Re: Greatest Rock Band EVER?!
By: Nightfox to metalhead on Mon Sep 21 2015 12:43 pm
> > Hu> Most great rock and roll is "overplayed". You hardly ever heard them
> > 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 on
> > 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 musician
> > 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 agre
> with you, though, that there must be some kind of deals between radio statio
> 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? I
> might be a little of both. And a musical group's hit can be a catch-22: It'
> popular (or rather, infamous) because it's played on the radio a lot, and ra
> stations play it a lot because it's popular.
>
> Sometimes I've bought a group's album that contained a particular hit and fo
> that I liked many of the other songs on the album too. But other times, I'v
> found that their well-known hit really was the only song I like on their alb
>
> Nightfox
>
Actually in the past it was the record label that had deals with the radio
stations. Or more correctly with the station's network. With some groups you
can also hear a big difference in the recording quality of the songs that are
going to become hits (or at least the ones the record label execs hope will
be a hit) compared to the other songs that are basically 'filler'. It's more
apparent back in the 50's & 60's and not as much these days. Janis Joplin is
a perfect example, if you look at some of her earliest records the 1 or 2
songs that were top 40 hits were produced much better than the rest of the
albun!
-MikeS
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