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Hadriscus@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So greentext is usually used like quotation marks or asterisks to denote roleplaying. Here it’s being used to denote a soundboard like radio DJ’s use.

  The reference is to American classical rock stations that use very aggressive sound bumpers but play very milktoast music, usually the same 40 songs since the 80’s

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  • Gustephan@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I think milquetoast is the word you want; milktoast is phonetically correct but that spelling refers to a breakfast dish.

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    • sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Interesting. Milquetoast. I’ll need to internalize that spelling, thank you

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    • zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Please tell me that “milktoast” isn’t something that people eat.

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• abbotsbury@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  it’s very common for radio personalities to be like “THIS IS THE REAL STATION FOR HARD ALT CLASSICS, KEEP YOUR GRANDMA AWAY!” and then play the same 200 song playlist as every other station because radio has been captured by iHeartMedia and homogenized to hell and back.

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m grateful every day that my rock station is independent, and they still play Black Sabbath and Tool and whatnot. It’s still pretty repetitive, but that’s because there’s not a ton of new rock music.

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    • vala@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There is an absolutely insane amount of new rock music. More rock music is being made today than ever before in the history of music.

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Idk, the rock music I find is either:

        • from >10 years ago - several decent bands from 2000-2015
        • based in Europe so I never hear about them (I’m in the US)
        • country or country-adjacent - I hate country music, but I love rock of all other forms
        • small band that’s incredibly hard to find

        I just don’t know how to find decent new rock music these days.

        That said, there are a few decent ones I’ve found recently:

        • Volbeat - kinda sounds like Metallica
        • H.E.A.T. - kinda like Iron Maiden?
        • Ghost - kinda like Judas Priest?

        All of those are from Europe (hard for me to find) and were formed in the 2000s. At least Volbeat makes it to my local radio station, which is cool.

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    • Pacattack57@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Im grateful that Tool finally gave in to public pressure and allowed their music to be streamed. When ITunes first came out and other streaming platforms became a thing. Tool refused to let their music be streamed because they wanted to “preserve the album experience”. It wasn’t until 2019 that you could find Tool on Spotify.

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      • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Do they not realise you can stream an album?

        I think the only functioning CD player I have is in my car. Assuming it works, I’ve never actually used it.

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  • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    iHeartMedia plays artists that they own, either record contract or catalogue.

    When I lived in the UK my local gym always had the same shitty radio station on and I was like “Why do they keep playing these artists? I almost never heard them on BBC” and it turned out to be because the owners of the radio station also owned those artists. Vertical integration baby!

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