Monkeys For DJs
When I was in High School a subject of intense and constant discussion was the general crappiness of radio. Maybe it's a New York thing, but it always seemed like there weren't enough radio stations playing music I liked. And the ones that did would endlessly play the same 10 songs.
It occurred to me one day that they could replace the DJs with monkeys and just let the monkeys randomly pick songs I liked.
Radio has since moved in this direction by phasing out the DJs, but it hasn't really improved much. Mainly because they're still picking from the same 30 songs and I don't like but 5 of them anyways.
If only the monkeys would play music that I already liked. Except then I could only listen to music I had already heard.
Leave it to the internet to resolve this problem. Not sure how it works, but you give it a genre or a band and it matches songs to that genre or band and provides you with a steady stream of quality music. No need to listen to everyone else's favorite songs, no DJ, just a room full of monkeys (I imagine and hope).
3 comments:
One drawback is that it seems to repeat the same two songs from an album.
This is a fair point. It really likes to play the live version after it's played the album version.
But I mean, they're just monkeys, they're trying their best.
For monkeys, they do good. A gorilla threw its poop at my sister one time.
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