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Todays Raido Stations suck

Is it just me, or does todays Radio suck?
When I was a teenager FM was cool, it had laid back D,jays and they played cool new music. That's were I first heard Alex Harvey, Hawkwind,Atomic Rooster,Zappa,The amboy dukes,
Robin Trower,Roxy music,BOC,Captain Beyond,Audience,
Bowie,Steely Dan,etc.

The AM of that day used to be Hit Radio, and played the top hits of the day.

FM today has become Hit radio, with a lot of cookie cutter stations all playing the same old hits, with a few of those old fm classic hits as well.

Does it only bug me, that they only play the one hit off the LP over and over again. When in fact the lp had even better tunes on it, but they never play them.

Recently with the advent of eBay, I have been able to collect a lot of rare and Great music that I never new existed before.

When my friends here the new tunes I have They get the same Idea that I always get, to start a new radio station that plays this unknown treasure. As well as the songs like "Candys gone bad" off of the Golden Earring lp with Radar love on it, you know the one.

You know what I'm talking about, am I alone here.


I must state that I live in a smaller town now, but we can still pick up the Jacksonville Florida stations.
Does this kind of practice go on all over the country?

The new music of today no longer interests me with Rap and the Rock of today all sounds the same, with only minor exceptions like Radiohead.

WHAT do you think, is their some stations that I could pickup on the internet that would satisfy my craving?

would you like to be able to get in you car and tune the radio to a station like the one I described?

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zaikesman
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Ohlala, maybe Top 40 radio in the 60's was wasted on you, but it wasn't a waste. You take just about any Billboard Top 40 from the era you denegrate, and I guarantee you that around fully half those songs will be well-known and -loved classics to this very day, and will continue to be so on into the future. The same could never be said about today's charts. 1965 lies at the heart of the greatest vintages for influential singles in rock history. I'm not saying that everything deserving made the Top 40 in those times, just that an awful lot of what did was as good as it has ever gotten.

Ron, your reaction to the "degenerates gyrating their pelvises" which you find so "vile and insulting" echoes nothing so much as the criticism heaped on Elvis Presley in the 50's. Rock has always been about S-E-X at bottom...It's not that which is intolerable to us, it's the glaring lack of anything else in the way of creativity and expression to go along with it. Image isn't just everything now, it's the only thing.
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rockinroni OP
287 posts
 
Yes I agree with you Zaikesman, with your Elvis comparison.
Elvis couldn’t help himself. It was an expression of how the music moved him, plus maybe a little showmanship. I liked Elvis but you have to admit, it is not the same today. They have pushed it way to far in my opinion. It is not dancing, it is smut.
(There I go again, but it is how I feel)


"the glaring lack of anything else in the way of creativity and expression"

This is really a sad state of affairs, I totally agree!

This WGON idea may be the Ticket, I will investigate this further.
Cheers Ron
ohlala
1,236 posts
 
Oh, I'd bet whatever kids listen to while their teens will be playing in their retro-minds and considered, in some way, classic 35 years from now. While I personally think you are overstating Top 40 1965, there is no doubt it is better than present Top 40, and that my initial corresponding post would be better off deleted.
treyhoss
287 posts
 
Over the last year I have driven through many states for various reasons. Radio is incredibly homogeneous across the country and can be divided into 4 groups; AM talk radio, FM Country, FM Classic Rock and FM Pop - the latter having a couple of sub-categories. The problem is finding a station not built to "pander" to a target audience.
Back in the '70s I remember listening to an "album rock" station that would play anything from the Moody Blues to The Cars or from Janis Joplin to REO Speedwagon. It was the "rock genre" but not sliced into "Classic, lite, Grunge , Alt", etc, etc. Stations that painted with a broader stroke like this were able to expose someone to a lot of different styles within a genre and were also able to aviod repeating the same artists songs over and over again! Today all sounds the same because, as so many others have pointed out, the media conglomerates have emphasized (too much) what their marketing departments tell them, all in order to have "documentation" to help in their sales of advertising.
I say bring back the radio station who turns you on to all types of artisis, SPONSORS LOCAL music events with LOCAL artists AND has DJ's that actually can tell you about the music you are about to (or just) heard! Media conglomerates owning a bunch of stations doesn't bother me as much as some people but I just wish the people at the top would wake up and allow the station managers to call thier own shots in their local market. This could make radio cool again IMO. Regards, Tony
rzemkoski
87 posts
 
Well said Zaikesman, 1965 AM radio (all we had) delivered the goods. Yes, we suffered with commercials and reverberated Disc Jockeys. We had to endure if we wanted to hear:

the Byrds
the Zombies
the Kinks
the Animals
Them
the Rolling Stones
Bob Dylan
the Beach Boys
James Brown
the Yardbirds
the Moody Blues
the Supremes
the Beatles.....just to name a few. Yes, radio today sucks hard.

Still buying new music, RichardZ
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