/Unrequited
Plex'd-Live/Whats My Name
Threshold-Light & Space/Long Way Home
Visual CLiff-Spirit Rain/Electric Soul
Kings X-Its Love(acoustic)/King(live 1987)
Daniel Band-Walk on the Water/Its Over
happyWell, heres this weeks offering...
ockham's Razor-Nothing But You
Valedictory-Prelude in Blood(1st/2nd movements)
Spocks Beard-The Great Nothing
Jeff Scheetz-House of Stairs
Deliverance-Horrendous Disc
Glass Hammer-Junkyard Angel
Akacia-Mystery
Rachel Rachel-Carry on Wayward Son
Leaderdogs For The Blind-Better Ways
Galactic Cowboys-Blind
Rivera/Bomma-I Am God
Salem Hill-(?)
Trytan-Deadly Masqerade
hug meWell, heres this weeks show...
Orphan Project-Full But Lonely
Glass Hammer-Arianna
Deliverance-Time
Iona-Friendship's Door
Mike Visaggio-In The Nazarene's Church
The Call-I Still Believe
Mad at the World-Why
Proto-Kaw-Gloriana
Kings X-Groove Machine
Applehead-Meaning
Fountain of Tears-What Lies Ahead
Salem Hill-Stolen By Ghosts
Phil Keaggy-Spend My Life With You
Mustard Seeds-Mother May I
Neal Morse-The Conclusion
happyWell, Jericho is back and boy did they answer a lot of questions...If only LOST could be this clear..
And now the playlist...
Rob Rock-Open Your Eyes
Orphan Project-Full But Lonely
James Byrd-Golgotha/The Right Hand of Power
20/Twenty-Hold Your Head Up
Fall of Echoes-Groaning
HALO-Heaven Calling
Applehead-Meaning
Tribus-Borincano
Kings X-Groove Machine
Mustard Seeds-Mother May I
Spocks Beard-At The End of The Day
Holy Soldier-My World
Novella-Fire in the House
Ockham's Razor-Nothing But You
Fountain of Tears-What Lies Ahead
Red Sea-Ashes to Ashes
Atomic Opera-I Know Better
Sea of Dreams-Temple of Dreams
Veni Domine-The Meeting
Bloodgood-Top of the Mountain
Trytan-Mr Electric
Im going on a road trip next week so Ill be taking the week off. See ya soon all!
caffeinatedHeres this week's show...
Neal Morse-The Separated Man
Ajalon-Forever I Am
Crystavox-Rock In A Hard Place
Kansas-Crossfire
Platypus-Gone
EastWest-She Cries
Divine InSight-Waltz of the Plastic Dolls
Mustard Seeds-Mr Green
Glass Hammer-Empty Space Revealer
Badlittle duck-Fill This Place
Deliverance-Anymore/Book Ends
Kings X-Alone
Veni Domine-Last Letter From Earth
Joshua-Crying Out For Love
The Awakening-Forgiveness
Blissed-Superhero
U2-Still Havent Found What Im Looking For
Salem Hill-All Fall Down
