I have been tuned on g rock all week and i like what i hear. the music mostly good. with thoese anyoing songs thrown in their also. i like the linkin park weekend idea of promoting new music and giving away cds it helps them gain populaity in the band and their station. i also agree with matt knight on you cant play all new songs all the time. so g rock keep playing what you play. also matt knight stop playing that rangers songbefore your shift that songs stinks GO DEVILS.
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G-Rock Suggested Changes
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As an adjustment to my last post: 40 is a decent amount of currents to play - however, when about 20% of said currents are technically recurrents, that leaves you with roughly the same amount of new tracks as your token CBS Modern Rocker. That said, there are a lot of good new songs that G Rock could be playing instead of incessantly slamming "Anna Molly" and "Black Parade" the way they do - and I'm still surprised as to why everyone likes the latter song so much, it sounds a lot like Bon Jovi to me. Speaking of which, "Black Parade" is playing again as I type this - enough already!!!
G Rock comes up with some really solid selections sometimes, and I suppose that's the main thing that you could ask out of an Alternative. Several R.E.M. songs (and not just the biggest hits either), A Perfect Circle, Morrissey, Squeeze, Dandy Warhols, etc.
The downside is that sometimes you feel like you're listening to a Hot/Modern AC at times with all the lite-rock they play. Too many easy listening songs from the likes of Audioslave, Coldplay, Plain White T's, Counting Crows, Incubus, and Pearl Jam (all over a rather brief time period) ruin the experience and make the station sound like they're trying too hard to capture the PLJ/Point/SoJo audience. I would rather see G Rock focus on being a great Alternative station, and while they are often very enjoyable, it's stuff like this that drags them down.
The aversion to heavier rock acts is also disappointing, as having all this soft music and nothing edgy to balance it also gives it a "soccer mom radio" sound. No Tool, Rage Against The Machine, Ministry - nothing. I was listening to WLIR in Long Island the other night and it sounded as good as it did during its halcyon days - lots of deep '80s cuts and currents, not too much in the way of overplayed pop/rock ballads, and some heavier songs as well - I heard them play White Zombie twice during the time I listened. Music like this would do G Rock well to play, especially if they choose to continue being so ballad-intensive.
In short, when G Rock is on, they're on. But it really is hard to get past some of the awful rubbish that they continue to play that other stations cut loose a long time ago. All American Rejects and their little boy-band love songs? Sum 41, Mr. Avril Lavigne's boy band with guitars? Shinedown and their earnest sub-Skynyrd trucker-rock fluff? Worst of all, Puddle Of Mudd and one of the most vapid, irritating songs of this decade - "She Hates Me"? You guys have about 30 years of music to draw from, so quality control should be a concern if you are letting complete junk like this on the air.
Basically, going back to Matt Knight - the station volleys between being excellent and awful. G Rock is doing a great job with the retro tracks, there's good current songs in the rotation and the presentation is top-notch. And the Rangers and Mets themes are good for a laugh no matter what team you support (they both have a "Super Bowl Shuffle"-like amusement factor to them).
We could do with less of the "hot boy bands" like Fall Out Boy, Plain White T's and Green Day (by that I mean not to stop playing them, just don't play them constantly!) and cornball Hallmark Card balladry from Fuel, Staind, and Papa Roach. I don't know any other Alternative station that piles on the latter the way G Rock does.
In addition, I really wish you would play more edgier rock (helps to rinse the bad taste of the boy bands and lite-rock acts out of our mouths) and add a new music program at night. I know several stations that play all new music for an hour or two 5 nights a week, and I think it would be a good idea for G Rock to add a feature like this. Much like Retro Request Hour and 5 O'Clock Shuffle, it's a way to be more interactive with your nighttime listeners, finding out what songs go over well with your audience and which songs do not. The absence of The Underground and the G Rock Music Lab has definitely been felt over the last few weeks.
Despite its flaws, G Rock is still a really good station. I just hope that eventually they will abandon trying to win over the soccer moms with all these lite rock hits and their daughters with all the pseudo-punk "hot boy bands". FM 106.3 wouldn't have played this, and they overcame their weak signal to post solid ratings. Think of what G Rock could do if they tinkered with the rotation a bit - the possibilities are limitless.
G Rock comes up with some really solid selections sometimes, and I suppose that's the main thing that you could ask out of an Alternative. Several R.E.M. songs (and not just the biggest hits either), A Perfect Circle, Morrissey, Squeeze, Dandy Warhols, etc.
The downside is that sometimes you feel like you're listening to a Hot/Modern AC at times with all the lite-rock they play. Too many easy listening songs from the likes of Audioslave, Coldplay, Plain White T's, Counting Crows, Incubus, and Pearl Jam (all over a rather brief time period) ruin the experience and make the station sound like they're trying too hard to capture the PLJ/Point/SoJo audience. I would rather see G Rock focus on being a great Alternative station, and while they are often very enjoyable, it's stuff like this that drags them down.
The aversion to heavier rock acts is also disappointing, as having all this soft music and nothing edgy to balance it also gives it a "soccer mom radio" sound. No Tool, Rage Against The Machine, Ministry - nothing. I was listening to WLIR in Long Island the other night and it sounded as good as it did during its halcyon days - lots of deep '80s cuts and currents, not too much in the way of overplayed pop/rock ballads, and some heavier songs as well - I heard them play White Zombie twice during the time I listened. Music like this would do G Rock well to play, especially if they choose to continue being so ballad-intensive.
In short, when G Rock is on, they're on. But it really is hard to get past some of the awful rubbish that they continue to play that other stations cut loose a long time ago. All American Rejects and their little boy-band love songs? Sum 41, Mr. Avril Lavigne's boy band with guitars? Shinedown and their earnest sub-Skynyrd trucker-rock fluff? Worst of all, Puddle Of Mudd and one of the most vapid, irritating songs of this decade - "She Hates Me"? You guys have about 30 years of music to draw from, so quality control should be a concern if you are letting complete junk like this on the air.
Basically, going back to Matt Knight - the station volleys between being excellent and awful. G Rock is doing a great job with the retro tracks, there's good current songs in the rotation and the presentation is top-notch. And the Rangers and Mets themes are good for a laugh no matter what team you support (they both have a "Super Bowl Shuffle"-like amusement factor to them).
We could do with less of the "hot boy bands" like Fall Out Boy, Plain White T's and Green Day (by that I mean not to stop playing them, just don't play them constantly!) and cornball Hallmark Card balladry from Fuel, Staind, and Papa Roach. I don't know any other Alternative station that piles on the latter the way G Rock does.
In addition, I really wish you would play more edgier rock (helps to rinse the bad taste of the boy bands and lite-rock acts out of our mouths) and add a new music program at night. I know several stations that play all new music for an hour or two 5 nights a week, and I think it would be a good idea for G Rock to add a feature like this. Much like Retro Request Hour and 5 O'Clock Shuffle, it's a way to be more interactive with your nighttime listeners, finding out what songs go over well with your audience and which songs do not. The absence of The Underground and the G Rock Music Lab has definitely been felt over the last few weeks.
Despite its flaws, G Rock is still a really good station. I just hope that eventually they will abandon trying to win over the soccer moms with all these lite rock hits and their daughters with all the pseudo-punk "hot boy bands". FM 106.3 wouldn't have played this, and they overcame their weak signal to post solid ratings. Think of what G Rock could do if they tinkered with the rotation a bit - the possibilities are limitless.
I'd like to introduce two people to each other:
SoulCrusher, this is dead horse....
Dead horse, this is SoulCrusher....prepare for an ass-whippin.
Enjoy.
SoulCrusher, this is dead horse....
Dead horse, this is SoulCrusher....prepare for an ass-whippin.
Enjoy.
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Beejus
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Matt Knight said:
This just in... an actual short video clip of SoulCrusher not 5 minutes ago:
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Beejus
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SoulCrusher said:
Considering some stations are still spinning it 30-50 times a week, GRock isn't "incessantly slamming" this tune. Plus, view it this way... Grock usually tops out at 30ish spins a week for it's top tune. Many Alt stations top off anywhere from 40-50 spins a week. I'm not saying this is the case, but there is a possibility that songs burn slower on GRock since they're NOT forced down the listeners throats as much as other stations. Two spins a day? Perfectly acceptable.
Heaven forbid they play the hits the listeners want to hear. Audioslave, Coldplay, Incubus, and Pearl Jam are proven Alternative staples. Counting Crows have had their success at Alt as well. Plain White T's are tearing up the charts with Hey There Delilah (even Indie 103.1 in LA, The End in Seattle, and 96.5 the Buzz in Kansas City have picked up on it). Playing these artists means GRock IS focusing on being a great Alternative station. It's YOUR definition of Alternative that doesn't match.
Yet when GRock plays an artist twice within a span that you listen, you get in a huff, hop on the boards, and whine about it. Hypocrite much?
Too late. Especially when there is an intermission, and three more acts to go in this post.
Fall Out Boy, Plain White T's and Green Day are hot at alterative right now. Just because YOU don't like it doesn't mean the rest of the listeners don't like it. (Plain White T's nationally are testing VERY well with males at Alternative right now too... blowing your "only teenage girls like them theory.)
What happened to "in short?"
Beejus said:
To clarify: They played lite rock songs from Audioslave (Like A Stone) and Pearl Jam (Better Man) - it's not about the band they chose to play, but that it was yet another soft rock song thrown in the mix. If they had played "Cochise" or "Go" at this time it would have been a different story. As for Coldplay, they have found far greater success on AC and Hot AC than Alternative, which is befitting for a band that sounds an awful lot like Air Supply at times, particularly on the sappy "Yellow" and "Speed Of Sound".
I don't object to most of this music getting played (Puddle Of Mudd, on the other hand - it's almost as if Fred Durst had to go out and find a band worse than his own). What I don't understand is G Rock's reluctance to embrace the heavier side of the Alternative format, as you're lucky to even hear it late at night. It would help to provide balance to a station that sounds too soft at times. To illustrate this point - surprisingly light rotation for NIN's "Survivalism" and Chevelle's "Well Enough Alone" (this even with the opening scream taken out) and edgier acts on the charts yet to receive adds (Tool, Bullet For My Valentine, Marilyn Manson). Furthermore, you seldom hear any harder rock music on the other rocker in the market as well, which is too busy pushing the nauseating likes of Nickelback, Hinder and Daughtry. There's a whole group out there that would love to hear the occasional heavy song on the radio, and no one is providing it for them.
Perhaps. But in this case it's different, since it's an act we don't hear constantly. It's a lot less objectionable than, say, Green Day or Incubus. Not that I necessarily dislike these bands, but they are both ridiculously overplayed where something else could fit in just fine.
Fall Out Boy: The very Justin Timberlake sounding "This Ain't A Scene..." didn't do so hot on Alternative for a band of their popularity (despite having all the advantages in the world, it only peaked at #8), and was far more successful on Hot AC and CHR. Like Simple Plan and Bowling For Soup, this band really is too poppy and overproduced for Alternative. Add to this their incessant appearances in teenybopper mags and Pete Wentz dating waste of space Ashlee Simpson, and that further indicates why this bubblegum pop act has no place on the format that dares to be different. They make Green Day sound like Crass.
Plain White T's: The males that like the song are probably deeply in love which could be the only explanation why they would enjoy such a piece of sentimental piffle. They probably also watch soap operas and MTV with their girlfriends as well. Aside from Hey There Delilah, all of their songs sound the same and are pretty much about the same thing. Clearly a band that's only in it for the money. To heck with them.
Green Day: They may think of themselves as punk rock, but they're a slick pop group and have been from the start. I think they helped create a monster and paved the way for acts who bill themselves as punk but aren't in any way. Since "Good Riddance" they've made a few attempts at riding the cheesy "woe is me" ballad gravy train to success, as is the case with soccer mom smashes like "Wake Me Up When September Ends". Basically, they wore off the grooves on these discs when the songs were current, so there really isn't a need to play them as much as they do - that's why people go out and buy CDs, or pick up the tracks on iTunes.
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Beejus
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SoulCrusher said:
Let's see... I'm a male that likes this song. I'm single, I don't watch any soaps, and despise MTV.
Or it's all just a conspiracy... RateTheMusic went out of their way to make sure that EVERY male that filled out their survey fit that EXACT stereotype.
Enough with posting the SAME EXACT argument over and over again. What it comes down to is that YOUR view of Alternative differs from everyone else's... but the rest of the world NEEDS to conform to you.
This thread didn't need to be dragged out this long. GRock is sounding great with the music mix they have. But what does it matter... you'll read this post, repeat your argument again, and people will roll their eyes when they see SoulCrusher as having the last post again.
I'm not going to respond in this thread again, unless someone other than SoulCrusher adds insightful thought to it. You DO realize that no one has given you a truly serious response in a while right?
When i visit my brother and dad in long branch i listen to g rock 106.3 granted i enjoyed modern rock at the jersey shore more but g rock is a decent station.I live in louisville ky where we have this god awful active rock station with a few alt songs thrown in.The station is awful.They report as alt why i have no idea.Radio one owns them and is clueless at rock radio but my point being is g rock has evolved into a pretty good sounding alt station and i can listen to them no problem so feel blessed.Where as in louisville i am repulsed by the trash i have to put up with so i never put the active/alt station on here.Sometimes i do stream g rock.You guys also have a good aaa station with 90.5
hotpatrick2004 said:
I think the problem with G Rock is that we compare it to so many other stations, most notably FM 106.3, but since it shares the same frequency and calls, it's hard not to. If Press hadn't tinkered with WHTG's original sound so much they would have found success earlier. Instead they were a Modern AC disguised as Alternative for so many years and it took them about 6 years to arrive at this sound, the closest they've been to FM 106.3 with more retro cuts and thankfully less Neanderthal Rock (no Nickelback and 3 Doors Down, although we still are subjected to the likes of Shinedown and Puddle Of Mudd). Speaking of POM, they played them again today, the sappy ProTooled-to-death soccer mom ballad "Blurry". PLJ and Point play this song all the time - dump this crap and play some Primus or Sonic Youth, or pretty much anything else.
I have to admit that I forget how much better G Rock is than other stations that call themselves Alternative, among them K-Rock in NYC when they were this format. They overplayed songs just as much if not more than G Rock and didn't play nearly as many deeper retro tracks or new songs, and they definitely pandered way too much to the frat boy audience during their last few years. If they were still around, I know they would be cranking out acts like Nickelback and Hinder constantly without playing anything that came out before Nirvana. Like the majority of Alternatives out there, G Rock is a very good station with flaws ... those flaws being too much heavy airplay for recurrents, not nearly enough of the edgier side of Alternative (and therefore, too many soft ballads), and no new music feature. I don't think the first two will ever be rectified, because this has been done since the beginning regardless of whatever PD is on board, so clearly this is upper management's idea. This probably didn't happen, but I'll give you a scenario: Did you think that if Terrie Carr came in and said "we should give Tool as much rotation as Green Day and give White Zombie and Ministry a few spins" that management wouldn't call foul? Terrie has some input and has helped the station make some dramatic improvements in some areas, but there's some things that she (or anyone else for that matter) has no control over.
G Rock is on the right track. It's sounding better than ever because management relinquished some control to an experienced PD. I don't feel that G Rock is a labor of love for Press like The Breeze is, which is why the station has had such a Modern AC sound for the better part of its first six years. I'm guessing the only reason for the soft sound over the years is because Press thought the station would be more appealing to advertisers - too bad there's already so many ACs in the market and that many Alternative listeners find lite rock utterly repugnant. If they had done more research on Alternative before they started broadcasting it, they would have known that. Hopefully the new and improved sound will lead to improved ratings for the station, and that management will let the radio professionals have full creative control.
And if the "new and improved" sound does not lead to better ratings will you finally admit that you don't know anything about radio programming? Or will you just keep saying they need to go harder and edgier, because you think more people like to listen to Tool than like to listen to Green Day?
Speaking of ratings...if you do your research SC, you'll see that the best ratings the station every got was immediately after the simulcast with WBBO when, as I recall, you were railing against how soft it was with No Doubt, Nickelback, 3 Doors Down, etc. It seems to me as the station has gone more "Alternative" over the last few years, the ratings have steadily gone down. Since you are an expert, what do you attribute to that?
mondoradio said:
I remember that you posed a similar question a little while back about how G Rock did better when it initially became a two-station broadcast. Here's my response from 3/16/07:
To an extent you're right. However, I don't think it was the programming that played an integral part in the early success of G Rock. I would count the expanded presence (starting to serve Ocean County) and the new format (Alternative, albeit a watered-down version of it at the time) as the main factors that played in favor of G Rock. The ratings drop that occurred had everything to do with the station playing it too safe and becoming stale, playing so many of the same songs that had been run into the ground years ago, both on G Rock and elsewhere. This new approach should win over everyone except for the most die-hard trucker rock fans who think Nickelback and 3 Doors Down are the best bands ever, and it could even win over the biggest skeptics who think everything pales in comparison to FM 106.3. It may not have the free-form anything-goes sound that its predecessor had, but G Rock now sounds like a station that the big fans of the format can listen to and actually be surprised every so often. I'm listening more than I ever have since Press bought WHTG, that's for sure.
Besides sounding more like a Modern AC than Alternative until recently, the other main flaw in one word: repetition. A different type of repetition - instead of hearing the songs 60 times a week for 3 months, they get played 20 times a week for 9 months. Take "Welcome To The Black Parade", a polarizing song that sounds like a cross between Queen and Motley Crue. I don't know whether it's the Jersey connection or not, but after 8 months the song is still seeing rather heavy rotation at about 15-20 spins a week, and it's been at that level or higher since it came out. By now everyone is familiar with the song, and I would bet that everyone over the age of 15 is sick of it. In addition, there's certain songs by the likes of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots that have been played to death over the last 15 years and still see frequent rotation at G Rock. I also count not having enough special programs as a flaw as well. They have the Breakfast Club and Common Threads, which is good - if you're up at the crack of dawn on weekends. I don't understand the opposition to trying something at night, either something focusing on a subgenre of Alternative, an all-request show, or a talk-intensive program like the Antisocial Club.
Basically it boils down to this: People are tired of the "same old thing". The listener will get bored if you beat the same songs into the ground and pander to one part of your demo - that was the mistake that K-Rock made, and I would hate to see the same thing happen to G Rock.
Tom said:
This song stands out like a sore thumb on Alternative, not just because of its sound but its doe-eyed, sweet subject matter. It's all too innocent and naive for me. The lyrics are just begging the listeners to say "awwwwww" when they hear them. I don't understand how this song has taken off this way among the listeners. Perhaps they would be interested in listening to Air Supply?
Alright, I'm probably gonna catch some flack for bringing another complaint into this thread. But is it just me, or is G-Rock slowly turning into a "classic alternative" station? Don't get me wrong, I commend them for expanding their retro library, but it seems like they've getting really lazy about adding new music ever since Terrie Carr came on board. Yeah, they had a few good adds like Peter Bjorn & John and Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, and they were quick to add the new White Stripes song, but there's quite a few new songs that they're avoiding for some inexplicable reason. And I'm not just talking about up-and-coming acts; where are the new releases from Interpol, Queens of the Stone Age, Green Day (I know it's a cover, but still), Modest Mouse, Snow Patrol, Arctic Monkeys, and Muse? These are all bands that G-Rock plays regularly, so why the hesitation over adding their new ones? Heck, they could even play the new one from Fall Out Boy instead of running "This Ain't A Scene..." further into a ground. This on top of the recent cancellation of the Music Lab and The Underground makes me think they're letting new music take a back seat to retro stuff, and there's no reason why they can't be strong in both departments.
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they still play way too much new stuff for my taste. I never listened before because I really didn't like the station or even realize they were a rock station. I do however now really enjoy the alt mix. 92.3 never sounded this good. 92.3's retro rock weekends consisted of Ozzy and rush instead of Morrisey and the Cure. and I am a guy and think the Plain White T's song is great. I'm glad I have a rock station to listen to even though the signal in my area of Somerset is not the greatest. but I disagree on the new stuff. There is plenty. Once I hear too much....I flip ...
Interesting point - now that they're leaning more heavily on classic alt, folks are wondering whether they're going too far in that direction. I'd say not - for comparison, Indie 103.1 goes far heavier on the classics. I think the trick they're coming very close to achieving is choosing new tracks that resonate with that.
<plug>Of course, Altrok Radio's been doing that consistently for years, but that's no reason you should start listening now...</plug>
They've come a long way, though - initially they were a station that claimed to be one thing and was really another. Now their playlist at least matches their imaging, and I think they're reaping the rewards; people who tune in don't feel like they've been tricked anymore. Good on 'em for that.
-Sean
Altrok Radio
<plug>Of course, Altrok Radio's been doing that consistently for years, but that's no reason you should start listening now...</plug>
They've come a long way, though - initially they were a station that claimed to be one thing and was really another. Now their playlist at least matches their imaging, and I think they're reaping the rewards; people who tune in don't feel like they've been tricked anymore. Good on 'em for that.
-Sean
Altrok Radio
I don't see why G Rock couldn't take more of a WLIR approach, which would please everyone - lots of new music and a really deep variety of retro tracks as well, and as mentioned before they're not afraid to play some harder tracks also. They don't play a whole ton of the early '90s grunge acts and those inspired by that movement like G Rock does, and that's the main difference - I wouldn't like to see that sound go away completely, but G Rock could stand to play a little less of it, because who isn't tired of the big hits off of Nevermind and Ten by now?
The retro lean is great - this is what they should have been doing all along and hopefully the listeners WHTG has lost in recent years will come back. But the Current end of things has definitely suffered to the point where G Rock has decided to cancel both of their new music features. I hope they either broaden their playlist to include more new music or go for a really diverse Classic Alternative sound similar to what The End in Seattle or WFNX in Boston offers.
The retro lean is great - this is what they should have been doing all along and hopefully the listeners WHTG has lost in recent years will come back. But the Current end of things has definitely suffered to the point where G Rock has decided to cancel both of their new music features. I hope they either broaden their playlist to include more new music or go for a really diverse Classic Alternative sound similar to what The End in Seattle or WFNX in Boston offers.
mjb1124 said:
They could definitely use more new music, perhaps in a 1 or 2 hour long new music program at night, if not in the form of more currents. Speaking of which, some of the adds have me scratching my head. Not only is Pearl Jam's "Love Reign O'er Me" not charting very well, but it's more of a song that The Rat should be playing anyway. It's "Viking Rock". Then there's Evanescence, who are more Hot AC than Alternative. In addition, why would you want to support someone like Amy Lee, who by all accounts is a self-absorbed egomaniac who thinks nothing of stepping on others or kicking people out of the way to achieve what she wishes? There's other stuff that would fit in far better IMO.
SoulCrusher said:
I don't think G-Rock leans THAT heavily towards early '90s grunge hits. I only hear them play most of the big Nirvana/PJ hits twice a week at most, and I listen fairly often. Maybe I'm just not as tired of those songs as you are.
I got to listen to WFNX while visiting my friends in Boston a few months ago. They have a very well-balanced sound.
Again, I really like what G-Rock is doing with the classics. If they did become a straight-up classic alt station, I'd still listen. But if they want to continue to push new music, they need to push a little harder. I'm not saying they should add every new song that's released, or go out of their way to find something obscure. They should just pay a little more attention to what's getting buzz, and they certainly should be up on the latest releases from their core artists. They did finally add the new one from Muse - hopefully that won't be the only add this week.
BTW, I did listen to Altrok a couple times when it was on WRSU, and I liked what I heard. I'll have to check out the online stream.
3:52am My Chemical Romance Welcome To The Black Parade
8:07pm My Chemical Romance Welcome To The Black Parade
The repetition of this abysmal song continues. I could care less if these guys are from Jersey - this song is basically the antithesis of what the Alternative format was all about. My Chemical Romance were once decent Misfits-inspired rock, but now they're just a bunch of glam rock princesses and this is their nadir. Come on now - with 30 years of material to draw upon, there's no need to repeatedly spin this teenybopper junk.
I don't know what G Rock is trying to do. It bears mentioning that there were no new adds last week, and just one this week that I noticed (the aforementioned Muse). I really don't understand why the Music Lab and The Underground were pulled, and even more surprising is that a song that currently sits at #13 on the charts (The Used - The Bird And The Worm) has yet to be added at G Rock. The library has improved dramatically, but we're still seeing the incessant repetition of recurrents. Pretty much everyone is sick of "Black Parade" by now, and anyone who isn't would be well advised to go pick up some Ratt albums, or maybe some Krokus.
G Rock always plays it too safe in one way or another, and that just leads to boredom for the listener. How about less repeats and more variety - is there anything wrong with that? Either more new music or a deeper catalog of retro tracks - either would be an improvement over all the repetition.
8:07pm My Chemical Romance Welcome To The Black Parade
The repetition of this abysmal song continues. I could care less if these guys are from Jersey - this song is basically the antithesis of what the Alternative format was all about. My Chemical Romance were once decent Misfits-inspired rock, but now they're just a bunch of glam rock princesses and this is their nadir. Come on now - with 30 years of material to draw upon, there's no need to repeatedly spin this teenybopper junk.
I don't know what G Rock is trying to do. It bears mentioning that there were no new adds last week, and just one this week that I noticed (the aforementioned Muse). I really don't understand why the Music Lab and The Underground were pulled, and even more surprising is that a song that currently sits at #13 on the charts (The Used - The Bird And The Worm) has yet to be added at G Rock. The library has improved dramatically, but we're still seeing the incessant repetition of recurrents. Pretty much everyone is sick of "Black Parade" by now, and anyone who isn't would be well advised to go pick up some Ratt albums, or maybe some Krokus.
G Rock always plays it too safe in one way or another, and that just leads to boredom for the listener. How about less repeats and more variety - is there anything wrong with that? Either more new music or a deeper catalog of retro tracks - either would be an improvement over all the repetition.
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joekelly
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3:52am My Chemical Romance Welcome To The Black Parade
8:07pm My Chemical Romance Welcome To The Black Parade
The repetition of this abysmal song continues.
Dude,
Really, give it a rest..... Normal people don't hear a song at 4 in the morning, and happen to hear it at 8pm and think, "What the heck...?"
I'm not familiar with the station, but I'd guess they are programming to real people, not people who listen and dissect the placement of every song, wondering what kind of time seperation is being used.
If you can't stand what they are doing - stop listening!
Life's too short!
Joe Kelly
8:07pm My Chemical Romance Welcome To The Black Parade
The repetition of this abysmal song continues.
Dude,
Really, give it a rest..... Normal people don't hear a song at 4 in the morning, and happen to hear it at 8pm and think, "What the heck...?"
I'm not familiar with the station, but I'd guess they are programming to real people, not people who listen and dissect the placement of every song, wondering what kind of time seperation is being used.
If you can't stand what they are doing - stop listening!
Life's too short!
Joe Kelly
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