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Subject: Re: They dont write em like that anymore
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Date: Sat, 28-Jan-84 13:11:57 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 28 13:11:57 1984
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..... Which is why, I ask, is there possibly an excuse for "Thriller"
(like most preprogrammed electronic disco crap, sounding like the Multibus
does when you get an AM radio near one) fouling my favourite AOR station,
whilst Cristopher "Aural Equivalent of 50 mg Valium " Cross gets on the
local soul station.

** DONT FLAME AT ME, I USED TO PROGRAM A REAL DISCO STATION....

      I am sorry, but even when one can morally justify top 20, there is
no justifcation for 6 stations playing essentially the same records over
and over again, with the existence of the aforementioned.......

      Secondly, I can remember when the same AOR station, with the same
personnel, used to run "DISCO DESTRUCTION HOURS" in response to my station
going ** REAL ** disco (i.e. 1978-80.). I am sick and tired of white people
(of which I am one) constantly badmouthing urban contemporary, only to
justify it when white artists re-do it or it emerges under "dancable new
wave" or other such schlock. Let's face it, good music is good music.
I suppose that one of the problems is MTV, which makes it chic to like
anything "new" with their Stamp of Approval. Diversity of music in radio
and in the record stores is rapidly becoming extinct, and I, for one,
am sorry to see it go. There are times when I want to hear real R&B
or disco, and others when the progressive rock stations of the early
and mid 70's is more appealing.

      What I miss most are the Joni Mitchells and Ian Andersons, who could
write more intellegently than "Cum On Feel The Noise"or any other 50 million
top 20 songs you could name. This is both musically and lyrically. Doesn't
 single radio station have the BALLS to avoid playing something because
it is # 1??? Wimpy programme directors are the single reason why public
consciousness of a wide variety of music has dwindled into Halothane induction.

      I do not object to any single form of music (except country, which is
the shade of things to come in popular and urban contemporary) but rather
the fact that it all is going into two catagories: glop and non-glop. Glop
is the popular song which is pregnant with the feelings of adolescent puppy
love......Air Supply, etc. Non-glop is the rest.

     When a station decides to play gold, why not Bill Quateman, Laura Nyro,
etc ?

     AT LEAST little kids are learning what a proper folk song sounds like,
since Buffy Sainte-Marie is on "Electric Company" or "Sesame Street".

*** Now I feel better, too. Flames to me personally..


David "Last of the Analog" Anthony

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