Comments on: ElecTunesDay: ending the War on Music

By: RIAA, meet RICO « Pop Underground

RIAA, meet RICO « Pop Underground — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:09:01 +0000

[...] (and bear with me while I indulge a hopeless fantasy here) who’s willing to reassert the public interest standard, and you might even have something on the radio that you could stand listening [...]

By: Scholars and Rogues » RIAA, meet RICO

Scholars and Rogues » RIAA, meet RICO — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:55:38 +0000

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:52:04 +0000

Good music on the radio??? It does not exist unless you look for your local college or independent radio station. The only way out of this mess is to first break up the media conglomerates. Only then can we start the process of re-gaining our airwaves.

By: azureblue

azureblue — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:56:33 +0000

The points made in the article are true. But the reaction was to drive good music underground, and to seek other outlets, which, now, due to the internet, are available. What has really happened is this reaction broke the stranglehold CC and the music biz had on the artists and they are now desperate to keep alive. And CC cries crocodile tears. they made this this. They are hated for it. The rest of the world found a way around CC, the media conglomerates and the record companies.

Le’t’s let hem die a noble death- they are not the gate way, they are not the only path to take.

As a recording artist said, “I find it better to make $5.00 off a CD, and sell 10,000 copies, than to make fifty cents and sell 100,000. This way, I still have control of my works and I don’t have to stake my career on the whims of some coked out record exec who is out shopping for a Rolls.” And I will add to that, ” some media conglomerate who doesn’t like my music or politics.”

CC, go somewhere & die. While you were playing high & mighty, you became irrelevant.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 02:30:56 +0000

Government has already played a major role in this mess. First, the demise of the FCC’s Fairness Doctrine. That used to limit radio/tv outlets from being horribly biased in their coverage. For the listeners, that meant a variety of content from a single source. Now, ideology has taken over radio completely. ClearChannel is overtly pro-Republican (because the GOP is overwhelmingly pro-corporate dominance), so they skew their content–news, morning talk shows, everything–in that direction.

Rock and Roll used to be the music of rebellion. I find nothing rebellious in recent popular music. I find nothing in current music on the radio that challenges the status quo in any way.

Also, the legal changes that allowed media conglomerates to buy up more and more stations have led to the ClearChannel style hegemony of radio content. No more local taste since it’s all piped in from NY or wherever. And…no more power for DJs, not to any real extent (maybe a 2 am show or something, but no control during peak playing hours). Megamedia owners don’t care if your local town isn’t interested in the “heavy rotation” of Brittney Spears. You’re going to hear it anyway. And it doesn’t much matter if you turn the dial…it’s all owned by the same megacorporations with the same agendas.

By: bay

bay — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:25:31 +0000

I absolutly agree with you. We used to have good music.. Whatever kind of music you wanted you could hear and they all had new songs..Music helps to make life easier and we need to get rid of clear channel , sinclair and some country stations deliebertly will not play if you dont bow to their party. They held our music for ransom. Clear channel had all stations where I am so we were at their mercy. They are going under because we dont have to listen to their crap..They forgot they need us, we dont need them..When republicans came into office we lost a lot ..Music represents many cultures and we can get that back..All of us need to be represented inamerica., we used to know that…

By: Dr. Slammy

Dr. Slammy — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:02:21 +0000

Will: I don’t believe that you really read what I said. No, politicians aren’t making you listen to Britney at gunpoint, but yes, they have a tremendous amount to do with how our musical landscape is currently arrayed.

Or don’t you believe in policy?

By: Will

Will — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:11:45 +0000

Is it impossible to imagine that radio stations play basic, poppy, mainstream music because thats what the majority of people like to listen to? Good music still exists, we just have to find it. Whether we like it or not, I don’t think politicians have much to do with record industry paying terrible musicians lots of money — its public opinion.