Finally watched a few. Seems like a nice dude, but of limited interest to me.

An interesting video just posted in the past day or so..

That Beinhorn interview was better than expected. His other content is pretty boring, but he tends to give good interviews.

jfv wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 8:12 am An interesting video just posted in the past day or so..

my kids have no idea what it was like. the telecomms act changed everything, then napster accelerated it. local radio just died overnight. i remember clinton's communications director got on 99.1 whfs and picked the music one morning. (it was george stephanopoulos and rem.) 12 years later, it was clear channel. new pearl jam record? let's just give eddie 4 (four) hours of free air time to hang out in a trailer and spin records. (my first exposure to daniel johnston, foo fighters + wesley willis)

rick and jim could have gone on for hours, appreciate the edits.

There are plenty of nits to pick in their arguments. One the one hand, it’s definitely true (and gross) that the Telecommunications Act led to the consolidation and homogenization of radio. But later, they lament that contemporary pop stars don’t reach the level of universal familiarity that The Beatles did. But The Beatles attained that, at least in part, because of consolidation and homogenization: your TV only got a few channels, and one of them aired Ed Sullivan.

Having said that, the radio before the Telecom Act was unquestionably more diverse and interesting that it’s been ever since. The local classic rock stations in Seattle occasionally tossed on Elvis Costello; good friends from Maryland would tell me how, because of local radio, Crack the Sky were as popular out there as Kenny Loggins or Dire Straits or whoever. (Those friends were also tickled when Crack the Sky popped up in the background on the HBO show We Own This City—a Baltimore Easter egg.)

And I’ll also not-crap this episode for basically being The Problem with Music for the millions of people who didn’t read that one issue of The Baffler in the 90s.

Overall, his show still isn’t for me, though, so I’m abstaining from voting.

I know Pat Finnerty started it, but people invoking Rick Beato at the slightest mention of music theory may be getting out of hand. Rick Beato doesn't own the concept of calling chords by their names.

Anthony Flack wrote: Thu Jan 11, 2024 11:23 pm I know Pat Finnerty started it, but people invoking Rick Beato at the slightest mention of music theory may be getting out of hand. Rick Beato doesn't own the concept of calling chords by their names.

Finnerty made a whole-ass video about looking for the person who yelled "BEATO" at one of his gigs

Beato's talks like one of those guys who thinks punk went from CBGBs to Nirvana with nothing in between. Plus I seem to recall he goes on a lot about why Nu Metal should have been bigger. Either one makes him a pass for me.

Nu Metal was far, far bigger than it ever should have been.

Only tangentially related, but I reaally hated that idiotic “drunken stumble” video and the one about Girl From Ipanema.