sunybuny wrote: 

 buddy wrote: 
Explore other internet streams? I have, buddy superstar! I was just adding my voice to the Chorus of Gripe. I guess you were too. 

Sigh.  Fussy, fussy. 

Luckily, digital technology comes to the rescue of American prissy individualism by making multiple streams available.   RP ain't 'Left Coast'.  RP is catering to and furthering the boundaries of possessive individualism.   Uber capitalist.  

I vote for a single stream.    

 ScottFromWyoming wrote: 

Should have added "Or Radiohead. Or Thom Yorke. Or Radiohead." 


If familiarity breeds contempt, it's breeding like rabbits with Radiohead on RP. 

 gui1ty wrote:I too have issues with that murderous bastard Bono...He announces that every time he claps his hands a young child dies in Africa...Why for all that is holy does he continue to clap his hands?

The very best English Canadian folk artist I have seen in concert was Bruce Cockburn.   Acoustical in London, Ontario in the mid-70s — you could hear a pin drop between notes — and in Quebec City in the mid-1980s when he was electric.   Nothing boring about those concerts especially the Quebec City concert as he was raging against the American war machine in Central America. 

For Quebec folk artists, it was undoubtedly Michel Rivard whose stage presence and sense of humour were off the charts.  

 westslope wrote:
 
Yeah there were quite a few (Neil, Joni, The Band, Randy Bachman, etc.).  Old Gordo was popular in the States in the '70s and had quite a few hits, but likely not as many as he did in Canada.  I like a lot of his songs.  Apparently he had a big following in the Great Lakes states, especially Michigan.  A friend of mine who grew up in Newmarket was a big fan, but he said he fell asleep during one of Lightfoot's shows in Toronto.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 
LOL!   Hilarious.  

See gui1ty?    Imagine the 'slippery slope' this move to censure risks imposing on us.

 islander wrote:
 

Absolutely.   I saw Chilliwack at the Winter Pop concert in Toronto in 1971.  Johnny Winter, James Gang and Sha Na Na.  Chilliwack was the least interesting of the bunch.   

Oddly enough, the Canadian content requirements may explain in part why  English Canadian artists have done so well in the US market.  

 gui1ty wrote:
 
Fair enough.   But perhaps instead of lobbying Radio Paradise to drop U2, you should try exhorting RP listeners to not buy U2 music.    Nothing wrong with promoting a little awareness.

I do not particularly like Bono's righteous politics and I disagree with much of Roger Water's finger-pointing, exclusionist politics,  to name another example, but forget about asking me and others to stop listening to these artists.  

My favourite Magic Realist author was a Marxist.  I get angry thinking about the the colossal damage that Neo-Marxist regimes have inflicted upon South American and African countries and millions of poor people but do not expect me to shut out artists and fiction writers based on their politics.  

In the background here, there is a growing reactionary movement on North American campuses to shut down folks with whom some students  do not agree.  On an emotional level, that movement evokes fascism.  

 westslope wrote:
 

Yeah, I think that has more to do with canadian broadcast licenses requiring a certain percentage of air time going to canadian artists. It's not like there is really that much demand to hear chilliwhack. 

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 

*cough* Deceberists *cough* (and maybe Tori Amos again). 

 Proclivities wrote:
 
Given an interview or two he gave to female journalists way back in the day, by current standards he would described as arrogant, egotistical and possibly misogynist.   

Once upon at time, it was hard to listen to English Canadian radio for more than a couple hours without hearing at least one Lightfoot tune.    So I certainly understand the 'big head' he may have shouldered.  

 buddy wrote:
 

 BillG wrote:
 

Just in case this list you're compiling ever gets implemented, I made a couple of edits.

 buddy wrote:

I'm not asking RP to adopt my morals. As I mentioned in my opening post, I was bit annoyed that U2 is so overly prominent on RP, especially on the rocking channel. It's a bit out of balance, if you ask me. I probably started noticing more, since I've taken a grudge against them.

As for the options you mentioned, they all apply except for boycotting RP. That would be unfair on RP and an act of masochism on myself.

I downrated all U2 songs as they came along just before hitting SKIP. I guess that one song has not been played since while I was listening. Seeing, that I've already downrated most U2 songs, kinda confirms the fact that U2 is played way to often on RP.

@BillG, does the offline listening feature in the app, take ratings into consideration at all? I guess not. Almost every cache block I download, has one U2 song in it. Although, this could also be a matter of perception, rather than truth.

Oh, come on.  That was 60 years ago.  Let it go!  

:) 

 BillG wrote:
 
Nice, the Dead didn't make the list! 

 BillG wrote:

BillG, you are taking it much broader. That's not fair. I don't mind misfits, drug (ab)users, ill speakers, etc. That's all a matter of life style and mostly concerns the person in question. I'm no angel myself.

However, U2 being one of the biggest bands in popular music history, having accumulated extraordinary amounts of money over the past decades, should have no problem paying their due share whatsoever. That tax money goes to the government, who takes care of common expenses for the greater good of all of us. In part it even goes to charity. Charity, that U2, and Bono in particular, promote all over the world. They probably even spent money of their own on charity for all I know. But it all starts with paying your due (tax) share. It's what created U2, made them possible, in the first place.

 
I wasn't asking RP to stop playing U2 entirely. I know that would be too much to ask. Just reduce it. Make them less prominent on RP.
For every U2 song you play, you have to pay royalties to U2, right? That money is better spent on other artists, in my opinion. For a very small, dare I say, tiny amount, that's my money.

It's all a question of putting your money where your mouth is. Which is what I'm willing to do. My money goes to RP for all the good music you play and all the memorable moments I had listening. Please, forward less of it to U2.

 JrzyTmata wrote:
 
Oh, *definitely* no cowbell!