[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Why I hate CLASSIC ROCK RADIO....... (Page 2 of 3)
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"Rock 105" here has been playing the same songs for nearly 30 years. They were new songs back then, now they're "classic".
And WTF is up with stations naming themselves "The <insert meaningless noun here>"? I nearly pulled my hair out a couple of summers ago on a road trip: "The River", "The Wolf", "The Wave", "The Edge", "The Path", "The Frog", "The Joker", and don't forget "Bob FM". 
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not that i hace done this, but whats worse is you would think pink floyd and led zepplin only wrote 4 songs each because thats what they only play, i found super glue, inconspicuosly and tuned to a gangsta rap station works wonders for peace and quiet till they figure it out which takes a few days, not advocating that, just was my solution to hearing money every single freaking day, ohh my god and since im living right next to Macon Georgia, Allman brothers, same shit diffrent day, not anymore 
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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. Dude, it's fucking "Centerfield" by John Fogerty and don't fucking hate on my favorite song as a child. Never even fucking heard it on the radio until I got Sirius and then I heard it on Outlaw Country of all stations. I fucking love Outlaw Country. |
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This station is probably the best I have heard. Lots of new music. Only complaint is that SRV is played too much. You can stream it from your PC.
http://www.kgsr.com/ |
| I dont mind "Get The Led Out" what gets me is the same three Pink Floyd, GnR, and Pearl Jam songs over and over. I think these stations have a total of about thirty songs they play over and over all day every day. I dont even know anyone that listens to Pink Floyd, never have. Once I flipped from 104.3 because Floyd came on, Floyd was on 105.5 and 95.9 simultaneously. WTF? |
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I dont mind "Get The Led Out" what gets me is the same three Pink Floyd, GnR, and Pearl Jam songs over and over. I think these stations have a total of about thirty songs they play over and over all day every day. I dont even know anyone that listens to Pink Floyd, never have. Once I flipped from 104.3 because Floyd came on, Floyd was on 105.5 and 95.9 simultaneously. WTF? That happened on more than one occasion here in Tampa before I had Sirius. The two classic rock stations have, on more than on occasion been playing the same fucking Pink Floyd song at the same fucking time. Pink Floyd sucked then, sucks now and will forever blow elephant cock.
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Commercial radio sucks. If the suits on Madison Avenue thought that reading the Manhattan phone book in Klingon would get ratings, they'd put in on the air. I use my MP3 player. No station would put Alice in Chains, Savoy Brown, Frank Zappa, Frank Marino, Motorhead, Robert Cray and AC/DC on the same playlist. The variety would cause the sheeple to have a meltdown. |
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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. For Christ Sake's hire some college kids...give them $15 an hour and a few hard drives full of music.... No wonder the medium is dying...canned radio sucks ass! I usually listen to the college stations, NPR, and AM radio now....the programing has a little more thought behind it. |
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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. Dude, it's fucking "Centerfield" by John Fogerty and don't fucking hate on my favorite song as a child. Never even fucking heard it on the radio until I got Sirius and then I heard it on Outlaw Country of all stations. I fucking love Outlaw Country. I guess I never heard the name because as soon as I hear it come on, a cloud of rage engulfs my existence, compelling me to do unspeakable acts and inflict unimaginable horrors. It takes almost all the effort and attention I can muster to keep from shooting the place up and burning the fuckin building to the ground. So yeah, thanks for the heads up. This way when the news asks for an interview, I can tell them how I never noticed the title was "Centerfield" until 45FMJoe from ARFCOM told me about it. |
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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. Dude, it's fucking "Centerfield" by John Fogerty and don't fucking hate on my favorite song as a child. Never even fucking heard it on the radio until I got Sirius and then I heard it on Outlaw Country of all stations. I fucking love Outlaw Country. I guess I never heard the name because as soon as I hear it come on, a cloud of rage engulfs my existence, compelling me to do unspeakable acts and inflict unimaginable horrors. It takes almost all the effort and attention I can muster to keep from shooting the place up and burning the fuckin building to the ground. So yeah, thanks for the heads up. This way when the news asks for an interview, I can tell them how I never noticed the title was "Centerfield" until 45FMJoe from ARFCOM told me about it. Hey man, glad I could help. 
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The best song about radio that no one has ever heard. I have it in CD from years ago. It's a favorite. Worth tracking down.
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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. Dude, it's fucking "Centerfield" by John Fogerty and don't fucking hate on my favorite song as a child. Never even fucking heard it on the radio until I got Sirius and then I heard it on Outlaw Country of all stations. I fucking love Outlaw Country. I guess I never heard the name because as soon as I hear it come on, a cloud of rage engulfs my existence, compelling me to do unspeakable acts and inflict unimaginable horrors. It takes almost all the effort and attention I can muster to keep from shooting the place up and burning the fuckin building to the ground. So yeah, thanks for the heads up. This way when the news asks for an interview, I can tell them how I never noticed the title was "Centerfield" until 45FMJoe from ARFCOM told me about it. Hey man, glad I could help. 
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If one was to believe in conspiracies.... you could draw the conclusion that playing the same crap over and over is a good way to brain wash the masses. Whats more disturbing is the lack of creativity in this day and age. Well I suppose there is alot of creativity, but the media shuns it. Think about the golden age of radio in the 1950's, 60's, and 70's. Radio stations all wanted to play the newest tracks and cutting edge music. At some point, say around 1985, they decided never to play anything new again and continue to play the same tired pablum over and over. Occassionally they slip in something newer like a Black Crowes song, but only if its soooo unoriginal that it blends in seamlessly with the old tired crap. Newer pop music is just as bad, a few so called hits are picked in some faceless media star chamber and played over and over until they have the same mind numbing force as the worst classc rock. Then there is "pop" country music... same story.
Same thing with the "big" hollywood movies. How many times can you remake the same flick or make sequels (Terminator and super hero movies comes to mind). There is no escape except behind the locked door of your home. It seems that every public place has these terrible dirges piped in as background noise, whether its the mall, dentist office or work place. Stair way to heaven , for me , has become stairway to insanity. I hear it and I want to run out screaming!!! All this media white noise is the perfect storm to beat down the mental capacity of the unsuspecting Joe sixpack. All I can say is THANK G-D FOR INTERNET RADIO AND MEDIA OUTLETS! |
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Don't forget T-T-T-Two for Tuesday and the Friday night Floyd fix
Most stations are horrible, but every once in a while you find a good one. There is a station in Pittsburg that doesn't have DJs and they play a large variety of good music. The downside is that the variety is so big there will be songs you don't like because of the genre they are in, even though they are good songs. BOB FM FTW!! |
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"Rock 105" here has been playing the same songs for nearly 30 years. They were new songs back then, now they're "classic". And WTF is up with stations naming themselves "The <insert meaningless noun here>"? I nearly pulled my hair out a couple of summers ago on a road trip: "The River", "The Wolf", "The Wave", "The Edge", "The Path", "The Frog", "The Joker", and don't forget "Bob FM". Bob Fm is awesome!! |
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Don't forget T-T-T-Two for Tuesday and the Friday night Floyd fix Most stations are horrible, but every once in a while you find a good one. There is a station in Pittsburg that doesn't have DJs and they play a large variety of good music. The downside is that the variety is so big there will be songs you don't like because of the genre they are in, even though they are good songs. BOB FM FTW!! BOB FM is not that bad....at least it plays some different shit... |
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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! 8/10 This is my sentiment completely. Classic rock stations turned me of Zeppelin for ever. 
I really hate Zep, and I have a number of their songs on my Ipod. I can only listen to Tangerine bc its never on the radio. I mean how many times can you hear Black Dog, anything by Bob Seeger, or God help us, Sweet Home Alabama...and I love Skynyrd, but that is the only song they ever play. Seriously, I listen to my Ipod about all the time, or our local Rock stations Morning show––Two Guys Named Chris, Rush or Savage. |
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The classic rock station in St. Louis has a no repeat week rule. They do not repeat the same song all week long. Do you mean K-SHE 95? I have not listened in quite a long time. K-SHE even had a thing where they played Led Zeppelin every weekday at 4:30 or something like that. I don't know if they still do it or not now. Back when they started doing this, one of my friends was at a (non-radio-related) social function where one of the DJ's was attending, and my friend asked why they started playing Zep every day. He said that it was because they got the most requests for it––and they even logged caller-ID numbers, to rule out people calling a bunch of times from the same number. I don't listen to any music radio anymore, usually. It's my CD's or talk radio when I'm really bored, or there's a major event happening that I want to keep updated on. –––– On the other hand, you're not really "stuck" with crap radio anymore. You can rip CD's to your PC and make MP3's out of them, and you can fit around 100-150 or so mp3's on a regular CD, depending on the sound quality you want. Most car CD players can play MP3 disks now. If your car-radio can play audio files off of DVD's, that number jumps up to around 800 to 1,200 MP3's per disk. { Not to even get into the matter of downloading music for free, where you can get MP3 files of music that you cannot even purchase anymore because it's rare and out of print, and the record company itself refuses to sell MP3's of the songs they have sitting in their vault. More and more I run into this situation.... }
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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! 8/10 This is my sentiment completely. Classic rock stations turned me of Zeppelin for ever.
That and Jimmy Page the serial-plaigarist. Led Zepplin: Most overrated band of all time. |
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This station is probably the best I have heard. Lots of new music. Only complaint is that SRV is played too much. You can stream it from your PC. http://www.kgsr.com/ Too much SRV from a station out of Austin Texas.........who'da thunk it? 
Damn good station anyway. Dallas FM has become a great wasteland from the glory days of the 70's and 80's. 
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Shit... About damn time this came up so I can throw down my two cents.
100.3 'The Buzzard' kicked ass the first couple of months I was going to community college. John Boy and Billy in the morning, and some good ol' Lynard Skynard playing 'Curtis Lowe' just in time for lunch... So it went for the first two years, occasionally popping over to the pop/hip-hop station up in Roanoke and their 'Morning Zoo'. Life was good... Then a few months ago they quit broadcasting John Boy and Billy. I can forgive a minor slight, by that time I wasn't going to class at 7 am anyway; so no real loss. And then, like many of you the songs I once enjoyed... 'Dirty Deeds', 'I Wanna Rock', 'Black Betty', and everything by Zep which I could never stand anyway... Or Metallica, they're great, but just in small doses. To my point, they started to make my ears bleed. Even that pop station up in Roanoke started grating on my nerves. On the technical side of things, I timed it once. I believe 'The Buzzard' ran on a three to four hour loop, with the songs in random order; a mix of classic rock, 90's hard rock, and the occasional modern rock song. Standard classic rock station fare, with the oddball Marylin Manson or Cradle of Filth song thrown in, usually at night. But then, I got a car with a CD player. I burn my own CD's at home, most of it downloaded off Limewire and BitTorrent. Stuff like Old Crow Medicine Show, Amanda Palmer, Plushgun, for example; unique artists that really don't get the attention they deserve. The important thing here being, that I can skip to the next track if I so wish.
As for 'The Buzzard'? It is not 'The Buzz' with what seems to be an emphasis on 'modern hard rock'. Tomorrow's classic rock today! Huzzah!
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DUDE. I know exactly how you feel, and I know the exact radio station that you're talking about because they play it at work all day long here too. Q104.3 FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUck. Everyday I have to listen to Hotel California about twice, a handful of shitty Beatles songs, and a bunch of the same old hippy classic hard rock stuff that I can't stand. |
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Classic rock is great… until you’ve heard the same damned song twice a day since the fucking Carter administration. And the sad thing is, there’s so much good classic rock out there that never gets any airplay.
I don’t listen to classic rock much anymore so things may have changed, but judging by this thread they haven’t, and maybe they’ve gotten worse. But I never used to hear Al Stewart, Slade, or Dr. Hook on the radio. And when they do play a band they just play two or three of their songs. If they ever played Dire Straits for example they would play “Money for Nothing” or maybe “Sultans of Swing.” They wouldn’t play any of the other 20 or so great songs they had. |
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My supervisor insists on 96.1 KLPX classic rock, he gets pissed if we change the station (though sometimes he gets so pissed that he turns it off, so that works).
It drives me nucking futs. Especially during "AC December" last year. AC/DC at the top of every hour all month. Fuck. I wanted to kill someone. But we all carry at work so that would be tricky... |
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Quoted: 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. This confirms everything I've come to suspect and dislike about all radio.  |
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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 Hey man! |
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The classic rock station in St. Louis has a no repeat week rule. They do not repeat the same song all week long. Do you mean K-SHE 95? I have not listened in quite a long time. K-SHE even had a thing where they played Led Zeppelin every weekday at 4:30 or something like that. I don't know if they still do it or not now. Back when they started doing this, one of my friends was at a (non-radio-related) social function where one of the DJ's was attending, and my friend asked why they started playing Zep every day. He said that it was because they got the most requests for it––and they even logged caller-ID numbers, to rule out people calling a bunch of times from the same number. I don't listen to any music radio anymore, usually. It's my CD's or talk radio when I'm really bored, or there's a major event happening that I want to keep updated on. –––– On the other hand, you're not really "stuck" with crap radio anymore. You can rip CD's to your PC and make MP3's out of them, and you can fit around 100-150 or so mp3's on a regular CD, depending on the sound quality you want. Most car CD players can play MP3 disks now. If your car-radio can play audio files off of DVD's, that number jumps up to around 800 to 1,200 MP3's per disk. { Not to even get into the matter of downloading music for free, where you can get MP3 files of music that you cannot even purchase anymore because it's rare and out of print, and the record company itself refuses to sell MP3's of the songs they have sitting in their vault. More and more I run into this situation.... }
~ I think it is KHTS K Hits 96.3. KSHE did have the Rock n Roll 500 on over Memorial Day weekend which was pretty cool. 500 of the best rock songs ever. Listened to it while I painted my garage. In my truck I either listen to the thumb drive I loaded from my iTunes or plug in my iPhone. I made a 10 hour playlist that I switch around every month or so and then I have a boatload of good albums on there. |
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Quoted: DUDE. I know exactly how you feel, and I know the exact radio station that you're talking about because they play it at work all day long here too. Q104.3 FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUck. Everyday I have to listen to Hotel California about twice, a handful of shitty Beatles songs, and a bunch of the same old hippy classic hard rock stuff that I can't stand. LOL that was the first station that came to mind when i clicked this thread. Hey don't forget Bem buh bemp COCAINE.... |