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*Go ahead, once you see that the stations are in Milwaukee, comment that you feel bad for me living in Milwaukee....

Heh, must be a local thing. Here in milwaukee we have like 6 major commercial stations, 2 rock stations... 2 adult contemp/alterna whatever stations, and 2 hip-hop/top 40 stations. Radio used to be better, but now theres one decent station left.

I'm very involved in the campus station here at Marquette. We don't necessarily get to play anything that want (there are FCC and station rules, you know) but it's pretty free-form.
I do listen to College radio and love it (Both my station and WMSE)
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Sounds a lot like WMSE the college station here in town, good music, great variety(they actually have 3 hour shows playing completly different music from the last, liek radio used to be), also you can listen online and they have their archives online. I download and burn some of the morning and afternoon shows, ussually Melissas show and Buzz's Garage(in class then) and listen to them during the blues drive or other shows i'm less enthusiastic about.

I know people in their mid 20's who wouldn't care

My local (and favorite) College Radio station actually keeps an archive of all their shows for the past two weeks on their web site. I dont know if yours does this, but its really great. If i miss a show i often download it and stick it on a cd tolisten to it during the blues drive or some other show that i'm less than enthusiastic about. Another bonus is that you can back it up and catch the name of the artists from the DJ.

No, we're resentful about the fact that today's popular bands have zero talent and zero originality. The only reason they get famous at all is some major label finds a way to mass-market them.

Adding to the problem is the fact that for the most part, kids believe what other kids tell them, especially in the area of what's "cool". All that the record company needs to do, then, is convince a few teenagers that Random Loser Group A is "cool", and the kids will do their marketing for them.

Meanwhile, the kids with some musical sense end up being ostracized, and turn into us, or worse.

It's funny you mention the groups you did, because they really aren't all that different, the important distinction that they actually play instruments notwithstanding. Marilyn Manson is the M&M of last week, writing "shocking" stuff just to write "shocking" stuff, without really saying anything. Pearl Jam really plays straight-ahead rock and hasn't put out anything good since "Vitology". Third Eye Blind hardly deserves mention, but is yet another "alternative" pop band with nothing to say and nothing new musically to offer the world.

Now, how to rationalize the fact that I like AC/DC? ;-) I guess it's because they have written great rock songs for forever. Sure, all their songs sound the same, but then again, their songs sound like no one else's. That makes them repetitive, but original. Actually, I applaud them for following no popular trends whatsoever during their career. I think that if they tried to change their sound they wouldn't sound like AC/DC any more.

I've heard real death metal, not that crap you claim is "death metal", and it's actually rather amusing because they somehow manage to ruin dangerous, innovative music by putting Lucifer on lead vocals. If they had someone who could actually sing up to the standards the music requires, and not just growl incoherently, it would be 100 times better, I think. It does tend to get old fast, though...

It doesn't look good for the future of music in America, unless MoronTV goes and the major labels go. There is tons of great music in the underground that doesn't get promoted except on college radio. I'm partial to WMSE in Milwaukee and WNUR in Chicagoland myself.

P.S. I KNOW the kids won't listen to Merzbow with me, because they'll run screaming from the room, along with half the block ;-)

I think they can be convinced to listen to King Crimson, Einstürzende Neubauten, or Orbital, though.

Assuming I ever have any, that is...