(06-08-2022, 09:41 PM)EricC85 Wrote: How do you guys find music that's not on the radio? Honest question I only hear what's on the radio or every once in a while I hear a song on some video and look it up. That's how I found Cody Jinx and some other country artist.

Personally, I just explore different albums by different artists that I like or have similar styles or maybe someone suggests something to me (Spotify has a "discover" mix and while they generally play popular songs, it helps me find new artists that I like). That's how I discovered Michael Franti for example.

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(06-09-2022, 12:48 AM)NewJagsCity Wrote:

(06-08-2022, 06:59 AM)MarleyJag Wrote: She did a remake of "Gloria" too, it rocks and got radio airplay back in the day which is why I didn't include it. It was on her first album, Horses. She was typically labeled punk rock but that's not really accurate. "Because the Night" is her most commercially successful song which she co-wrote wrote with Bruce Springsteen. She also co-wrote "Fire of Unknown Origin" which she recorded after the Blue Oyster Cult version came out (her version is COMPLETELY different than the BOC version).

Wave was not her biggest selling album but it has some good tracks on it, "So Ya Wanna.." probably qualifies as the most radio friendly track that *wasn't* on the radio. A couple others I might have mentioned actually did get some limited airplay, "Dancing Barefoot" and "Frederick".

Yea, I had the Horses album on vinyl back in the day.  I agree, she was more pop than punk, but the way she performed and presented herself fell more on the side of the Sex Pistols than on the side of, say, Blondie or Pat Benatar.

One song that was all over MTV back in the mid/late 80's was 'Under the Milky Way Tonight', by the Church.  Loved that song and video, but I can't ever remember hearing it on terrestrial radio back then.

I think of PSG as kind of art-house rock with a dose of punk performance style. Today, she'd probably get called "indie alternative". I dunno, she's hard to classify.

Re "Under the Milky Way", I like that song too! I hadn't listened to that in awhile. ;-)

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