Get Away From the Big Fish Now!

Don't you just love listening to the radio? Turing it on everytime you get in the car, or get into your room. You play it while you do your homework, or just when you're writing blog posts. (Guess what I'm doing right now?) I love hitting the radio button and tuning into 89.1. So what song is playing? Awww man, not this one again.

Unfortuantely that is my reaction to most of the time when I turn on the radio. And you know what the problem is with this. It has to do with the social hierchy of mucic, and if you have no idea what I just said it has to do mainstream music. That's the music that the general audience just loves. And real music fantatics hate. Most Christian radio stations only really play the same 100 songs over and over again because that is what the general Christian audience likes. UGH!! I probably know the lyrics to every one of those songs. What is wrong with playing the variety of music and hearing stuff you've never heard all the time. That's what makes music great, right? Variety.

Please don't hear me wrong on this. I do like a lot of the 100 songs that are played over and over again. But when it is all that you listen to you really get sick of it. I want to hear something different once and a while. Unfortunately radio stations don't like that because the general audience (the audience that only tunes in once and a while) likes to hear the music they like when they tune in. So what about the rest of us. I guess we just crawl into a corner and go hysterical due to the brainwashed song listing that goes on. All. The. Time.

Lucky me, I have broken this auditory cycle, and I have found the magical cure that will help us cope with music again. Live on music die hards.

My first reccomendation is theBlast.fm. Amazing live radio station. It is an Internet live streaming music channel that plays hundreds of aritsts and thousands of songs. These songs are all christian and primarily alternative rock. I know isn't it a step off from all the sameness of your radio. And the best thing is that they minmally play anything considered mainstream. I love theBlast.fm. The last bonus is that their are minmal commercials and the commercials they do have only promote their radio. And you can't deal with that every once and a while?

My second reccomendatino is Pandora Radio. It is also a live streaming radio online...only you are the DJ, kind of. You get to pick an artist or song you really like and they will start playing songs a lot like that, non stop. And you get to say whether you like that song or not which will further shape what songs will start playing. Of course you don't get to pick exactly what you want to listen to but some of the songs do repeat, randomly and rarely. Also their is no advertisments in the middle of your music either. Oh, what sweet bliss. I love Pandora.

Well, I guess this wasn't some philosophical prompt, like my previous ones or future ones might be, but I do like to express my behavior on something like this, and give a few suggestions to those who are thinking like me, if there are such people. Hey...thanks for reading this.