Great l'il thread!
Fun & interesting to see what's being played all over The USA and all over parts of the whole world!
great stories
387 uhoh: excpet for the almost drivin off the road part)!
Kaite> Holy Guitars and Hot Vocals: Sweet Fire of Love! near
GG some impressive radio!
Explorer> even more impressive list !
I actaully did hear SFOL on the radio when Robbie's record was out b/c we had a free-form DJ at one coomercial station and occasionally more opened up play-lists at another.
On 101.9 WRXP in NYC they mix some classic/alt /local & new. It's a good station. They could open it up more but I'm otfen pleased, and sometimes happily stunned!
The more usual stuff:
NYD /One /Pride /WOWY /Desre /Beautiful Day /Streets /ISHFWILF /IALW /
on occasion:
ELevation /(latley) Bad /Gloria /ABOY /Vertigo
rarish>
ST /IWF /EBTTRT
fairly frequent until ? year or so ago > IGC* !
in fact the senior most DJ there at WXRP (prabasblty in age) and definatelty inexpereince is Matt Pinfield. If he sounds familliar > he was a MYV - VJ. And he was the voice that introduced U2 at Irving Pklaza when they did that radio satilite hook-up foir the live debut of ATYCLB.
* i don't know if this is connected or not, but one DJ who isn't a professional DJ but loves music so much and has such an awesome collection of all kinds of popular & alt music that he has his own special Sunday night Show *Richard Russo's "Anything, Anything from the song by yhe same name...
but I tuned in one night and caught him in the
middle end of a rant about Bono and why he
wasn't going play
any U2 music anyomre! and he hasn't.
Ever since then IGC is the only U2 I've heard played there before that isn't played anymore, unless I missed it BUT I usued to hear <over a stretch of time> a few times. so i doubt it. Mystery!
ha! I
know I'm forgetting a few!
When NLOTH came out they played a fair portion of it for several months which was lovely! They've only been on the air in this format for 2 1/2 or so years. So NLOTH is the
only new U2 album they have had to promote.
And I just went to google the staion to see when they started up> 2008 and found out something amazing about the station.
Well, amazing
to me; who loves talking about Rock Radio sinced I've lived it in NYC--
I was around the The Beatles breaking out in America in AM Pop music radio (which also then caried Soul/ R&B) when I was 10, and watched the rise of FM radio <my teens>, and the competion in the area (or ignoring it at first)
the rise of the CGBG's bands & Punk/New Wave !
And I had
no idea b/c the Frequency is ever so slightly different !
101.9 [WRXP 28 years earlier was
102 FM The PIX] ; so here's a bit of the story of a (different/later)
fabulous time in NYC Rrock radio.From Wikipedia...since i was there i know this is basically factual.
"1978-1980: Punk/New Wave Rock—At a time when other rock stations in New York were sticking with traditional AOR formats (WPLJ, WNEW-FM), Adult Top 40 (WXLO) or oldies (WCBS-FM),
WPIX staked out a groundbreaking format focused on new wave and punk but included older rock and roll as well, hence its advertising slogan:
"From Elvis to Elvis." It helped break in New York and nationally early records by Elvis Costello, the Police, Nick Lowe, the Clash, the Cars, Squeeze, Devo, the Kings, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, the Buzzcocks, Cheap Trick, Talking Heads, David Johansen, Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd, to name just a few. The station was even featured in lyrics from the Squeeze song, 'I Think I'm Go Go' (P I X and rock and roll).
March 1980-1981: Rock-based top 40--According to The New York Times, a station spokesperson said the station was "modifying the format to improve the product to make it more mass acceptable."[2]
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"Notable air personalities during the WPIX-FM period included Mark Simone, Dennis Quinn, Jim Kerr, Alan Colmes,
Meg Griffin, Les Marshak, Gus Gossert, Alfredo, Jane Hamburger, and
Dan Neer."
My 2 favs.
Over time some of the other stations mentioned started to play more alt music of the time because of "The PIX".
By the dates U2
just missed being played on there.
Dan Neer is still on commercial rock in the area. Meg is considered one of the pioneering Women Rock DJ's...she's still on Satilite Radio.
I made a petition when we heard they were going to change PIX's formatt... which i placed at several relevant locations . It was the winter, I was recovering from a sprained ankle, had them out for about a week, and hobbled around to pick them up. Got about 800 signatures.
"The station gave up quickly on both the Disco and Punk/New Wave formats
to see both genres of music become popular several years later. "
impatient idyots!
LUCKILY a few years later a Long Island station that you could hear in waaaay upper manhattan & the bronx came along WLIR/ WDRE>
Headache In A Suitcase - might know them!