Oh Sh*t. It's Even Worse Than We Thought.

I am going on tour with The Darkness this year in the USA, Europe & UK! You can check out the dates and get tickets here: www.thedarknesslive.com/tour-dates/

The real question is, why is there a bent fork around the top of the mic? 😅

I had some construction workers working at my apartment complex last week. They were listening to Santana. It was awesome.

I used to work on construction sites during covid. Not wanting to listen to the radio, I have tried multiple times to put on some half-decent music on my speaker, trying to accommodate what everyone else on site would want to listen to. We ended up putting on the radio every single time, because people's music tastes were so widely different that no consensus could be found on even one song, let alone a whole album or playlist. In the end, I found myself humming along to shallow pop songs while bricklaying, listening to easily digestible melodies, singing along to lukewarm lyrics while working the physically hardest I have ever had. Haven't listened to the radio much since.

Speaking to the originality of your theme music, I absolutely love the fact that you play it live every single video, and don't just roll a clip. I don't know of anybody else who does that, and it's awesome.

Fascinating stuff. I've always been struck by that Zappa interview where he talked about those old-school, 'cigar-chompin'' record industry types being more open to unconventional music than the young 'hip' execs that run things now. Let's get more 'out of touch' old guys (me!) in the industry today!

Rick Beato's excellent occasional series 'checking out the top 10' is eye opening in how similar modern music is. I think the top 10 pop chartvhe did had 4 songs with the same chords, 3 with the same vocoder effect, 5 with the same drum loop and only 1 that he went 'oh, that's interesting'

This is why I appreciate the fact that reactors are introducing new generations to older music (and why I appreciate all the music my older brother introduced me to).

This is exactly why I love King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard. They do everything themselves. They play what they want, release what they want and don’t have to answer to label executives.

I’m so happy to hear this. I thought that it was just me and I was turning into an old fart that goes around saying ‘music was better in my day’ as my parents and elders said to me when I was young. I can now feel less old and more that I just have a discerning ear 😂

In the last five years the music industry could have saved themselves so much time by simply releasing one fast song and one slow song and just putting everyone’s name on those two.

Hello Justin! I've been following you for a few months now and you're amazing! Love the channel too! First time I've heard heard your song "Love is only a feeling" and it is incredible!!! Me and my guitarist friend had to play it multiple times in a row! Killer solo too! Such an original! Sending good vibes from the Philippines!!!! Rock on!!!

30 years old and I've never chosen the music I listen to from what's on the radio, I've always taken the time to discover artists/bands I like for myself

Anybody with ears to hear has noticed this sameness trend in big label pop music and mainstream radio since around the turn of the century. This is why (well, along with the unlistenable use of compression and autotuning) I long since quit listening to radio almost altogether, except for the indie station in my area on occasion. I find my new music through Spotify suggestions based of my playlists and YouTube -- including you, Justin. You gave me Ren, who is the most significant musical discovery for me in decades.

My 10 year old Daughter is obsessed with 80s music (I’m a 51 year old Dad) and I’m so proud. 😀

Boredom with pop, and a period of unemployment, gave me time to delve deeply into classical (which I've always loved). By 2017, I was ready to dive into opera. By lockdown 2020, I was enthralled with opera, and collecting various productions of the same opera. It's an embrace I'll never completely leave. I'm nearly ready to deep dive into Wagner, and I hope, one day, to visit the Bayreuth Festival to hear the complete Ring Cycle. After a constant six years of exploring this genre, I still have no idea who my absolute favorite composers or singers are! I stopped listening to radio in 2000.

My husband and I are huge music heads, and we raised my son listening to 70's, 80's, and 90's music. He's 19 and in college now, and into vinyl, and has collected a vast amount of records from Hall & Oates Greatest Hits to heavy metal bands like Metallica and Megadeath, and even some Crosby Stills and Nash. We're super proud of him. We don't listen to anything on the radio either. Its crap.

It's a parallel to what has happened in the movie industry - endless reboots, sequels, etc. All the independent movie and music studios have been bought out by Disney, Warner, Universal, Sony - those companies just want more of the same.. until everything becomes so bland and uninteresting

Man you are such a fun presenter. Im so pleased i found your show

How do we not get depressed about this? I was a teen in the 90s and spent many a happy hour in the record shop looking for new music. There just isn’t that variety today. Luckily, I come from a musical family, so I make a point of exposing my kids to as many different genres as I can. My seven-year-old’s favourite song is Edge of Seventeen! But I worry about everyone else, and the future of music 😢