turgid's Journal: Lack of Music

What with spending the last 6 months looking for a new job and having a small Turgid to supervise, I haven't listened to any music properly in months. I'm feeling tired and burnt-out, and lack of music is part of the problem.

I've got one week left at my current job, then a week off and then I start my new job.. :-)

Mrs Turgid and I are both great music lovers and we can't go any length of time without music. We got a digital radio in the kitchen so that we could listen to Planet Rock.

Planet Rock is the best music radio station in the UK. The only other one I listen to is Radio 4 which is mostly speech. I really can't stand mainstream music radio (e.g. the barftastic Radio 1 or the soppy old goats' Radio 2). Classic FM is too lightweight and for Vicars and their families. Radio 3 is for the undead.

Planet Rock is OK since they often play some good music. You do have to put up with dross such as Def Leppard, Bon Jobby and Motley Crue and old git music, even the odd bit of drippy hippy stuff and non-Dio Rainbow, but they do play Motorhead on a Sunday morning when all other radio stations are doing their best to boost the nation's suicide rate with vacuous old chart music, religious twaddle and omnibus editions of the Archers.

Radio is convenient, but it's not nearly enough. They never play what I really want to hear.

Last year I got three new albums (on CD) that I haven't listened to yet: I just haven't had time. They are the new Primus, Megadeth and Mastodon records.

We're going to see Mastodon (and Dillinger Escape Plan!!!!) in London next month, and Primus some time later :-) We saw Primus last year at Brixton. They were superb!

I believe Smashing Pumpkins (minus Jimmy Chamberlain and the other two originals obviously) are playing too, but money's a bit short these days and I reckon fond memories should not be interfered with (not that I got to see them first time around but that's a story for another day).

Two words for you

[ElectricTurtle]

Internet radio.

There are so many free streaming services that will allow you to play by genre tags or artist similarity or whatever.

Beyond that I don't know what I can recommend, since apparently to you music is synonymous with guitars, and I don't listen that monocultural crap.

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[mcgrew]

Seconded. You can get almost any radio station in the world streamed over the internet. I don't even have a working radio in the house, but I listen to radio anyway. It's nice hearing KSHE again. I think I'll tune California's KZAP in tonight and see if they're still playing rock all these years later, or maybe WDIZ in Florida.

If you know a station's call letters, or city and frequency, you can find the stream on google. I'd like to know what good rock stations there are in Europe?

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[turgid]

Beyond that I don't know what I can recommend, since apparently to you music is synonymous with guitars

Flamebait! :-)

I have a pet theory about that, but it's a long, meandering rant that goes back to c. 1980.

It goes something like this....

I'm not old, boring, wise, tired, refined or mature enough to appreciate much "classical music." So let's ignore that for the time being.

I'm very fussy about what I like so I don't listen to the bland, lowest-common-denominator chart/pop stuff.

I get bored easily so I lik

Planet Rock

[Tet]

Yep, Planet Rock is the only radio station I listen to. The problem is, they just don't play enough new music. There's a large amount of decent new rock and metal being released, but people aren't being exposed to it. They're certainly not going to be hearing it on mainstream radio stations, so if Planet Rock don't play it, who will? I'm happy to hear the classics, but I'd rather they mixed a bit more new stuff into the playlist as well. But ultimately, I'd rather listen to yet another repeat of Neil Young'