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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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unclejeff
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Anytime anyone keeps talking about 'the good old days' I expect another of to sound like our parents. It is true that the so-called alternative stations of the late 60's and 70's don't seem to be as much 'out there'. Of course, one must measure this against what was 'there' when these stations first appeared. It was all pop AM-crap and normal FM was dominated by Jazz, classic and elevator music. How many of us discovered rock on the AM dial? How many kids today discover their own music--as opposed to their parents' music--now, on FM?

Remember there is one purpose to radio: to sell advertising. Or, to be more specific to sell things. The powers that be have realized that alternative radio does not attract the advertising dollars that the average humm-drum crap can. I live in a major metropolitan area and I drive the passengers in my car crazy as whenever a Dj comes back on, I push the button and find more music.

EVEN A PIECE OF A SONG IS WORTH MORE THAN A COMMERCIAL

That is my justification if I bug someone too much. No, it is not a "guy thing with the remote". I just hate commercials. I do pause to hear the news, though.

So, I am obviously not the target audience. Why should a radio station play my music when I just keep changing channels? I do suspect, though, that there will be some alternative web based stations that many of us will listen to...and it would be much harder to change channels. So folks, lets get a list together of favorite stations that are streamed to the computers and have some fun. DSL can be wonderful, allthough one can get decent music on a regular telephone lines. I was in France a while ago and I was able to listen to my home-station on my friend's computer.
unclejeff
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Zaikesman;

Don't be too worried about tomorrow's artists. Look what the great rock artists of the fifties followed.

What was the 'number one' song when the Beatles his town? I thing it was Dominee(sp?) by The Singing Nun.
unclejeff
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Jposs;

You said it better and sweeter than I did: This coming from what at least half of you would call just another old fart...me.
unclejeff
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Hey Ohlala---don't retreat. I love it when someone who is eloquent can take folks on.

I just got back from a very good friend's home. He lives about two hours from me. His daughter graduated from High School so I went down for the event. The point being that her 16 year old brother is developing his interest in the guitar and it turns out that he has been waiting for some time for me to pay them a visit. While anyone who knows me can see I would never buy his music, I can appreciate it. He put a DVD with some group called 'CORN' --or was it KORN?--anyway it seems he couldn't wait to get my opinion of the group. These guys played on their feet, bent over at 90 degrees at the hip. The vocals were abusive---the kids were swaying and shouting and loving it. My friend's son asked me what I thought. I said "Sweet Jesus---that guy on bass is one of the best I have heard in a long time" The kid jumped up into the air, slapped me a high-five and yelled "Yeah, yeah, I knew YOU(!) would see it!" As a matter of fact the bass player is really good. But as too many of our parents were distracted by Alice Cooper's dress, this kid's parents couldn't get past what the group looked like. I really don't care for the music, but folks, there is plenty of talent out there. We are just stuck in here!!
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