Songs with lyrics that shocked you (page 4)

purplesofa

I also want to add,

I am always looking for good music and when I think I can't find anymore, there is more,

I am even limited on my scope,

I really liked hillary_steps input on music, he knew some great stuff

purplesofa

FHN,

OK, well that contradicts your statement

There isn't enough good music today because Clear Channel owns the majority of big, influential radio stations.

I think you will agree there is plenty of good music out there right now.

FlyingHighNow

Purple, do you love today's top 40 music?

I am talking about readily available music. I have been comparing today's top 40 music to yesterday's top 40 music. You didn't use to have to get creative and dig to find good music. You just turned on your tV to American Bandstand or Soul Train or the variety and talk shows and even AM radio. Today you have to go on a treasure hunt to find it.

John Doe

FHN, I'm going to try and be as delicate as I can, while still being succinct. You, my dear, are not a music expert. Sugar, you are, in fact, a moron.

I'm just the one saying what everyone else is thinking.

mrsjones5

FHN, I think it really depends on where you live. When I was in Indiana I could not find enough of the type of music I like to listen to. I had to listen to a rock station that would play songs I like every once in a while (Toad the Wet Sprocket, Vampire Weekend, Death Cab for Cutie, etc) or a local high school station. To get around the dearth of music I would listen to stations that were wifi availible on my iTouch. Being in California I don't have to do that. Just in the Sacramento area I've found a few stations that play the music I like.

FlyingHighNow

And you think your parent's generation didn't make identical comments about your music? Have you thought about how many people said Elvis was absolute trash?

Some adults didn't like Elvis because they thought he was too provacative. Some. My mother loved the Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel. My dad liked the Beatles songs when other people like Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66 played them. In our town, KMRC 1430 AM played country, adult contemporary and top 40 music. We kids loved it all. I loved Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass and Sergio Mendez and Dave Bruebeck, etc. My mother was a classical pianist and teacher. She also played the top 40 hits of the mid and late 60's.

FlyingHighNow

Johnny, dahling, I never have claimed to be a music expert. You amuse me. You're just adorable.

Top 40, available music. Like it or not, Clear Channel heavily influences what's played. Today record companies pay to have their music played and they must pay more to have the name of the artist mentioned after the song is played.

FlyingHighNow

When Neil Young played here in GR on his Greendale Tour, sponsored by Clear Channel, he took jabs at them. http://www.salon.com/ent/clear_channel/

Radio's big bully
A complete guide to Salon's reporting on Clear Channel, the most powerful -- and some would say pernicious -- force in the music industry.

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For the past few months, Salon reporter Eric Boehlert has been tracking the story of Clear Channel Communications, the little-noticed media giant that has quietly taken over the country's radio and concert industries.

The company owns nearly 1,200 radio stations and effectively controls the rock radio market. It also owns SFX Entertainment, the nation's dominant concert-venue owner and touring promoter.

In the stories below, Boehlert has detailed the corporation's evolution under the aegis of Randy Michaels, the one-time shock jock who has turned the industry upside down with rampant cost-cutting and a good-ol'-boy approach to management.

And in "Pay for Play" Boehlert details the new payola -- the complex arrangements under which the world's major record companies pay for virtually every rock song broadcast on commercial radio.

Finally, there is a link to the Clear Channel Web site, on which you can easily find the stations the company operates in your town.

Pay for play
Why does radio suck? Because most stations play only the songs the record companies pay them to. And things are going to get worse
By Eric Boehlert

Fighting pay-for-play
Sources in the music industry call for a federal clampdown on the new payola
By Eric Boehlert

Radio's big bully
Dirty tricks and crappy programming: Welcome to the world of Clear Channel, the biggest station owner in America
By Eric Boehlert

Tough company
Clear Channel is as big as NBC or Gannett. Chances are it owns a half-dozen radio stations in your town. And it's fighting employee suits alleging everything from broken contracts to sexual harassment.
By Eric Boehlert

The "Bootylicious" gambit
Can a hot new single from Destiny's Child help Columbia Records crack the indie promoters' control of pop radio?
By Eric Boehlert

One big happy channel?
The Telecommunications Reform Act handed overcontrol of the radio airwaves to a chosen few. Will TV be next?
By Eric Boehlert

What's wrong with the music biz?
Napster's out of the picture, but for the first time in a decade, album sales are down -- and ticket sales are sagging too.
By Eric Boehlert

The Clear Channel Web site
Here you can read about the company's radio holdings and search the site to find the stations it owns in your metropolitan area.

Payola City
In the wild world of urban radio, money buys hits -- and nobody asks questions.
By Eric Boehlert

More waves in the radio businessIs corporate behemoth Clear Channel behind the latest shakeup?
By Eric Boehlert

Suit: Clear Channel is an illegal monopoly
A tiny Denver promoter is taking the most powerful force in the music industry to court.
By Eric Boehlert

Rock 'n' radio rumble
A dust-up involving Clear Channel and a Blink-182 concert in Cincinnati doesn't seem to be an isolated event.
By Eric Boehlert

purplesofa

Purple, do you love today's top 40 music?

I do, just like I loved some of it when I was a teen.

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