I don't have TiVo, so no worries about it thinking I am gay. But I have discovered a different problem:
My LAUNCHcast radio station thinks I am a hair metal fan!
What conditions could have led to such a terrible and erroneous error you may ask. And the question is a sound one. The problem, you see, stems from the fact that there are, in fact, some really good bands that get too often dumped in the hair metal category.
Def Leppard, back in the 'High and Dry', 'On Through the Night', 'Pyromania', and even 'Hysteria' stages is NOT hair metal. It is just classic, anthemic, stadium rock. There are some truly timeless songs on those albums, so when a track from 'Pyromania' showed up on my LAUNCHcast station I rated it as a Love It song. It is a classic. Same with a Tesla song. Tesla is NOT hair metal. Tesla is a very talented hard rock/metal band. And so I rated them as such.
Then you have the hair metal bands that have a few good songs. Cinderella's 'Nobody's Fool' hits me with tsunami-like waves of nostalgia, instantly teleporting me back to my youth, hanging out with my cousin as we made a tape with that song on it 10 times in a row. What a cool song. Throw in a few other random, good songs from hair metal bands and pretty soon LAUNCH was going wild.
I was getting songs from bands like Kiss, Motley Crue, RATT, and others. I had to take action.
Mark those as 'Never Play Again' songs, bands and albums. I will not have my LAUNCHcast station waters muddied by those bands. So now I have been teaching my station a thing or two. Rating some of the more true metal bands that show up as very high (bands like Hammerfall, Armored Saint, Iced Earth, Iron Maiden) has helped to stem the flow of hair metal.
But it seems there is still work to do. Poison just showed up. NOT ON MY STATION!