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[IEatCats]

'90s rap, Slipknot, AC/DC, System of a Down, Green Day, and Trivum. A lot of Trivium. All the metal kids stuck on Trivium. And Metallica. Metallica is huge.

A few of these really surprise me. I'm still personally shocked that anyone legitimately likes AC/DC. At least get the Metallica kids into Megadeth. Metallica is terrible and Lars Ulrich ruined copyright laws for everyone.

And what Trivium albums are big again? IMHO pretty much everything after Ascendancy kind of sucked, but maybe I'm a pessimist here.

That list also reads as some weird "future dadrock" compilation to me.

[casecandy]

It's weird, yeah. AC/DC just played in Ottawa and the town cleared out. It's definitely a multi-generational thing...

I kinda like AC/DC...? The first handful of albums, anyway. If You Want Blood is fantastic.

Ascendancy is the main album I think (can't be sure).

Also, fuck Lars Ulrich. Metal was built on trading duped cassettes. His band became famous from it. #ItShouldHaveBeenLars

[Mudfuzz]

so you are saying like all the kind'a stuff that gets played every day, every fucking day, on every mainstream rock station in north america then?

[casecandy]

so you are saying like all the kind'a stuff that gets played every day, every fucking day, on every mainstream rock station in north america then?

Don't make assumptions about what plays on the radio "in North America." Canada has CanCon (Canadian content) laws that mandate certain things.

All radio stations must play a bare minimum of 35% Canadian content (i.e. according to the MAPL system, Music, Artist, Performance, Lyrics), and that's a bare minimum, like flare on Office Space (if you get the reference you know exactly what I mean LOL). Furthermore, on college radio, no more than 10% of the music can be music that's charted... on any non-college chart... ever.

Because there were relatively few Canadian hip-hop artists until recently, I'd argue that these laws really curtailed urban radio in our country. The rock stations do play American Idiot-era Green Day for sure, but are way heavier on Canadian bands: Trooper (only good if you're nostalgic for them), April Wine (actually good), Nickelback (awful), Avril Lavigne (awful), Finger 11 (awful), Billy Talent (excellent), Alexisonfire (also excellent), etc.

In Quebec, where I live, American music is even further sidelined by French content laws wherein all stations must play 55% French-language music during the day, and French-language stations (i.e. the majority of the stations), 65%. Not much French-language music coming straight outta Compton. I do love me some Cœur de pirate, though...

I'm 29 and I've never heard Slipknot or 2Pac on the radio.

LOL I didn't mean to body you or anything, just educating

[Mudfuzz]

so you are saying like all the kind'a stuff that gets played every day, every fucking day, on every mainstream rock station in north america then?

Don't make assumptions about what plays on the radio "in North America." Canada has CanCon (Canadian content) laws that mandate certain things.

All radio stations must play a bare minimum of 35% Canadian content (i.e. according to the MAPL system, Music, Artist, Performance, Lyrics), and that's a bare minimum, like flare on Office Space (if you get the reference you know exactly what I mean LOL). Furthermore, on college radio, no more than 10% of the music can be music that's charted... on any non-college chart... ever.

Because there were relatively few Canadian hip-hop artists until recently, I'd argue that these laws really curtailed urban radio in our country. The rock stations do play American Idiot-era Green Day for sure, but are way heavier on Canadian bands: Trooper (only good if you're nostalgic for them), April Wine (actually good), Nickelback (awful), Avril Lavigne (awful), Finger 11 (awful), Billy Talent (excellent), Alexisonfire (also excellent), etc.

In Quebec, where I live, American music is even further sidelined by French content laws wherein all stations must play 55% French-language music during the day, and French-language stations (i.e. the majority of the stations), 65%. Not much French-language music coming straight outta Compton. I do love me some Cœur de pirate, though...

I'm 29 and I've never heard Slipknot or 2Pac on the radio.

LOL I didn't mean to body you or anything, just educating

now that I think about it I actually know most of that, still, I knid'a figure to a point radio can cross borders considering how it works even you you people insist on playing your own unlistenable crap instead of our unlistenable crap [do you have any idea how much fucking Nickelback gets fucking played here?] they same way we do with Mexican radio

[casecandy]

It's funny... while I loathe Nickelback, I'm proud that a Canadian band conquered 'Murrica so comprehensively.

Meanwhile Billy Talent lived out the entire peak decade of their career in complete American anonymity.

You want original chord voicings, check out Billy Talent. Ian D'Sa never played a boring power chord in his life.

[D.o.S.]

Anyone who watches Nardwuar knows about Canadian content laws.

Also another hilarious bit of casecandy's unintentional racism:

Because there were relatively few Canadian hip-hop artists until recently, I'd argue that these laws really curtailed urban radio in our country.

Just curious: If you get cut, do you bleed Wonderbread?

[Mudfuzz]

It's funny... while I loathe Nickelback, I'm proud that a Canadian band conquered 'Murrica so comprehensively.

that's like say I'm proud of W cuz he won the war with Iraq…. musically speaking

[PeteeBee]

Kids are weird. I mentor some high school guys and they are obsessed with Lincoln park. They're always going on about how great his screams are, so I brought them to a house show of my friends band that is super awesome and pretty heavy. They were bummed! They just kept saying it isn't very good because there aren't very many people there. Teenage logic is the worst logic.

[casecandy]

It's funny... while I loathe Nickelback, I'm proud that a Canadian band conquered 'Murrica so comprehensively.

that's like say I'm proud of W cuz he won the war with Iraq…. musically speaking

It is exactly like that, yes. Actually this statement haunted me and I've come back to retract it.

How the fuck is "urban radio" racist? Isn't that the format? Examples, Modern Rock, AOR, Classic Rock, Modern Country, Top 40, Urban...?

No urban radio, just country and pop beats

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3v04Lb7bYI[/youtube]

[lordgalvar]

Why can't radio just be radio? Why draw lines, man? It's all just advertising via wavelength.

[D.o.S.]

How the fuck is "urban radio" racist? Isn't that the format? Examples, Modern Rock, AOR, Classic Rock, Modern Country, Top 40, Urban...?

you're joking, right?

If not, and you're just clueless, reread your example list:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueZ6tvqhk8U[/youtube]

And, also:
http://act.maydaygroup.org/articles/Gaz ... ez10_1.pdf

The term “urban contemporary music” was first coined by New York radio DJ Frankie Crocker in the late 1970s, in an attempt to attract more advertisers and maintain the rating of the very successful New York radio station, WBLS (Barlow 1999, Simpson 2005, Sterling & Keith 2008, Williams 1995, 2000). Crocker, who began his career as a “black power” radio DJ, became program director of WBLS in 1972, and established it as the premiere “Total Black Experience in Sound” radio station. According to black-radio historian William Barlow (1999), the success of the all-black music format “brought in advertising billings, but it also spawned imitators.”

They call it urban contemporary so they don’t have to call it black,” explained the once famed R&B radio DJ Georgie Woods: “they change the name from black radio to urban contemporary so that it will attract a lot of white people, so that it can make a lot of money”

https://books.google.com/books?id=PaeuL ... 22&f=false
http://repository.asu.edu/attachments/1 ... _14732.pdf

etc, etc.
Like, I get that Canada is an idyllic white paradise where your most famous rappers are two white guys (Snow and Drake) but are you really that tone deaf?

[D.o.S.]

Just curious: If you get cut, do you bleed Wonderbread?

The answer, it would appear, is "yes."

[Iommic Pope]

Fuck Drake sucks.
Carry on.

[D.o.S.]

LOL I didn't mean to body you or anything, just educating