― Clarke B., Friday, 5 December 2003 21:08 (twenty years ago) link
Mine: "Don't Stop Believin'" (okay, maybe my station's not THAT bad... ;-) )
― Clarke B., Friday, 5 December 2003 21:11 (twenty years ago) link
― Clarke B., Friday, 5 December 2003 21:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist, Friday, 5 December 2003 21:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:13 (twenty years ago) link
― Clarke B., Friday, 5 December 2003 21:17 (twenty years ago) link
Just catching the last Clarence Clemons squeals here .. fading out ... and we're off into "Turn to Stone" by ELO!
Not bad!
― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:19 (twenty years ago) link
― may pang (maypang), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:20 (twenty years ago) link
ok, next song comes on and it's .. "Horse With No Name" by America. Ugh.
Ok I'm putting my Beach Boys cd back on now. But that was fun for two songs at least; the ELO sounded great!
― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:22 (twenty years ago) link
― Patrick (Patrick), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:28 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Felcher (Felcher), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:34 (twenty years ago) link
You'd think this would skew things, but the first thing they played after I turned it on was the Stones' "Satisfaction".
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:36 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:36 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:38 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 5 December 2003 21:39 (twenty years ago) link
but that's what the "best new rock" is fer classic rock stations -- even if it's just the latest from some old farty buttrock act!
Like the New Allman Bros. tune? Or that John Hiatt "Almost Fed Up With the Blues" dungheap which might be the worst thing ever to enter my ear canal.
― Clarke B., Friday, 5 December 2003 21:44 (twenty years ago) link
Now it's Steely Dan's "Rikki don't lose that number" hahah
I used to listen to it in the car when I didn't have a tape player, and every day they would play these songs: "Layla", "Land of Confusion" and one of those godawful sappy Billy Joel songs that I have attempted to block from my memory. And the same Fleetwood Mac songs over and over, but I didn't mind that part.
― Blood and sparkles (bloodandsparkles), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:04 (twenty years ago) link
That sounds like the end of some sci fi movie where humanity has been delivered into Utopia.
― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:15 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Friday, 5 December 2003 22:22 (twenty years ago) link
still there's something dusky and smelly about the whole "classic rock" concept, i'll never cotton to it.
― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:24 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Friday, 5 December 2003 22:33 (twenty years ago) link
the weird beatific tones of the announcers and all...
― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:41 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:42 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Friday, 5 December 2003 22:42 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:43 (twenty years ago) link
― hstencil, Friday, 5 December 2003 22:45 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:46 (twenty years ago) link
Oh, and also they've been reviving those King Biscuit Flower Hour live things too, on Saturday nights! That's where I heard that Thin Lizzy set I mentioned to you, stence. A few weeks back it was a late 70s Kinks set. So, not too bad.
― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:49 (twenty years ago) link
"Americana" radio hits Denver.
― Hunter (Hunter), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:49 (twenty years ago) link
the syndicated shows on these stations are the fucking pits, all those unctious announcers interrupting the songs to spout banalities about how awesome are some terribly overexposed rock band.
― amateur!st (amateurist), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:51 (twenty years ago) link
― Hunter (Hunter), Friday, 5 December 2003 22:58 (twenty years ago) link
― Vinnie (vprabhu), Saturday, 6 December 2003 00:40 (twenty years ago) link
this is pretty much it, especially if your local classic rock is Clear Channel. God. Damn. Them.
Luckily, the classic rock station in my town (which is Clear Channel) has started doing these "deep cuts" week-ends. It's still 66% shit, but it's cool hearing stuff like Aerosmith's "Mama Kin" evey once in a while.
― Will (will), Saturday, 6 December 2003 01:23 (twenty years ago) link
It occurs to me that Clear Channel has this all mapped out for themselves. "Alternative rock" stations for the kiddies, "classic rock" stations for the adults. So then they can easily force-market one type of horseshit to one demographic, then slowly over time let them bleed into the other market, which markets the same exact horseshit to them again, only this time they won't even have to bother pretending it's edgy or rebellious. Beeee-autiful.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 6 December 2003 06:06 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 6 December 2003 06:29 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 6 December 2003 06:32 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 6 December 2003 06:41 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 6 December 2003 07:05 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 6 December 2003 07:44 (twenty years ago) link
And what kills me most is they don't even jibe with the other ol' fogey standard bearer of taste Rolling Stone. For every best of list i've ever seen in that ragazine, there's stuff in the top 20's i've never heard played. That should really be a programmers mainstay shouldn't it?? Even the stuff they do play from those albums, it'll always be the same damn 2-3 songs at best.
While i'm thinking about it, why does the playlist all of a sudden free up overnights and weekends a helluva lot more...like after midnight they could give a F*** about upsetting the boat.
― Phil Dokes (sunny), Saturday, 6 December 2003 11:28 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 6 December 2003 18:02 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 6 December 2003 18:05 (twenty years ago) link
― amateur!st (amateurist), Saturday, 6 December 2003 18:07 (twenty years ago) link
appparently to Clear Channel- controlled station it is. Someone mentioned upthread that there's about 60 songs in rotation on these "Classic" rock stations. Seems like there's less than that. I'm not saying they have to dig out some long-forgotten B-side; It is *commercial* radio after all. They don't want the masses turning the station because a tune's a bit obscure. But how about a little "Gimme Back My Bullets" interspersed between the "Free Bird/ Sweet Home Alabama/ Two Steps" three-fers???
― Will (will), Saturday, 6 December 2003 22:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Aja (aja), Saturday, 6 December 2003 22:12 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 6 December 2003 22:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Aja (aja), Saturday, 6 December 2003 22:23 (twenty years ago) link
― nate detritus (natedetritus), Saturday, 6 December 2003 22:38 (twenty years ago) link