Comments on: The day the music died http://www.davecole.org/blog/2008/05/16/the-day-the-music-died/ Just another WordPress site Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:31:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: dave http://www.davecole.org/blog/2008/05/16/the-day-the-music-died/#comment-864 dave Sat, 17 May 2008 09:46:53 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/2008/05/16/the-day-the-music-died/#comment-864 You weren't being mean :) Problem is that Virgin Radio will end up playing this crap and that Virgin only plays one broad area of music and I want to be able to hear lots of different things. That, and Soulja Boy is part of the relentless homogenisation of music. xD. You weren’t being mean :)

Problem is that Virgin Radio will end up playing this crap and that Virgin only plays one broad area of music and I want to be able to hear lots of different things. That, and Soulja Boy is part of the relentless homogenisation of music.

xD.

]]> By: Alice. http://www.davecole.org/blog/2008/05/16/the-day-the-music-died/#comment-863 Alice. Sat, 17 May 2008 09:07:03 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/2008/05/16/the-day-the-music-died/#comment-863 I see! Listen to Virgin Radio, they don't play crap. I didn't mean to be mean. And having been out of London and with a car lately I've escaped the morons blaring out tinny music on buses. Poor you. I see! Listen to Virgin Radio, they don’t play crap.
I didn’t mean to be mean.
And having been out of London and with a car lately I’ve escaped the morons blaring out tinny music on buses. Poor you.

]]> By: dave http://www.davecole.org/blog/2008/05/16/the-day-the-music-died/#comment-862 dave Sat, 17 May 2008 09:00:48 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/2008/05/16/the-day-the-music-died/#comment-862 Ouch! I wrote about it because it is an example of an important social phenomenon - the continued commercialisation of music. The result is that record companies are looking for songs that are cheap to produce, have an element of self-marketing and can raise money through channels other than record sales, in this case ringtones. I accept that I am not compelled to listen to this dross. However, it is precisely the sort of rubbish that is played by people using their mobile phones at the back of the bus. Moreover, it has an effect on the entire popular music scene by taking up airplay time so that I can't find other, new music that I do like and by encouraging people to fund and resource this kind of music. It's not just a rant - there's a point to it! xD. Ouch!

I wrote about it because it is an example of an important social phenomenon – the continued commercialisation of music. The result is that record companies are looking for songs that are cheap to produce, have an element of self-marketing and can raise money through channels other than record sales, in this case ringtones.

I accept that I am not compelled to listen to this dross. However, it is precisely the sort of rubbish that is played by people using their mobile phones at the back of the bus. Moreover, it has an effect on the entire popular music scene by taking up airplay time so that I can’t find other, new music that I do like and by encouraging people to fund and resource this kind of music.

It’s not just a rant – there’s a point to it!

xD.

]]> By: Alice. http://www.davecole.org/blog/2008/05/16/the-day-the-music-died/#comment-861 Alice. Sat, 17 May 2008 08:50:15 +0000 http://davecole.org/blog/2008/05/16/the-day-the-music-died/#comment-861 I just don't get why you listen to it if you hate it so much. I didn't play that video because I know it's going to be crap and I'm happy to leave it there. You seem to have wasted a lot of effort writing about something that your entire readership (probably) won't listen to either because it's obviously not to our tastes. Plenty of decent sounding songs are bollocks if you actually analyse the lyrics, and the fact is, that some people like the sound that this song has. I assume. Snore. I just don’t get why you listen to it if you hate it so much. I didn’t play that video because I know it’s going to be crap and I’m happy to leave it there.
You seem to have wasted a lot of effort writing about something that your entire readership (probably) won’t listen to either because it’s obviously not to our tastes. Plenty of decent sounding songs are bollocks if you actually analyse the lyrics, and the fact is, that some people like the sound that this song has. I assume.
Snore.

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