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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?

128x128rockinroni
mutahman
13 posts
 

i just found a couple of good (for my taste) internet radio stations

at this link (Ozzy metal gods)lots of older heavy metal (which since getting my ass back into the gym I have started listening to again)

http://www.live365.com/stations/161835

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at this link (www.slappa.com) a huge mix of all kinds of music--I like this while at work

there are lots of good internet radio stations
ohlala
1,235 posts
 
"Is this software made so I can stream my tunes on the Internet?"

I don't know how great it is, but yes. Let me know if you start a station, you already have your dj name.
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hbarrel
342 posts
 
Rockinroni I'm going to guess you grew up listening to "The Buzzard" just based on the names cited in the original post.
FM today doesn't play music. Noise is what I call it.
Life is bad when AM talk radio is more entertaining than FM.
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rockinroni OP
287 posts
 
Ohala,Thanks buddy ya I guess, it's my eBay name too but had to settle for rockenroni. The guys at work gave me that name cuzz I always had tunes playing.
I will look into getting something started.
One of my buds is serious about this idea.
This is one Idea (internet) that had not occurred to us old tech farts.There May be a problem as I only have one computer.

Mutahman, thanks for the link.

Hbarrel, No their names were, Reed Dickie and Ziggy Zapski
on CFRW/FM

"FM today doesn't play music. Noise is what I call it."

Thank You for your support,

"Those Beatles kids just scream and yell and play that god awful distortion laden electric guitar"jposs

The key word is they could still PLAY the guitar.
I know what you are saying and I hate becoming my Parents but I love music and stopped looking to the present media because of the noted points.

As I said at the top,I have been very fortunate to come up with some new tunes all 69/74 in the last 6 months like
Dr, Z,Can,
Gravy Train,Dragonfly,Finch,Magna Carta,Caravan,
Daddy Longlegs,Druid,Embryo,Patto,Gomorrha,Brainbox,Gandalf,
Khan,Sweetsmoke,May Blitz.
I have had these others for years Groundhogs,Beggars Opera,Triumvirat,Camel,Amon Duul,Audience.
Just to list some, lots of good tunes out there having fun looking. So much more,but can be expensive on LP. It would be nice to find a site or something that plays this kind of music so one could become acquainted with more tunes.
Ron
zaikesman
3,017 posts
 
Ohlala: Your response is not without validity (or predictability), as far as it goes. But it ignores our ability to develop tastes for musics from cultures foreign to our own, or from eras that can be described likewise. If familiarity with the elements (or lack of same) was the only litmus test for acceptance or appreciation of "new" (to us) musical styles, then it would fail to explain both why I don't like most of today's radio pop, as well as why I do like many kinds of music that were not a part of my upbringing or cultural background.
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