For True Music Fans, FM Radio Sucks

[stan]

The original poster demonstrates why more and more people listen to smartphones with their own music on them, Spotify or podcasts. Radio no longer provides entertainment. It stopped doing that when it lost much of its local personality with voicetracking.

 

[TheBigA]

It stopped doing that when it lost much of its local personality with voicetracking.

Except there still are lots of local personalities. Especially in New York. There are union rules about VT in New York.

 

[CTListener]

Except there still are lots of local personalities. Especially in New York. There are union rules about VT in New York.

Three-post wonder jehoyle cross-posted in the Washington forum too (where he also posted his only follow-up), so we really have no idea if he's from NY, DC, or is just some random hit-and-run troll.

 

[brettbutlerisok]

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[TTalkradio1]

Hmmm, the New Kids on the Block we late 80s, early 90s. Backstreet Boys came along in 96 and 97. They were huge on MTV. They showed up at the MTV Awards at Radio City Music Hall and there was a stand-off between their fans and the rap fans. They hung in with music into the early 2000s with TRL, but it was very different.

New Kids were the only ones, I meant the boy bands in the late 90s.

 

[TheBigA]

New Kids were the only ones, I meant the boy bands in the late 90s.

And as I said, they continued to get airplay on MTV into the 2000s with shows like TRL.

 

[TTalkradio1]

And as I said, they continued to get airplay on MTV into the 2000s with shows like TRL.

I never said they stopped playing music. That show was one hour.

 

[Groove1670]

I don't know why people complain about today's music radio. Yes, it isn't near the same as it was in decades past and modern pop music does really suck but now there are so many ways to record your own playlists. Without commercials. Without chatty DJ's. Without stupid contests.

I keep saying IMHO the day the music died was sometime in 1984 (with very few exceptions and even fewer today). Put the music you like on a portable device. I have a DVD, DVD-A, CD and memory stick in my car and home and can play anything I like whenever I want to listen. No need to use radio for music any longer. Leave radio to the political rants, sports talk, home flippers and religious spammers.

Confession, I do use my FM or FM-HD when I want to tap into some Oldies just to see what's going on.

There is a point that the music dies for everyone. When you reach a certain age, you no longer relate to "Todays" music. It usually means music has shifted from the comfort zone that you are familiar with. Also we spend less time listening and collecting current music as we age.

There was a great article about this in Rolling Stone. I wish I could find it.