Posted on 03/29/2025 10:14:47 AM PDT by DallasBiff
No doubt. Heck I didn’t even watch MTV in its heyday in the early ‘80s when pop music was still good.
There’s a simple explanation—the internet. Using your own search parameters you can find whatever music videos appeal to you the most. Artist still make videos and post them on their own YouTube pages. Music fans do the same thing. And it’s a vast network that they control. I still watch music videos that way—old stuff, new stuff, personal favorites. And every now and then I make an interesting discovery.
Because it sucks and did suck.
I’ve always hated it. Ruined keg parties in college. Zombies would rather sit and stare at the same 12 videos for hours rather than mingle and hook up.
Had to pretend to like it to get laid.
To this day I HATE Duran Duran’s “Rio”. Only because it was on all day.
Started with Run DMC covering “Walk This Way” by Aerosmith.
Revitalized Aerosmith’s career.
Recently? MTV has been total crap for at least30 years. It was great in the 80s when they played music.
Try Bo Snerdley’s podcast. His entire show is mixed with his takes on music history, and I love it.
👊
Oh, wait, she's been hanging out at Fox recently.
“Young people watched anything that upset their parents“
Well that makes sense. I was out of the house and into my own place at 21 so annoying the “parental units wasn’t possible.
“Heck I didn’t even watch MTV in its heyday in the early ‘80s when pop music was still good.”
Yeah I rarely looked at it either. Although I suspect that we weren’t exactly the target demographic.
Rick Beato has had a few good videos dicussing why pop music has gotten as bad as it has.
And one factor that you wouldn’t quickly think of is the Clinton era decision undoing the requirement that radio stations be locally owned.
This allowed a small number of giant syndicators to buy up everything and to kill the opportunity for local, unknown bands to get discovered and get airplay. That’s how lot of the bands that we listened to got their start.
It’s not the only factor, the eco system for musicians who want to make a living in music is largely gone as well.
Sheeeet... MTV barely made it out of the 80s I never really watched it but I also never really understood their infatuation with heavy metal 24/7/365
I enjoyed all the music video networks back when they were good
Then Viacom Redstone etc destroyed all that
The soul of excellence..
<< That’s how lot of the bands that we listened to got their start. >>
94.7 KMET from the mid ‘60s to mid ‘80s. It was my go-to station. Launched countless bands.
Yeah, many factors have contributed over the decades to the death of good music. It’s been a long while since I’ve even attempted to find the extremely rare exceptions.
“94.7 KMET from the mid ‘60s to mid ‘80s. It was my go-to station. Launched countless bands.”
IIRC the first FM station in LA to go long format Rock was KPPC, the initials of its previous owner, the Pasadena Presbyterian Church.
I no longer remember if that became KMET or maybe KROQ. It certainly changed Rock radio. We were no longer stuck with 2 minute Top 40 songs on KHJ, KRLA and KFWB. Or for the true afficianados, Wolfman Jack on the Mighty 1090 XERB.
KBLA became KROQ.
“KBLA became KROQ.”
That must have been the AM version.
KPPC-FM is what I was speaking of- it’s frequency was 106.7. It became KROQ-FM at some point. I just don’t recall if it was something else inbetween KPPC and KROQ.
A lot of these LA stations played musical chairs and were all over the dial.
We were extraordinary lucky in wee Jackson Miss
Truly
Our tiny hippie Illuminati gathered around the kudzu underground rag
The Adcocks
Sebastian
Sergio
Wayne Harrison (murdered by goblin)
And so on
It was a great progressive rock station which so eclipsed top 40 AM
WJDX 102.9
1968-73
WZZQ 102.9
1973-81
Remarkable southern staples like the Warehouse music venue in New Orleans or the amphitheater key biscayne or KAAY BEAKER ST a very very early progressive rock outlet only late night
Best rock station I ever knew was Potts camp north Mississippi
95.9
Low power hand run
From early 90s it ran a decade I think
Rock radio its pretty much dormant
My wife listens to lightning 100.1 here
It’s Americana which means libtard music pretty much
Clinton’s admin joined with libertarians circa 1997 to change the laws on radio station licensing.
The old statute severely limited the number of stations that a corporation could own. Local stations were instead locally owned. They could do what they wanted. The could play what they wanted. Local garage bands could get airplay.
The Clinton / libertarian ‘reform’ removed those restrictions, opening the door to mass consolidation by a tiny number of big companies.
So instead of interesting regional variety and opportunity, radio now has homogenized sameness with all the appeal of a national strip mall. Content is dictated by a tiny number of program directors where there once were thousands.
That’s not the only reason for the death of interesting music, but it’s a major one. The Dark Age isn’t going to lift anytime soon from what I can see.
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