Beastly Noise

[Yesspaz]

At the risk of sounding like a brown-noser, let me give my two words of advice: Trust Jim. Apart from the fact he owns the station and doesn't have to even take anything we say into consideration if he doesn't want to, he's the program director by default. AuralMoon's three greatest assets are the community, the timely request feature, and the broad definition of prog/art-rock, or even "artistic" rock. With that being said:

Why is the immediate reaction to seeing Beastie Boys added, "Oh crap!, AM's going down the tubes?" Why isn't it, "Wow, I didn't know Beastie Boys had any proggish material? This'll be cool." In other words, why not trust Jim implicitly? If I looked at the new additions and saw, say Clint Black added, my reaction would be, "Wow, didn't expect that. I gotta hear that one!"

If Jim wanted to add the Beastie Boys' two instrumental albums, The In Sound from Way Out and The Mix Up, as well as the various instrumental tracks from their other albums, I'd applaud it. Why not? It's interesting, not-boring, funky-jazzy stuff. Sounds like a prog/proggish/artsy thing to me. So trust Jim. Applaud him for adding Beastie Boys. Encourage him to add more. If he dediced to add 25% of Primus' material, or a dozen or so select Zeppelin songs, or a half-dozen Beatles songs, applaud him for footing 98% of a free-to-us prog station with a huge library.

To quote RnR in another thread, let's not be "another who thinks the world starts and stops with the same 5 or 6 bands and their offshoots."

Thank you.





(Is my nose brown?)