I go into my car this morning, and started off on my way to class. Some music was needed to keep me awake, so I turned on the radio. “GRRRR,” I say to myself as some shitty music eminates from my speakers “somone screwed with my radio.” If only it were so.
I looked at the glowing green LCD, and sure enough it was tuned to good ol’ 97.1. “Hmmm, this must be some long ass comercial. I wonder whay it doesn’t have any words.” The horrible truth hits me as the song comes to an end. A horribly irritating computerized voce comes on and says “the new 97.1, rock.” “FUCKING BASTARDS,” I yell as I turn onto the highway.
Thats right, those dog-raping assferrets got rid of my favorite radio station. Infact, the only station I listen to. It seems that not only have they changed genres, they have gotten rid of all the people.
To these bastards I say: FUCK YOU. How dare you bandersnatch-felching shitsnorklers destroy Columbus’s best radio station. Assbuscuits. “There’s an other oldies station in Columbus,” you might say. Well THEY SUCK. Do they have the Beatles? Irish Rovers? CCR? Lynyrd Skynrd? Roy Orbison? Elvis? an entertaining morning show? FUCK NO. They play fucking disco all day long. Only 97.1 had those.
I guess I’ll just have to buy some CDRs and fire up [SOFTWARE NOT ALLOWED TO BE MENTIONED] and get all the music I like ARG.
And if you think it’s weird for a 19 year old to like oldies, I say “yes, I am weird. Thanks for the compliment.”
Hey, I’m 23 and love the oldies channels. They’re usually the only good radio stations left in towns thanx to the N’sucking of modern music. When i travel, the music goal is to find oldies stations non-stop from point A to point B, but there are still areas of Missouri with only 2 radio stations that my car can pick up, one country and the other country.
I’m 16 and I grew up listening to oldies and classic rock. In fact, it’s all I listen to anymore. My 97.1 station in IL is some pretty good classic rock without much talk (I’m a poet). It used to be classical music, but then they started playing a different artist every day (24 hours of Madonna, 24 hours of Bob Dylan, an entire weekend of the Beatles, etc.) while they were deciding on a new format.
As for complaints concerning the radio, the cleaning lady messed up my radio antenna on the stereo in my room, so all of the stations are crumby as hell. It took me forever to get that antenna set so precisely that I could get all of my favourite stations. And she screwed it all up. Being too lazy to mess around with it for two or three days until I get it right, I’ve just resorted to my CDs. <sigh>
I’m right there with you, mblackwell. Here in Calgary (where the radio sucks just like everywhere else), we had one half-decent station that played a variety of music, and more importantly, played 80’s music from 8 to 9 every evening. Well, I hopped in my car, turned on the tunes, and out came some “Classic Rock” (which in Calgary means the same 10 songs by the same 10 bands rotated endlessly). Checked the tuner; nope, it hadn’t changed. But my 80’s at 8 was definitely over, forever. We now have two pathetic excuses for “Classic Rock” stations in a market with 5 major FM stations (and the other three are ‘lite rock’, country, and dance/rap/crap). Whoop-de-freakin’-doo.
(Tars - are you saying that decent rock music has been 'Britney Spear’ed through the heart? :D)
You know, from a business standpoint, it makes sense to pick your format based on demographics for the purpose of maximizing profit. I still like to think that there’s a special circle of hell reserved for those people who do it.
I’ve long since given up on finding a decent radio station, simply because I (shudder) like more than one genre of music. Would it be that disastrous to play more than one style per radio station?
I can just see the reaction now: “But…I might be forced to listen to unfamiliar music!” Hey, if that’s the way you think, you need your horizons broadened anyway, you small-minded bastard.
featherlou, you’re in Calgary? I was just down there to enjoy all the Stampede has to offer. We’ll have to send you an invite for the upcoming but as of yet unscheduled Edmonton Dopefest.
I don’t know if the OP is about Columbus, Ohio, or Columbus, Georgia, but if it’s the former, I just want to say that there has NEVER been a town where demographics mattered more. I lived there while going to college for about two and a half years until last summer, and rarely have I seen a city so stratified. I liked the place, don’t get me wrong, but certain things about it were so…unusual that it gave me the heebie-jeebies. To me the whole concept of a “black” neighborhood (the East Side, on into Reynoldsburg) just smacked of obvious racism, but everybody regarded it as normal. Plus, when you look at aerial maps of the town, you can see houses stacked practicaly on top of each other inside the school districts of the predominantly white suburbs of Dublin and Westerville. And after the Columbus school line? Wide open spaces, with nary a parcel of new construction to be found. The Columbus district used to be 90% white, or thereabouts. Now it’s 60% black.
Having lived in Columbus, OH, for about 14 years, I can empathize. It’s even worse since I moved to the DC area, where you get a crowd with more than one ethnic group every day–something completely unheard of in Columbus.
But they do have a decent radio station there (CD101).
I’m 18. I like classic rock. Glad to know there’s a few people in my age group with decent taste.
I recently moved to the LA area from Kentucky. While LA is cooler in all other respects, for some reason, no one can create a decent radio station here. The “classic rock station”, KLOS, is just about twenty songs from the 70’s getting repeated over and over again, plus anybody from the 60’s who was really famous.
Back in Ky, they have WLRO (FM 101.5). It’s a great station. Plenty of different artists represented, and deeper cuts on the best albums. Damn, I wish that had it here in LA.
Poor Tars. We all have to face our Destiny’s, Child.
mblackwell, that’s exactly the kind of response I would have expected, unfortunately. We still listen to radio expecting to hear music, and a couple of commercials thrown in, when it’s actually the other way around; they broadcast commercials, with the odd song thrown in. Bah. Even the songs are commercials for the few artists they actually play (ad nauseum). If you youngsters think it’s bad, imagine how bad it is for us oldsters, who actually grew up in times when radio was a free-for-all of just about all kinds of music and know how good radio used to be.
(Feynn, hope you had a good time here. Yahoo, and all that. :))
We had an eerily similar experience here, except it turned out it wasn’t a format change, just stupidity. My husband discovered that his favorite all-talk radio station wasn’t talk anymore. He was truly disappointed, but then we started to discuss what nitwits the hosts were, how ridiculously they presented topics, how only the creepiest, weirdest, dumbest people called in… and we concluded it was no wonder they tanked. It all made sense, and maybe he wasn’t all that sorry. It was quite a eulogy we came up with.
Then my husband realized he had misremembered the frequency.
I’m in Houston, Texas. I’ve always listened to classic rock, even it when it was current rock! Lately, however, under the influence of my husband and son, I have taken to listening to … um, er… country. Yes, that’s right, country! Anyway, I have found a station that plays mostly country, with some rock too! Stevie Ray Vaughn, Eagles… stuff that kinda goes with their progressive “Texas Music Revolution” format. They play some kickass new country stuff out of Austin that you don’t hear anywhere else. It’s 95.7 KIKK-FM. I like it!
I’m in Orient, it’s south of Grove City. You ever heard of Teays Valley? I graduated from there in 2000, and now I occasionally work there.
I guess the new station has some decent music. I wonder if they will have a morning show. I wonder if Barry and Mo will get another radio gig in Columbus. Catrina was cool, too, once you got used to those wierd voices she used when talking to callers. WAHHHHHH I want it back.