My gripe is with radio, or, more precisely, the people who run radio. Radio serves up the same forty songs -- for whatever genre the station represents -- over and over and over. Thousands of CDs these studios have in their closets, and it's the same forty songs, the same forty songs, the same forty songs.
Now why is this? Money is the obvious answer but I don't think it quite washes. There are loads of good songs out there, moldering away in obscurity. Surely a variety of good songs is more interesting -- and therefore more attractive to listeners -- than the same old stuff? I think we get same old, same old because the bigwigs who control the programming don't think we, the people can handle our own musical taste. By playing the same old stuff, they're telling us that's all there is. There are these forty songs, and nothing else.
They're spitting on our minds.
And the worst part isn't that they do this. The worst part is they get away with it. Listeners buy into this brainwashing so completely they will call the station to request a song that's already on the playlist. We have heard "More Than A Feeling" seven times a day since time beyond reckoning but somebody will still request it.
Thank you, lords of radio. Thank you for taking the miracle that is music and reducing its wonderful alchemy to the auditory equivalent of a sports drink: bland, overpriced, overhyped, and ultimately empty. Thank you for dimming the light of the world. Thank you for serving evil. Thank you for trying to make us all the same.