So, I was driving home the other day and I heard High Enough:
So, I went home and discovered the Damn Yankees. Another of their songs that I really like is Where you going now:
The above two just about give me everything I want out of music, meaning that I would play them over and over again. The next one is also good, but not as awesome as the first two:
Coming of age is good music, but the video is contemptibly nabokovian. You have been warned.
I’ll finish off with one of their slightly softer hits:
Listening to the radio is worth it because even if you have to suffer through crap, there is going to be, ever so often, a gem which you have not come across before. I get that the music is a bit old, and perhaps it is my own narrowness of exposure, but has anyone else come across stuff on the radio that you have not heard before but just delivered the goods?
I got the late 80s time period right! This would be played on a classic rock station in the US.Report
Oh man, I saw them live. I had never smelled that much hair spray, and have not smelled that much hair spray since.Report
And that was just from the band!Report
Only because you never went to a Poison concert…I hope.Report
Radio here is useless for discovering anything (very narrowly programmed, and chock-full of ads), so I never listen to it. I get better results trawling through random related videos on YouTube.
Like these guys, from your neck of the woods:
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I’m in the same boat as Glyph. Ottawa radio, generally, sucks (and that’s an objective truth, Sam!).
I used to make a point of watching and recording The Wedge, a show on MuchMusic that (after going through various iterations) showed some really great otherwise-unknowable videos, like this (until it was used for a commercial a decade or so later):
It’s also how I caught on to M83:
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I must have seen whatever that commercial is because I know that Cloud Room song. It kinda makes me think of Wolf Parade (hey, remember when everybody was hyping them to be a big deal?) doing a cover of “This Corrosion”.
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I can’t remember the last time I discovered something new from the radio. Apart from kids movies my daughter watches (Let It Go really gets stuck in your head), I probably get most exposure from video games. Especially games like Saints Row or GTA where the soundtrack becomes an integral part of the experience.
Pandora probably comes in second, but I haven’t made time for it in a while.
TV would be a distant third. I occasionally hear something I like on SNL or a late night show, but I watch those infrequently. I once searched for a song I was annoyed by from a Mastercard commercial they kept playing over and over again. I ended up liking the song once I heard the full version.Report
Different band, but since Tommy Shaw wrote and sang it, I’m gonna plug “Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man).” I love the Main Street Electrical Parade interludes in that song.Report
Ted Nugent rocks!!Report