From Today's BBC website, a revealling attitude is shown:
GWR, which owns 31 local FM radio stations around the UK ... was doing its part to promote new music, he said.
He said: We engage with unsigned music in a slightly different way.
He said that while the GWR group had a common playlist for all its local FM stations, individual stations could programme their own music.
We do music research, speaking to 1,000 people a week about the kinds of music they like, and for popular music there is not much difference around the country, he said.
At the moment, what is coming out of research is that people are bored of new music.”
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Is much of the "new" music actually new? It seems to me that everything just sounds like the same stuff just by different people. Also a lot of what was previously seen as "alternative" music has been diluted into pop music, which tends to take a lot of its creditablility away an artists who want to be listened to for what they are saying rather than how "fit" they look maybe looking at other mediums to express themselves.
Maybe I am just getting old, or maybe it is just poor play lists.
Andrew
Originally posted by ToeI know that when Beethoven died, he spent 5 years spinning in his grave, ripping up his old manuscripts
From Today's BBC website, a revealling attitude is shown:
GWR, which owns 31 local FM radio stations around the UK ... was doing its part to promote new music, he said.
He said: We engage with unsigned music in a slightly different way.
He said that while the GWR group had a common playlist for all its local FM stations, individual stations could program ...[text shortened]... At the moment, what is coming out of research is that [b]people are bored of new music.”
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The mainstream has no relevance to me at all.
I'm not currently inspired by any new music but then I haven't been looking much recently and I think to find something good you have to search for it.
But I don't think I'm the only one who doesn't follow the charts.
A number one in Britain requires only a few thousand sales and I don't know anybody who ever knows what number on is any more.
Originally posted by FatElvisBut is that because it is new, or because the new music selected by radio is a specific subset who's selection criteria is essentially "no surprises", i.e. dull.
The 'new music' on radio playlists is bland and does lacks originality.
For something different try going away from the mainstream. Even though the quality is a bit hit and miss there are a few gems hidden there from all musical genres.
...... I still miss Jim Reeves
And where does the question mark go in that lot? Clearly a shockingly constructed sentence. It even started with a conjunctive. Boooo.
I think part of it is getting older (at 31 I find myself saying things like,"I remember when telephones had cables" and "It was different when I was younger". I find myself listening to things I want to rather than following a certain style of music. I also have more money to spend on CDs etc. than when I was younger so I explore a bit more.
Having said that, amongst a lot of dross in the pop music world, I still hear new pop songs I like on the radio which I think is good. I'm not one to say "all pop is crap" because then I'm limiting my music pool.
Perhaps we're reaching that mythical point in time where every tune has been written and every lyric sung, it's now just a case of putting the words in a different order and playing the tune backwards.........the myth has it that the world will end when all possible music/lyric combinations have been exhausted. Oh dear.
Originally posted by rgoudieI use the radio player at the BBC: it gives streaming access topractically everything output by BBC radio over the last 7 days when you want it, and just what bits you want (you don't have to listen to a whole show: just fast forward through bits you don't like)
I recommend Internet radio at its finest:
launch.yahoo.com
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Its not particularly well indexed, but it is totally excellent none-the-less!
i was at a friedns house yesterday, and -although it's not something i would go out and buy- i found i actually quite liked dido 😛
and i found quite a nice band a wee while ago-"thrice". they're, like, "post hardcore", or something like it. but through and through a nice little band ("artist in the ambulance" and "stare at the sun" are great!)
but yeah, most pop-music is kinda bland. they "hey ya!" song was kinda different though!