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stealthwise
08-04-2009, 07:15 PM
By "radio rock" I'm talking about the generically undefinable music that basically exists only to live off the chorus and/or main riffs/hooks. Examples that I like include:

Foo Fighters
Bush
Shinedown
Finger Eleven
Dust For Life

and yeah, I'll listen to the occasional Nickelback song *shame*.

What do you guys dig from the easily forgettable?
joco23
08-08-2009, 02:47 AM
All-American Rejects' Swing Swing
Marianas Trench's songs from the new album Masterpiece Theatre
howyadoin
08-08-2009, 03:30 AM
Radio still plays rock?
stealthwise
08-08-2009, 09:26 AM
Radio still plays rock?

That's all they play up here, unless you're listening to country or CBC.
Jonathan Bogart
08-08-2009, 09:35 AM
That's all they play up here, unless you're listening to country or CBC.
Goodness, that's depressing.
stealthwise
08-08-2009, 09:36 AM
Goodness, that's depressing.

Sorry, they also play lame-ass repetitive dance songs, etc, like, um, Lady Gaga and Katie Perry?
cactusmaac
08-08-2009, 10:28 AM
Bon Jovi
Goo Goo Dolls - at least the first two albums

I like Nickelback too but their latest album was just shit. Popped it out two thirds of the way thrrough and started listening to Death Magnetic again.
howyadoin
08-08-2009, 01:51 PM
That's all they play up here, unless you're listening to country or CBC.I'm actually not listening to radio at all; I was mostly just being facetious.
Romero
08-08-2009, 02:47 PM
I'm not sure I like anything on"rock" radio that isn't already 10+ years old. If they play something off the Foo Fighters "Colour and the Shape" that may be the newest thing I like.
Jonathan Bogart
08-08-2009, 04:08 PM
Sorry, they also play lame-ass repetitive dance songs, etc, like, um, Lady Gaga and Katie Perry?
Which is so much worse than lame-ass repetitive rock music.
Cloudman
08-09-2009, 02:47 AM
I can honestly say that I can't think of any 'radio rock' that I like. They used to play some R.E.M. but I haven't heard that in a long time.
Cloudman
08-09-2009, 02:48 AM
Which is so much worse than lame-ass repetitive rock music.

Er.. yeah. It is actually.
Jonathan Bogart
08-09-2009, 04:02 AM
Er.. yeah. It is actually.
Shit is shit. Anyone who says that there's something better about rock JUST BECAUSE it's rock as opposed to something made with synthesizers and samplers, is a moron.

I'd rather listen to Lady Gaga fail at being provocative and fun than listen to Nickelback fail at being profound and cathartic.
DrewTheXenocide
08-09-2009, 07:04 AM
Katy Perry's "Hot n Cold" is better than anything I've ever heard come from some of the terrible bands mentioned.

Shinedown? Really?
howyadoin
08-09-2009, 12:40 PM
I'd rather listen to Lady Gaga fail at being provocative and fun than listen to Nickelback fail at being profound and cathartic.I'd rather not listen to either one.
stealthwise
08-09-2009, 01:00 PM
Shinedown? Really?

Not bad for a second-rate Soungarden.
Cloudman
08-09-2009, 01:45 PM
I'd rather not listen to either one.

Summed that one up nicely.
DrewTheXenocide
08-09-2009, 08:36 PM
Soulless electro-pop like Lady Gaga can be kind of fun when you're hanging out in a club-type setting, though. Nickleback, and things of the sort, can never, in any situation, be fun.
J. Robb
08-09-2009, 11:59 PM
I would probably be able to think up some examples, but commercial radio tends to make you hate everything by overplaying it. It's even worse in Canada, because Canadian content laws mean you're going to hear the Tragically Hip and Our Lady Peace every single hour (or Rush and the Guess Who on "classic rock" stations.)
howyadoin
08-10-2009, 12:08 AM
Soulless electro-pop like Lady Gaga can be kind of fun when you're hanging out in a club-type setting, though.I dunno. Clubs full of plastic people don't do much for me.