Christ I am so sick of hearing this fucking song all the time. I’ve lived in 4 different states in the last 5 years and no matter where you go you cannot escape this song on the Nickleback/Disturbed/3 Doors Down/Puddle of Mudd rock stations (most of these stations are of the 90-something-X type). I’m subjected to these stations at work and in my car (I have a beater I commute in that only has a radio).
What on earth makes these stations play this song all the fucking time? Seriously? It’s a terrible song and has been beaten into the ground since the BBoys resurrgance in the late 90’s. Some stations try to be ‘alternative’ or something and play Brass Monkey but it’s just as bad.
Fridays are the worst. They play it like every 15 minutes because we are all off work for the weekend and will be fighting to party or something.
God I HATE this fucking song and the stations that play it!!!
(Save your turnofftheradio and listentosomethingelse shit for another thread please)
Honestly, I can’t think of anything else to say. In 2000, KTCL started playing three Beastie Boy songs at midnight every night just as I got a job from which I was driving home at midnight. I liked most everything else they played, but, shit, if they’re going to blast me with nothing but the Beastie Boys on the way home from work, fuck it, I’ll find another station.
FTR I’m a late-stage baby-boomer, but I am SICK to DEATH of commercial rock radio, including the corporate formatted dinosaur rock stations that my cohort supposedly loves. The “Jack” format seemed a little better when I first heard it; at least they were playing things recorded after 1980, but when I learned that it, also, is just another mass media trick.
Support your local public radio station. Local DJs play music that they “hand select”. That sounds like a stupid marketing cliche, but in times like this that is a valuable feature. The music shows often have live band interviews and performances. IMO public radio is the only worthwhile thing going for music.
Granted it’s not always to everyone’s taste, and I think a lot of what they play is probably written for fed-up-with-classic-rock older people like me, but at least the station and DJs seem to care about music.
If you don’t have a public radio station in your area that plays music, then you can find one on the internet and listen through your computer.
Generally I get sick of ANYTHING that’s played in heavy rotation fairly quickly. In this age of cheap data, I see no reason why stations should play any particular song to death.
Fuck you Clearchannel. Fuck your cookie-cutter iron-curtain big-brother quest for world domination.
I know you don’t want to hear the listentosomethingelse, but do you have an mp3 player or a cd player? Those little FM transmitters that plug into your cigarette lighter are only like 20 or 30 bucks. You can’t put a price on your sanity!
Good god, for some reason DJs here believe that if they don’t play “Miss Me When I’m Gone” seven times an hour then civilization as we know it will cease to exist. And that they’ll be held responsible.
My only guess is that the Tokyo Union of Idiot Savants has adopted this as their theme song, with the members compulsively dialing requests 24/7. Who else could possibly want to hear this again? Who wakes up in the morning telling themselves that the world will be just that much better hearing that song 130 times today?
I first thought it was a catchy tune, but now? NO! STOP! JUST SAY NO!
Meh. I like the song. I loved it in '87 (or whatever year), and went a long time without hearing it. Now the kid I work with listens to the “Modern Rock” station, and I hear it a lot, as well as “Paul Revere” and other Beastie songs, lots of Nirvana and other early-90’s grungy rock, Run-DMC stuff. It’s a strange playlist for a so-called “modern rock” station. All I’m really tired of is the actual modern rock - Linkin Park, Death cab for Mother Fucking Cutie… Bleah!
On the other hand, when I was listening to classic rock, I literally heard fucking “Barracuda” by Heart 3 times during an 8-hour shift. cockSUCKERS! I HATE that song…
I don’t understand what people like about anything the beastie boys have done. They’re not just bad, they’re annoying on PURPOSE! I wish the fad would just end already so I don’t have to change the channel so often.
This I can get behind. If only because on rare occasion, I’m too lazy to plug in my mp3 player in the car. It doesn’t take long of constant station flipping before I give up altogether and stew in silence. Is there really a point to having multiple stations in the same market with the same playlist, Clearchannel? Seriously, more than once I’ve found two different stations that were playing the exact same lame Top40 song at the same damn time! And do you think that you could maybe expand the One Playlist to more than 20 songs? Hell, even the most easily distracted of us could use some variety.
Ah, thank God Boston still has a handful of decent music stations. WFNX is the more mainstream alternative rock station, and WERS is a station out of Emerson college with a decently strong signal. FNX even advertises as an FM station that you’ll never hear AC/DC on. I don’t particularly think AC/DC is bad, and I don’t dislike Beastie Boys either, but I’m sick of listening to “Shook Me All Night Long” on the radio.
FNX does a good job of mixing up their stuff too. It isn’t just the newer rock too like Muse, Flogging Molly, and The Kooks. Cheeseincrust, they just played Fields of Gold by Sting, and some older Depeche Mode was on too.
WBCN has always been that terrible Boston rock station that has a terribly corny playlist full of all the “Nickleback/Disturbed/3 Doors Down/Puddle of Mudd” stuff. And WAAF is only getting worse the older I get.
(Actually what’s really bad is that the older I get the more I’m turning into my father. I… have… WEEI as my #1 AM preset? :eek: )
