“No repeat workday?” Yeah, you might not play the same songs 3 times in the same day, but I’ll hear the same fucking set of songs at least once per day. Every once in a while a song is thrown in that I might not have heard for about a week, just to keep things fresh. :rolleyes:
Why, why, why do most local radio stations play the same songs every day?? There’s so much music in the world; why do they keep trying to stuff us full of the same audio pablum?
Five minutes with the office radio and a sledgehammer. That’s all I ask.
Oh, and before someone suggests that I just turn it off…I’d love to, but it’s at work where I’m forced to listen to it, and the boss does not allow anyone to touch the All Holy Radio. Asshole.
The absolute worst thing about my summer job is the radio. Whenever I’m alone in the office, I turn it off, but it magically gets turned back on. Now, I like my radio station. It plays songs frequently enough that I get to know them and like them, but I’m never bored. It plays alternative/hard rock/modern rock etc. The station my coworkers listen to? Q92, soft ‘rock’. It is the worst, whiniest shit EVER. AND IT NEVER STOPS.
When I used to clerk for a judge, his judicial assistant was a scrappy and opinionated Puerto Rican woman who insisted on listening to contemporary Christian music on the radio. It was pretty awful, so whenever she’d go into a meeting or leave, I’d change it. I wasn’t trying to be a jerk, but she never allowed anyone else a turn at choosing the music, and that music is really grating and obnoxious if you can’t filter it out. One day I had changed it to something inoffensive–probably the oldies station–and she came back in and snapped at me:
“What, does my music offend you because you’re a JEW?”
I thought that was more than a bit uncalled for, but I countered without missing a beat:
Amen to the above. I’m forced to listen to Top 40 radio at work. I get along with and like many of my co-workers, but I’ll be damned if they aren’t mindless, pop culture zombies when it comes to music. Same fucking shit over and over. I’d just as soon have silence, but that seems to be anathema to them. First thing they do is flip on the radio when they come in. Argh.
I try my best to always listen to the BEST radio station in the world (IMO,) 99.9 The Buzz (is that by any chance the alternative station you listen to as well?) But, where I am, the signal is not so great. It’s fine for the first half of my commute, but then it’s gone, and there’s no hope of listening to it at work. sigh
Still, a no repeat workday is slightly better than your average top 40 station, which despite the name is more like a top 10 station, and will play those ten songs, in the same order, all the damn time. It’s like every week there is the Almighty Play List that every DJ must abide by, so every time there is a new DJ (usually every 4 hours) the same list gets recyvled. Ugh!
I talk with a Clear Channel DJ on occasion. When I approached him with more or less the same lament (in more or less the same vernacular ), he gave his side as something like this:
Overall, the typical custome—er, listener is expected to listen to the radio for x period of time; he cited some short length, maybe less than an hour. With this majority in mind (seemingly all they care about, really), they program the playlist as such. Songs are judged by test groups who listen to ten or fifteen-second snippets, then hit a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ button. I guess some people at CC decided that one could judge a song in as long a time? Truthfully, I’m inclined to agree with regard to the formulaic crap that is broadcast.
What radio station is it, Amazon Floozy Goddess? Actually, it doesn’t really matter. All the major ones I listen to do that. They go through periods where they don’t mix it up very well and play the smae songs for weeks at a time.
The worst is around Christmas time. One station we listened to at home would start Christmas songs really early, like August or something like that. And they played the same damn songs over and over. I find it difficult to enjoy Christmas music now.
Luckily last year they changed it up and got a bit risky and put different cover’s in.
Thank The Goddess for my headset at work allowing me to listen to any of my more than 600 CDs. I’d go nuts having to listen to someone else’s music. My condolences.
The only thing you can do is acquire your own music collection, and listen to it exclusively. This won’t help you in the workplace, but at home, or if you take it with you in mp3s, you can have a No Repeat Lifetime, if you wish. That’s what I’ve done. Just think, I haven’t heard “Baby Love” or “Stairway To Heaven” or “Sweet Home Alabama” in more than a decade! If I decide I want to hear those songs again someday, it’ll be like a rediscovery (although Oldies Radio formats have killed The Supremes and several other groups for me - I never want to hear them again.)
Because that’s what the majority of the broadcast radio audience wants.
There’s a station in Columbus–CD101–that, last I asked, had an active library of 5,000-6,000 songs, and had a genuine “no-repeat Thursday” where if you heard them play the same song twice between 9 AM and 9 PM, they’d give you $10,000. It never even got close to #1 in the market share, and at several points was in danger of going out of business. Even in a market like Columbus, with a college of 50,000 undergrads and a strong community of recent graduates, variety doesn’t sell.
I work in a building full of electrical engineers and all their associated toys. If one becomes too cavalier about ones radio, one might find their favorite station being jammed by a hidden transmitter. Or worse, ones least favorite station being retransmitted on ALL frequencies.
Free Fallin’–Tom Petty
Blinded by the Light–Manfred Mann
Dreams–Fleetwood Mac
Gypsy–Fleetwood Mac
Rhiannon–Fleetwood Mac
Hold on Loosely–Toto (I think, I’m not going to look it up)
Once In a Lifetime–The Talking Heads
Every fucking day. Sometimes twice. I know I could listen to my own stuff, but I keep hoping they’re going to surprise me…
There’s a station in Dallas that claims to not play any song twice between 8 and 5 Central but if you listen long enough, you will definately hear at least one song that is played twice during those hours. “No repeat workday” my ass.
I can’t listen to the radio anymore, except for the occasional sports talk show and NPR if I absolutely have to listen to something. rereads that Good HELL I’m getting old!
For me it’s the ads more than anything else. They’re like fingernails on a chalkboard to me. They’re like someone using a cheese grater on my brain. As bad as TV ads are, radio ads somehow manage to be many times worse.
I use an MP3 player at work, which, thankfully, has a policy that if a radio is on, it has to be quiet enough that it can’t be heard in the next aisle.
Have your boss check out xmradio.com. They have subscriptions made just for businesses. Of course that would involve your boss actually paying for a subscription which might not go over too well, but maybe if everyone chipped in a buck a month?
), he gave his side as something like this: