That Damn Punk Show & The Metal Show

[Mike1]

How much longer will these shows be around? Do they even belong on a station tryint to pass itself off as alternative?

 

[timbuc2]

Re: what is alternative?

> How much longer will these shows be around? Do they even
> belong on a station tryint to pass itself off as
> alternative?
>
First, what makes a radio station alternative? Is it playing bands like cold play, franz ferdinand, and the killers? Or is it playing bands and/or songs that don't get air play and are from various genres(which would include the content of the punk and metal show)?

I tend to lean to the second. I think 92.3 does also considering one day last week within 3 hours they played Hatebreed, Slayer, and Pantera (all metal bands) and yesterday Drop Kick Murphies (a punk band) was played twice within a few hours.

So, to answer the question I say yes they belong.<P ID="signature">______________
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
Albert Einstein
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[AllMightySting]

Re: what is alternative?

> > How much longer will these shows be around? Do they even
> > belong on a station tryint to pass itself off as
> > alternative?
> >
> First, what makes a radio station alternative? Is it
> playing bands like cold play, franz ferdinand, and the
> killers? Or is it playing bands and/or songs that don't get
> air play and are from various genres(which would include the
> content of the punk and metal show)?
>
> I tend to lean to the second. I think 92.3 does also
> considering one day last week within 3 hours they played
> Hatebreed, Slayer, and Pantera (all metal bands) and
> yesterday Drop Kick Murphies (a punk band) was played twice
> within a few hours.
>
> So, to answer the question I say yes they belong.
>

I agree with Buc2. However, I DO NOT think that 923 needs to be playing Hatebreed and Slayer in regular rotation. That's the stuff they SHOULD have been playing when they were Xtreme radio. But I think that having a specialty show devoted to going deeper into those two genres of rock is a very "alternative" radio thing to do. Besides the metal show is on late night Sundays....does it really matter what is on late night Sundays...its a virtual ratings wasteland. <P ID="signature">______________
Ben Toplek
DJ/WBWC</P>