During the day while I'm working I listen to the radio, most of the time it's talk radio. However, when I decide to listen the classic rock radio it's just annoying. Out of the 1000's and 1000's of classic song these radio station have to choice from they play about 20 songs they play in rotation. It's the same damn songs over and over again, and it's nearly every classic station you turn on. they all play the same 20 songs. I don't think it matter if it's classic rock, vintage rock, Top 40, that all play about 20 songs. Even top 40 plays about 20 songs, I rarely hit the top 40 stations, I'm old and it's crap.
The weekend and late night isn't as bad, but during the day I swear they put a self looping tape in and leave. If I ever hear Meatloaf singing "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" I am going to take a nailgun down to the studio and have a heart to heart with the DJ. I called them and offered to buy every copy of the song they had and blow them up, if they'd promise to never ever play it again. I really dislike that song, what is it about 30 minutes long? Yes, I know it's only really 8 or 9 minutes long, but man it seems to go on forever. I'm getting tired of Margaritaville too!
My radio plays Mp3's and I listen to them on occasion, I prefer the radio and I need to know about incoming weather, traffic and that crap ... sort of important to my job.
These are the classic stations I normality get ...
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I live at the little end of KY so I pick up KY, TN, IL, MO and if the weather's right AR.
So does your station of choice mix it up and play the same crap over and over?
There's a pretty good classics station around here that plays a good mix of 70s hits, with some 60s thrown in. The only problem is that they are also a sports affiliate station, so you might tune it in to listen to music and instead get a game.
Yeah one of the stations I listen to does NASCAR (said in the most redneck voice I can muster and that can be pretty redneck) and High School Sports, like I give a rip about either one. Nothing I like better than turning on the radio to hear people drive in circles. Yee-Ha, the other does Titan football and Cards Baseball, not a big fan of either one of those.
Unfortunately the same 40 songs seems to be all radio. I used to work part time on air for a classic rock station and I was always amazed when people called in for Free Bird or Can't Get No Satisfaction. Luckily some B-sides were worked into the rotation but sadly, most people seem to enjoy the same old crap.
I live in a little corner of Minnesota, and it's really hilly around here, so any station you pick up in the car will fade out in a minute or two. There are two local stations, one plays light rock of the '80s and '90s, the other just plays the most absurd crap you've ever heard, like that radio station you remember your folks listening to when you were a kid. And of course we get Minnesota Public Radio which is classical. I like good classical stuff, but all they play is these half hour long symphonies which really could be reduced to five minutes because the rest is pure repetition. It also has to be really obscure, becuase the better known stuff might be good, which they try to avoid if at all possible.
I lived in Minneapolis for many years, there was this station called KQ92. They ran these TV commercials where they'd say "the other station's playlist" and they'd show a little pamphlet of top 40 hits. Then they'd say "KQ92's playlist" and this giant encyclopedia of rock 'n' roll would drop on the table. You wanna know what KQ92 played? The same freakin' 10 songs over and over, all day long. This one boring and depressing Eric Clapton song played every morning on my way to work.
You might wanna look into XM satellite radio. I don't have it, but I was thinking of getting it for a while and looked into it a bit. They actually had Kasey Kasem's top 40 countdown from like 1982 and stuff on the '80s station.
I can't listen to radio anymore, every station is playing the latest songs and in my opinion, the latest songs suck like a $20 prostitute, I'm sorry but they do. I only listen to one station at night if I'm in the car but otherwise, nada.
Quote from: Patient7 on June 01, 2008, 01:50:34 PM
...the latest songs suck like a $20 prostitute,...
Where did you find a prostitute for $20?
Cheezey says they can't be had for less than $50. :tongueout:
Quote from: Menard on June 01, 2008, 02:51:58 PM
Quote from: Patient7 on June 01, 2008, 01:50:34 PM
...the latest songs suck like a $20 prostitute,...
Where did you find a prostitute for $20?
Cheezey says they can't be had for less than $50. :tongueout:
Really I've got a Jackson for the Johnson right here.
Quote from: Menard on June 01, 2008, 02:51:58 PM
Quote from: Patient7 on June 01, 2008, 01:50:34 PM
...the latest songs suck like a $20 prostitute,...
Where did you find a prostitute for $20?
Cheezey says they can't be had for less than $50. :tongueout:
It's called damaged goods my friend, damged goods. :bouncegiggle:
Quote from: Patient7 on June 02, 2008, 11:12:17 AM
It's called damaged goods my friend, damged goods. :bouncegiggle:
Well, no wonder she's giving you a discount; she feels sorry for you.
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Quote from: Menard on June 02, 2008, 11:46:14 AM
Quote from: Patient7 on June 02, 2008, 11:12:17 AM
It's called damaged goods my friend, damged goods. :bouncegiggle:
Well, no wonder she's giving you a discount; she feels sorry for you.
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Ouch, you know I considered a your mama joke but I turned it down.
1410 WHTG out of Eatontown, New Jersey. They play oldies, and though they have periods of tired over-played songs I don't want to hear again (ever again) they often play records I have not heard before!!! (Late '50s Doo-wop and Blues, plus now unheard '60s Schmaltz and Pop...) Sometimes, a real education for an old record nut like me... but, I don't listen to radio much anymore otherwise, though I do like the Satellite TV "radio" stations which also play Jazz standards, Pop Oldies, sometimes obscure, unheard and lost crap only a true record lover like me would appreciate. :smile:
On the rare occasions they aren't playing the same damn 20 songs over and over, they'll play some crap song that has a way of finding your nerve.
Today's crap song was from 1974, the 7 minute long "Rock Bottom" from UFO ... just "Rock Bottom" over and over and over and over ... you'd think that they'd hit rock bottom with a POS song like that, but NOOOOO .... they're still making albums. I could be wrong but I don't think they've ever had a song to chart.
Their touring the US this year, I think they're playing Howard Johnson's Lounges all across the southwest. :buggedout:
Quote from: CheezeFlixz on June 02, 2008, 11:38:06 PM
...Today's crap song was from 1974, the 7 minute long "Rock Bottom" from UFO ... just "Rock Bottom" over and over and over and over ... you'd think that they'd hit rock bottom with a POS song like that, but NOOOOO .... they're still making albums. I could be wrong but I don't think they've ever had a song to chart.
Their touring the US this year, I think they're playing Howard Johnson's Lounges all across the southwest. :buggedout:
You're right; I looked up
UFO in my "bible" (
JOEL WHITBURN'S
Billboard Top 40 Hits 3rd edition - 1987 - I always say after '87 I don't give a rat's ass. Not entirely true... :lookingup:)
I guess I'm lucky over here in Chicago because we have a station that plays a real variety of music, 93.1 WXRT. Classic Rock gets worked into the mix but they play lots of other stuff, everything from old-timey blues to reggae to progressive stuff. About the only thing they don't play is country and 'classical" music. 99.9 is similar , but a bit more Pop. 104.3, The Jack!, plays a decent variety as well, although they stick mostly to 80's and 90's stuff. But that's only 3 stations in a city with dozens. I reckon I'm gonna have to break down soon and get me a Zune!
The classic rock station out here in Santa Cruz county is pretty good (104.3 the hippo), with a mix of songs (though suddenly U2 is now classic rock) They also have Bob and Tom in the mornings and Alice Cooper's radio show at night, Cooper's show always plays a big variety of rock hits, including very obscure stuff that never gets airtime.
Quote from: Hammock Rider on June 05, 2008, 02:30:29 PM
104.3, The Jack!, plays a decent variety as well, although they stick mostly to 80's and 90's stuff.
Yeah! 104.3! Go Chicago! Not Cubs though, dock me all the karma you want if you dare enjoy them.
Hey Patient, the Cubs are annoying but not as annoying as their fans! i haven't watched them since Harry Carey died. Although I would like to see Ron Santo make it to the Hall of Fame, if only so they will stop broadcasting his rejection phone call from the Hall every year. It's really getting depressing.
Quote from: Hammock Rider on June 09, 2008, 03:58:38 PM
Hey Patient, the Cubs are annoying but not as annoying as their fans!
I noticed that, apparently, EVERY year is the Cubs year for the World Series I do know that they stand a chance but almost every cubs fan I've met believed that the particular year it was was the Cubs year to win. I really can't say too much though, my Mom's side of the family is comprised of Cubs fans, I know, it kinda hurts me too.
We have two major radio stations in my area, one of which is called Jacaranda94.2 FM and the other is Highveld Stereo.
Highveld is the best: you can audiostream it at www.highveld.co.za (http://www.highveld.co.za). :smile:
Quote from: Trevor on June 10, 2008, 08:14:39 AM
We have two major radio stations in my area, one of which is called Jacaranda94.2 FM and the other is Highveld Stereo.
Highveld is the best: you can audiostream it at www.highveld.co.za (http://www.highveld.co.za). :smile:
How ironic that the station I listen to here is 94.7 in Kentucky and I go to your station in Africa and what do they have on the opening page but a advertisement for Kentucky Fired Chicken.
My favorite radio stations, when I can get them, are college radio. There's true variety there, on the whim of the DJ who happens to be at work at the time.
I have pretty much given up Classic Rock Radio for exactly the reason discussed. Well, that and, here at least, they play two songs then 10 or more minutes of LOUD ANNOYING OBNOXIOUS commercials. That's no exaggeration - I have turned on the radio and watched the clock waiting for a song and it is in some cases OVER ten minutes before one played. Then they have the nerve to ADVERTISE "Two in a row, all day everyday."
Arrrrgh.
And the commercials are not very good - too many strip bars and the like. Lowest Common Denominator at work.
For the most part, I enjoy Talk Radio - especially some of the local call-in shows. But in this Political Season, I just can't take it. Talk about redundancy on the air - both sides saying the same old tired stuff, day in, and day out. At least on Talk Radio, the ads are better (mostly small, local businesses).
A friend of mine works at a radio station and he told me, that they select the playlists according to the "least common denominator" (to keep the number of people changing channels as low as possible), instead of playing a variety of "most wanted" songs, because then you could have a few very excited listeners, but also a larger propability of "switchers" that feel less excited about a particular song. (- Does this make sense? Hard to explain...)
Weird! Made me switch entirely to news and college stations.
Quote from: frank on June 10, 2008, 09:18:54 AM
A friend of mine works at a radio station and he told me, that they select the playlists according to the "least common denominator" (to keep the number of people changing channels as low as possible), instead of playing a variety of "most wanted" songs, because then you could have a few very excited listeners, but also a larger propability of "switchers" that feel less excited about a particular song. (- Does this make sense? Hard to explain...)
Weird! Made me switch entirely to news and college stations.
I know and tell you friend that if you play the same damn song more than twice in one day, I'm switching stations. More of them will play the same songs over and over ... I have actually switched from one station to another and they were both playing the same song just a few seconds apart ... thought my radio was broke for a minute there.
Quote from: CheezeFlixz on June 10, 2008, 08:31:22 AM
Quote from: Trevor on June 10, 2008, 08:14:39 AM
We have two major radio stations in my area, one of which is called Jacaranda94.2 FM and the other is Highveld Stereo.
Highveld is the best: you can audiostream it at www.highveld.co.za (http://www.highveld.co.za). :smile:
How ironic that the station I listen to here is 94.7 in Kentucky and I go to your station in Africa and what do they have on the opening page but a advertisement for Kentucky Fired Chicken.
:bouncegiggle: :teddyr: :bouncegiggle:
I used to listen to talk radio a few years back but the local talk radio station around where I live completely changed their shows and format and it became pointless.
But yeah, you all are right about how much classic rock radio sucks.
the thing is that they ruin a lot of these classic bands that younger people won't seek these bands out as much as they become more of a punch line due to how classic rock radio flogs certain songs by each band to death.
Quote from: Tars Tarkas on June 05, 2008, 04:34:22 PM
Suddenly U2 is now classic rock ... Alice Cooper's radio show at night, Cooper's show always plays a big variety of rock hits, including very obscure stuff that never gets airtime.
I think any rock from the '60s - the '80s is more or less considered classic rock. Anything older is Oldies and anything newer is just Rock. (Heh, I think the Red Hot Chili Peppers might be coming in to the "classic rock" category, too.)
I listen to 101.5, 106.9 (The Eagle), and 94.3 (WQCM) out here in the mid-East Coast. 101.5 recently changed from classic rock to classic rock + '90s, which is nice since, yes, they kept playing the same stuff over and over again. I like classic rock, but only so much. (It's a treat to hear Pearl Jam and STP on there now.) 106.9 also does the same timeline, although they aren't as afraid to go way back and play slow stuff (which can be nice at times). They're also a tad more family-friendly. 94.3 is adult rock; they play '60s through today, usually hard stuff, so if I don't like what I'm hearing on 101.5, I can switch over there and see if something cool is playing, and vice versa. It's also the only station I've ever heard where the word "a--" is used by the announcer (not to be confused with the DJ). "Why do they call it PMS?" "Because mad cow disease was already taken!" That sort of thing. :hot:
Oh, and most of the commercials in my area are really cheesy and annoying. (Mostly used car salesmen.)