So, interesting story time!
I went bowling today with some friends and the bowling ally was just playing a random radio station around Albany, NY. It was playing alternative rock from the 80's, 90's, and today. Then, I realized, I was singing along to Gold Guns Girls. I've never heard Metric on a US radio station, especially on a mainstream one!
Needless to say, I bowled a strike and danced around wishing my friends knew the words, too.
Oh my God, I remember the first time I heard Metric on mainstream radio... I was at the dentist getting my teeth cleaned and they had this light rock station on that mainly people in their 40s listen to and they played Help I'm Alive. I started screaming and the hygienist was like WTF?! And I explained to her the significance of what just happened.
Still, no one here seems to have heard of them.
Ingridlauren, I don't think there's a more fitting place to be singing along to GGG than in a bowling alley, for some reason that seems like a good fit! Except maybe a car chase or a real-life fight scene may be better. I love that they're getting played in the States now too.
Hahaha oh Joey, I would have done the same thing. I love trying to explain your excitement at hearing Metric to other people...they're always just like "Oh, yeah, right..." and you know they're completely not getting the point.
They've actually been getting decent airplay in Canada for bit - about the last eight months I'd say. I think it's a combination of them having a good group of fans on this side of the boarder, plus radio stations trying to meet their quotient for Canadian music. The first time I heard "Help, I'm Alive" on my city's most mainstream 'hit music' radio station when I was at work it was so weird! Now they play "Gimme Sympathy" and "Sick Muse" too. I ended up first finding my favourite station flipping through the channels and hearing "Combat Baby" and just FREAKING out in my car I was so so excited. I'd never heard anything of theirs on air. That was the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship between me and Curve 94, that has led me not only to some excellent music but to two different hook-ups for Metric tickets :)
And as for people who haven't heard of them? We'll just keep spreading the word and the sound!
I need to find myself a story too!haha
"wishing my friends knew the words, too."
Those would be my thoughts too, I suppose.
"We'll just keep spreading the word and the sound!"
Aye! I'm feeling pretty proud cause in less than two months I've 'converted' three people to Metric! *happy dance* Though I barely get to see two of them, and the third one hardly listens to music at all (I know!). It's a pseudo-success, I guess.hahaha
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