This is one of the last independent radio stations left in the country. “The real alternative.” I grew up listening to them and never stopped. Thank god i can stream when im no longer in EQX land. I listen to a ton of different music genres, but i always come back to eqx.
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I checked it out, it’s different in a good way. Thanks.
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I never got used to Michael Jackson. It just got dumber every time I heard him.
The music nowadays is just about getting louder and more autotunes, I personally like the old school, good vocals and a smooth music, perhaps it because of the go with the flow stuff.
I was thinking about this topic earlier today and it struck me how good I had it music-wise in my childhood, being born in 1980. My entire childhood took place in that small and magical window where MTV played music videos and was a primary driver of pop music culture. It went to complete crap by the time I finished high school, but it was such a huge part of exposing me to music of all kinds up until around 1996 or so, when The Real World, TRL and manufactured pop music completed their takeover.
MTV was incredibly awesome in the 1980’s through the mid 1990’s. It was almost around the clock music across all genres with artists pushing new boundaries with the video medium all of the time. 120 Minutes, Yo MTV Raps, Headbangers Ball, and all kinds of other shows transported me out of the corn fields and into other worlds altogether.
The internet came along right after MTV forgot who they were and the institution was doomed from there. Luckily for aging music fans, there’s now more access to more awesome music videos than ever before thanks to the internet.
We just don’t have a decent pilot flying the pop culture machine anymore, like we did for a few great decades at the end of the last millennium. I also think they may departed from the winning drug combinations of successful musicians in the 1950’s-1990’s.
So true. It felt like the most revolutionary moment in pop music since the early-mid 1960s.
I’ve been listening to some 90s music lately. I forgot about how much musicians complained about the music industry at that time.
Everyone worried about high powered record company executives making you change your sound, or Sharks, Biters or Chameleons trying to steal your style, copy you and take a bite out of your money. Or losing integrity by selling out to get popular.
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Most of today’s “artists” have no integrity to lose.
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I think Zappa had a problem with that too.
I’m a big Queens of the Stone Age fan. Grohl is a good drummer but I still wouldn’t put him with the legends.
And categorically 90’s grunge and ensuing popular music don’t match the talent predecessors consistently put out.
I understand preference for a style, but that doesn’t make a preferred style objectively better.
Case in point. Music is subdued in comparison, and has been for a while.
Dumber, maybe not. Less display of talent, absolutely.