• Hadriscus@jlai.lu
    91·
    21 hours ago

    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 ?

    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyzOPEnglish
      311·
      20 hours ago

      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

    • abbotsbury@lemmy.worldEnglish
      27·
      20 hours ago

      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.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
        9·
        20 hours ago

        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.

        • vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          6·
          11 hours ago

          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.

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
            31·
            4 hours ago

            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.

            • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
              4·
              2 hours ago

              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:

              1. 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)
              2. Watch smaller live music venues and see who is performing including who is opening for performers and dig through their music catalogues
              3. 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!)
              • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
                2·
                1 hour ago

                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.

        • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
          3·
          18 hours ago

          Im grateful that Tool finally gave in to public pressure and allowed their music to be streamed. When ITunes first came out and other streaming platforms became a thing. Tool refused to let their music be streamed because they wanted to “preserve the album experience”. It wasn’t until 2019 that you could find Tool on Spotify.

  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
    36·
    1 day ago

    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.

      • rumschlumpel@feddit.org
        4·
        12 hours ago

        If only, Metallica is way too hard for them. Their main thing is 70s rock, minus Black Sabbath and punk.

        • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com
          4·
          5 hours ago

          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”

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      1 day ago

      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.

        • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
          5·
          1 day ago

          Yeah, I hear it 1-2x/day, and I only listen for about an hour. That’s a pretty high hit-rate when there are so many great classics.

          But at least they’re still playing rock instead of throwing in random pop stuff.

  • lime!@feddit.nu
    23·
    1 day ago

    rock you like a hurricane is way too edgy a choice. i’d go with i wanna rock and roll all night