Oooooh. Sorry. Time's up again.
This recently amused me and within the last few weeks. I was in a liquor store and heard something from my distant past cranked. The employee seemed to be in his early 20s. I asked him what he was playing. He seemed a little bewildered that I had an interest and after taking a look said “It’s a band called....the Jam.” I told him I knew the band and song and even gave a brief lesson but my interest was from what radio station. He said it was a Pandora channel (fast forward to today’s technology) and it was “off he all-Clash channel.” I left knowing that today’s music must really be hideous.
It was about a week ago I heard Heart-Shaped Box.
I hear Nirvana songs on the radio.
Both on older format like Jack and contemporary rock stations.
I never heard a Nirvana song when the dude was alive.
I know their songs only from radio and hearing them over the course of the past few years.
I don’t know the names of their songs, but the songs I have heard are ones that have these snippets of lyrics (maybe they’re all the same song).
Mary. Mary.
Come as you are
Rape me
Eat your cancer
I actually miss those days of the early 1990s when you could tune in a rock station and get a lot of great music from bands like Smashing Pumpkins, Cranberries, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden and Stone Temple Pilots, to name just a few bands other than Nirvana that were putting out great rock music at that time.
Today it seems that 90% of the radio stations out there play rap, dance re-mixes and modern country which has little resemblance to real country music. You can find decent new rock music but you have to subscribe to Sirius/XM (stations like Spectrum, XU, Loft) or go online with Spotify or Pandora and build your own stations.
The music of REM on the other hand (Michael Stipe) just did not age well at all. Songs like "Orange Crush", "What's The Frequency Kenneth" and "Shiny Happy People" sound stupid today. I've wiped all remnants of REM from my iTunes and my music collection is the better for it.