Random Music Talk CXVII: Leaked Emails Show Hillary Likes Both Kanye & Taylor Swift

[cobl04]

Yeah I sincerely doubt Stairway to Heaven will be #1.

In fact I would bet a lot of money it'll be "Heroes".

 

[martha]

I wasn't serious. I was thinking about how many goddam countdowns I listened to that always ALWAYS ended with Stairway to Heaven as the number song. In any year. In all the years.


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[cobl04]

Yes. Our classic rock station here has never done a poll without that song being #1.

 

[david]

I heard Green Day's Blvd of Broken Dreams this after noon on Southern California classic rock station K-Earth 101. That was weird.


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[cobl04]

I fucking haaaaate that album. Those singles were (and still are) everywhere and they're just such whiney shit.

 

[david]

Yeah, the song is only 12 years old, it was weird. Most classic stations here play 90s stuff so it's odd hearing songs from the 00's already being added to daily playlists. Southern California rock radio is pretty horrible anyway.


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[Moonlit_Angel]

When my dad worked in radio I remember him saying that according to the higher ups/programming heads/whomever, a song was considered "classic" after ten years. I don't know if that was the definition across the board for ALL radio stations in the country or just the ones he worked at, though.

 

[Kieran McConville]

As far as I can tell, most of the 'classic hits' stations here in Australia lost their taste organs somewhere around 1980. You'll hear some - some, I say - good 60s and 70s stuff, but by the time you get to the 90s, it's fucking dire. The advent of punk and everything that flowed even indirectly from that seems to be the cutoff.

 

[Hewson]

Southern California rock radio is pretty horrible anyway.

I touch down at Big Duke Airport Saturday at noon, what are some halfway decent stations to set on the radio in the rental?

 

[cobl04]

Cobbler: Dungen is playing Melbourne in December. Get on it.

Tame Impala rip off? No thanks.

As far as I can tell, most of the 'classic hits' stations here in Australia lost their taste organs somewhere around 1980. You'll hear some - some, I say - good 60s and 70s stuff, but by the time you get to the 90s, it's fucking dire. The advent of punk and everything that flowed even indirectly from that seems to be the cutoff.

I'd dispute this. I was at a restaurant last night and they must have had Gold104 on and they played six or seven songs in a row, all from the 60s, 70s or 80s, and it was borderline insufferable.

There was a LOT of bad music released in those decades, contrary to popular belief.

 

[iron yuppie]

I love Pink Floyd, but they really, really need to stop with these ludicrous reissues:

Pink Floyd / The Early Years 1965-1972: dream 27-disc box set coming in Nov | superdeluxeedition

Who could possibly be the target audience for this behemoth?

 

[martha]

Tame Impala rip off? No thanks.

I'm going to say I know you're joking so I don't have to come down there and give you a fat lip just in time for your baby to come home and see it.

Spoiler

Didn't you have a friend who called them that?

 

[martha]

I touch down at Big Duke Airport Saturday at noon, what are some halfway decent stations to set on the radio in the rental?

Bring some CDs.

Although Ashley might know of one.

 

[lazarus]

Really proud of the Deap Vally girls, who scored the front cover of the LA Weekly (Los Angeles's biggest free newspaper, owned by the same company who puts out NYC's Village Voice).

Deap Vally Are Feminists. Also, They Will Rock Your Face Off | L.A. Weekly

 

[martha]

Like.


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[Kieran McConville]

Tame Impala rip off? No thanks.



I'd dispute this. I was at a restaurant last night and they must have had Gold104 on and they played six or seven songs in a row, all from the 60s, 70s or 80s, and it was borderline insufferable.

There was a LOT of bad music released in those decades, contrary to popular belief.

Oh I KNOW IT, I know there was a lot of bad music in those decades, when I was at university a long time ago, all I could get on my shitty radio was the local oldies' station. And sure, you'd see something like 'Heroes' or mid-period Fleetwood Mac show up, but you'd also get Daddy Cool, Skyhooks and Stuck In The Middle With You.

I guess I was trying to think of what the likes of your more modern-oriented FM type stations did - Triple M or whoever - but honestly, I'm bullshitting. I don't listen to any of them.

 

[Hewson]

Bring some CDs.

Although Ashley might know of one.

That bad?
Haven't been out there since the 90's, think we mostly listened to K Rock that trip if memory serves. But over the past 2 decades radio everywhere has suffered. Maybe I'll get lucky and the rental will have satellite.

 

[martha]

KUSC plays lovely classical music.

 

[Hewson]

KUSC plays lovely classical music.

No coincidence that its an anagram of SUCK?

Not my speed unfortunately.

 

[martha]

Hey.

 

[Hewson]

Hey.

I used a

 

[martha]

 

[LemonMelon]

Random Music Talk CXVII: Leaked Emails Show Hillary Likes Both Kanye & Taylor...

A quick run through the radio band here in the valley:

88.1 - jazz, really good station to chill to when driving at night
88.5 - CSUN's radio station. Great indie rock and deep cuts.
93.1 - Jack FM, every area has this. Catch-all station.
92.3 - Power 92, modern hip hop
93.5- KDAY, old school hip hop, fantastic station
94.7 - soul, R&B
95.5 - classic rock
98.7 - alt rock, definitely better than KROQ
100.3 - more classic rock
101.1 - still classic rock
104.3 - My FM, mostly top 40 pop
106.7 - KROQ

You won't get all of these but a few you will.

 

[lazarus]

I haven't voluntarily listened to music on the radio for at least 10-15 years

 

[iron yuppie]

Paying $8 a month for satellite radio is one of the best decisions I've ever made.

 

[martha]

I haven't voluntarily listened to music on the radio for at least 10-15 years

This.


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[LemonMelon]

Buying a car with a combo USB charge/music port was a good idea.

 

[Moonlit_Angel]

My mom and I still listen to the radio on occasion, because our car doesn't have a CD player in it, and then the radio's on at both of our workplaces.

At least my mom gets to change the station from time to time at where she works, though. The place I work, aside from last week when they flipped to the local top 40 station for a few days, has had the radio tuned to our local country station. And not the good kind of country music, either.

 

[elevated_u2_fan]

Buying a car with a combo USB charge/music port was a good idea.

But what about the Aux Hole?

 

[lazarus]

That usually costs extra. Just ask Lance's Mom.