heliotis (11/02/82)
There had been a lot of argument about what music is trashy and what
music is brilliant. I now have formed an opinion.
Please, try to listen to all different kinds of music -- see what
people are doing -- listen to the words, too. Give that dial
on your radio some occasional exercise!
Except . . .
DO NOT listen to "easy listening" stations ("dentist office music")!
I am convinced that this stuff is a communist plot to make us all
relax and think everything is just peachy keen and beautiful.
Jim Heliotisrlr (11/03/82)
>From a previous article:
DO NOT listen to "easy listening" stations ("dentist office music")!
I am convinced that this stuff is a communist plot to make us all
relax and think everything is just peachy keen and beautiful.
Jim Heliotis
Funny, I thought is was a *corporate* plot to get us to go shopping more often.
There have been cases where muzack ("M*zak" is a TM, like UN*X) has been proven
to contain subliminal messages telling shoppers: "Don't steal" "Buy Sugar
Wasties cereal" etc. While it lulls you into a quaaludian sense of serenity,
you have just bought a Cuisinart and a 25 lb. bag of dog food (even though you
already have a Cuisinart and you *don't* have a dog).
I am convinced that the recent surge of demagogues who burn "rock and roll"
records because of their "hidden satanic messages" is really an attempt to get
kids/teenagers/what-have-you to go after this music like hounds! Since their
parents listen to Foreigner and Fleetwood Mac (dentist-office music if ever
there was such a thing), they now have AC/DC, Judas Priest, et al, as a means
of rebellion against parents who listen to rock by listening to rock (??????).
Of course, the hidden messages on AC/DC albums are made by the same people
who hide messages in muzack. ("Buy records. Take drugs. Drive fast while
drinking beer. And when you grow up, listen to Fleetwood Mac.") (...if they
grow up) pyuxjj!rlrdce (11/03/82)
Why listen to the radio at all? Most radio stations play commercials with some music added, and most of that is hits. I know, there are some stations (mainly college stations) that play a lot of good music, but for the most part the music that can be played is picked by a station manager, who may not like everyone. In my opinion, if you want to listen to good music, buy it or listen to ANY black radio station. That's where you'll find the widest range of good music. David Elliott
death (11/04/82)
Why listen to the radio at all? The only reason I ever listen to the radio is (a) to get the weather in the morning (which is usually wrong anyway) or (b) if I can't deal with flipping records over for whatever reason. Otherwise there's no real reason I can see. Radio is sales, pure and simple. Most of the swill that goes out over the airwaves is geared to the amoeboid mentality of the fourteen-year-old glue sniffer (at least in Connecticut). Most of the rock radio available in my area is only bearable if one's brain has been fried with some heroin/quaalude/paint thinner combination; I try to avoid it whenever possible. The only other choices are top 40, bad white disco, mediocre to bad black disco, music to pull teeth by, and the ever-popular country/western (yuk). The college radio stations carry a welcome change with jazz and classical and the usual wide range of ultra-modern burbles and squeaks. Poorly executed though it may be, I vastly prefer the collegiate to the commercial. ==dd
wagner (11/10/82)
Fleetwood Mac as dentist office music? We must have different dentists. F.M. is too modern by about 20 years for my dentists office! Michael Wagner, UTCS