> Hu> Most great rock and roll is "overplayed". You hardly ever heard them on
> Hu> the radio back in the early 70's.
> Was that because they were too hardcore at the time? Now, it's almost
> impossible to hear Slayer or even Megadeth on the radio because people only
> want to hear the stuff their used to. But why are thy used to what their
> used to?
> I think the radio stations have some kind of conspiracy with the musicians
> they feature. They are TELLING us which bands we "like" for some reason.
> They used to tell us to like the Beatles, but now their focusing on ACDC &
> Rolling Stones. There is money pouring out of the singers' mouths somehow,
> but to me
> it sounds more like Crows & David Bowie balls.
There are many people who genuinely like those bands though. I tend to like
the Beatles' music, even though I was born after the group split up. I agree
with you, though, that there must be some kind of deals between radio stations
and music groups to decide which music to play on the radio. Sometimes I
wonder why only certain songs become well-known hits - Is it because people
really like the song better than the group's other songs, or is it because
that's the group's song that the radio stations decided to play the most? It
might be a little of both. And a musical group's hit can be a catch-22: It's
popular (or rather, infamous) because it's played on the radio a lot, and radio
stations play it a lot because it's popular.
Sometimes I've bought a group's album that contained a particular hit and found
that I liked many of the other songs on the album too. But other times, I've
found that their well-known hit really was the only song I like on their album.
Nightfox
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