Title: Robert Plant & The Band Of Joy "Satan, Your Kingdom Must Come Down" Source:
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I've been a Zeppelin fan since the early 70's, but had no idea about this band. I just read about them on wiki.
Kind of shows you the awful state of radio, music companies that the front man of Led Zep has an acclaimed new group but even long time fans don't know it unless they actively run across it.
It seems in the age of the Internet some information gets lost? You can also blame the music companies for a poor business model and the fact that radio has been taken over by a handful of corporations so there are few independent radio stations in big markets that can bring new trends forward.
This does sound a lot like the Led Zep unplugged sessions. It seems Plant really fell for that unplugged sound and played with it since then and this new effort is the result.
Kind of shows you the awful state of radio, music companies that the front man of Led Zep has an acclaimed new group but even long time fans don't know it unless they actively run across it.
It seems in the age of the Internet some information gets lost? You can also blame the music companies for a poor business model and the fact that radio has been taken over by a handful of corporations so there are few independent radio stations in big markets that can bring new trends forward.
Wrong again. The music companies are providing what their customer base wants,hip hop/rap crap. Most music buyers are under 30,and that is the crap the under 30 buyers listen to. People with genuine musical talent are out there producing good music every day,but you have to search them out because they aren't being pushed.
There are a few like Lady GaGa that does have amazing talent,but even she has to have a gimmick to sell records. Her self-promotion talents match her musical talents,or nobody would have ever heard of her,either. Even then I have no doubt a lot of her fan appeal is based more on her costumes than on her musical ability.
Here are two female singers that are perfect examples of what I am talking about. I say "female" instead of "women" because the first one was only 14 years old when this video was recorded. How a 14 year old can look like that and put that kind of emotion into a torch song is a total mystery to me,but there it is for all to see and hear.
How freaking scary was THAT?
The second one is a young woman who is in her mid-20's.
Wrong again. The music companies are providing what their customer base wants,hip hop/rap crap. Most music buyers are under 30,and that is the crap the under 30 buyers listen to. People with genuine musical talent are out there producing good music every day,but you have to search them out because they aren't being pushed.
Are you defending the big music companies and the big radio owning companies for just supplying what the market wants?
Well, then thanks for admitting the free market is stupid and does not work.
At least in the late 60s and 70s you still had independent radio stations or radio stations that allowed disk jockeys to program their own music based on their own tastes.
Most music buyers by the way are not under 30 - they are not buying music anymore the younger yiu get thansk to the internet file sharing.
Most musicians make their music in live performances now anyways.
I have not listened to the radio - outside of news radio to get the weather - in years. When I do listen to the radio the rock stations only play the classics which I have heard a million times.
I agree that they should let the disc jockeys pick what they want to play. Fuck clearchannel.
Well satellite radio does have celebrity disk jockeys where the celebrities pick their own music.
It does seem that the FM radio early days from what I read were sort of unique and inspired the "WKRP in Cincinnati" tv show.
Nowadays, WKRP would be owned by Clearchannel or another conglomerate and not an individual.
Also, to give some TV history, Star Trek only became a huge show in syndication because an independent UHF television station bought the syndication rights for cheap and ran the show in creative ways and that made it into a cult show in the 70s and then a huge cultural phenomenon.
If that independent TV outlet did not exist and if almost all TV stations were owned by big corporations they would have buried Star Trek because it was a failure when it first aired on network TV.
That's why I advocate that no company can own more than one FM, one AM, one TV and one newspaper in any given market - even in the age of the internet.
