Agh! I can't take it any more! In the past 10 days or so, I've been subjected to the Gorillaz a gajillion times. In a 2 day period alone, I got into my vehicle 5 times for a total of 30 minutes, and I heard Gorillaz 4 times. Then it was played at Wicked coffee shop, at Mt pleasant community centre, then in a shop on Granville.
Just because gorillaz have a "z" doesn't mean that Z95.3 should become "GorillaZ 95 times a day".
I really liked them in earlier this - like I reported in a June blog entry about Europe's music report - but that was soo 6 months ago! Just because they got nominated for some stupid awards (I think its the grannies) doesn't mean it's suddenly time to innundate us.
Next up to be overplayed is probably Sia's Breathe me. I'm now quite tired of that as well (it was a summer fav from the last episode of six feet under), but her album finally hits US stores next tuesday and it's been doing well on indie rock stations. I'm sure the strokes will soon be overplayed too. One can only hope they will move at some point to starsailor, editors, my morning jacket, we are scientists, mystery jets, arctic monkeys, rakes, etc. And we won't even dare ask for a station that would play mellow slighly older stuff like Antigone rising, Imogen heap, raul midon, jason mraz.
I have to say that Vancouver's radio scene is really terrible. There's no place to go for new rock/folk, indie or not. It's either overplayed and late like Z95, late and pop only in "Jack FM", just heavy rock in "CFOX", mostly older stuff in 101, or just a few hours at a time on CBC.
I think that my only hope will be satellite radio, but I haven't looked into that enough yet to see.
XM radio rocks! I love it.
The Strokes will soon be overplayed? Didn't that happen four or five years ago?
One word for you, Dave: podcasts. I recommend Tower of Song, Tartanpodcast, The Roadhouse, The Scene Zine, Coverville, Unsigned Podcast... and a ton of others.
I listen to CBC Radio still, but there's so much good music available to subscribe to there's little point listening to repetitive commercial radio anymore:
http://www.towerofsong.net/
http://www.tartanpodcast.com/
http://www.roadhousepodcast.com/
http://www.thescenezine.com/
http://www.coverville.com/
http://www.unsignedpodcast.com/
Derek, I totally love podcasts, but my car doesn't seem to have a podcast receiver yet :-( It also doesn't have a cassette player any more, so I can't do the mp3player2cassette dongle. And finally, it doesn't have an external connection for an mp3 player.
Interesting, I missed the strokes overplay about 4 years ago. I was going through my "chill-out" phase from 2001 to 2003 which probably explains my lack of exposure..
Dave, try an FM transmitter for an mp3 player. They work surprisingly well, especially in cars.