When it's not Radioactive by Imagine Dragons
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Imagine Dragons are the new Nickelback.
Relax... Take a deep breath...
Iiiiiiiiinnnnn...........
Oooouuuuutttt.......
WAKING UP, TO ASH AND DUST
Was that song overplayed?
Definitely where I live it was. I used to cycle between all the rock radio stations when listening to music and around the time that song came out it was all the radios would play. I actually liked the song when it first came out but it got so overplayed.
This is the only clip that makes me willingly listen to imagine dragons: https://www.reddit.com/r/imaginedragons/comments/dh21ul/city_blackout_perfectly_syncs_with_believer_sound/
(Sorry for link from "that site")
That’s awesome.
I'M WAKING UP TO ASH AND DUST
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Shotgun and 5.56 combo sounds like amateur sound design for sure....it's perfect
It's the radio ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯
Red tailed hawk screech!
And passing it off as a bald eagle
I'm a big fan of this very specific type of greentext
the OG. i think I like that one more
My local rock station started playing straight-up modern pop hits a couple years ago. Could have at least left it at pop rock, there's no shortage of that ...
Though they never pretended to be brutal, they were always about classic rock and 90s pop rock. AFAIK they didn't even play Black Sabbath.
That's depressing. My local station is still rockin' hard with "A Little Bit Off" by FFDP on repeat, with some Metallica and Black Sabbath sprinkled in. They do the cringy "we do things the other stations won't" innuendos, but they don't gave a morning show and don't play ads on my drive home (except for their own station), so I'm happy.
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All your favorite classic rock hits from Nirvana to Metallica!
If only, Metallica is way too hard for them. Their main thing is 70s rock, minus Black Sabbath and punk.
If it's anything like I hear they just play Enter Sandman and Nothing Else Matters and lump it in with Ozzy's Crazy Train and consider that their hard core "classic rock"
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rock you like a hurricane is way too edgy a choice. i'd go with i wanna rock and roll all night
This sounds like a GTA radio station
My instant reaction to this was an overwhelming sense of vice city nostalgia
Every time Baba O'Reilly by The Who ends, my brain adds in "Q104" before the next song starts
As happens to everyone who grew up in the greater Cleveland area in the '90s
Must be more than one Q104. Mine was out of NYC.
Same, steeped in that 104.3.
There was also a weird jazz station on AM (not 88.3FM) that'd show up on Sunday nights, but only for a few hours? I still don't know what it was but I loved it.
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I mean, do radio stations like that still exist?
THERE'S TRAFFIC THERE'S TRAFFIC NO TRAFFIC THERE'S TRAFFIC
This feels like a "Sex FM" thing.
This does not boad well
I am not sure how to read this. Is it a reference to something in particular ? are the two interlaced texts happening in parallel ? what is the link between a radio announcement and killing dogs in a nursery ?
So greentext is usually used like quotation marks or asterisks to denote roleplaying. Here it's being used to denote a soundboard like radio DJ's use.
The reference is to American classical rock stations that use very aggressive sound bumpers but play very milktoast music, usually the same 40 songs since the 80's
I think milquetoast is the word you want; milktoast is phonetically correct but that spelling refers to a breakfast dish.
Interesting. Milquetoast. I'll need to internalize that spelling, thank you
Please tell me that "milktoast" isn't something that people eat.
it's very common for radio personalities to be like "THIS IS THE REAL STATION FOR HARD ALT CLASSICS, KEEP YOUR GRANDMA AWAY!" and then play the same 200 song playlist as every other station because radio has been captured by iHeartMedia and homogenized to hell and back.
I'm grateful every day that my rock station is independent, and they still play Black Sabbath and Tool and whatnot. It's still pretty repetitive, but that's because there's not a ton of new rock music.
There is an absolutely insane amount of new rock music. More rock music is being made today than ever before in the history of music.
Idk, the rock music I find is either:
- from >10 years ago - several decent bands from 2000-2015
- based in Europe so I never hear about them (I'm in the US)
- country or country-adjacent - I hate country music, but I love rock of all other forms
- small band that's incredibly hard to find
I just don't know how to find decent new rock music these days.
That said, there are a few decent ones I've found recently:
- Volbeat - kinda sounds like Metallica
- H.E.A.T. - kinda like Iron Maiden?
- Ghost - kinda like Judas Priest?
All of those are from Europe (hard for me to find) and were formed in the 2000s. At least Volbeat makes it to my local radio station, which is cool.
I've been on the lookout for new to me artists and new artists to explore the catalogues of because I've realized my music library is very much trapped in the early 2000s and I need to keep finding new stuff so my taste doesn't become stagnent and boring. My approaches are:
- Go through current and former band members of bands I like and see what other bands they're in and see if I like them (for example the vocalist Howard Jones of Killswitch Engage fame moved on and is now the vocalist for Light The Torch so you can get more of his incredible vocals)
- Watch smaller live music venues and see who is performing including who is opening for performers and dig through their music catalogues
- Look up all of the bands that play in the morning and early afternoon at music festivals. (This is how I recently learned of The Haunt, a newish band that just released their second album and is brilliant if you catch them live!)
The Haunt
Awesome! This reminds me a lot of Flyleaf and old Paramore, and both are totally my jam. Thanks!
But this is kind of my point. I don't have a great way to find this type of music. I've been looking for newer music in genres I like, and I've largely been unsuccessful. I found The Interrupters just a couple years ago, and that's after looking for years for new rock bands and they're a bit outside my preferred genre and also started in 2011.
The Haunt is much closer to what I'm looking for, but they've also been around since 2015. Likewise for Light the Torch, they're pretty close to what I like, and they've been around since 2012.
I used to get most of my new music from radio stations, word of mouth from friends, and occasionally record stores, but the radio either plays old music (Black Sabbath, Metallica, etc), newer genres (hiphop, pop, etc), or old bands that are making new music (e.g. the new Linkin Park w/ Emily Armstrong).
I don't go to shows much anymore, and there aren't any record stores really anymore, and I don't use streaming services like Spotify because I hate subscriptions. So finding new music is incredibly difficult, and by the time I do find a cool artist, they're already like 10-15 years old and aren't really making new music anymore.
So yeah, I miss the days when radio stations were interesting.
Honestly I'm in the same boat, but if I can stay just 10 years behind I at least won't be like one of those boomers who only listens to glam rock when I'm their age and still listening to 90s/2000s punk rock.
I actually learned of The Interrupters when they opened for the Hella Mega Tour at Wrigley Field! One of the twins joked that they're an arena rock band now and played the opening riff to Sweet Child of Mine while other band members were drinking some water and catching their breath
Given the bands you listed, here's a couple of others that maybe you'd like that aren't new but certainly aren't as well known or receive much radio play:
Honestly I think the real problem is we don't really have DJs anymore who find those deep cuts to give airtime to and maybe take a small time band and give them to enough ears to grow. I knew a really awesome punk rock band that was stuck doing shows for tips in bars and whatnot that fizzled out despite the incredible talent they had because they didn't have any real ability to grow their audiences
I know Streetlight Manifesto, but the others are new to me. Thanks!
And yeah, finding a band is way harder than it needs to be. I actively search for them, and maybe 1 in 50 is actually something I'm interested in. I like a wide variety of music, but I keep just finding the same bands, and then I randomly get into conversations like this and find one or two more.
It's the same with indie games, discovery is incredibly hard.
There has to be a better way because what I'm currently doing sucks.
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iHeartMedia plays artists that they own, either record contract or catalogue.
When I lived in the UK my local gym always had the same shitty radio station on and I was like "Why do they keep playing these artists? I almost never hear them on BBC" and it turned out to be because the owners of the radio station also owned those artists. Vertical integration baby!
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