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My ipod will replace rock radio

M

mcamp

For Christmas I got an ipod...let me say it's pretty awesome.
I've already loaded it up with about 40 CD's worth of music and it pretty much ends me having to tune in to boring "classic rock" radio.
You won't find any Eagles, Steve Miller, Boston, etc...on it....just press "shuffle" and I'm all set!
There aren't any stations that go from Buddy Guy into King Crimson, into Frank Zappa, into Los Lobos, into Roy Buchanan anymore, except for my car.
 
marko83 said:
Congrats...you no longer have an excuse to post here.
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It's funny that you say that...I was thinking the same when I posted.
I've given up on radio a long time ago, and like many who post here, remember the way radio used to be, and how important it was in our lives....but rock radio programming is very narrow minded, and a shell of it's once glorious self...R.I.P.
 
Unless you are a history teacher....the past really doesnt matter. I mean, most of the people here say "I wish K??? sounded like they did 20 years ago." Just like people wish they look like they did 20 years ago. Guess what..it wouldn't be the same now anyway. You would be saying, "I wish K??? would change things...they've sounded the same for 20 years!" You either deal with change or you get stuck in the past. Sounds like you are trying to do both.
 
We wouldn't miss the past if it never went away. If my favorite, CKLW was still a top 40 today, even with the Drake formatics, would I listen to it? Seeing as I don't listen to CHR, I doubt it!
 
I'm 34 years old, and while I love a lot of things from the 60's, 70's' 80's' and 90's, I much rather hear new music. Sure my tastes have changed (I've mellowed some what), but it hasn't stopped me seeking ouut the next big thing. I am surrounded by pepople at work who totally shun new music, and think that people around 50 years old oly want/should only listen to music of their era. If I turn out like that, I hope someone has the good sense to put me out of my misery.
 
Just think if everything was like it was 20 years ago, we'd be watching beta-max, putting abspestos in our houses, and investing in Enron.
 
marko83 said:
Unless you are a history teacher....the past really doesnt matter. I mean, most of the people here say "I wish K??? sounded like they did 20 years ago." Just like people wish they look like they did 20 years ago. Guess what..it wouldn't be the same now anyway. You would be saying, "I wish K??? would change things...they've sounded the same for 20 years!" You either deal with change or you get stuck in the past. Sounds like you are trying to do both.
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When I talk about the past regrading radio, I'm talking about playing music for music's sake.
I'm talking about radio where DJ's had a say in the music played, and not just a "radio personality" they have become.
I'm talking about rock radio that played new and old, not the segregated formats that we have today.
Is change for the sake of change a good thing? I don't care about ratings, and how much media corporations are making on their stock...I get no entertainment value out of their stock options.
I have a question for all here: When was the last time you said while listening to the radio..."Wow, I haven't heard that song in a while".
 
About 4 hours ago when I was looking through the music libary

"I haven't heard that song in a while - I'll play it" :D
 
mcamp said:
I have a question for all here: When was the last time you said while listening to the radio..."Wow, I haven't heard that song in a while".
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About 8 hours ago (the last time I was listening to the radio. FYI, the song Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs - Most People I Know think I'm Crazy, from 1972.
 
Lee Anderson said:
mcamp said:
I have a question for all here: When was the last time you said while listening to the radio..."Wow, I haven't heard that song in a while".
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About 8 hours ago (the last time I was listening to the radio. FYI, the song Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs - Most People I Know think I'm Crazy, from 1972.
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Was that on commercial radio, or was it on XM?
All I know, what has become "classic rock" (I live in the Boston area), is excruciating to listen to.
There is this sort of revisionist history of what is classic.
There are bands that have become more popular in their demise, than they were in their time.
Then their is this selective programming: they play the Clash, but not Elvis Costello; they play Elton John, but not Chicago, etc...I know I'm rambling here, but the bottom line with me: I remember a more open programming mindset, and the preset way of radio has created a generation of narrow minded listeners, and it's too late to change it. And you wonder why the music industry is in such dire straits....they have alienated entire demographics to different genres of music, because the populous falls into two catagories: you like only new music, or you like only old music....but now with my ipod, I can enjoy both without changing CD's after every song.
 
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