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The 'royal we' with Rob and Kevin
“Come writers and critics
Who prophesize with your pen
And keep your eyes wide
The chance won’t come again
And don’t speak too soon
For the wheel’s still in spin
And there’s no tellin’ who r
That it’s namin’.
For the loser now
Will be later to win
For the times they are a-changin’.”
- Kevin thinks he quotes this song too of
ten in hifcolumns. Rob agrees. Neverthe
less, we both agree that time continues to
prove Bob'Dylan’s words correct. This song
spoke true for the ‘60s, and it does today.
The other day, Kevin received a letter
front Rolling Slone asking him to help choose
its next issue’s cover. We’ll be honest
, when we say its past few covers have been
dreadful. Kevin almost took the opportu
nity to click on the link and give the maga
zine ltis input. Before he did, he realized that
his ideas would differ so vastly from the pop
ular opinion that it would easily :ind quick
ly get ignored. 1 his bothers hint, because he knows
Lou Reed will probably not bring dignity to the same
cover that has recently been shared by Carlos Santana
(Lazarus in the flesh), N’ Sync and the Backstreet Boys.
While Reed’s new album is at near-masterpiece status
with us, the vast majority has overlooked this rock leg
end and his latest offering to the genre. It would have
been nice, though.
If you’ve read this column as religiously as we have
written it, you’ll quickly realize that we’ve become
disengaged and disenchanted with today’s popular cul
ture. Frankly, we think it sucks. We're tired of all the
cookie-cutter teen romances the movie studios are
funding these days. We’re fed up with all the lame pop
music that contaminates the radio airwaves. We can’t
ride in the car for more than 10 minutes without
flipping the stations around, looking for the perfect
song, the one that seems to elude all the local stations.
It’s an unnerving process, and we’re bored with it.
But who is to blame? Is it the people who care
nothing about artistic integrity when they assemble
the perfect boy band? Is it the record label that thinks
omy oi money wnen n signs me gooci-iooxing,
teen pop diva rather than a cutting-edge rock
group? Or is it the venue that would rather
have 12 terrible local bands darken its door be
fore bringing in a talented and under-appreci
ated national act? These people might very
well be the source of our misery, but they aren’t
to blame for the state that we are in.
We have recently come to the realization
that this stuff happens all the time. It has al
ways happened, and it will continue to happen
as long as music and movies exist. For a short
period of time, when we were younger, we
were in sync (no pun intended) with the pop
ular culture. We knew what the Top 10 songs
of the day were. We liked what we heard on
the radio. Hell, we even watched MTV for the
videos. But that time has come and gone. We
have grown up, and our opinion just doesn’t
mesh with that of the majority. So are we supposed
to stand alone and demand that Guided By Voices get
air play on 93.5? No. That’s absurd. People would nev
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Kevin
Dave
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Rob
WUSC-FM spring 2000 schedule
Time slot Monday
12-2 a.m. Tug, with
Occasional Music
2-4 a.m. N’se
4-6 a.m. Nirav
6-8 a.m. Christi
8-10 a.m. Peter A.
10-noon Jim Village O’
Variety
12-2 p.m. Trent
2-4 p.m. Niffer
4-6 p.m. The
Wasteland
6-8 p.m. Breakneck
Punk Rock
8-10 p.m. Radio Riot
Hardcore
10-midnight HARDTIME
LoudRock
TUESDAY
Audio
Assault
Mandy
Casey
McKeever
Anthony
Pistiili
Ken
Kevin
Heard It
Auditory
Stimulation
The Girl
Show
Marquee
Music
Blues Moon
w/ DeLune
Big Band
Show
The
Connection
WEDNESDAY
Imperial
Theater
Audio XTC
John Elliott
The Morning
After
Jennifer L.
Schitzophren
Surplus
Supertwins
Action Hour
Spin Cycle
Richard H.
The
Revolution
Revolution/
Wed. Shag
Wedv Shag
THURSDAY
Midnight
Hangover
Will Cathcart
Scott Cunn
Morning Musi
Invasion
DJ McClaine
c Jason P.
Justin
DJ Smiley
Russ B.
Afterlight
Free Format
Nonstop
Hip-Hop
FRIDAY
Nonstop
Hip-Hop
Louis St.
Jacques
Derik Brenner
; Tony H.
Mitch
Morning Meat
The
Catacombs
Afternoons
with JMAC
!©$?...
TGIF
Ska
armageddon
La Voz
Latina
Locals
Only
SATURDAY
Andy’s
Onslaught
Jen & Dawn
Campbell
Campbell
Red Bank
Bar & Grill
Red Bank
Bar & Grill
Nate the
Great
Ghetto
Hymns
Easy
Skanking
Nick &
CK
Textures
Dark
Entries
SUNDAY
Dave Wood
Campbell
Campbell
Mandy M.
Stacia
Sunday Morn.
Excursions
Lone
Gunman
Radio
Clash
Radio
Inferno
Electric
Podium
Digital Dis
tribution
* Dead Cow
Show
wusc
top 30
1. Beachwood Sparks - S/T
2. Cat Power- The Covers Album
3. At-The Virgin Suicides
4. Marsh - Kids in Philly
5. The For Carnation - S/T
6. YoLa Tengo - And Nothing Turned
Itself Inside Out
7. Mekons - Journey Through the Night
8. Thunderball - Ambassadors of Style
9. Death CabForCutie - We Have the
Facts and We Are Voting Yes
10. Verna Canon - Movie Star Faces
11. Apples in Stereo - The Discover of
a World Inside the Moone
12. Lou Reed-Ecstasy
13. Tin Hat Trio - Helium
14. LTJBukem - Journey Inwards
15. Swag - Different Girls EP
16. Apples In Stereo - Look Away EP
17. Galactic - Late For the Future
18. Rinoceros - Installation Sonore
19. Gary Lucas - Improve the Shining
Hour
20. Delta 72-000
21. Guided By Voices - Hold on
HopeEP
22. Dinosaur Jr. - The BBC Sessions
23. The Moles - Untune the Sky
24. Patti Smith - Gung Ho
25. Empire State-S/T
26. Little Red Rocket -It’s in the Sound
27. Causey Way - Testimony
28. Summer Hymns - Voice Brother
and Sister
29. Elf Power - Come On EP
30. Ryucbi Sakamoto - BTTB
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