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IdRatherBeSkiing
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 Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:03 am Post subject: Re: come on |
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| seventhdwarf wrote: | | XM in Dallas wrote: | | most of the music I heard was unfamiliar to me. |
Yep.
You have two choices when it comes to "unfamiliar" music.
1. Be scared and go away.
2. Listen and appreciate. Grow with it.
People from the real 1970s or real 1960s in my circles have broad music tastes.
"Avoid scary, unfamiliar music" This sounds like the Sicius decades mantra. Certainly, not the XM philosophy (rest in peace). |
Why would you listen to a decade channel to not listen to something you remember from the decade? If you want to hear crap you have never heard before, that's why they invented Deep Tracks.
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seventhdwarf
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 10:02 am Post subject: Canadians get to vote? |
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| IdRatherBeSkiing wrote: |
Why would you listen to a decade channel to not listen to something you remember from the decade? If you want to hear crap you have never heard before, that's why they invented Deep Tracks. |
Another vote for "scary unfamiliar music" world. You are Canadian. You get a half vote.
Dude. The reason why many do not remember music from those decades is that their substance abuse robbed them of important gray matter.
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PryMel
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 12:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | Why would you listen to a decade channel to not listen to something you remember from the decade? |
People who lived through the period and were fans of pop music would have minimal familiarity issues with lower-charting songs. People who lived through the period, and weren't particularly pop fans, wouldn't likely be the target of or listen much to a decades channel anyway. And those that were born later don't remember anything from the decade, and were introduced to the music by someone or something down the road (e.g., parents; friends; movies; Clear Channel; etc.). At some point they discovered these songs, so how painful could it be to discover some more, especially when there are so many good ones that get minimal or no airplay.
3davids' lists are great, because they expose the number of well-known songs that are ignored. It's not like his lists are scraping the lower reaches of the Top 40 to find obscure songs that slipped in for a quick week (although I personally wouldn't object if those songs got played too, I can understand why listeners overall might object). |
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Thomps2525
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| Oh boy, I just thought of something that nobody has mentioned: in the 1960s-70s, when we heard hits by an artist or group that we liked, we'd go out and buy their album, right? We didn't play the album and think, "Hey, I recognize the three songs that I've heard on the radio but I don't like these other nine songs because I haven't heard them before." No, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I contend that if we liked an artist enough to buy an album, we probably liked most of the songs on the album. So...if we listen to the 1960s-70s channels and hear unfamiliar low-charting songs by our favorite artists, we'll enjoy hearing the songs because we like the artists. We'll appreciate discovering "new" songs and we won't change the channel. Thank you and good night. |
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XM in Dallas
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:39 pm Post subject: Re: come on |
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| seventhdwarf wrote: | | XM in Dallas wrote: | | most of the music I heard was unfamiliar to me. |
Yep.
You have two choices when it comes to "unfamiliar" music.
1. Be scared and go away.
2. Listen and appreciate. Grow with it.
People from the real 1970s or real 1960s in my circles have broad music tastes.
"Avoid scary, unfamiliar music" This sounds like the Sicius decades mantra. Certainly, not the XM philosophy (rest in peace). |
That's not a reflection of fear -- just a preference. I'm not a historian. I'm a listener.
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XM in Dallas
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| Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 9:40 pm Post subject: Re: Canadians get to vote? |
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| seventhdwarf wrote: | | IdRatherBeSkiing wrote: |
Why would you listen to a decade channel to not listen to something you remember from the decade? If you want to hear crap you have never heard before, that's why they invented Deep Tracks. |
Another vote for "scary unfamiliar music" world. You are Canadian. You get a half vote.
Dude. The reason why many do not remember music from those decades is that their substance abuse robbed them of important gray matter. |
My reason is that I was 7 when the decade ended.
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XM in Dallas
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| Thomps2525 wrote: | | Oh boy, I just thought of something that nobody has mentioned: in the 1960s-70s, when we heard hits by an artist or group that we liked, we'd go out and buy their album, right? We didn't play the album and think, "Hey, I recognize the three songs that I've heard on the radio but I don't like these other nine songs because I haven't heard them before." No, ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I contend that if we liked an artist enough to buy an album, we probably liked most of the songs on the album. So...if we listen to the 1960s-70s channels and hear unfamiliar low-charting songs by our favorite artists, we'll enjoy hearing the songs because we like the artists. We'll appreciate discovering "new" songs and we won't change the channel. Thank you and good night. |
Yes, but in my case I already have the albums (specifically, CD's and tapes) of my favorite artists. For example, if I hear songs from Houses of the Holy or Wish You Were Here, I know them and enjoy them. But I don't want to hear obscure David Bowie songs because I barely like his popular songs. And there are more artists that I don't like than artists that I do like, so I'll settle for hearing the popular songs.
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Thomps2525
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| Mister Dallas, that post actually makes sense to me. Tell me---am I going insane? Anyway, I'm thinking that with the rise of hard rock, heavy metal, and disco music in the 1970s, most people dislike a higher percentage of '70s artists than '60s artists. And do I dare voice my theory about artists of the 1990s-2000s? No, that might elicit some nasty comments from the three XM subscribers who like those decades. |
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| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Thomps2525 wrote: | | Mister Dallas, that post actually makes sense to me. Tell me---am I going insane? Anyway, I'm thinking that with the rise of hard rock, heavy metal, and disco music in the 1970s, most people dislike a higher percentage of '70s artists than '60s artists. And do I dare voice my theory about artists of the 1990s-2000s? No, that might elicit some nasty comments from the three XM subscribers who like those decades. |
Go ahead and voice your opinion on the post 1990 music......correction: ill performed noise. Two decades of perfectly good air time totally wasted!  |
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Thomps2525
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The post-1990 artists that I like are the ones whose sound is somewhat reminiscent of the music of the '60s-'70s: Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift, Aqua, Hanson, Londonbeat, No Mercy, Ace Of Base, Wilson Phillips, Backstreet Boys, et al...and Extreme's More Than Words, which sounds very much like the Everly Brothers.
I think I pretty much named every 1990s-2000s artist who didn't do rap, hip-hop, hard rock, or boring adult-contemporary! |
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3david
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| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 11:47 pm Post subject: and then there's |
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I've gotta admit: Coldplay has done some terrific radio songs.
Usher, Shaggy & Outkast too. In the past few years, I've enjoyed some good "pop" from Kings of Leon, Maroon 5 and Gnarls Barkley too. Every now and then Gwen Stefani, Pink, Lady Gaga and Avril Lavigne hit a home run.
And I'm leaving out a few solid hitmakers from the past decade or two.
But for a similar period a few decades ago, I could have named a hundred great acts off the top of my head. Now...not so much.
I just hope I'm around in 2050, to hear an over-the-hill, haggard-looking Taylor Swift sing off-key (again) during the Super Bowl halftime show. |
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