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A Glitch in The Matrix
I lent my car to my daughter recently. She's short, so when I got in the car I was looking at myself in the rearview mirror rather than the back window, and the side mirrors were focused on the door handle. Minor annoyance. But the unforgivable customization was she'd let the grandkids change my radio station!
So instead of my usual NPR, I found myself listening to "AT-40", which is what they call the venerable "American Top 40" countdown show nowadays. I thought: don't be a curmudgeon, give it a listen and be open-minded.
I got to hear three songs during my 30-minute trip to band practice. 9 minutes of music and 21 minutes of ads. Some things never change. The first two I had to admit were top-notch productions, respectable attempts to put lipstick on some weak, derivative songs. The third one, though, was inventive and atypical top-40 fare. I decided it deserved 3 out of 5 stars. Imagine my shock when the announcer credited it to Justin Bieber.
I quickly punched the classic rock station preset and after a few bars of Shine on You Crazy Diamond my reality had once again been restored.
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bapu
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Re: A Glitch in The Matrix
2016/07/20 09:41:02
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No one EVAH touches my SiriusXM radio settings.
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Re: A Glitch in The Matrix
2016/07/20 09:56:51
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☄ Helpfulby Zargg71 2016/07/20 11:33:14
A deli I go in every day always has that Top 40 crap playing on the radio. I'm always struck by how much some of these songs sound like nursery rhymes. When you take away all the fancy production and strip down the melody, it's something you would hum to a baby to get it off to sleep.
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Re: A Glitch in The Matrix
2016/07/20 10:05:15
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bitflipper
I got to hear three songs during my 30-minute trip to band practice. 9 minutes of music and 21 minutes of ads.
The BBC is by no means perfect, but at least we don't have to put up with commercial ads. Mind you, they do run a seemingly ever-increasing number of trailers for other shows.
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Re: A Glitch in The Matrix
2016/07/20 10:08:53
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bitflipper
I got to hear three songs during my 30-minute trip to band practice. 9 minutes of music and 21 minutes of ads.
The BBC is by no means perfect, but at least we don't have to put up with commercial ads. Mind you, they do run a seemingly ever-increasing number of trailers for other shows.
Top 40 trail Mix?
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Re: A Glitch in The Matrix
2016/07/20 10:09:46
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SteveStrummerUK
The BBC is by no means perfect, but at least we don't have to put up with commercial ads. Mind you, they do run a seemingly ever-increasing number of trailers for other shows.
Or in the case of Radio 1 endless tripe about the DJs Facebook
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Re: A Glitch in The Matrix
2016/07/20 10:15:51
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When I was in Dubai one would often find all the presets on the work vehicle changed to Indian channels, wall to wall Bollywood.
My Indian colleagues probably uttered similar curses when they found every thing back to western music 😁
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Re: A Glitch in The Matrix
2016/07/20 10:28:19
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SteveStrummerUK
The BBC is by no means perfect, but at least we don't have to put up with commercial ads. Mind you, they do run a seemingly ever-increasing number of trailers for other shows.
Or in the case of Radio 1 endless tripe about the DJs Facebook
I'll have to take your word for that Glyn  I don't think I've knowingly listened to Radio 1 since the days of John Peel and Tommy Vance 
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Re: A Glitch in The Matrix
2016/07/20 10:47:28
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The only thing more concerning than you liking a JB tune is that you publicly admitted to it.
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Re: A Glitch in The Matrix
2016/07/20 10:59:35
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I suspect that she returned it with an empty tank too.
(mine always did)
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Re: A Glitch in The Matrix
2016/07/20 11:20:40
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What bugs me the most about many of today's offerings are the banality and "non-universality" of the lyrics. They are self referential to the extreme and, by and large, uninteresting. Things like (to super quiet acoustic piano or guitar), "remember that morning I bought you a coffee...you looked out the window at a passing car...I ordered a latte...and knew that something had changed...(then Metallica shows up to take your head off) I'm losing you!! I'm losing you!! I'm losing you!! Don't know what to do...I'm Losing You!!!
Sheesh.
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Re: A Glitch in The Matrix
2016/07/20 11:22:42
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I heard a song a few weeks ago which was just a minimal electric guitar and lead vocal, and some low horns came in later on. I was thinking how good it sounded (although the song itself was fairly standard boy/girl break-up stuff), it fairly jumped out of the speakers. The DJ back-announced it as Justin Beiber, song written by Ed Sheeran  Oh well, credit where it's due.
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Re: A Glitch in The Matrix
2016/07/20 12:14:51
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☄ Helpfulby bapu 2016/07/20 20:04:48
yorolpal
What bugs me the most about many of today's offerings are the banality and "non-universality" of the lyrics. They are self referential to the extreme and, by and large, uninteresting. Things like (to super quiet acoustic piano or guitar), "remember that morning I bought you a coffee...you looked out the window at a passing car...I ordered a latte...and knew that something had changed...(then Metallica shows up to take your head off) I'm losing you!! I'm losing you!! I'm losing you!! Don't know what to do...I'm Losing You!!!
Sheesh.
How in the hell did you gain access to my Sonar project folder?
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Re: A Glitch in The Matrix
2016/07/20 12:19:38
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bapu
No one EVAH touches my SiriusXM radio settings.
I was one of the first million XM subscribers. My license plate at the time was XM72BJ for my favorite station. And then the bastidges killed it when they merged with Sirius. I still really miss Beyond Jazz.  
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Re: A Glitch in The Matrix
2016/07/20 14:57:18
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bapu
No one EVAH touches my SiriusXM radio settings.
Jim Ladd is still on, isn't he?
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Re: A Glitch in The Matrix
2016/07/20 17:16:22
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Some things do get better. When I was in high school in the middle of Illinois in the 60s, if you went into a supermarket, you were forced to listen to music that was truly gag-worthy. We are talking 1001 Strings and other elevator music purveyors, ones that make Justin Bieber look absolutely brilliant by comparison.
Decades later in Northern California, I go into my local Safeway and they are playing Neil Young songs and other tasteful "classics". I've even been there when Pink Floyd was the selection. Never thought I'd say this, but Safeway rocks.
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Re: A Glitch in The Matrix
2016/07/20 18:08:17
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Ah Radio, you lucky lucky b***stards - where I live its either Heavy Dub (which I hate) or Soca, which I do like but as most of the more modern songs sound pretty similar, you do get bored after a very short while - so CD's in the car for me - not an MP3 player in site........... And to just mention, I brought on my way through the UK one of The Original Series 5 CD offerings of Fairport Convention - cost about 10 pounds, for 5 original CD's - great value and I really had forgotten just how good Fairport were - On Unhalfbricking the drums sound fabulous to me, especially on the first track Genesis Hall - wish I knew how they got that sound, sort of right next to you!!
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bapu
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Re: A Glitch in The Matrix
2016/07/20 19:50:36
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Bajan Blue
- wish I knew how they got that sound, sort of right next to you!!
Equal parts talent, equipment and sheer happenstance I'd say. The reason why I included happenstance is that I have used the exact same drum setup on two different songs and I defy anyone to tell me they are the same drums. I believe that 33.33% of a "great" something in the mix is based on all the other parts and how they were recorded/level set/FX'd.
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Re: A Glitch in The Matrix
2016/07/20 21:42:13
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dmbaer
Some things do get better. When I was in high school in the middle of Illinois in the 60s, if you went into a supermarket, you were forced to listen to music that was truly gag-worthy. We are talking 1001 Strings and other elevator music purveyors, ones that make Justin Bieber look absolutely brilliant by comparison.
Decades later in Northern California, I go into my local Safeway and they are playing Neil Young songs and other tasteful "classics". I've even been there when Pink Floyd was the selection. Never thought I'd say this, but Safeway rocks.
Actually one of the first "wow" moments I experienced when I first moved to the US was hearing Peg by Steely Dan in a Stop & Shop.
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Re: A Glitch in The Matrix
2016/07/20 21:57:33
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IMO a tween idol pop star occasionally putting out a respectable effort doesn't constitute a glitch in the matrix. Even if mainstream shallow manipulation for profit is the goal, that doesn't necessarily rule out respectable efforts altogether.
Now if your grandchildren had changed the station to NPR, that would be a different story.
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Re: A Glitch in The Matrix
2016/07/20 23:58:19
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The ones I can't stand are when I'm stopped at a light and one of the cars around me has a 300,000 watt subwoofer going full blast and all I can hear for lyrics are "**** yeah, I say **** and she says **** then we ****! ****! ****! ****! Now I'm telling all you ****** *******!" 
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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