I can't remember the last time I put the radio on in my own house (it's harder to avoid at work, unfortunately, but still possible if someone brings in a good CD) because all I hear is what I call trade-in music: songs that are popular for a month or two then become old and are "traded in" for new songs, much like a person would trade in an old game for a new one. There's no substance or any sense of musicianship, just a sense of fat-chequed producers banging out any old tracks behind a fat Pro Tools desk.
So, I avoid all that and just listen to stuff like Sigur Rós, 1 Mile North and Pink Floyd; music that does have balls, not in a shouty and angry way, but more in an intelligent, envelope-pushing kind of way. Anyway, I'll never hear that stuff on payola-financed FM radio, so there's no point in switching it on.
