Are we allowed to write about this?

We're not supposed to discuss anything negative about WXCI over the air, and this isn't exactly a negative thing, but I can't help but feel targeted lately, and nobody reads this anyway, so I may as well just throw something about this over here...

The DJ's of this show have recently been reprimanded by some members of WXCI's executive board for describing the 3rd category of music that gets played on our show as "terrible music." (See the "What's It?" section listed on the right side of this blog...)

Although experimental and noise take up over 90% of what we play on this show, "terrible" music still seems to fit our format, because when it gets bad enough, you really need to hear it to believe it.. The same can be said for much of the experimental and noise stuff that we play. In this respect, it fits our format, and we're not going to stop (occasionally) playing songs that are, for lack of a better word, "terrible."

The way that it was initially described to me made it seem as though we could use other words instead.. For example, VH1 has done specials where they've counted down their favorite "awesomely bad" songs, which is cuter and more advertising-friendly way of saying "the worst songs of alltime." But that's the thing.. WXCI is non-profit. We have no advertisers to please. We should be allowed to say whatever we want (as long as we're following FCC guidelines.. no calls to action, no prices, no f-bombs.. If we were playing a type of music that could only be described as "eat a fucking Big Mac for a dollar ninety-nine," that could be a giant problem..)

It's been suggested to me in the past that it's supposed to be a bad thing to play a song over the air, and then immediately afterward say "that really sucked," or "that was terrible," because it sounds unprofessional to say that over the air. However, doing exactly that has now become a part of Late Night Noise... We're not trying to piss anyone off.. But there's some music out there which is so outstandingly terrible, that it becomes compelling, thus generating merit that allows it to become eligible for airplay. In addition to this, whenever we play "terrible" or "awesomely bad" music, we're usually commenting over the song anyway, or talking over the song as it's playing..

A lot of the videos we post here are those types of videos.. 2 Skinnee J's was the first video ever posted here. Just terrible... More recently, we posted the Scott Weiland/Perry Ferrell/Bono/Fred Durst 9/11-tribute cover of Marvin Gaye's "What's Going On," which is the type of music that completely fits our third category. It's one of the worst things I've ever imagined could be created by people who actually get paid millions of dollars to make music.

We're just trying to put on a good radio show. And we think terrible music is funny. And so it shall stay.