Whatever happened to Jakob Dylan

[bloodyjack]

Remember? The singer of the Wallflowers?

They had a couple of hit singles and then they did that Bowie cover for the Godzilla soundtrack and then they just *disappeared*.

[CanuckAmok]

1. I think the collective will of all music fans made him disappear.

Man, they stank up the joint!

[bloodyjack]

3. he had the dubious honor of being loved by the girls in my junior high

anyway, why the heck did they cover 'Heroes' for a Godzilla soundtrack of all things?

[CanuckAmok]

5. And why the crappy remake of Godzilla, for that matter?!

I remember the Wallflowers before that big stupid Headligh hit they had. They had already been promoted by a major a few years previous, and nobdy bit.

I guiess it proves that if your old man is connected enough, his friends in management will keep pushing you on the public until it works.

Same can be said for that band with John Casablancas' kid in it...the Strokes.

[bloodyjack]

6. But nearly EVERYONE gobbled up the Strokes for some reason

or critics w/ some clout kept peddling them as THE SAVIORS OF ROCK but their songs were so trite and uninteresting

Still, if I could get on the cover of every greasy stinking glossy in the country by serving up a poor imitation of the Velvet Underground then I probably would.

You know, to score w/ all those nubile young Bernice-Bobs-Her-Hair art major chixxx :smoke:

[CanuckAmok]

8. hey, as long as they popularise the bob-cut.

I love it.

Anyway, here's why things get popular on the radio: repetition.

Basically, a station (or consultants, these days) play something untl it catches, because they're completely owned (either overtly or covertly) bu the labels. They invest lots of money in every new single, and they don't like risking their investments un unknown variables sich as "taste" or "quality".

[bloodyjack]

9. I don't think people really expect quality from the radio these days

or they certainly don't look for it on commercial radio.

so what do they do. find decidedly 'average' listeners in decidedly 'average' settings, employ them in focus groups to gauge the general public's response to a given release? I doubt they invest so heavily in a single HERE since the US has a pretty sluggish singles market.

while I don't know how the singles charts work in Canada, people in the UK still DO purchase them whereby the top 40 IS actually indicative of a single's popularity.

EMI's actually been under scrutiny from NY's attorney gen. recently for BUYING playing time on the radio, were you referring to this development when you mentioned the overt/covert ownership of radio stations?

[CanuckAmok]

10. Yes, but...not specifically...

I was talking about Payola, in all it's incarnations, which is only 5 seconds younger than the medium of radio itself.

I had a friend in commercial radio who summed it up like this:

"Commercial programming is all about bridging the gap between advertisements as unobtrusively as possible; it's not about entertainment, it's about being non-challenging."

[HEyHEY]

13. Or at least the collective will of two British COlumbians

Fucking crap music... I've broken better tunes outta my ass

[Kire]

2. new album next year

I saw it in the Rolling Stone just today

[bloodyjack]

4. oh, happy day

[vinnievin777]

7. who?

who is that?

Vinnie Vin
http://www.vinnievin.com

[getoffmytrain]

11. He bites, like his old man.

[JSJ]

12. isn't he a christian, now?