A friend of mine recently turned me on to an online radio station called Pandora. How it works is, you select a band or song you like, and it finds similar music. I started my own Pandora station spanning the wide range of my musical tastes from neo soul to mod. For the most part, Pandora plays things pretty close to what I like, even introducing me to bands I've never heard of before. So today I'm sitting at work, listening to Pandora, a long string of music I enjoy streaming along, and, for whatever reason, Pandora decides to play Dave Mathews. So here's the deal. I hate Dave Matthews. I know they say Hate is a strong word, but I really do despise Dave Matthews, and furthermore, jam bands.
I'm not sure exactly why I hate jam bands so much, but after thinking about it, I've came up with a few theories.
1: I'm a touch ADD (when it comes to entertainment, anyway). I'll take a short story over a long novel, I prefer music videos to movies, and I like bands like the Ramones and the Strokes--bands that get to the point, and have no need to go on long instrumental solos.
2: I don't smoke weed. I think the slowed-down condition involved with smoking pot is necessary for listening to jam bands.
3: I don't smoke weed mostly because I'm annoyed by the culture that goes along with prolonged pot use. I can't stand the smell of patuli. I'm annoyed by the spaced-out stares of stoners; I don't like to just sit around and talk about the universe; besides reading my horoscope in the Stranger, I could care less about astrology; I hate hackeysack; and I can't stand jam bands.
So is it the stoner or the jam band I'm annoyed with? What does this mean? What does this say about me as a person? I have no idea, and frankly I don't care. All I know is, if there's a Dave Matthews CD playing, I'm gone.
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Niiiiiiiiice!
BTW...I have pandora playing right now. Funny, they have NEVER offered DM to me. What are you doing wrong???
First of all let me start off by saying; you're right.
Jam bands blow. Unless you are stoned. As a former heavy user of the cannibus, I can say that when stoned that form of music takes on a life of it's own and that it caters to stoner's ear. That's not why I am writing this comment however.
Why I am writing this comment is because Pandora sucks. You were right when you said that it helps you discover new bands but where/when it begins to suck, no matter how many of your favorite bands you add to the mix,Pandora will always add in it's own "picks" of shit that you will definitely hate. Mine happen to be Maximo Park,Snow Patrol, Death Cab for Cutie (I know I said I liked them but that was a lie) and Dashboard Confessional.
What I am trying to say is that the way Pandora is allowed to remain "free" is because regardless of what bands you choose to put in to the queue, you will eventually have to sit through some DMB song or My Chemical Romance track, just so that you might be able to get to something you want to listen to.
Fuck Pandora, dude. KEXP is still free and sucks a whole lot less.
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