Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!duke!mcnc!unc-c!dya From: dya@unc-c.UUCP Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: They dont write em like that anymore Message-ID: <1216@unc-c.UUCP> Date: Sat, 28-Jan-84 13:11:57 EST Article-I.D.: unc-c.1216 Posted: Sat Jan 28 13:11:57 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 03:05:45 EST Lines: 54 References: stolaf.1327 ..... 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 ( decvax!duke!mcnc!(unc-c,urp)!dya )