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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: kosmo vinyl on January 14, 2005, 09:09:00 am
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Heart - Barracuda
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New Order - Age of Consent
Fugazi - Nice New Outfit
Beulah - Me and Jesus Don't Talk Anymore
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AC/DC 'TNT'
The Bar-Kays 'Holy Ghost'
The Prodigy 'Speedway'
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thin lizzy- jailbreak
Elvis costello- radio, radio
of course the Supersuckers- pretty fucked up!
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nothing like a little 70s rock to get the morning started right... I wonder if you hear such tunage on the Arrow? oh wait they are playing the Beatles for umpteeth time. no wonder radio listnership is declining...
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I think 94.7 plays Barracuda every 10 minutes
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Bad Brains - Right Brigade
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Elliott Smith-Coast to Coast
Pulp-I'm A Man
The Handsome Boy Modeling School & Jack Johnson-Breakdown
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We watched a tape of Austin City Limits last night with Wilco and Bright Eyes. When I commented that Bright Eyes can't weigh more than 110 pounds, my wife claimed she could kick his ass.
So the thought of my wife kicking Bright Eyes' ass rocked my commute this morning. :D
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Originally posted by pollard:
I think 94.7 plays Barracuda every 10 minutes
nope your getting it confused with all those led zepplin songs they air
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bloc party has rocked my commute every day for almost 3 weeks. its melted into my CD player.
Helicopter is defintely the best song (right now)
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...and you will know us by the trail of dead - worlds apart (whole album).
actually, this just rocked me while driving last night. this album is amazingly good.
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The streets: I am not trying to pull you..... ....... your fit, but my gosh don't you know it.
(What's it called?)
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Cake - Guitar Man
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Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy
Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast
Isis - Oceanic CD
And Any Clutch Song
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I sit here and see all of these bands that everyone is talking about and don't know half of them. Now I'm sure that this music good music and I'd would enjoy them I'm sure, but what I don't understand is why is there not a radio station brave enough to put these bands out there. Instead we get crap radio with crap bands.
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Originally posted by eastcoastbrian:
but what I don't understand is why is there not a radio station brave enough to put these bands out there.
LA's got one: Indie 103 FM (http://indie1031.fm/main.html)
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There playlist is impresive. But I'd like to turn the Radio on here In D.C. and be able to here that stuff. Somebody needs to start a basement radio station and play the good stuff. "Pump up the Volume" Thank you Mr. Slater.
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Originally posted by eastcoastbrian:
But I'd like to turn the Radio on here In D.C. and be able to here that stuff.
I think that's sort of the point that most folks on the board are getting at here. Most boardies haven't listened to broadcast radio in years because they don't play this stuff, so the demise of HFS is something that they feel they can mock and could "have told you so."
The problem is, outside of LA, a radio station that plays this type of music likely won't make enough money for Infinity or Clear Channel either, but we're ok with that. We've found alternatives through internet radio, mp3 players, and a few through XM. The reason it works in LA is because so many people have to listen to the radio as they're stuck in hours fo traffic. That's why LA has the most diverse radio stations and Clear Channel can take a chance on an Indie radio station, like Indie 103, to compete with KROQ and KCRW.
It's not going to happen in DC until they stop the radio conglomerates.
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well thanks to radio "research" station owners decided the way to go was to tighten up radio playlists and target specific demographics, thus what we have today.
fm radio stations would be much better if they returned to that time when they were considered "underground" and the dj/hosts would only yak between bong hits or when they were bored bangin' thier girlfriends in the studio. nowadays it's personalities saying "witty" things and announcing the latest contest and having everything nicely program so that all the stations play commericals at the same time.
the success of little steven's underground garage show, proves that some listeners aren't as dumb and sheeplike as the industry thinks.
and before our resident XM fan pipes in, XM does provide an "alternative" to local radio. but not everyone is buying into it. i've heard plenty of critism about it's playlists, compressed sound and programming via computer. several people have looked at my swagger mix cd and commented why aren't you programming XM. why? because it contains songs from the 60 onward, crosses genres i.e. garage, hair metal, classic rock, and indie.
IMHO a knowledgable host is what makes for good radio. My dad is a jazz buff and would be an ideal candidate for XM seeing as there is little of that on the air anymore. Yet, he has found a local show in the Detroit area which he enjoys because of the way the host programs.
I haven't switch to XM and rarely listen to the radio because the 60+ minutes I spend in my car everyday is the only time I can crank up recent CD purchases. Should there be a John Peel, Little Steven, or Brave New Waves type show on the air when I'm driving. Then I be listening to that. I certainly don't need to hear the putzs on The Arrow making inane comments in amongst there perdictable playlist.
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and boy do i miss the CBC weekend radio shows with David Wisdom and Leora Cornfeld.
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Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:
nope your getting it confused with all those led zepplin songs they air
I use to listen to 94.7 quite a bit, and I know they played Barracuda alot because I dont care for it much and would turn the radio off ;)
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Killing Joke-"Death & Resurrection Show"
Screaming Blue Messiahs- "Big Brother Muscle"
Naked Raygun- "New Dreams"
"Loud,louder....must wake up..."
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my commute songs were-
plus/minus - Scarecrow
Constantines - Young Offenders
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I wish XM were the answer; it sounds good but in practice it's pretty unexciting.
Their "indie" stream, XMU, is programmed like a computer, playing the same odd handful of "indie" acts over and over and ignoring 98% of bands on the indie radar (including most bands on major indies, such as Drag City, Merge, Sub Pop, Rough Trade, Matador, Parasol, Yep Rock, Saddle Creek, Hush, Secretly Canadian, etc, as well as interesting bands on less prominent labels). They do play obscure acts but I never get the immpression they were selected for any special quality; it seems extrememly random (i.e. they sent us a promo so we threw it on).
They also steadfastly refuse to play any tracks older than 18 months (unless they're lazy and forget to take something out of the playlist; but they'll never play anything older than their broadcast debut).
One look at the playlist of WOXY or Radio@Netscape puts XMU to shame. For example, WOXY today played tracks from the new Low and 89 Cubs albums mixed in with classic Yo La Tengo and Built to Spill. A human might have actually programmed this. They're music fans and they're on top of things.
That said, XM is certainly better than terrestrial radio, but it's frustrating how bizarrely mediocre it is.
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Originally posted by bellenseb:
That said, XM is certainly better than terrestrial radio, but it's frustrating how bizarrely mediocre it is.
I completely agree, a friend at work had it and would play it in our work area, I never thought it was that special, and never discovered anything new out of it. Which is why I am surprised that so many people think it is great.
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XM is a fine alternative, if we did not have to pay for it. And it seems to me that we are slowly being forced into sat. radio.
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Barracuda
China Grove
Papa Don't Preach
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The One AM Radio: What You Gave Away, Flicker, Witness, Those Distant Lights
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looks like i'm a bit late on this (just got back from a week in paris), but my favorite all-time go-to-work get-pumped-up song is ... drum roll ...
Deftones - My Own Summer (Shove It)
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Run by Snow Patrol. Suitable in SOOO many ways.
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Underworld - kiteless/Juanita
Beta Band - anything from Hot Shots
I live out in the country and mountains, so this makes for a beautiful drive
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"You canâ??t catch me â??cause the rabbit gone died"
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Yeah, there are some questionable peeps out here.
Oh, ooh, I forgot about Days of the New. Practically every song on their first album is a gem, and yes, great for being in the mountains...
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Originally posted by Chisai Fry:
Yeah, there are some questionable peeps out here.
Oh, ooh, I forgot about Days of the New. Practically every song on their first album is a gem, and yes, great for being in the mountains...
Man,that commute in from Colorado must be a BITCH!
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This morning I heard Dizzee Rascal - Fix Up, Look Sharp.
Nothing like a 30 year old suit cruising in a four door sedan bouncing up and down to Dizzee trying not to spill his Starbucks. Priceless.
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No commute today, fed employees have off so I woke up at 10:30 and put on Belle and Sebastian "Boy w/ the Arab Strap" (probably the opposite of commute music)
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Originally posted by vansmack:
This morning I heard Dizzee Rascal - Fix Up, Look Sharp.
Nothing like a 30 year old suit cruising in a four door sedan bouncing up and down to Dizzee trying not to spill his Starbucks. Priceless.
haha. that should be a commercial. not sure for what, either Dizzee Rascal, sedans, or Starbucks!
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am radio rocked my commute this morning.
its astonishing just how much shuts down for 2 inches of snow that fell 18hours beforehand.
some parts of Canada would need 18 inches to have fallen 2 hours before.
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The Wilco Summerteeth Album has been good to me this week while driving to work.
And, sometimes 89.7 (balto. station) plays good music. In the past few weeks, I've heard Wilco, Belle and Sebastian, Cat Power, Morrissey,and lots of others. They also play alot of bad music though. but, it's no commercials.
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Originally posted by imROTTen:
Originally posted by Chisai Fry:
Yeah, there are some questionable peeps out here.
Oh, ooh, I forgot about Days of the New. Practically every song on their first album is a gem, and yes, great for being in the mountains...
Man,that commute in from Colorado must be a BITCH! [/b]
Yeah, and the snow doesn't help!
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Originally posted by sonickteam2:
haha. that should be a commercial. not sure for what, either Dizzee Rascal, sedans, or Starbucks!
When it hit me, I thought "All I need now is a car seat and I could be a commercial for VH1."
That's also when I started crying.
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Originally posted by vansmack:
This morning I heard Dizzee Rascal - Fix Up, Look Sharp.
Nothing like a 30 year old suit cruising in a four door sedan bouncing up and down to Dizzee trying not to spill his Starbucks. Priceless.
better than puddle of mudd .... i listen to dizzee and some other not-mainstream hip-hop on the green line and get some weeeeird looks...
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Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
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Tank - Life Sex and Death
I only commute down two flights of steps so short songs are essential.
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"Lost A Friend" - James
came on my shuffle mode. never heard it before, rocked it twice :)
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what rocks the commute is ANYTHING that is good driving music, something that makes you feel like your reving that engine, or even a song about a car sometimes.
Such said tunes are varied in scope and genre my good friends :)
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22-20s--Hold On (Spaceman Remix). The Spaceman turns this song into a Spacemen 3-esque jam.
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Do Me Bad Things - Molly's Wood(Demo Version) (http://www.7digital.com/downloads/dmbt3/clicktracks.asp) DRMed unfortunately
Soundgarden meets The Ronettes
Here's hoping that DMBT gets a deal on this side of the pond... Can't wait to hear more and see them live. Three singers backed by Six musicians.
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"Charlie The Russian" - Washington Social Club
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"Queen Bitch" - Bowie
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"Candy and a Currant Bun" Syd's Pink Floyd.
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Hadn't heard this song in years.....
"Balloon Man" by Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
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Incognito - "Get Into My Groove" (Jazzanova Re-Groove Mix)