“A quintet of ‘podheads’ in Oklahoma has struck cyber-gold on the Internet with a rock-and-roll song that celebrates podcasts and denigrates terrestrial radio. “On a Podcast” is a light-hearted and profane anthem praising the freedom that artists have to create and distribute their own music over the Net and through file downloads,” Frank Barnako reports for MarketWatch. “‘I just got introduced to podcasts a month ago,’ said Greg St. Clare, writer of the song and producer of the band known as Cruisebox. ‘When I discovered it, my head freaking exploded because now the gatekeepers, the big radio conglomerates, are out of the way, and artists can take their creative products directly to the listeners.'”
“St. Clare’s been playing music for about 25 years. Based in Oklahoma City, he and partner Chris Hicks, the band’s lead guitarist, operate a recording studio business. St. Clare’s background includes work with advertising agencies where he’s written radio jingles, giving ‘On a Podcast’ a familiar Top-40 commercial sound,” Barnako reports. Full article here.
From Cruisebox’s website: That Podcast Song.com is the online home of the band Cruisebox and our forthcoming CD: Tell The FCC To Stick It. Like other musicians and music lovers worldwide, we think podcasting freakin’ rocks.
Direct link to “On A Podcast” song (.mp3) [Explicit version] – here.
Direct link to “On A Podcast” song (.mp3) [Clean version] – here.
More info, lyrics, and links to other versions of “On a Podcast” here.
You know I just though of something to add. Does anyone think it’s weird that it is frowned upon to call someone retarded (a once fairly common word), but the word b*tch is used regularly now on TV? What the (insert your own word here)?
Hg Wells,
Ever try to teach a pig to sing?
I hear you. And I know where you’re coming from. Common decency has gone the way of the fedora. Freedom of expression has come to mean “no rules” and “anything goes.” Titillation, competativeness, aggression. These are today’s values.
I’m no prude, and I’ve certainly been around the block a few times, but I strive to maintain for myself a high level of appropriateness, respect, and dignity — ideals that are less valued today than were even 10 and certainly 20 years ago.
bob said: “Standards have evolved . . . “
Standards don’t typically evolve. Standards are static, a basic principle of “standards.” In the context of societal standards, when they begin to unravel, it is a sign that society itself is unraveling. Societal standards must be consciously maintained — it is not a self-piloted machine.
bob: “Yes, but more and more certain words are becoming more acceptable. Everytime I turn on the TV I am surprised at what they get away with now. Standards have evolved and we as people can chose to accept it or not.”
Bob, you, yourself, are surprised by the increasinly acceptable vocabulary that seems to concern even you. Clearly, your own standards are such that you would PREFER that they did not accept the things they seem to now “get away with.” Good standards are obviously still part of you. People only “get away with” something if the rest of us allow it. Here, we are told that we should allow everything, that, if we don’t, something is clearly wrong with us. I don’t accept that. It sounds to me from what you are saying, bob, as though you may not either.
By changing one word in what you say, we reach full agreement: “…we as SOCIETY can choose to accept it or not.” I would suggest that, as a society, as a people, we come back together and oppose what we all see happening, and know should not be. We can choose, as you have said we can do, to NOT accept it.
Bob, you say that sometimes “…there is just no other way!” and that expletives must be used. Is this “anthem” one of those times? Other than losing control over yourself, losing your temper, I wonder when it is that you feel expletives MUST be used, that there is no other word available, that there is no other way?
Justified: “I strive to maintain for myself a high level of appropriateness, respect, and dignity — ideals that are less valued today than were even 10 and certainly 20 years ago.”
Thank you for saying that. You take a position of respect for yourself. Now, the question is whether there are more of us who hold to those ideals (even if we don’t always meet them), then there are those who would see them thrown to the ground and lost forever.
Justified, you say that you are “no prude.” Perhaps that shouldn’t be such a derogatory word any more. Nor have I been either. I spent some years enlisted in the U.S. Army and several more as an officer in the U.S. Navy. (I am not in the military now.) I can assure the most crass posters on this page that I could cuss them under the table with language few would hear again. But, I never accepted such language as appropriate in society. I know both sides of this issue – and the side supporting language of any sort at any time, at any place raising the false defense of freedom is simply wrong. With freedom comes responsibility or it is not true freedom.
I do strongly object to restrictions on our freedom of speech that is now two steps down the road to conditions that existed during and prior to WWII in Stalinist Russia and under the Third Reich. This includes being hustled away and interogated for “inappropriate language” at airports and other restrictions brought about by the Patriot Act and similar laws. It includes children turning their parents in at schools even when no so-called “crime” has been committed. This, too, was as we saw during earlier European history. But, obscenities do not fall into this category. Their use does not support freedom (even though “freedom” may protect it). Instead, their use flushes away the “respect and dignity” we should all have for each other and teach to our children.
Justified: “Standards don’t typically evolve. Standards are static, a basic principle of “standards.” In the context of societal standards, when they begin to unravel, it is a sign that society itself is unraveling. Societal standards must be consciously maintained — it is not a self-piloted machine.”
Well put, Justified. Many societies have fallen following an acceptance of anything its members chose to do, usually the same sort of things we are “accepting” today. The Roman Empire is perhaps most well known, but there have been many others.
I am choosing here, as you are, I hope, to CONSCIOUSLY maintain societal standards that we know we need for a strong society. We cannot do that by remaining quiet when we should be speaking up. Here, we do that.
Nicely put, Justified.
Hg,
Thanks.
Note that if “Many societies have fallen following an acceptance of anything its members chose to do . . . ” then, logically, its members chose to allow those societies to fall. Are we next?
Justified,
A society’s members do not know the outcome of their choices. It is only in hindsight that we can often identify the things that caused a fall. People do not believe that these single individual choices can have societal impact. Nor would most appear to care even if they did.
Whether we are “next” is a question that has been on the table for many years now. Like global warming, it is probably best that we err on the side of protecting what we can of society, rather than ignoring what seem to many as mere expressions of “freedom” and letting it go the way it is clearly going.
Hg,
There are many conversations to be spawned by these concepts. Such as an eastern philosophy that suggests that each and every action, no matter how large or small, has a ripple affect across the world and back — and beyond.
But, I won’t go further into it as this is a Mac/iPod forum.
Cheers!
Well, you guys have a great time talking to one another. I have to go, this room is starting to smell.
Well, I hadn’t meant to go that far!
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I thought it started related to the subject. Sometimes I do get just a little long-winded.
I’ll be quiet now. Maybe the smell will disipate so bob will be able to breathe again!
Time to get a life! Have a good weekend people!
MW: pool
BO-RING!!!
There is a little problem with saying that standards are “static”. That being that nothing (nothing at all, even the big, huge cosmic sense) is static, least of human cultures and societies. Because people change at alarming rates. People who fought for free music and free love in their younger days, now fight to censor music that has gotten out of control. Obviously something in them has undergone a radical change (a friend says owning a house is a sure way to turn a liberal into a conservative).
With the rate that people change at, is it any wonder that “standards” have changed, or loosened? Standards themselves are just a minority’s way of enforcing their status quo on the majority. (By minority I mean rich people with “delicate morals”, like the wives of rich men for example; most of our currently degrading standards were put in place by women who said things like “well, I NEVER!” {they probably hadn’t, or at least they didn’t enjoy it if they did}, and “quite proper”. Ladies they called them.)
Lets not forget that standards are merely a form of censorship. A way for the above described people to avoid any “unpleasantness” in their lives, or to possibly stop the people who were having too much fun from having so much fun, for “their own good”. By making such censorship and standards law, we promote the idea that the government will take care of you, even despite yourself.
Its a debate between the morally righteous and the morally responsible that will never be resolved, and should probably never be resolved. So there’s the version for the righteous and the version for the responsible, but that still doesn’t make it worth listening to.
Let’s see… Generic forgettable guitar rock? Check! Unecessary profanity? Check! Yep, it’s a crap song.
I don’t have a problem with profanity, as long as it adds something. It seems fairly unecessary and boring in this case.
This has got to be the most boring discussion I have encountered on here since the argument about two button mice…
Why don’t you all just SHUT THE FUCK UP!
The issue here seems to be about walking on eggshells so as not to offend other people. Who’s to say that you(HGW) have not offended me with your statements. Your ideas scare me very much and offend to the extreme. Don’t think for one minute that just because you use proper language that your meaning is over looked. You are very rude and judgemental, two things that are way more offensive than the word “F*CK” I personally use the word quite a lot to express emotion. Were you not so daft I would use it on you now. But out of respect for your sensitive nature, I will not
I am 12. I listen to some Green Day songs. I have heard On a Podcast Explicit and Clean versions. Yet I do not swear. I feel that parents in America, in my home country, have every right to not want their children hearing explicit songs, because they provoke imitative behavior. However, there are children like me who are not affected emotionally or in terms of verbal and social skills. Any child who is responsible enough to know right from wrong and apply that knowledge in the right way may have access to songs with swear words in them. Also, America is, or used to be, a world leader in democracy (now it is a world dictator in democracy!) Therefore, our civil rights (including free-speech) are in effect.
Then again, civil rights have been abolished since Bush became president.
See? I just demonstrated my right to insult Bush! I still think the world would be a better place without swear words, but I respect that people have the right to swear.
KenDoRin
Also, HGW, the fact that u put * in the middle of the “f” word does not make it any less offensive.
Cheers,
KenDorin
and i love the song
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