Tuesday, February 03, 2004
rackin' up the goods
The one thing I'll say about working for Southeast Performer and 99X is the amount of free shit they'll give you. Honestly I really don't do a whole lot when I go to 99X, just mainly listening in on programming and music meetings and giving my 2 cents here and there. Sometimes I'll go through the mail and split it up or do some cataloging of CD's that are never going to get played on the radio, but I'll be damned if they aren't cool as shit about letting me have CD's or hooking me up with tickets to shows. In the past 5 days I was able to snag coppies of the Rise Above comp (the one where the Rollins Band did all the Black Flag songs with dudes like Lemmy and Tom Araya from Slayer), the new Shins, the new Belle and Sebastian, the new Minamina Goodsong, and some other shit too. I guess since I'm not getting paid this is pretty cool, so if you want free shit, start interning for a radio station and you'll be able to snag all the records you're never gonna hear on the radio.
I know that this is stating the obvious, but why the fuck do these labels keep trying to push these horrible ass new metal bands down everyones throats. What's even worse now is the new metal lite that is getting all the airplay. Silly ass shit like Hoobastank and Trapt are trying to write songs that have a distinct formula to make money and then try to pass it off as different and its just so stupid. It's just like in the late-80's when tough guy rockers were writing all thos gay ass metal ballads like "Heaven" and "Without You." These songs are catchy and all that, but come on does anyone honestly think that in 20 years someones gonna look back at 2004 and say, " aww man that was such a cool year, that Hoobastank song was my jam. Thiose dudes were fuckin' awesome." Hell the fuck no. It's gonna be like those Vanilla Ice tapes everyone had in 6th grade. You hide that shit in a droor and pretend you didn't bump that shit, eventhough you thought it was the jam.
The other day I had to listen to this dude from Wind-Up records (Creed's label) try and promote the new Drowning Pool and some faceless band called Finger 11 and I just felt bad for him. I don't think that he realized how gay this stuff was and that even a commercial radio station didn't want to play it. Then he started talking about how he was talking to some dude in one of those bands and how he told him all about Neutral Milk Hotel and how awesome they were. So he went out and bought the CD and dug it, then he flipped out when I told them that they broke up like 6 years ago and they were from Athens. I guess its cool that musically retarded industry types can respect good music every once in a while, but it's just funny to see how wrapped up they are in their own tiny segment of the music industry.
The one thing I'll say about working for Southeast Performer and 99X is the amount of free shit they'll give you. Honestly I really don't do a whole lot when I go to 99X, just mainly listening in on programming and music meetings and giving my 2 cents here and there. Sometimes I'll go through the mail and split it up or do some cataloging of CD's that are never going to get played on the radio, but I'll be damned if they aren't cool as shit about letting me have CD's or hooking me up with tickets to shows. In the past 5 days I was able to snag coppies of the Rise Above comp (the one where the Rollins Band did all the Black Flag songs with dudes like Lemmy and Tom Araya from Slayer), the new Shins, the new Belle and Sebastian, the new Minamina Goodsong, and some other shit too. I guess since I'm not getting paid this is pretty cool, so if you want free shit, start interning for a radio station and you'll be able to snag all the records you're never gonna hear on the radio.
I know that this is stating the obvious, but why the fuck do these labels keep trying to push these horrible ass new metal bands down everyones throats. What's even worse now is the new metal lite that is getting all the airplay. Silly ass shit like Hoobastank and Trapt are trying to write songs that have a distinct formula to make money and then try to pass it off as different and its just so stupid. It's just like in the late-80's when tough guy rockers were writing all thos gay ass metal ballads like "Heaven" and "Without You." These songs are catchy and all that, but come on does anyone honestly think that in 20 years someones gonna look back at 2004 and say, " aww man that was such a cool year, that Hoobastank song was my jam. Thiose dudes were fuckin' awesome." Hell the fuck no. It's gonna be like those Vanilla Ice tapes everyone had in 6th grade. You hide that shit in a droor and pretend you didn't bump that shit, eventhough you thought it was the jam.
The other day I had to listen to this dude from Wind-Up records (Creed's label) try and promote the new Drowning Pool and some faceless band called Finger 11 and I just felt bad for him. I don't think that he realized how gay this stuff was and that even a commercial radio station didn't want to play it. Then he started talking about how he was talking to some dude in one of those bands and how he told him all about Neutral Milk Hotel and how awesome they were. So he went out and bought the CD and dug it, then he flipped out when I told them that they broke up like 6 years ago and they were from Athens. I guess its cool that musically retarded industry types can respect good music every once in a while, but it's just funny to see how wrapped up they are in their own tiny segment of the music industry.
