Best Song Mix for a Modern Rock Station

I just can’t seem to find a freakin’ decent radio station here in Whorlando. Even the ones that play modern rock only play the same stupid crap day in, day out.

Then I got to thinking, if there WAS a decent radio station, what would be the ideal mix of music for modern rock (you know what i mean, alternative, punk, postpunk, whatever. like pornography, you know it when you see it.)

In my opinion, the mix should be:

10% Old hits (from the 70s to last year)
10% new hits (i.e. the crap the current stations play all the time)
20% other new stuff. but only play these songs once a week at most. and only play the new hits once a day at most.
60% weird stuff I wouldnt hear anywhere else.

I mean, once you have played the same stupid song for the 20th time in a day, if i REALLY liked the song i’d go out and buy it! (oh, and by the way the ONLY songs in the past two years that were played constantly and i still managed to like were Minority and Voodoo.)

Okay, yes i know there are websites out there with okay music, after all, i have tuned into WICB (in Ithaca College)'s website, but alas, I only have a dialup connection, and quality, is far too choppy to get a good experience :frowning:

Speaking of which, i remember having a professor talking about how she dreaded her first day at college cause her parents told her horror stories about hippies.
“sure enough, the people across the hall in the dorm were hippies. the first week i was scared stiff of them. the second week i was partying with them. by the end of the third week i WAS one of them.”

flash forward to the postmodern era. Originally, I set my alarm to WICB to wake me up for class at Cornell because the music was really annoying, the better to wake up to. By the end of the third week, i was staying awake in bed listening to it :slight_smile:

We have a station up here that plays a pretty good variety of 70’s - current rock/metal. Its also the last rock station in the area to be independant. (at least the last rock station). I think one of the problems is that as stations get bought up by bigger companies, they don’t take chances with playing newer or unknown music, because theres not enought money in it.

At least one XTC song every two hours, also frequently play REM (especially 80s REM), lots of New Wave stuff, a little Morrissey and The Smiths (and The Cure) to depress us now and then, some Jesus Jones/Shamen/EMF techno rave sounding bands, some bizarre quirky stuff from Weird Al and They Might Be Giants for the Dr. Demento in us all, some U2, an occasional early 90s grunge band (but please don’t bombard us with so many Eddie Vedder sound-alike wannabes or pretend like Nirvana is the greatest band of all time), and even though it might not really be “modern”, include songs from the Beatles, Doors, and Byrds now and then.

Also, no rap metal, cookie cutter boy bands, or formulaic teen bimbo divas. Rap metal is mostly unimaginative drivel and has been very overexposed on many so-called alternative or progressive stations, and the sex appeal of teen gigolos and bimbos from the corporate Top 40 machine is best conveyed through media that include video images. Why listen to a BS song if you can’t even see her bare midriff?

Okay, it’s not the best rock station, but I feel obligated to mention my favorite radio station in Israel, simply because it is so weird. I hated it at first, but after a while became hugely amused by it, enough that I miss it dreadfully. The station is Galgalatz, and it’s the army radio station. The DJs are insane, I think. While I didn’t always like the music, it was always interesting seeing what they would play next. The selection would go from Cher, to Shlomo Artzi (Israeli singer), to Frank Sinatra (seriously) to Snoop Doggy Dog to Aviv Gefen (whiny Israeli singer). They also had these extremely sticky advertising jingles. I can still hear their weekend theme… “Sof shavua, ragua, b’Galgalatz … raguuuuaaaaa.” It was even better on holidays, when they would play only Israeli music, and thus dig deep into their collections, playing bizarre stuff you’d never hear otherwise, like Hebrew reggae.

I’ve always thought Whorlando had a better than average selection of all rock formats. Here’s how my car radio is programmed:

105.9 - 80% new, 20% classic
101.1 - 66% new, 33% classic
96.5 - 100% pre '95, emphasis on harder classics
97.9 - 60% new, 40% classic
102.5 - 100% hard classics
103.5 - 100% classics, emphasis on '60s and '70s
104.1 - 100% the stuff nobody else will play, but only on
weekends. Right up your alley, Ludovic.

By flipping through those, I can always find something I like. Maybe this town just isn’t big enough to support a station like the one you’re looking for.