Comments on: An Avalanche Of A-List Rock Debuts, Topped By The Freakin’ Offspring http://idolator.com/392674/an-avalanche-of-a-list-rock-debuts-topped-by-the-freakin-offspring Music News, Reviews, and Gossip on Idolator.com Sat, 26 May 2012 17:41:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/392674/an-avalanche-of-a-list-rock-debuts-topped-by-the-freakin-offspring/comment-page-1#comment-583602 Anonymous Thu, 22 May 2008 11:28:19 +0000 http://b456339005d886312d601ed243fba40e#comment-583602 <p>All opinions are different. But i'm sure if GREEN DAY was at number one this critic would be kissing their ass just like every other mainstream critic does.</p> All opinions are different. But i’m sure if GREEN DAY was at number one this critic would be kissing their ass just like every other mainstream critic does.

]]> By: Anonymous http://idolator.com/392674/an-avalanche-of-a-list-rock-debuts-topped-by-the-freakin-offspring/comment-page-1#comment-583612 Anonymous Thu, 22 May 2008 08:27:58 +0000 http://b456339005d886312d601ed243fba40e#comment-583612 <p>Re: Offspring, their fans don't necessarily mind if the music is sub-par bc the live shows will always just be fun and stupid summer rock. As a general rule, you shouldn't be sober enough at an Offspring concert to remember if it was good or bad, or even what songs were played.</p> <p>Re: Coldplay - Can we all agree that their music is never really bad enough to shit on? As long as you only listen to their albums a couple of times, they shouldn't get on your nerves too badly.</p> <p>Re: NIN - Badass! Bring it!</p> <p>Re: Linkin Park - M2M was arguably the biggest musical letdown ever for me. Ever. Their continuous airplay speaks volumes more about the current state of the modern rock industry than it does about that particular release.</p> <p>Re: Weezer - giving them "one single per album I can stand" could not be more accurate!</p> Re: Offspring, their fans don’t necessarily mind if the music is sub-par bc the live shows will always just be fun and stupid summer rock. As a general rule, you shouldn’t be sober enough at an Offspring concert to remember if it was good or bad, or even what songs were played.

Re: Coldplay – Can we all agree that their music is never really bad enough to shit on? As long as you only listen to their albums a couple of times, they shouldn’t get on your nerves too badly.

Re: NIN – Badass! Bring it!

Re: Linkin Park – M2M was arguably the biggest musical letdown ever for me. Ever. Their continuous airplay speaks volumes more about the current state of the modern rock industry than it does about that particular release.

Re: Weezer – giving them “one single per album I can stand” could not be more accurate!

]]> By: Chris Molanphy http://idolator.com/392674/an-avalanche-of-a-list-rock-debuts-topped-by-the-freakin-offspring/comment-page-1#comment-583622 Chris Molanphy Thu, 22 May 2008 05:49:00 +0000 http://b456339005d886312d601ed243fba40e#comment-583622 <p>I want you to be right about the quicker turnover at Modern Rock, but first we'll have to see how the summer and fall shape up. As I discussed with you in comments on that last column you linked to (the one about "Capital G"), I'm convinced springtime is a lighter airplay period in general, and it's easier for songs to move up and down with relatively lower airplay totals. Fall and winter, in particular, have turned into the battle of the demigods at rock radio, with big singles from massive Christmas releases a la the last Foos record owning the chart, and hence the chart gets bogged down.</p> <p>Still, you might be right - the blog/iTunes effect has to have some impact on modern-rock PDs. Also, I think it's possible the sheer number of rock radio stations is making a gradual comeback after the mass contraction in the first half of this decade; and that would shake up the Modern chart, too: fewer stations often means low playlist variety.</p> <p>(We've talked about this before, too, but: I'm convinced the new listener-measuring devices Arbitron/Nielsen are using will boost the cume for media that appeal to white people, for better and worse, and rock radio's got to be helped by that. I see the recent NYC flip from smooth-jazz to hybrid (classic+modern) rock at 101.9 as the symptom of a trend.)</p> I want you to be right about the quicker turnover at Modern Rock, but first we’ll have to see how the summer and fall shape up. As I discussed with you in comments on that last column you linked to (the one about “Capital G”), I’m convinced springtime is a lighter airplay period in general, and it’s easier for songs to move up and down with relatively lower airplay totals. Fall and winter, in particular, have turned into the battle of the demigods at rock radio, with big singles from massive Christmas releases a la the last Foos record owning the chart, and hence the chart gets bogged down.

Still, you might be right - the blog/iTunes effect has to have some impact on modern-rock PDs. Also, I think it’s possible the sheer number of rock radio stations is making a gradual comeback after the mass contraction in the first half of this decade; and that would shake up the Modern chart, too: fewer stations often means low playlist variety.

(We’ve talked about this before, too, but: I’m convinced the new listener-measuring devices Arbitron/Nielsen are using will boost the cume for media that appeal to white people, for better and worse, and rock radio’s got to be helped by that. I see the recent NYC flip from smooth-jazz to hybrid (classic+modern) rock at 101.9 as the symptom of a trend.)

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