― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 6 December 2003 22:42 (twenty years ago) link
― Aja (aja), Saturday, 6 December 2003 22:44 (twenty years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 6 December 2003 22:49 (twenty years ago) link
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/showcase/chi-020414radio-station-list,0,4376289.story?coll=chi-news-hed
Here's another reasonably accurate article:http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/investing/20001005d.asp?prodtype=grn
― teeny (teeny), Saturday, 6 December 2003 23:34 (twenty years ago) link
I disagree Kenan. Free-form Fm radio is/was cool but classic rock has always been just an evil marketing formula. You're never gonna hear Little Richard, Buddy Holly, New York Dolls, Velvet Underground,Stooges, anything from Nuggets, just the stuff that business types decided would be appreciated by boomers. I think it's sad that the artists I've mentioned are not considered "classic" byway too many Americans. Sure lots of the artists on classic rock radio are worthy, but the format has created a narrow canon that should be wider. Yea, I know it's commercial radio but still. Here in the DC area I don't have a college radio station I can pick up in my car, so if I want to hear old rock I end up listening to "oldies" radio instead.
― Steve Kiviat (Steve K), Sunday, 7 December 2003 06:11 (twenty years ago) link
Any rock older than ten years on that station is not fair game, just safe major label album rock. I was a college radio dj in the early '80s, when do I get my music nostalgia--I wanna hear the Replacements and Minutemen and Husker Du. I guess I have to settle for Mtv pop-punkers and the Strokes utilizing early 80s non-"classic" sounds.
― Steve Kiviat (Steve K), Sunday, 7 December 2003 06:26 (twenty years ago) link
Call me old-fashioned (haha, I'm 23 for chrissakes!), but what ever happened to tastemakers? I work part-time in wine retail, and my girlfriend works in a record store -- believe me, people *want* tastemakers. They *appreciate* being guided (not patronized) helpfully by enthusiastic folks who love what they do and what they know. Radio stations lack balls. I realize that they make a ton of money -- or, rather, they make Clear Channel a ton of money -- but that's a ridiculously conservative way to run a business. How is it in any way scientifically sound to play to people in a room a bunch of shit they've already been force-fed their whole lives -- by RADIO nonetheless! Doesn't that strike anyone as odd and sort of viciously circular?
― Clarke B., Sunday, 7 December 2003 06:45 (twenty years ago) link
― Clarke B., Sunday, 7 December 2003 06:47 (twenty years ago) link
― Broheems (diamond), Sunday, 7 December 2003 06:51 (twenty years ago) link
KashmirLunatic FringeAlready Gone
Does Lunatic Fringe get played anywhere else?
― weather!ngda1eson, Sunday, 7 December 2003 07:42 (twenty years ago) link
http://rockclassics.tripod.com/rftartcl.htmlhttp://jdblackfoot.tripod.com/jdarticl.html (blackfoot's page)http://www.angelfire.com/mo/MUSICSONGS/ksheclassics.html
― teeny (teeny), Sunday, 7 December 2003 14:54 (twenty years ago) link
― Dogs in the Mist, Sunday, 7 December 2003 16:06 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Sunday, 7 December 2003 16:12 (twenty years ago) link
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Sunday, 7 December 2003 17:08 (twenty years ago) link
What could classic rock radio play more of? I like my local station, but I have heard the O'Jays and Al Green on there, but no Curtis Mayfield, for example. I also never hear Joni Mitchell. You can occasionally hear blues artists, too. What do you think they could play more of, esp. black artists? I noticed they play Talking Heads and The Clash, too.
I'm heavy into this genre right now but sick if the formula so I make my own "classic rock" playlists that I spike with stuff that I feel fits in with the genre.
― NO CLOO (I M Losted), Thursday, 26 February 2015 20:52 (nine years ago) link
My local classic rock wouldn't get near O'Jays or Al Green, so consider yourself fortunate. Heads and Clash are a rarity, if at all. When I listen (almost never) it's Zep/Petty/Eagles/Doors/REO/CCR/Seger/Skynyrd 24/7.
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 26 February 2015 21:43 (nine years ago) link
The one in my area is horrendous; there's as much Bon Jovi, Stone Temple Pilots, and hair metal as there is Zep, Aerosmith etc. The only Black artists the station plays are Hendrix, Living Colour (and only "Cult of Personality") and War (and only "Low Rider") (and not very often).
The only point in their favor is the occasional bizarre curveball: Lou Reed's "New Sensations" (heard this a week before he died, so it wasn't a deep-cut tribute) and a Richard Thompson song I couldn't identify.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Thursday, 26 February 2015 21:49 (nine years ago) link
We have a hard rock station competing with the classic rocker, so that's where the hair metal has gone locally.
Last 4 artists played on classic rock: Queen, Seger, Triumph, AeorsmithHard rock: Black Keys, Soundgarden, Cult, Foo Fighters
Pretty sure our classic rocker doesn't even include "Walk On The Wild Side" let alone "New Sensations."
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 26 February 2015 22:29 (nine years ago) link
I'm in Chicago - we get "Walk on the Wild Side". The Drive is pretty good but I think they could play more black artists instead of post-grunge crap.
― NO CLOO (I M Losted), Friday, 27 February 2015 18:25 (nine years ago) link
very weird how stone temple pilots have somehow entered the classic rock radio canon
― marcos, Friday, 27 February 2015 18:37 (nine years ago) link
"Lamentations about the state of commercial radio have become so standard over the last few decades that they have achieved something of the rote tedium the critics ascribe to the medium itself: how radio consultants -- led by [Lee Abrams], creator of the album-oriented rock and classic rock formats -- have taught station programmers to slice and dice their playlists to appeal more precisely to specific demographics; how more and more stations have come to play fewer and fewer songs," reported the New York Times in an article entitled "One Way to Get Radio Play: Do It Yourself," published in 2006.
Paradoxically, Abrams was hired by XM satellite radio supposedly because the formats and trends he popularized at FM had resulted in playlists with no innovation or variety.
http://www.dickdestiny.com/blog/2008/03/la-times-company-hires-man-who-ruined.html
― curmudgeon, Friday, 27 February 2015 18:43 (nine years ago) link
I listened to "Court and Spark" today and wondered why classic rock radio doesn't play "Help Me". Surely "Free Man in Paris" would sound great on a classic rock station!
― NO CLOO (I M Losted), Monday, 16 March 2015 01:03 (nine years ago) link
Toronto's Q107 does play it.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 16 March 2015 01:35 (nine years ago) link