Hmm. In my experience, at least, all you've got to do to boycott most college radio stations is move a couple of blocks away from it. Then you've got no choice.
Um, well, we listened to aggressively cheerful music sung by people chosen for their ability to dance. Then we ate cookie dough, and talked about boys.
Giles ,'Get It Done'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Lilty Cash - Jan 03, 2005 7:37:42 pm PST #6741 of 10003
"You see? THAT's what they want. Love, and a bit with a dog."
Mr. Broom - Jan 03, 2005 7:39:47 pm PST #6742 of 10003
"When I look at people that I would like to feel have been a mentor or an inspiring kind of archetype of what I'd love to see my career eventually be mentioned as a footnote for in the same paragraph, it would be, like, Bowie." ~Trent Reznor
"College radio in five words: 'Dead air... um... dead air.'" ~Strongbad
Jon B. - Jan 03, 2005 8:15:21 pm PST #6743 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
We're on that list and got an email from them about it. The consensus among the DJs was, well, we never played Skinny Puppy before, but maybe we should start!
DavidS - Jan 03, 2005 9:12:08 pm PST #6744 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Betsy, the original conception of Spinal Tap comes almost directly from the infamous Troggs Tapes. Where the British Band who did "Wild Thing" blathered on with stupid pretension and the engineer rolled tape. Christopher Guest and Michael McKean were in an improv group called The Credibility Gap and did albums in the early 70s and did similar rock stuff. And yeah, Deep Purple, is exactly the kind of band Spinal Tap is parodying. In the early 70s, the big three of Heavy Metal were Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple.
Is it too late to ask for a video of Robyn!!!!????!!!
Nope. I'll make one for you. He talks a lot about his new album with Gillian Welch.
Gandalfe - Jan 03, 2005 9:41:45 pm PST #6745 of 10003
The generation that could change the world is still looking for its car keys.
We're on that list and got an email from them about it. The consensus among the DJs was, well, we never played Skinny Puppy before, but maybe we should start!
You should also reply to them, if ONLY to raise the level of the response. I mean, seriously, folks, I think that's actually criminal abuse of punctuation.
Jim - Jan 04, 2005 2:39:32 am PST #6746 of 10003
Ficht nicht mit Der Raketemensch!
The Scissors Sisters also do a great cover of "Comfortably Numb" as a dance tune, by the way
This was their first UK single. I was shatteringly disappointed to learn they weren't always like that.
tommyrot - Jan 04, 2005 5:04:05 am PST #6747 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We're starting to see the first devices that enable one to record off of satelite radio. THe RIAA is not fighting this as much as one might think.
The RIAA is lobbying the FCC, which is expected to require that radio stations transition from analog to higher-quality digital broadcasting within the next few years, to mandate that broadcasts use technology to prevent content copying, similar to its ruling (.pdf) for digital television.
According to Sean Butson, media analyst with financial services company Legg Mason, the RIAA has financial motivations for selectively targeting traditional radio. "When songs get played on satellite radio, recording artists get paid more money than when they get played on terrestrial radio," Butson said. He said satellite radio stations pay 7 percent of revenues to recording artists and copyright holders, whereas radio broadcasters pay less than 1 percent.
eta: This is interesting too:
Frutkin said version 4.0 of the TimeTrax software, which will be available at the end of January, will enable listeners to scan satellite radio channels and record only songs by specific artists. Users will be able to type in "Bruce Springsteen," see the channels that would most likely play him, and then monitor the stations to record him, according to Frutkin.
Kate P. - Jan 04, 2005 5:09:33 am PST #6748 of 10003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
He talks a lot about his new album with Gillian Welch.
t ears perk up
Robyn Hitchcock did an album with Gillian Welch? Is it good?
joe boucher - Jan 04, 2005 7:24:32 am PST #6749 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
Christopher Guest and Michael McKean were in an improv group called The Credibility Gap and did albums in the early 70s and did similar rock stuff.
McKean and Harry Shearer were in the Credibility Gap, along with David L. Lander, who played Squiggy to McKean's Lenny on Laverne & Shirley. McKean & Guest were college roommates. The earliest professional collaboration of theirs that I found was a pilot called The T.V. Show, the cast of which included Shearer, Rob Reiner and Billy Crystal. It also included Martin Mull, whose Fernwood 2Nite sidekick, Fred Willard, has been a mainstay of Guest's films.
Harry Shearer's website has info about and clips from both the Credibility Gap and Spinal Tap, as well as the archived version of his weekly show, Le Show. His page also links to "Chip Rowe's killer Spinal Tap Fan Page", which in turn links to Spinal Tap chess -- it goes to 11!
DavidS - Jan 04, 2005 7:36:15 am PST #6750 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Joe, do you have the Credibility Gap's records?
Robyn Hitchcock did an album with Gillian Welch? Is it good?
I haven't heard it. It's the album Spooked. David Rawlings is on it too. It's just the three of them sitting in a circle with their guitars, I think. I'll probably check it out.