Listening To Vanilla Radio
Yesterday afternoon I was headed out for a meeting when I turned on the radio. Now, because I have no creativity and no imagination I generally listen to the same 30 songs repeatedly. This happens because my mom does not like her presets messed with in the van so I have a choice between several oldies stations, talk radio or KIIS which hosts Ryan Seacrest's show and mainly plays Katy Perry, Lady GaGa and Adele every five minutes. My mom is a big fan of Ryan, despite his hair issues so it is usually on that station. Therefore, because they play the same 30 songs on a 24 hour basis, my mind has become numb to any new sounds. Or, so I thought. Somehow yesterday I went for the volume and hit the tuner and I decided to be bold and spun that tuner and basically it was the same crap, but just on different stations. At that point I thought I had it back on the classic rock channel, but it turns out it was a new band that sounded like Florence And The Machine were possessed by Jim Morrison's soul. It was some local radio program and the band was Arune & The Alternatives.
I love new discoveries! This is kind of random, but a friend just introduced me to the song and video for "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye - it is my new obsession!
ReplyDeletewe had a kick-ass radio station here, but it went under because it was 'indie'. So now they are online.
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Love it like I do!
Wonder how much they paid for that advertisement?
ReplyDeleteCollege radio, Enty, college radio. It's the only thing between us and am earful of Britney Spears.
ReplyDeleteTo me, this group sounds like Siouxsie and the Banshees mixed with the Psychedelic Furs.
Showin' my age.
My smooth jazz radio has gone just "smooth", it's not the same. Boohoo.
ReplyDeleteI can't place it, but to me it sounds like something that could be on a vietnam movie soundtrack... I like it.. different.. :D
ReplyDeleteOh and Dubs, I just googled the group because I keep hearing the song in my head, which is a good thing. According to their website, they were on Lancer Radio last night, which is a radio station out of Pasadena City College. I'm thinking that Enty really was listening to the radio and liked what he heard. Not everyone in this world is motivated by money.
ReplyDelete@ RQ: Listen to "Heart's a Mess" by Goyte. Beautiful song that was featured on Gossip Girl a couple of years ago.
ReplyDeleteAs always, endlessly amused by ever-evolving the Enty backstory. Suspect it's fiction. Borrowing Mom's van and being forbidden to mess with the presets. That does have the ring of truth to it. Maybe a portrait of the Enty as a Young[er] Man?
ReplyDeleteReally, Enty? Does your parent's van have paneling on the side? Hmmm?
ReplyDeleteMy guilty pleasure is Britney Spears. There. I said it.
I love finding these new bands (well, new to me.) Thanks, everybody!
ReplyDeleteAnd aRUNe definitely has a Siouxsie thing going on.
OMG! They played last night on David Letterman and I was getting into them. I was wondering who they were and why they're not more popular lol. So awesome to see this article. I'm gonna look them up and preview their album and if I like I will buy :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Layna Day!
ReplyDeleteI'm always up for hearing new bands/music. This band reminds me of something out of the 60's.
ReplyDeleteWhile on the topic of radio, does anyone here that has Sirius have a good channel recommendation? I constantly switch between the 80's, 90's channel & Hits1, all three of which play the same songs over/over again.
Thank you for the write up! It's good to know people out there are enjoying our music cause it's hard to stay afloat amongst the Katy Perrys and Lady Gagas for little artists like us :)
ReplyDeletewww.thecurrent.org. It's a public radio station, and they play the BEST music. It's like a professional version of college radio.
ReplyDelete@califblondy - if you can stream and you like good jazz..got to www.kcsm.org. The only 24 hr 100% jazz station left in the US I think..
ReplyDeleteI agree that college radio is the best..Even if you have some bumbling college students at least they present something original to listen to that isn't the same old,Clear Channel pablum they force us to hear.