I want to hear the song, I do NOT want to LISTEN to you babble!

The BBQ Pit
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Probably commercial radio sucks nowadays. Why is it that whenever i go to make a mix tape, and try to record a song, there is a cuntfunnel disk jockey who will not shut the fuck up. Who may even continue talking when a singer start to sing, no matter if the song is a classic, or a one-hit wonder of craptacular horrendousness.

Some stations claim to fame was old even when i was a little girl, for instance 97.9 the Loop, CTF #1 Two-For-tuesday. I believe they have been doing this for more that 20 years.
“Your favorite rock in pairs!2fortuesday on 'da Loop”
“The only station that rocks twice as hard on Tuesday!”
“We play more rock than anyone!!! 10 in a row or $10k in dough on the Loop.”

TEN in a row?! Stations have commercial-free block that may last as much as TWO hours, and all y’all are still babbling proudly away about ten in a row, as if this was worthy of a prize.Just shut the fuck up, cocksocket, because for one it is making me want to beat someone. Don’t most people switch channels at that time?

Paul Gant on The Zone 94.7, is one of the worst, it doesnt matter what song he plays, he has to talk over as many as possible, whatever littlpromotion the station is running, anything to not have to shut his gaping valve. I hate him for making it difficult for anyone to listen to a song, for making mix tapes an impossibility, for just being on the radio. FUCK YOU PAUL GANT, FOR WASTING BROADCAST TIME ! FUCK YOU WITH A CHAINSAW FOR SUCKING ALL KINDS OF ASS.

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Well, yeah… that’s why it’s “commercial”. Those sponsors pay a price to get their stuff promoted on air, and that’s what the station does!

God bless internet radio… Just can’t get in the car or at the beach <sigh>.

Well, at least, not at the moment!

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I can’t stand DJ’s who are under the asinine impression that a song doesn’t begin until someone starts singing.

This allows them to continue their mindless chatter and to babble along while you can faintly hear the song’s intro in the background.

Particularly with songs that have kick-ass intros, this stunt always stirs up a desire to strangle these maundering morons.

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I was once told that the DJs were told to talk over intros (starting in the early 70s) and stop when the singing started so people couldn’t/wouldn’t tape the songs off the radio. There was a bit of concern that, as personal tape recorders/players were becoming widely available, people would just tape the songs and never listen to the radio again.

I make no claims about the validity of this.

(Hi anya!-Sorry we didn’t get to chat much at the pub when I was in town.)

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Note to radio: 40 minutes without commercials is fine, but how about 40 minutes without inane DJ jabber?

Also, in the morning, I like to hear music on the radio. I don’t want to hear your stupid jokes and sound effects and parody songs and dumb crap like that. Please just play music.

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They should say, “10 in a row, without interruption, until I interrupt to tell you you’re listening to 10 in a row!”

I hate DJs. I absolutely hate them. I gave up on radio music long ago. The only radio I listen to is the local talk radio where I live. That’s where the focus should be on the talking instead of music.

Talk or music. Make a decision, you lameass fuckwad DJs.

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Thank the dieties for classical stations. Never heard one babble on over the intro to Brahms Eine deutsches Requiem although one announcer did leave his mike open and we got to hear part of his problems with the IRS.

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My only DJ work was in college, more than 15 years ago, so take this with a grain of salt.

Back then, when dinosaurs roamed the earth, we only played LPs on the air. On the sleeve of each LP the station manager would paste a sheet that listed the amount of “intro” time (i.e., from the time the music started until the vocals began) for each song on the album, along with the actual length of each song. DJs were told we could talk through the intro time, but not over the vocals. A digital clock on the soundboard would start each time you cued up a record, so you could keep track of how much talking time you had left if you weren’t familiar with the song.

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i do listen to internet radio, while i am using the computer, but i cannot tie up the computer and the phone line just to listen to internet radio.

It does not matter how many mix tapes I make, I am always listening to the radio.

Hi, Spritle,I would have liked to talk with you more too.

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I too did some DJ stuff for a college station and my technique was to play about 6 or 7 songs in a row and then come in and tell you what you heard. I do like that, because I hate it when I hear a song I really like on the radio and no one will tell me what it is. I tried to limit my patter just to that, or to let people know about a concert or new album or whatever. I never talked over the music and I tried to keep all my talk music-related. I would also give the phone number for the station, I’d actually answer the phone, AND I’d even really play the requests.

But to get back to the original, I also don’t want to hear the DJ’s opinion on the artist, good or bad. I don’t care, just play the music. I was reading an article recently where standard radio stations were talking about competing with internet radio stations and saying their main appeal was DJs, how they are all about personalities and entertainment, not just playing music. You can keep the “entertainment”, guys, and the best I can say about most DJ personalities is that they’re “only” obnoxious and grating.

Unfortunately, I can’t get internet radio at work due to the firewall.

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Bingo.

Sauron is correct as well–both in college radio and in commercial radio (when I have worked them), every track on a CD or album approved for airplay would be marked like so:

“TRACK NAME 3.44/.13/cold”

It tells you the total time, the amount of time before the vocal begins, and how the song ends (usually cold or fade) so you can blend properly with the next song. Total time isn’t as important unless you have to backtime to a network feed or some other event.

I don’t like jocks who talk in between every song, but if there’s one thing I really hate, it’s jocks who don’t back-announce. If you just played 10 in a row, **tell me who the fuck they were!. 94.7 FM in DC, who does “Seven Song Supersets,” is very good at back-announcing. Other stations . . . not so good.

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Here in Orlando there is one station that mercifully doesn’t talk over the songs (98.9 WMMO), and tells you every song title and artist name. They bill themselves as “soft rock 'n roll”, but they play Matchbox 20 all the time. Not sure how that is “soft”, but oh well. The DJ’s are not at all annoying.

It’s the only station I will willingly listen to.

And since this is the Pit… FUCK OFF, “MIX 105.1”, “XL106.7”, and “Z88.3” (you goddamn fundie freak!!!)

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A-fucking-men. It’s always bugged me, but until now I never knew the term for it. (And Phil cures some ignorance again.) My favorite station, X96 in Salt Lake City is about in the middle I think. They used to be better, naming every song before and after. Now, it’s one or the other, but rarely both.

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How about DJ’s who actually sing over the fucking song!

“Gosh Mr. DJ, you sure are much better than Bob Seger, why didn’t you become a singer”

BECAUSE YOU ARE A NO-TALENT FUCKWAD!

Okay better now. 101.9 FM in Chicago is the worst. They will never play more than 2 songs in a row, because that way they can talk over the beginning of the first song, and the end of the second. It’s to the point where if a song is expected to play on radio the have to fade in slowly, and then fade out slowly (repeating the chorus). Congratulations radio, you’ve managed to suck yet another good thing out of music.

Also hate the giggle-morons, who’s job it is to laugh at everything the DJ says.

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A-fucking-men to that! J-Wave Tokyo lost me as a listener because of their fuckwit DJ John Kabila. It wasn’t enough that he couldn’t read the morning news without screwing up at least five words (I wished North Korea would just launch a fucking attack so I wouldn’t have to keep hearing about their ballastic missles!). It wasn’t enough that he made idiotic noises while the Japanese news reader was giving her report (without screwing up, I might add. At least she knew how to speak her native language). No, this moron then had to start making these tongue-clicking noises along with the music every time “Pretty Fly for a White Guy” came on. That was the last straw.

Rot in hell, John. May I never have to hear your idiot voice again.

–sublight.

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From a ten-year veteran of the radio industry, still in the business…

Talking over song intros

Sauron and pldennison are right on where it started. It can be an absolute damn lifesaver when you’ve got the news coming up (if it’s coming off a network feed, you have no flexibility on when it starts), you have a song to play and you have to do a sponsor spot - something that’s been paid for - because that 27 second intro means you can do the whole thing without rushing it.

Ohmigod, what a stupid thing! I have been caught out air-guitaring round the studio, singing at the top of my voice…but with an open mic?! :eek:

Advertising content

That’s why it’s called commercial radio - the sales reps sell ads to pay the electricity bill (which, in your average radio station, is pretty fucking high, let me tell you :)). Coincidentally, it also pays my wage. But when you love the music your station plays and your reps severely oversell airtime and then I have to drop the songs I love and shoehorn things into the hour wherever they’ll fucking fit… :mad:

A brief rant about the reps at the radio station I announce for

Guys, here in Australia, there is a law that says a station in a solus market - that’s us, just in case you guys hadn’t realised that - can’t air more than 18 minutes of ads in any hour.

You fuckwads oversold so much we had to run 28 minutes of fucking ads in one hour. Add on the news, sold features, etc I was down to 21 minutes of music. I’m waiting for a listener to ring FARB and complain, or something. Or for my chance to get someone to do it…

Oh, and Mr Network Program Manager? That rule you have about only backannouncing the last song in a six-song sweep? Sucks. Badly. As does your habit of scheduling the new music in the middle of said sweep, so I can’t backannounce it. While I enjoy talking to listeners when they ring up and say, “What was that song?”, I wish they didn’t have to.

Guys, your average radio announcer gets just as irate at what they have to do as the average listener, believe me…

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Make sure to bring lots of your own music.
In their heyday, WXRT used to be pretty cool. I first tuned in around 1984, and heard Frank E. Lee spin a Bobby Goldsboro song. Over which he played a Jimmy Page guitar solo. I was hooked. But over the years they’ve begun to take themselves so seriously, the cool became, well, lukewarm.

So I make my own tapes. I tune into talk radio to get the traffic reports and then I put in a disc for the rest of the trip to work. If I had to superimpose bad DJ’s over the traffic I deal with daily, it would only be about a week before I started bringing explosives to work.

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My next peeve about Chicago radio, is Mancow Muller, perpetually drooling at porno chicks, Picking on everyone who doesn’t think Mancow is the SHIT.

Mancow is cordially invited to go suck a piece of shit- flavored dynamite. Even his promos suck becauseof the insistence on reminding us, that the cow is now on Q101.
He has been at Q101 for fucking 3 years now and if you do not know by now, they remind you like 50 goddamn times a day! And it is not clever anymore, when you say shit like "it’s a funk-ass Friday, motherfunkers, funking listed to us on funk~ass friday, we got Kid rock and Bobby Slayton, and Dice clay,FunkAss Fridaaaayyyy!! Funk it up!!! "
For most of us, this stopped being clever sometime after middle school, I find it extremely irritating.

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(I fixed your coding for the quote, Phil…)

Irony alert:

We all hate record companies, right? I know I sure do, they’ve fucked over too many bands I’ve known, yadda yadda yadda.

However, they feel the same way as we do about this.

When I did college radio in the early 90s, all the CDs that were sent to us by labels had a “When you play it, say it!” sticker on them. They didn’t want us to play the song and leave the audience guessing who it was by. They wanted us to say “That was Song X by Band Y, from their Album Z CD, on AAA Records.”

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maybe the DJs figure that if you were “hip” and “with-it” you’d already know what the song was. :wink:

originally posted by Legomancer:

I stopped listening to the radio before 10 a.m. many years ago for exactly that reason. You’d get one 3-minute song, then 6 minutes of commercials and 5 minutes of “wicky-wacky” DJ bibble-babble, and I couldn’t stand it anymore (as my IQ is above 60).