[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Why I hate CLASSIC ROCK RADIO....... (Page 1 of 3)
Posted: 5/30/2009 4:19:57 AM EDT
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A guy at work plays the local classic rock station in NYC , Id like to smash the radio.I know its about the sponsor money , but jeezus fk-n christ the same fk-n tired songs over and over , half of which sucked ballz when they were new. The fk-n worst is the " Get the Led Out" story thay have to tell at 8 am every morning , who gives a FK if Robert Plant sucked cock in a hotel room in 78 while Jimmy Page licked his own ballz! rant 4/10 my rant sucks , but I only had 1 cup o joe and Im not on top of my game yet! |
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We've got one here in WI. It's 105.7 with Rick and Len. I moved here five years ago and they even recycle thier jokes. They just insert different names of media whoring celebrities or whoever else is having thier 15 minutes of fame. Thier playlist is about 20 songs long and I've noticed they play the same set for lunch everyday, only varying it by 5 minutes. You can almost set your watch by "Black Betty". The worst thing is they play this stupid game called "Cowbell or No" in which they play clips of songs and listeners have to guess whether the song has a cowbell in it or if it.....wait for it........guess what it's going to be........that's right......"Needs more cowbell!" The SNL skit was funny 12 years ago and they are still doing it. Every fucking day!
It's a powerful station you can hear most anywhere in the whole state, so almost everywhere you go, it's on. It's pretty annoying. Yes, I know exactly what you mean. I've switched to internet radio in my office and listen to a lot of bluegrass/Americana music because it's different, interesting and holds my attention. |
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Quoted: A guy at work plays the local classic rock station in NYC , Id like to smash the radio.I know its about the sponsor money , but jeezus fk-n christ the same fk-n tired songs over and over , half of which sucked ballz when they were new. The fk-n worst is the " Get the Led Out" story thay have to tell at 8 am every morning , who gives a FK if Robert Plant sucked cock in a hotel room in 78 while Jimmy Page licked his own ballz! rant 4/10 my rant sucks , but I only had 1 cup o joe and Im not on top of my game yet! 8/10 This is my sentiment completely. Classic rock stations turned me of Zeppelin for ever.  |
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I hate to tell you that's every radio station the new music ones just change out a couple songs every month. if I hear that damn 100 in a 55 song one more time I'm gonna fucking kill everyone. last week I heard it when I got in my car and after going to a couple stores the damn thing was on again. |
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A guy at work plays the local classic rock station in NYC , Id like to smash the radio.I know its about the sponsor money , but jeezus fk-n christ the same fk-n tired songs over and over , half of which sucked ballz when they were new. The fk-n worst is the " Get the Led Out" story thay have to tell at 8 am every morning , who gives a FK if Robert Plant sucked cock in a hotel room in 78 while Jimmy Page licked his own ballz! rant 4/10 my rant sucks , but I only had 1 cup o joe and Im not on top of my game yet! They've got Carol Miller doing "Get The Led Out," on one of the stations here. The first time I heard it, I thought it was a man. She should retire. |
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I swear I thought about posting this same thread just yesterday. I worked with an old hippie that fucking insisted on listening to the classic rock station every single fucking day. 10 hours a day. 5 days a week for YEARS.
Now at my new job, the programmer listens to that shit and when I need to use the computer, my anger and impatience picks up right where it left off when I left my last job. Its like the Vietnam Flashback of the music industry. If I hear "Put me in, Coach" by Fogerty or that fucking "Werewolf in London" or fucking "I wanna Party All Night Long" one more fucking time I swear to god I'm gonna burn this fucking place to the ground. |
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Quoted: BOSTON and QUEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! put me over the fk-n edge I can feel myself getting violent! I swear I thought about posting this same thread just yesterday. I worked with an old hippie that fucking insisted on listening to the classic rock station every single fucking day. 10 hours a day. 5 days a week for YEARS. Now at my new job, the programmer listens to that shit and when I need to use the computer, my anger and impatience picks up right where it left off when I left my last job. Its like the Vietnam Flashback of the music industry. If I hear "Put me in, Coach" by Fogerty or that fucking "Werewolf in London" or fucking "I wanna Party All Night Long" one more fucking time I swear to god I'm gonna burn this fucking place to the ground. |
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Our classic rock station is one of the very short list of things I love about Chicago. WDRV is the standard by which others are judged. No wacky morning guy or Stairway twice an hour. The lunchtime DJ still does shows around the Chicago area with the Cryin' Shames, and you could probably find the Ark of the Covenant in their archives. |
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I've worked in radio and television broadcasting for +30 years now.
Things have changed in the business and most/many markets are too small for their own radio stations and instead get central casting voice overs played back by an automation system. The same songs are played out in dozens of markets with unique announcements cut in by an automated server that follows a clock. Songs are played back from a limited play list so you are going to hear the same songs over and over again - those odd-ball songs stick out and you'll notice them sticking out in the rotation. The announcements are cut from a script and an eight hour show can be cut in less than an hour. You'll get a live local news/weather/sports person a couple times an hour - often this same person is shared between all that syndicates stations - country, rock, urban, and news talk across the hour. For the most part gone are the DJ's digging into a "record" vault with 10,000 LPs - for good or bad. Most people don't know music well enough to really put together a good play list - so one person is making the play list for dozens of stations. A big play list will be 200 to 300 songs but most are smaller. I was a DJ for four years. Our director of programming selected all but two of our songs an hour based on velocity programming, looking for the hits that were rising up on the charts the fastest. With just two songs to select an hour they were carefully picked and I was able to prepare with the history or back story on the song. |
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I've worked in radio and television broadcasting for +30 years now. Things have changed in the business and most/many markets are too small for their own radio stations and instead get central casting voice overs played back by an automation system. The same songs are played out in dozens of markets with unique announcements cut in by an automated server that follows a clock. Songs are played back from a limited play list so you are going to hear the same songs over and over again - those odd-ball songs stick out and you'll notice them sticking out in the rotation. The announcements are cut from a script and an eight hour show can be cut in less than an hour. You'll get a live local news/weather/sports person a couple times an hour - often this same person is shared between all that syndicates stations - country, rock, urban, and news talk across the hour. For the most part gone are the DJ's digging into a "record" vault with 10,000 LPs - for good or bad. Most people don't know music well enough to really put together a good play list - so one person is making the play list for dozens of stations. A big play list will be 200 to 300 songs but most are smaller. LOL, reminded me of when FM radio started to take off. FM radio at that point was "longhair (classical,not hippy) and the colleges started broadcasting rock without the commentary that AM stations did. It was all volunteer workers. You'd get some pretty interesting playlists. Of course you'd get the dude that would be obviously stoned stating "I'm so mellow that Bach seems to fit in here right now".....and play it for 4 hours |
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Here in the Atlanta area, it's "97.1 The River." WTF is "The River?" Never figured that part out. A couple thoughts about radio over the past 20+ years... 1. I can identify a song from the very first note that is played, because they've played the same song over, and over...it's as if most bands had one or two songs in their entire careers. 2. I think most radio stations have one big CD with all the songs on it. Some guy walks into the station at the beginning of his shift and pushes the "Random" button. |
| Besides playing the same five Bob Seger songs 24-7 on one classic station, ther's another one that plays nothing but Christmas music from Halloween on through Dec.25. Then the rest is the plastic country music and annoying hip&hop and rap. So I just usually find a nice frequency of static to listen to when not on talk radio and such. |
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The one here is 106.9 The Eagle. So guess what they play every 20 minutes? An Eagles song of course! So clever and original. And I hate the Eagles. GET OUT OF MY FUCKIN CAB!!!! http://imgsrv.923krock.com/image/wfny3/UserFiles/Image/news_images/big_lebowski-eagles.jpg 
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| I love classic rock and can deal with Led Zeppelin, Queen, Eagles, etc.... all day long if they would just play some of the other songs instead of the same ones over and over. Instead of radio I mostly listen to my own CDs of the same bands they play and skip the overplayed stuff. |
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I guess I can understand the economics of having/selecting from a local archive. However, any discussion should entail "what does the customer want?" After all, the customer is who is keeping you on the air by spending with your advertisers.
Am I to believe that the average Joe Sixpack actually WANTS to hear the same song hour after hour? Nonsense. |
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I swear I thought about posting this same thread just yesterday. I worked with an old hippie that fucking insisted on listening to the classic rock station every single fucking day. 10 hours a day. 5 days a week for YEARS. Now at my new job, the programmer listens to that shit and when I need to use the computer, my anger and impatience picks up right where it left off when I left my last job. Its like the Vietnam Flashback of the music industry. If I hear "Put me in, Coach" by Fogerty or that fucking "Werewolf in London" or fucking "I wanna Party All Night Long" one more fucking time I swear to god I'm gonna burn this fucking place to the ground. Smooooke on the Waaaater!!!! Oh wait, sorry. 
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I guess I can understand the economics of having/selecting from a local archive. However, any discussion should entail "what does the customer want?" After all, the customer is who is keeping you on the air by spending with your advertisers. Am I to believe that the average Joe Sixpack actually WANTS to hear the same song hour after hour? Nonsense. The survey says that Joe isn't listening to the radio hour after hour any more. Radio is dying a slow death. If not for folks in their cars during drive time many stations audiences would be too small to make a profit. The central casting I explained in an earlier post is a way to leverage the equipment investment locally while pooling the "talent" (that's what they're called!) remotely. |
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I love classic rock and can deal with Led Zeppelin, Queen, Eagles, etc.... all day long if they would just play some of the other songs instead of the same ones over and over. Instead of radio I mostly listen to my own CDs of the same bands they play and skip the overplayed stuff. FM radio used to be (before corporate ruination) a place where you could hear the tracks that others didn't play. Where you would find out things like this: Some of Bob Dylans previously unknown tracks were found. Unlike some "undiscovered" material, it's quite good. I like early Dylan for his guitar work and storytelling. This one is quite good. Free download. http://www.bobdylan.com/#/mississippi |
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Get Sirius and don't leave 100 and 101. You will be much better off.  What about deep cuts, channel 40 maybe? It's channel 840 on direcTV and I love it. Sounds a lot like the old KZEW out of Dallas in the 70's and early 80's. Yes! KZEW played all sorts of stuff while staying within the AOR format. I heard both Willie Nelson and Frank Sinatra songs on that station. |
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That's wat I love about ARFCOM, pointless arguments about useless subjects.
You do know, with all our modern technology, you can tune different stations. If this is all y'all have to worry about either: 1) Life is good or 2) Mom's basement is getting kind of boring 
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There are certain songs that have been played for far into the ground, that I absolutely REFUSE to EVER listen to them again.
For instance. Old time Rock and Roll Gimme three steps All right now Taking care of business The three ZZ Top songs The three Styx songs Proud Mary Led Zep (Anything) This list goes on and on........................ So there is actually no sense in me even turning on a classic rock station at all since it will just be turned of within 3 minutes. Quoted:
A guy at work plays the local classic rock station in NYC , The cocksucker doesn't whistle along with the songs does he? If I ever find my self sitting on death row, it will be for killing a radio whistler! |
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There are certain songs that have been played for far into the ground, that I absolutely REFUSE to EVER listen to them again. For instance. Old time Rock and Roll Gimme three steps All right now Taking care of business The three ZZ Top songs The three Styx songs Proud Mary Led Zep (Anything) This list goes on and on........................ So there is actually no sense in me even turning on a classic rock station at all since it will just be turned of within 3 minutes. Quoted:
A guy at work plays the local classic rock station in NYC , The cocksucker doesn't whistle along with the songs does he? If I ever find my self sitting on death row, it will be for killing a radio whistler! I could add quite a few songs to that list. |
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This is why I don't listen to 'conventional' radio. This. Every terrestrial radio station is the same, the same 5 songs an hour and nothing but commercials. Why even waste your time? Sirius FTW. These people speak the truth, its well worth the the lifetime subscription |
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Then there's the friggin hard rock station that self promotes so much talking about how they ROCK! and plays promos for all the hard rock clubs and bars telling about how they ROCK! and then they promote all the local events and how they are going to have a booth there and it's gonna ROCK! I think they played a whole song once the day before yesterday I know I heard it
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I totally agree. Classic rock radio sucks balls. Thankfully, I'm never subjected to that shit on a regular basis anymore. Here are some bands who, if I never hear their shitty "music" again, it will be too soon: Aerosmith Styx Kansas Boston AC/DC Foghat Grand Funk Railroad Eric Clapton Any and all arena-style obnoxious buttrock, similar to the above listed bands. Classic rock radio almost made me hate Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Stevie Ray Vaughn. |
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I give you "THE BIG 10"!
Zeppelin Tom Petty Queen The Stones The Doors AC/DC Pink Floyd The Who Billy Joel Steve Miller Band Any time of day, on any one of our 5( ) local classic rock stations, you will hear one of these bands.
I thought I was the only one who can't listen to that shit anymore. |
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BOSTON and QUEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! put me over the fk-n edge I can feel myself getting violent!
I swear I thought about posting this same thread just yesterday. I worked with an old hippie that fucking insisted on listening to the classic rock station every single fucking day. 10 hours a day. 5 days a week for YEARS. Now at my new job, the programmer listens to that shit and when I need to use the computer, my anger and impatience picks up right where it left off when I left my last job. Its like the Vietnam Flashback of the music industry. If I hear "Put me in, Coach" by Fogerty or that fucking "Werewolf in London" or fucking "I wanna Party All Night Long" one more fucking time I swear to god I'm gonna burn this fucking place to the ground. Preach it to me brother. I freakin HATE Boston ! |
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A guy at work plays the local classic rock station in NYC , Id like to smash the radio.I know its about the sponsor money , but jeezus fk-n christ the same fk-n tired songs over and over , half of which sucked ballz when they were new. The fk-n worst is the " Get the Led Out" story thay have to tell at 8 am every morning , who gives a FK if Robert Plant sucked cock in a hotel room in 78 while Jimmy Page licked his own ballz! rant 4/10 my rant sucks , but I only had 1 cup o joe and Im not on top of my game yet! Earplugs |
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I am curious as to who listens to this crap over and over. I mean, you would have to be really tuned out of life to not have some kind of self-awakeing, and say "I have must have heard this song half a million times, and if I do not change my behaivior I will hear it another half a million before I die".
I only listen to talk radio now. I will take Phil Hendry any day over another imprintment of "riders of the storm". |