this sounds like my idea of hellhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_contemporary
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
In NZ, the likes of Radio Hauraki (offshore pirate station, operated illegally '66-70, continues ever since), taglines like "Classic rock that rocks", "New Zealand's real rock station", "Just great rock", "We Endorse This Music", etc, have def. had their playlists swamped with alt stuff - I think NZ & especially Australia had a much longer zombie afterlife for grunge/post-grunge, though.
This morning:
08:48 The One I Love R.e.m.08:37 Notion Kings Of Leon08:33 Song 2 Blur08:17 Walk Foo Fighters08:07 My God Is The Sun Queens Of The Stone Age08:01 Hunger Strike Temple Of The Dog07:49 I Got A Girl Tripping Daisy07:32 I Alone Live07:19 Long Way To Go Andrew Stockdale07:08 Back In Black Ac/dc07:03 Are You In? Incubus06:50 Are You Gonna Go My Way Lenny Kravitz06:41 Psycho Killer Talking Heads06:33 In The End Linkin Park06:21 It's Alright, It's Ok Primal Scream06:09 Mr Brownstone Guns 'n' Roses06:03 The Man Who Sold The World Nirvana05:52 Black Dog Led Zeppelin05:47 Far Behind Candle Box05:41 Late Night Foals05:37 Saints Of Los Angeles Motley Crue05:32 Everlong Foo Fighters05:29 This Kids Not Alright Awolnation
Yesterday evening:
17:51 60 Miles An Hour New Order17:45 Late Night Foals17:41 My Mind's Sedate Shihad17:37 Ashes To Ashes Faith No More17:27 Times Like These Foo Fighters17:24 K The Tutts17:19 I Will Follow U217:16 Halfway There Soundgarden17:11 Thunderstruck Ac/dc17:05 Aeroplane Red Hot Chili Peppers17:01 It's Been Awhile Staind16:48 Always On The Run Lenny Kravitz16:44 Right Here Right Now Fatboy Slim16:40 Use Somebody Kings Of Leon16:35 Cult Of Personality Living Colour16:24 Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana16:20 Mind Mischief Tame Impala16:16 The Fixer Pearl Jam16:13 Gel Collective Soul16:10 Feeling Good The Sheepdogs16:05 Hardest Button To Button White Stripes16:02 It's So Easy Guns N' Roses15:53 It Starts And Ends With You Suede15:49 Nearly Lost You Screaming Trees
― etc, Monday, 12 August 2013 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
the past 3 hours on WSRV:
Rolling Stones - ShatteredDire Straits - Walk of LifeJoan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Love Rock N' RollDef Leppard - Love BitesVan Morrison - MoondanceGuns N' Roses - Knockin' on Heaven's DoorBruce Hornsby & the Range - The Valley RoadAC/DC - For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)Peter Frampton - Baby, I Love Your WayGreat White - Once Bitten Twice ShyLed Zeppelin - The OceanThe Police - Every Breath You TakeVan Halen - Dance the Night AwayTom Petty - Runnin' Down a DreamLynyrd Skynyrd - Whiskey Rock-A-RollerLynyrd Skynyrd - The Ballad of Curtis LoewLynyrd Skynyrd - Call Me the BreezeJon Bon Jovi - Blaze of GlorySimple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)Toto - Hold the LineBob Seger - Against the WindU2 - Where the Streets Have No NameRolling Stones - Paint It BlackAerosmith - Love in an ElevatorGuess Who - American WomanQueen & David Bowie - Under PressurePearl Jam - AliveSteve Miller - The JokerThe Fixx - One Thing Leads to AnotherDrivin' & Cryin' - Straight to HellLed Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused
― I tweeted too much and I am in jail. (crüt), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
post grunge didnt really happen here in the uk. britpop/nu-metal were the fads that took its place. Britpop is still looming round like the post grunge acts are in the us
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
Adult contemporary is actually what I imagined a lot of UK radio to be. It's what you're typically subjected to in a lot of offices and retail workplaces and, yep, it's probably my least favourite radio format.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think I ever hear those indie bands on AC stations.
classic rock in america is in terms of radio playlists and its development reflects a series of negative definitions, not disco not new wave not rap etc
this seems overly reductive, and, relative to the UK's hunger for retro-rock nostalgia, incorrect. "classic rock" in america is a not-quite ossified, weirdly expandable oldies format. it's basically just 70s AOR...plus whatever seems to fit in with that. so zepplin, stones & aerosmith; plus 80s stuff like journey, van halen & aerosmith; plus 90s stuff like pearl jam, bush & aerosmith; plus whatever's comparable in the present moment. i don't think classic rock is more negatively defined than most other radio formats, tbh.
― IIIrd Datekeeper (contenderizer), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
jesus my minds blown by the Adult Contemporary spin offs of spin offshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_adult_contemporary#Hot_adult_contemporaryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_adult_contemporary#Soft_adult_contemporaryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_adult_contemporaryhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythmic_adult_contemporary
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
im going down a neverending rabbithole nowhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_CHR
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
Termed "the acoustic equivalent to Prozac",[38] soft AC, a more adult-oriented version of AC, was born in the late 1970s and grew in the early 1980s. WEEI-FM in Boston was the first station to use the term "soft rock", with ad slogans such as, "Fleetwood Mac ... without the yack" and "Joni ... without the baloney".
lol wtf
a couple of d/n in there for anyone who wants them
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
but.. the baloney is the best part!
― joe schmoladoo from 7-11 (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:10 (eleven years ago) link
Modern adult contemporary can be a variation of hot AC, and includes modern rock titles in its presentation. In 1997, Mike Marino of KMXB in Las Vegas described the format as reaching "an audience that has outgrown the edgier hip-hop or alternative music but hasn't gotten old and sappy enough for the soft ACs." The format's artists included Alanis Morissette, Counting Crows, Gin Blossoms, Bon Jovi, Train, No Doubt, The Script,[48] The Cranberries,[49] Lifehouse,[50]Sarah McLachlan, Jewel and Sheryl Crow. Unlike modern rock, which went after 18-34 men, this format appealed to women.
Unlike modern rock, which went after 18-34 men, this format appealed to women.
I wondered what radio was aimed at women
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
Adult Top 40 URGH
Most weeks at number one
25 weeks
"Smooth" — Santana featuring Rob Thomas (1999-2000)
23 weeks
"Wherever You Will Go" — The Calling (2001-2002)
18 weeks
"Unwell" — Matchbox Twenty (2003) "Photograph" — Nickelback (2005-2006)
17 weeks
"Iris" — Goo Goo Dolls (1998)
16 weeks
"Complicated" — Avril Lavigne (2002)
15 weeks
"Don't Speak" — No Doubt (1996-1997) "How to Save a Life" — The Fray (2006-2007)
14 weeks
"Torn" — Natalie Imbruglia (1998) "Everything You Want" — Vertical Horizon (2000) "Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)" — Train (2001)
Artists with most number-one singles
9 - Pink 8 - Maroon 5 7 - Katy Perry, 5 - Nickelback 4 - Kelly Clarkson, Daughtry, Train, Matchbox Twenty 3 - Goo Goo Dolls, Adele
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
maybe UK radio isn't as bad as I thought!
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
man it's a hot one
― I tweeted too much and I am in jail. (crüt), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
if anyone is interested in cable rock radio in the UK these are the 2 best known oneshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Rock_(radio_station) andhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerrang_Radio (you wont hear any metal on it just like you dont read it in the mag
The station's format mixes modern & classic rock with speech programmes targeted at young people and an adult rock audience. The station is connected with the Kerrang! print magazine in name, ownership and style, although the radio station has a more mainstream adult rock output than the magazine, featuring more indie and alternative rock.
Basically its more like xfm but with more emo and whatever gets played on america's modern rock radio
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:18 (eleven years ago) link
i would give undying loyalty to a radio station of any genre that played at least 50 minutes of music an hour and didn't have DJs that speak
― failed skirty tropes (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_Rock_%28radio_station%29
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:20 (eleven years ago) link
hahaha NV otm
Since 2006 Planet Rock has featured an array of rock star presenters who have either fronted limited run series or hosted long running weekly or monthly shows.The syndicated Alice Cooper radio show was edited in the UK for a breakfast audience as the Breakfast With Alice Cooper show, which ran in the 6-9am slot until 17 January 2011 when his show became Nights With Alice Cooper and broadcast at 9pm each weeknight and on Saturdays at 7pm.Current star presenters include Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott, who has presented a weekly Saturday evening show at 6pm since June 2010 and blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa who presented a weekly show on Sundays at 6pm left at the end of March 2013.A number of other star presenters have hosted shows on Planet Rock: Rick Wakeman hosted a Saturday morning show for five years until December 2010; Gary Moore hosted the award winning Blues Power series in 2008; Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi presented two series of Black Sunday for the station; Jethro Tull singer Ian Anderson presented a series called Under The Influence; Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera presented two series for the station in 2007 and 2009 which looked at influential guitar players and guitar playing styles; Former Marillion frontman Fish hosted two series of the award winning Fish On Fridays; Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham hosted one series which aired in 2010; Europe singer Joey Tempest hosted a series on Sunday evenings until early 2011 and Francis Rossi of Status Quo (band) who hosted a thirteen-part series until June 2011.
The syndicated Alice Cooper radio show was edited in the UK for a breakfast audience as the Breakfast With Alice Cooper show, which ran in the 6-9am slot until 17 January 2011 when his show became Nights With Alice Cooper and broadcast at 9pm each weeknight and on Saturdays at 7pm.
Current star presenters include Def Leppard singer Joe Elliott, who has presented a weekly Saturday evening show at 6pm since June 2010 and blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa who presented a weekly show on Sundays at 6pm left at the end of March 2013.
A number of other star presenters have hosted shows on Planet Rock: Rick Wakeman hosted a Saturday morning show for five years until December 2010; Gary Moore hosted the award winning Blues Power series in 2008; Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi presented two series of Black Sunday for the station; Jethro Tull singer Ian Anderson presented a series called Under The Influence; Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera presented two series for the station in 2007 and 2009 which looked at influential guitar players and guitar playing styles; Former Marillion frontman Fish hosted two series of the award winning Fish On Fridays; Thin Lizzy guitarist Scott Gorham hosted one series which aired in 2010; Europe singer Joey Tempest hosted a series on Sunday evenings until early 2011 and Francis Rossi of Status Quo (band) who hosted a thirteen-part series until June 2011.
NV check the one in the middle here
Nights with Alice Cooper (Monday 7pm-1am, Tue-Fri 10pm-1am)Al Murray (Sunday 10am-1am, Tuesday 7pm-9pm)Joe Elliott (Saturday 6-7pm, Tuesday 9pm-10pm)
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:23 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think classic rock is more negatively defined than most other radio formats, tbh.
Yeah, this is part of my issue, too. Don't think it's more narrow or negatively defined than e.g. "not too hard, not too soft" music@work stations, for example. Also, while it's restricted in a way, it actually plays a fairly wide range of music and imo, despite its flaws, also plays some actually artistically ambitious and experimental popular music by the standards of what can be commonly heard on commercial radio, even if it does play some of those things to death, so I sometimes feel like I need to defend it a little. (In markets with decent urban/R&B stations, you might hear some on those stations too. I don't live in one.)
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
seem to remember Fish hosting the Friday Rock Show one time
musicians are probly better DJs than DJs but still i put music radio on to listen to music i don't give a fuck who you saw in some shitty club last night
― failed skirty tropes (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
if "classics" formats have any problem it's the recycling of the obvious and over-familiar - ought to be easy to use the same format to play less repetitive stuff and i wonder if the target audience really care which Zep/Stones/Free tracks get played
― failed skirty tropes (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
Right up until last weekend I would have fervently agreed with you but then for the first time ever I had random spotify playlist on all day and after a few hours I was thinking "enough of this relentless music give me a human voice!"
― click here to start exploding (ledge), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
bet you weren't thinking "this relentless music could do with 20 minute intervals of some gobshite gossiping about Z-listers"
― failed skirty tropes (Noodle Vague), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
There's a lot of formats around in the US radio market
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_music_radio_formats
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
oh god is Zoe Ball back on radio?
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
not if its always the same songs surely?
I think that by definition an oldies (classic rock, whaetver) station has a bigger and more diverse playlist than any contemporary format. Any mix of music from a 20-40 year period is always going to be more diverse and more interesting to me personally than a batch of songs that all came out in the past 6 months.
But I suppose it's a different story over a longer period of time. If you listen to the same station every day for 20 years then the top 40 station will have gone through a lot more songs than the classic rock station. But at any individual point in time, the top 40 station is inherently less musically diverse.
― wk, Monday, 12 August 2013 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
Not trying to be captain save-a-clear-channel here but actually I don't think it is easy at all. And the audience does care! They want to hear the same familiar songs that remind them of 1973. This stuff is all focus-grouped to death isn't it? Which is why radio is so boring now. But they do seem to have it down to a science in a way. Playing Maggot Brain really would get more people to change the channel than playing Free Ride for the billionth time.
― wk, Monday, 12 August 2013 21:37 (eleven years ago) link
but its radio; you dont need to tell the audience its by black men on drugs!
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
just out of interested with country music sounding like 80s radio rock for the last 20 years or so how much influence has classic rock had on that (if any)?
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
sund4r do you listen to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EZ_Rock ?
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
country music doesn't really sound like 80s radio rock nowadays. it sounded like 80s radio rock in the 80s.
― I tweeted too much and I am in jail. (crüt), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
ahh ok
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
what does it sound like now?
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
like this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPUDC46P66w
― I tweeted too much and I am in jail. (crüt), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
ugh
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe I understand the appeal of classic rock radio to everyone now
But what I hear on New Country radio, which is usually Tim McGraw or Blake Shelton or Carrie Underwood or Lady Antebellum or Band Perry and not Big & Rich, DOES sound like 70s and 80s radio rock (the softer end of classic rock) to me. More so than most modern rock, by far.
And I think there's a lot of crossover, AG. Taylor Swift has done a whole collaborative concert with Def Leppard and a duet with Stevie Nicks. Bon Jovi has been more of a presence on country radio than rock radio this milennium.
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
i did not expect big and rich to sound like that or to write lyrics like this
Some stupid video posted as a joke, somebody's life gets ruinedOut of everything we can createWhere is the cure to keep the sick from losingBabies having babies 'cause their parents are always goneSomehow we have forgotten how to make a house a homeHow to make a house a homeOh! Oh! Yeah! Yeah!I'm begging for forgiveness, I wanna make a differenceEven in the smallest wayI'm only one person, but I can feel it workingI believe in better daysThat's why I pray, yeahThat's why I pray, yeah
I'm begging for forgiveness, I wanna make a differenceEven in the smallest wayI'm only one person, but I can feel it workingI believe in better daysThat's why I pray, yeahThat's why I pray, yeah
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
Taylor Swift has done a whole collaborative concert with Def Leppard
haha what?
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo5WQjPwumw
― how's life, Monday, 12 August 2013 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
there is absolutely no doubt that for the listenership of classic rock radio, Prince is no different from Michael Jackson. No matter how many guitar solos he plays, he's a faggy black guy that wears make-up, full stop. He was booed off the stage when he opened for the Stones in '81.
Seems like these are acts that have graduated to the classic rock canon:
Nirvana Red Hot Chili PeppersPearl jamStone Temple PilotsREMMetallicaBlack Crowes (one could surmise they were designed to get on classic radio immediately)Guns and Rosesmaybe the Foo Fighters?'
― veronica moser, Monday, 12 August 2013 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
no green day?
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
Black Crowes (one could surmise they were designed to get on classic radio immediately)
yeah I guess stuff like this is the US equiv of Oasis?
― wk, Monday, 12 August 2013 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
I hope green day never get played on classic rock radio. that would be where I draw the line.
― I tweeted too much and I am in jail. (crüt), Monday, 12 August 2013 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
there is absolutely no doubt that for the listenership of classic rock radio, Prince is no different from Michael Jackson. No matter how many guitar solos he plays, he's a faggy black guy that wears make-up, full stop.
not to deny that there's an element of racism, sexism and homophobia deeply embedded in the classic rock radio demographic, the artists themselves, the radio programmers, or the nation as a whole, but I think it's weird to pretend like there isn't a huge aesthetic chasm between these things. Does classic rock radio play any songs by white artists that sound even remotely like Maggot Brain?
― wk, Monday, 12 August 2013 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
I mean apart from that one dj at that one station who played it at 1:30 am
― wk, Monday, 12 August 2013 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
pink floyd?
― fit and working again, Monday, 12 August 2013 22:32 (eleven years ago) link
If they play Hendrix then they could play thishttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVHrvx-Ua68
― ..it would have sounded about as heavy as Talulah Gosh. (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 12 August 2013 22:33 (eleven years ago) link