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OK, I am about to jump out a fucking windown because the Top 40 station I listen to at work keeps playing this FUCKING SONG almostv hourly. I don't know its name but the chorus is : "It's so easy, it's so right, it's so easy to rock it all night" AGHGAHGHHH!!!!! It's such a FAKE ASS rock pop song that my ears are bleeding.

Sorry I thought I would share my pain.

Stravo wrote:OK, I am about to jump out a fucking windown because the Top 40 station I listen to at work keeps playing this FUCKING SONG almostv hourly. I don't know its name but the chorus is : "It's so easy, it's so right, it's so easy to rock it all night" AGHGAHGHHH!!!!! It's such a FAKE ASS rock pop song that my ears are bleeding.

Sorry I thought I would share my pain.

Can't you change the station? Or put a screwdriver through the loudspeaker?

Stravo wrote:OK, I am about to jump out a fucking windown because the Top 40 station I listen to at work keeps playing this FUCKING SONG almostv hourly. I don't know its name but the chorus is : "It's so easy, it's so right, it's so easy to rock it all night" AGHGAHGHHH!!!!! It's such a FAKE ASS rock pop song that my ears are bleeding.

Sorry I thought I would share my pain.

Now do you think the music industry is worthy of dealing with the military?

Stravo wrote:OK, I am about to jump out a fucking windown because the Top 40 station I listen to at work keeps playing this FUCKING SONG almostv hourly. I don't know its name but the chorus is : "It's so easy, it's so right, it's so easy to rock it all night" AGHGAHGHHH!!!!! It's such a FAKE ASS rock pop song that my ears are bleeding.

Sorry I thought I would share my pain.

Is this pumped into your office?

Because if so, I feel your pain.

This is sorta why I'm glad I have my trusty MP3 player at work.

No, its the station I listen to because I can't stand rap or house music whioch are the predominant stations in NY. But this song is HORRENDOUS and no matter what Top 40 station I turn to, it pops up. UGH. If not for my radio I would slowly go insane and the next chapter of starcrossed would be:

ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKE STRAVO A DULL BOY
ALL WORK AND NO PLAY MAKE STRAVO A DULL BOY

I used to listen to Opie and Anthony in the afternoons but ever since they were booted for sponsoring sex in St. Patrick's Cathedral (BY FAR funniest line uttered during that broadcast was one of the participants shouting to a priest that confronted them on having sex in the pues, "Where's your god now??" QUICKLY followed by "What's wrong padre, couldn't find a nice tight altar boy today?" ) the BEST and FUNNIEST show ever on radio. They easily outstrip Stern and his tired old schtick but I have no idea what happened to them after they were fired.

You can't seriously be telling me that the radio station selection in New York City is so awful that you have no choice but to listen to either Top40, rap, or house music! Can that be right?

Here are my choices (I don't get AM reception in the office where I could listen to talk radio like Rush and co.)

92.3 Classic Rock (I'm not THAT old yet) Stern in the morning its only saving grace.

95.5 WPLJ What I listen to mostly Top 40.

97.8 HOT 97 house music and Rap...I almost feel like I just got mugged when I turn to this station

100.3 Z-100 Top 40 with alot of urban music thrown in so sort of an alternative to WPLJ but not one IO would be happy with.

101.5 Yet MORE house music urban stuff.

104.5 PURE RAP

105.7 HOUSE MUSIC

You get the idea? I'm not counting the classical music stations which I do occaisonally listen to when writing or doing research.

NYC does not have the wide variety of music you woudl imagine. This is teh House Rap capital of the world thus the more profitable stations focus on that style of music. I also hear that its a trend in radio where large corporations control the vast majority of the stations and thus you have a homeginization of the music.

Stravo wrote:Here are my choices (I don't get AM reception in the office where I could listen to talk radio like Rush and co.)

92.3 Classic Rock (I'm not THAT old yet) Stern in the morning its only saving grace.

95.5 WPLJ What I listen to mostly Top 40.

97.8 HOT 97 house music and Rap...I almost feel like I just got mugged when I turn to this station

100.3 Z-100 Top 40 with alot of urban music thrown in so sort of an alternative to WPLJ but not one IO would be happy with.

101.5 Yet MORE house music urban stuff.

104.5 PURE RAP

105.7 HOUSE MUSIC

You get the idea? I'm not counting the classical music stations which I do occaisonally listen to when writing or doing research.

NYC does not have the wide variety of music you woudl imagine. This is teh House Rap capital of the world thus the more profitable stations focus on that style of music. I also hear that its a trend in radio where large corporations control the vast majority of the stations and thus you have a homeginization of the music.

That's weird. It's just like that here in Nawlins, right down to the transmitter frequencies(!!!)

92.3 is ok. I love Classic Rock!

Hey, 97.4 Rock FM and 105.4 Century FM are good*.

*Must be living within the North-West region of England.

Winona is wretched. We get:

89.5 KWNO - College radio (unreceivable outside of a 1 mile radius of campus)

93.3 Z93 - Top 40

95.3 KG95.3 - Top 40

98.3 CD Country - Country

101.1 Home 101 - Easy Listening

105.5 The Buzz - Modern Rock

AAARGH! I'd give ANYTHING for a classic rock station in this Godforsaken sandbar.

Stravo wrote: 92.3 Classic Rock (I'm not THAT old yet) Stern in the morning its only saving grace.

Blasphemer! How dare you insult the mighty Zeppelin!

This is why humanity developed the portable CD player and associated music CD's.

What is the definition of 'House' music?

Mark S wrote:What is the definition of 'House' music?

Isn't that the shitty throbbing-beat techno dance music that they play in cheap bars?

Darth Wong wrote:

Mark S wrote:What is the definition of 'House' music?

Isn't that the shitty throbbing-beat techno dance music that they play in cheap bars?

DING DING DING Correct. Its not as annoying as Rap but not something you can listen to while sitting in front of a computer.

Ugh...and honestly not much choice at all.

Sorta like DC...

Yeah, we have canned music where I work too

I keep wanting to sneak in and change it to the "Old Days Radio" channel just because I am sick of the Top 40s, Sick of "The Joint" (24/7 More of the same Bob Marley and Peter Tosh...), Sick of "The Groove" (Disco MUST DIE!!!!), Sick of hearing the same damn 50's songs, and 60's songs (In two decades of decent music why do they have to keep replaying the same fucking songs every 4 hours), Fuck it, I figure at least this way I can hear the Best of War of the Worlds, Dragnet, & The Shadow.

Stravo wrote:Here are my choices (I don't get AM reception in the office where I could listen to talk radio like Rush and co.)

92.3 Classic Rock (I'm not THAT old yet) Stern in the morning its only saving grace.

Weird. 92.3 K-Rock is not classic rock out here; it's mostly newer stuff.

Tell me you don't get 102.3 WBAB or Q-104.3? You poor, poor man! Those are the two best rock stations out my way.

Dalton wrote:

Stravo wrote:Here are my choices (I don't get AM reception in the office where I could listen to talk radio like Rush and co.)

92.3 Classic Rock (I'm not THAT old yet) Stern in the morning its only saving grace.

Weird. 92.3 K-Rock is not classic rock out here; it's mostly newer stuff.

Tell me you don't get 102.3 WBAB or Q-104.3? You poor, poor man! Those are the two best rock stations out my way.

I think I DO get Q-104. Frankly I'm a lazy fuck when it comes to teh radio and as I tune unless the song grabs me in exactly three seconds I keep on going.

I'm pretty much a radio nomad. I'll only stay on a station as long as the song is good. When crap comes on (or commercials) I move along.

damn...I was going to bitch about station choices in Philadelphia, but compared to some of you guys, we got it pretty good...

Y 100 (100.3) - Modern rock. They've got a pretty deep roatation and they're brininging new music on all the time. They have the "No Creed Hour" every weeknight, which makes me happy. They play too much whining teen angst shit like Papa Roach and Good Charlotte (whose fans bitch and whine endlessly if they don't get played once an hour, just like Creed fans, and are about as punk as first grade girls hosting a tea party, just like Creed fans).

WMMR (93.3) - Classic rock station, one of the oldest FM stations in the country. Pretty good, but they play too much 80s hair band crap. If I never hear Van Halen again, I'll be happy.

WYSP (94.1) - Generic rock station pretending to be hard rock. Too much Goddamned chatter--Stern, Don and Mike, and fucking Letterman simulcast. If I wanted to listen to David LEtterman, I'd turn on the Goddamn TV. They also, for some reason, carry the Eagles games. While I like listening to the Eagles on the radio (Merrill Reese is a better play-by-play guy than anyone on TV, and when the Eagles are sucking, you know he shares your pain), I can't understand why they're not on the all-sports AM station.

WXPN (88.5) - University of Pennsylvania public radio. A very quirky station that will play almost any genre. Unlike a lot of college radio (including my college's station, 89.1 WXVU) it's got range all over the tri-state area.

WIOQ (102.1) - Top 40 pop. It's not the only pop station in the city, but it's got all the elements: too many commercials, a 15 song rotation, loud generic DJs with interchangable personalities. Pure corporate radio.

Power 99 (98.5) - "Urban" sounds calculated to make me want to strangle people inside half an hour.

WPHI (103.9) - Formerly WDRE, a fantastic modern rock station that blew everyone else out of the water. They'd play stuff you'd NEVER hear on any other radio station. Naturarlly, they were bought out and now they, too, play "urban" sounds. They're harder than Power 99 and play fewer commercials--I understand that they're the station of choice for "real" hip-hop fans while the poseurs listen to the other station. I suppose that's better than them becoming another damn Top 40 station, but not by much.

WOGL (98.1) - Oldies. Not "classic rock" or "Jammin' gold" or the all 70's station, but real life sock-hop oldies. Good for reminding myself why I'm glad I was born in 1981.

WMGK (102.9) - The all 70's station. Mix of classic rock and disco. The oldies station for my parents' generation. Makes you understand why they took so many drugs--there was nothing good on the radio.

WFLN (95.7) - So called "Jammin' Gold". Basically like WMGK for the extra-melanin set. R&B from before it sucked. Actually not that bad a station.

B 101 (101.1) - Horrible, horrible, horrible "adult contemporary". Station of choice for elevator operators everywhere. God I hate this station. They say it's inoffensive music, but nothing that makes me want to kill that many record executives can be called "inoffensive".

Not to be cruel or anything but why not put your computer to good use?

Winamp has a bunch of Radio stations to lisen to.

http://www.shoutcast.com/waradio.phtml

I know that MS Media Player have it too but I haven't bothered with that one yet.

Oh and up here in the mountains all we get are skips bouncing back over to us.

So we have

KFOG-60's & Raggae
KATT-Country (but they won't play Cash, Cline, Nelson, or Williams)
-A station in Mexico
KNPR-Talk Radio & Jazz

Edit
I forgot we get one Top 40 station....

The Yosemite Bear wrote:Oh and up here in the mountains all we get are skips bouncing back over to us.

So we have

KFOG-60's & Raggae
KATT-Country (but they won't play Cash, Cline, Nelson, or Williams)
-A station in Mexico
KNPR-Talk Radio & Jazz

Edit
I forgot we get one Top 40 station....

You pick up KFOG up there! Holy crap. What about KGO?

Well, here in Los Angeles there used to be a decent selection, but it's steadily gotten worse.

106.7 KROQ - The "new rock" station. They used to be tolerable back in 1997, but that was six years ago...

Star 98.7 - More "new rock," with a lot of pop thrown in. That's right, they'd play Britney Spears alongside Green Day. Never did like it, rarely listened...

Arrow 103 - I think they were based out in the desert. The station seems to have gone belly-up... *sigh*

Then you've got an assload of mariachi stations, plus a number of rap stations.

The only FM station that I find worth listening to now is Rock 105.3, which tries to play more hard rock but even then doesn't have much worth listening to. To make matters worse, they're in San Diego and I can only get them at my house--and not any other part of LA--due to the propagation...