Today I was liberated from bad Radio, "thank god Almighty, free At Last"

[hornet61]

After years of ranting and raving about the state of oldies radio, oldies country, classic rock, etc both commercial and satelllite........today I installed a kenwood radio in my vehicle with a usb plug, and walked away from commercial radio.......and will never look back.

cost of radio $330 ...... never having to put up with incompetent programming.........priceless
cost of 8g flash drive with 7,000 cuts $25...............commercial/satellite radio with 1200 cuts.......priceless
cost of gas cruising in car $1.65/gall.............. listening to non-entertaining jocks.........priceless

given my age and projected good health, i might have 20 good years left. 7,000 cuts.... average of one hour listening per day in car and two hours listening on my computer......i will probably never hear a repeat in those twenty years ...........priceless.

I will never have to be driving down the street switching stations from oldies to classic rock to classic country every 3.5 minutes,mumbling #$%^&*((@!...........priceless.

If I Want the weather , I'll lower my window and stick my arm out.........priceless

Traffic reports, never again, in fact I'll welcome traffic jams, i'm having too much fun listening to this wonderful music...priceless

Station blackout..weak signal......commercials ...never again.......priceless

Idiotic contests and call-Ins "what agravates you about your neighbor", never again.................priceless

I am taking way too long writing this, i've got to get back to my music..... never complain about your stations again, i have shown you the way out, you too can program your own station............you can determine how many cuts in your library..........you can combine any many genre's as you like,..All Sinatra , All Beatles , All Elvis, no monthly fee, the variations are endless, for less than $400, you can be liberated.

 

[TheFonz]

Re: Today I was liberated from bad Radio, "thank god Almighty, free At Last"

After years of ranting and raving about the state of oldies radio, oldies country, classic rock, etc both commercial and satelllite........today I installed a kenwood radio in my vehicle with a usb plug, and walked away from commercial radio.......and will never look back.

cost of radio $330 ...... never having to put up with incompetent programming.........priceless
cost of 8g flash drive with 7,000 cuts $25...............commercial/satellite radio with 1200 cuts.......priceless
cost of gas cruising in car $1.65/gall.............. listening to non-entertaining jocks.........priceless

given my age and projected good health, i might have 20 good years left. 7,000 cuts.... average of one hour listening per day in car and two hours listening on my computer......i will probably never hear a repeat in those twenty years ...........priceless.

I will never have to be driving down the street switching stations from oldies to classic rock to classic country every 3.5 minutes,mumbling #$%^&*((@!...........priceless.

If I Want the weather , I'll lower my window and stick my arm out.........priceless

Traffic reports, never again, in fact I'll welcome traffic jams, i'm having too much fun listening to this wonderful music...priceless

Station blackout..weak signal......commercials ...never again.......priceless

Idiotic contests and call-Ins "what agravates you about your neighbor", never again.................priceless

I am taking way too long writing this, i've got to get back to my music..... never complain about your stations again, i have shown you the way out, you too can program your own station............you can determine how many cuts in your library..........you can combine any many genre's as you like,..All Sinatra , All Beatles , All Elvis, no monthly fee, the variations are endless, for less than $400, you can be liberated.

Hey, where do you get gas for $1.65 a gallon?

 

[hornet61]

Re: Today I was liberated from bad Radio, "thank god Almighty, free At Last"

at the corner of "Hearbreak Hotel" and "All Shook Up".

Price of 8g fash $25..............100 blank discs $ 29.95, 100 jewel cases 15.95, 100 labels 22.95, hp #75 and 74 cartridges $39.99 x 20 years ..............priceless.

 

[GridLeakBias]

Re: Today I was liberated from bad Radio, "thank god Almighty, free At Last"

After years of ranting and raving about the state of oldies radio, oldies country, classic rock, etc both commercial and satelllite........today I installed a kenwood radio in my vehicle with a usb plug, and walked away from commercial radio.......and will never look back.

You’re one up on me Hornet.

I have been burning my own “Best of” music CDs for years, which I keep in my vehicle. My Radio has a CD player which holds 5 CDs at a time, and my hours on the road are enhanced by my own musical selections without all the distasteful interruptions you cited.

The USB connection is a great idea – I wonder, when will the automotive industry get on board and offer it (a USB connection) as a standard accessory. It took many years to go from the AM/FM/Tape unit to today’s AM/FM/CD.

Gas at $1.65/gal? We were there a month or two back – now we sit at $1.91, even when sweet light crude was at it’s lowest in the past decade. My congratulations to the First Dog, Bo. (Now there’s a segue – crude oil to crude humor.) Sorry.

 

[radioman148]

Re: Today I was liberated from bad Radio, "thank god Almighty, free At Last"

I've also been burning my own CDs for listening in the car for years.
Best way to go.

 

[hornet61]

Re: Today I was liberated from bad Radio, "thank god Almighty, free At Last"

It gets even sweeter......you don't have to program a flash drive......... you don't play through a fm band..the kenwood has three settings 1. standbye 2. tuner 3. usb you load down direct from the PC to the Flash,straight to the car, and plug in the flash. the only time you listen to the radio is when you are changing out cubes an that takes 8 seconds.

you don't have to program an I-pod and dock and sock and do what ever you do with I-Pods I don't know I don't own one.

you can download by folder/genre or by individual song.....its so simple its criminal............. have you ever said to your self "how many times can i listen to Satisfaction" or Wild Thing"....."Boy I would love to program my own station with my own Ideas"...now you can....with thousands of cuts the programming options are endless

This is not for the casual listener, they are happy with the current state of radio and 900-1200 cuts....but remember oldies stations are disappearing, so start stockpiling your oldies casual listeners in the computer.

This is not for satellite subscribers they are happy with the $9.99-$29.99...they shell out every month, and the 900-1200 cuts.

 

[radioman148]

Re: Today I was liberated from bad Radio, "thank god Almighty, free At Last"

It gets even sweeter......you don't have to program a flash drive......... you don't play through a fm band..the kenwood has three settings 1. standbye 2. tuner 3. usb you load down direct from the PC to the Flash,straight to the car, and plug in the flash. the only time you listen to the radio is when you are changing out cubes an that takes 8 seconds.

you don't have to program an I-pod and dock and sock and do what ever you do with I-Pods I don't know I don't own one.

you can download by folder/genre or by individual song.....its so simple its criminal............. have you ever said to your self "how many times can i listen to Satisfaction" or Wild Thing"....."Boy I would love to program my own station with my own Ideas"...now you can....with thousands of cuts the programming options are endless

This is not for the casual listener, they are happy with the current state of radio and 900-1200 cuts....but remember oldies stations are disappearing, so start stockpiling your oldies casual listeners in the computer.

This is not for satellite subscribers they are happy with the $9.99-$29.99...they shell out every month, and the 900-1200 cuts.

Thanks for your info hornet. Great idea.

 

[TheFonz]

Re: Today I was liberated from bad Radio, "thank god Almighty, free At Last"

It gets even sweeter......you don't have to program a flash drive......... you don't play through a fm band..the kenwood has three settings 1. standbye 2. tuner 3. usb you load down direct from the PC to the Flash,straight to the car, and plug in the flash. the only time you listen to the radio is when you are changing out cubes an that takes 8 seconds.

you don't have to program an I-pod and dock and sock and do what ever you do with I-Pods I don't know I don't own one.

you can download by folder/genre or by individual song.....its so simple its criminal............. have you ever said to your self "how many times can i listen to Satisfaction" or Wild Thing"....."Boy I would love to program my own station with my own Ideas"...now you can....with thousands of cuts the programming options are endless

This is not for the casual listener, they are happy with the current state of radio and 900-1200 cuts....but remember oldies stations are disappearing, so start stockpiling your oldies casual listeners in the computer.

This is not for satellite subscribers they are happy with the $9.99-$29.99...they shell out every month, and the 900-1200 cuts.

What this lacks, of course, is PERSONALITY. Anyone who listened to Top 40 radio knows that the music was only half the fun. The other half was listening to the DJ.

 

[radioman148]

Re: Today I was liberated from bad Radio, "thank god Almighty, free At Last"

It gets even sweeter......you don't have to program a flash drive......... you don't play through a fm band..the kenwood has three settings 1. standbye 2. tuner 3. usb you load down direct from the PC to the Flash,straight to the car, and plug in the flash. the only time you listen to the radio is when you are changing out cubes an that takes 8 seconds.

you don't have to program an I-pod and dock and sock and do what ever you do with I-Pods I don't know I don't own one.

you can download by folder/genre or by individual song.....its so simple its criminal............. have you ever said to your self "how many times can i listen to Satisfaction" or Wild Thing"....."Boy I would love to program my own station with my own Ideas"...now you can....with thousands of cuts the programming options are endless

This is not for the casual listener, they are happy with the current state of radio and 900-1200 cuts....but remember oldies stations are disappearing, so start stockpiling your oldies casual listeners in the computer.

This is not for satellite subscribers they are happy with the $9.99-$29.99...they shell out every month, and the 900-1200 cuts.

What this lacks, of course, is PERSONALITY. Anyone who listened to Top 40 radio knows that the music was only half the fun. The other half was listening to the DJ.

Well you can always get your hands on some old airchecks.

 

[gr8oldies]

Re: Today I was liberated from bad Radio, "thank god Almighty, free At Last"

Not to throw cold water on the topic, but wasn't top 40 about playing the hits? Maybe there's a difference between people who grew up with tighter, Drake playlists with 30 songs vs some around the country that may have had 80-100 currents. I really didn't like every song on the radio, and some are favorites to this day (I know that is heresy). I have about 5000 songs on my computer, another 1000 or so on CD and a couple hundred I'd like to get, but of the 5000, I'm being generous in saying there are probably 1000-1500 I want to listen to on a regular basis. It's great to program to an audience of one (you might annoy your passengers who aren't record collectors) and certainly i'd love to see a USB port in cars.

 

[TheFonz]

Re: Today I was liberated from bad Radio, "thank god Almighty, free At Last"

Not to throw cold water on the topic, but wasn't top 40 about playing the hits? Maybe there's a difference between people who grew up with tighter, Drake playlists with 30 songs vs some around the country that may have had 80-100 currents. I really didn't like every song on the radio, and some are favorites to this day (I know that is heresy). I have about 5000 songs on my computer, another 1000 or so on CD and a couple hundred I'd like to get, but of the 5000, I'm being generous in saying there are probably 1000-1500 I want to listen to on a regular basis. It's great to program to an audience of one (you might annoy your passengers who aren't record collectors) and certainly i'd love to see a USB port in cars.

Top 40 was about playing songs that made the Top 40. Naturally the Top 10 got the most play (in 1958 for example, 98 songs made the Top 10). But Top 40 radio played a whole lot of songs that charted between #11 and #40 that a lot of people posting on this board have never heard. If a station today were to try to replicate a 1955 -1969 Top 40 station, they would have approximatly 1500 songs (15 years times 100 Top 10 songs per year) to work with without dipping into anything past the Top 10.

 

[TheFonz]

Re: Today I was liberated from bad Radio, "thank god Almighty, free At Last"

Well you can always get your hands on some old airchecks.

A great idea, without a doubt. I do have a small collection, but I kinda got away from airchecking when satellite radio came along.

 

[radioman148]

Re: Today I was liberated from bad Radio, "thank god Almighty, free At Last"

Well you can always get your hands on some old airchecks.

A great idea, without a doubt. I do have a small collection, but I kinda got away from airchecking when satellite radio came along.

Those old airchecks are better now than ever since personality radio has been destroyed.

 

[hornet61]

Re: Today I was liberated from bad Radio, "thank god Almighty, free At Last"

Not to throw cold water on the topic, but wasn't top 40 about playing the hits? Maybe there's a difference between people who grew up with tighter, Drake playlists with 30 songs vs some around the country that may have had 80-100 currents. I really didn't like every song on the radio, and some are favorites to this day (I know that is heresy). I have about 5000 songs on my computer, another 1000 or so on CD and a couple hundred I'd like to get, but of the 5000, I'm being generous in saying there are probably 1000-1500 I want to listen to on a regular basis. It's great to program to an audience of one (you might annoy your passengers who aren't record collectors) and certainly i'd love to see a USB port in cars.

I said several posts later this is not for the casual listen.... I loved commercial Oldies radio, when It first showed up ......... the format you mentioned was fine...lets roll 40 years later.........after hearing "Satisfaction" for the 4,567,8989" time. As much a I like the song I'd rather hear "Tell Me", "It's All Over now" "Playing With Fire" "Hearts Of Stone" all hits, but rarely, programed.......we all know the same 10 Rolling Stone songs that 10 stations play. I think they had more than 10 hits. Elvis fills several pages in the Whitburn books, and you rarely hear beyond his 18 number one's.

What I am hearing more and more and more and more from average listeners who are more frequent than casual liteners, is that Oldies Radio is stale. Lets not get into the testing and the sponsers........that battle has been fought too many times and we have heard it all arguments.

There are alot of talented and entertaining folks currently out there my comment, was, now I don't have to listen to the bad ones...

The programming well thats a lost cause..they just won't budge.

You'd be surprised what people say when they are cruising with me and hear one of those 7,000 cuts mostly, "gee I don't remember that one but I wish they'd play it on my station". It's not a matter of remembering, its matter of liking it, and they are not getting that opportunity.

I think even the most casual listener has more that 1500 songs, he just doesn't know it, cause he has never been given the chioce...........Oh my god, we are opening the door to the dreaded testing theory, oh well I opened my big mouth, i guess I got It coming.

 

[radioman148]

Re: Today I was liberated from bad Radio, "thank god Almighty, free At Last"

>>What I am hearing more and more and more and more from average listeners who are more frequent than casual liteners, is that Oldies Radio is stale. Lets not get into the testing and the sponsers........that battle has been fought too many times and we have heard it all arguments.>>

Yeah "it's the same old song" (pun intended). Even the stations that are playing late 70s & 80s stuff are playing the same songs over & over. I also get the same comments in my car about songs that people say "I haven't heard that one in ages--or I completely forgot about that one".

 

[gr8oldies]

Re: Today I was liberated from bad Radio, "thank god Almighty, free At Last"

Problem is, your "oh wow" is my "'what the hell is that". And vice versa.

 

[hornet61]

Re: Today I was liberated from bad Radio, "thank god Almighty, free At Last"

The fallacy to my story is that the 98% of the peeps don't have 10,000 cuts at their disposal... but Intra-net radio, does...when that is available in your car look-out.

Live365.com has over 10,000 stations you can tune-in Oldies from the average to the specialized, beach, motown, rare, by decade, by artist, Doo-wop, acapella, old school, R&B etc . programmed by individuals..not influenced by PD's, Sponsors and testing, but by a passion for music that is unparelled and the end result is magic...pure magic.
The forgotten Oldies are an untapped Gold Mine and gaining fans everyday..........and hey commercial radio will still be there and if folks are satisfied with that product, as limited as it is, that choice is there for them......I was just showing an alternative with more range.

 

[radioman148]

Re: Today I was liberated from bad Radio, "thank god Almighty, free At Last"

Problem is, your "oh wow" is my "'what the hell is that". And vice versa.

That's when burning your own CDs or using an iPod become valuable.

 

[Tom Wells]

Re: Today I was liberated from bad Radio, "thank god Almighty, free At Last"

Problem is, your "oh wow" is my "'what the hell is that". And vice versa.

I like both "oh wow" and "what the hell is that".

 

[TheFonz]

Re: Today I was liberated from bad Radio, "thank god Almighty, free At Last"

I said several posts later this is not for the casual listen.... I loved commercial Oldies radio, when It first showed up ......... the format you mentioned was fine...lets roll 40 years later.........after hearing "Satisfaction" for the 4,567,8989" time. As much a I like the song I'd rather hear "Tell Me", "It's All Over now" "Playing With Fire" "Hearts Of Stone" all hits, but rarely, programed.......we all know the same 10 Rolling Stone songs that 10 stations play. I think they had more than 10 hits. Elvis fills several pages in the Whitburn books, and you rarely hear beyond his 18 number one's.

I think that we're on the same page when it comes to commercial Oldies radio and its limited playlists. Where we to differ is that you seem to like listening to your music in a 'jukebox" format, and I prefer mine mixed with some personality.