Sen. LooGAR (D - MEH) Wrote:
If Social D got played on the radio down here, I would crap myself with excitement. There are times I REALLY don't understand the people on this board, and this is definitely one of them. Awesome band, and I even like the Mike NEss solo rekkids.
I was honestly really excited when I first moved out to CA. I was like "Shit! They're playing [Fugazi, Built to Spill; Ben Harper, etc.] on the RADIO!" Coming from Athens it was either the college station which got off on mostly playing unlistenable shit-core, or the commercial booty stations.
But they found a way to fuck it up. Ownership of at least one of the indpt. radio stations changed hands. Gone are the Fugazi and B2S songs, for the most part. In comes the replaying of the same few Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, Foo Fighters and Pearl Jam songs ad nauseaum. How alternative! I love the 91X tag line before they play one of these DECADE OLD songs -- "Rock: Cutting Edge: Rock."
A local rag recently ran a story on the "independent" San Diego radio stations (2 still claim this status, which is BS). They described it as hanging out with your buddy who has a 500-song mp3 player on a shuffle loop.
Sounds about right. Stay here long enough and you get to know those 500 songs extremely well. Better than
your shitty 500-song radio station, you say? Well, maybe not. It breeds hatred of artists who are prob not so deserving of it. This thread is good evidence of that. All signs would seem to indicate that I would love Ness and Social D. But SD radio has beat it out of me. And I swear, if I hear that Nirvana cover of that "4th of July" song one more fucking time I will burn In Utero.
So that is why I say Fuck Social D. Fuck Mike Ness and his fucking Dylan cover. Fuck singing through your nose.
But the radio made me do it.