Rant about radio

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-02-20 02:40am

Why can't DJ's shut up?
I was coming home this afternoon in my mum's car, adn they start to play Enter Sandman, so, being a teenager, I turned it up, only to hear the DJ was still droning on with his co-host about some 'funny caller' he had had earlier.
I hate when they do this, why can't they learn that people don't have radios on the FM band to listen to their crap. It's for music, Triple M (The station) have even said that their main focus is music, they cancelled several fine shows for more music, and when they play it, they guy won't fucking shut up.

Sorry if this is a little incoherent, I'm writing as it ocmes to me.

Captain tycho · Post by **Captain tycho** » 2003-02-20 02:45am

That's DJs for ya.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2003-02-20 03:01am

Buy CD's.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2003-02-20 03:03am

Knife wrote:Buy CD's.

I have CD's, no player.

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2003-02-20 03:05am

DJs do it to impress each other. It's called "talking up" a song. They pride themselves on how close they can come to shutting up before the beginning of the lyric.

salm · Post by **salm** » 2003-02-20 09:02am

press "off" button

Post by **Vympel** » 2003-02-20 09:06am

[rant]Occcccccccccch it fucken drives me crazy to man- who the fuck are they to decide when the song has really begun? When the music starts- that's the start of the fucking song. So SHUT THE FUCK UP![/rant]

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2003-02-20 09:07am

I just depsie morning shows...I just want music...fuck, probably why I listen to a CD more often then radio(then there's XM and gang...which my head unit can be configured for...maybe I'll get that)

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2003-02-20 09:34am

Only one good Morning show I've ever heard and my Favorite Radio Station of all time, But I had to move away

Kelly probably knows them, G-105 out of Captial Hill/Duram North Carilona, One of the most powerful Radio Towers in the Country you could hear them clearly all the way to the Beach(300+ miles) or the State boarders(420 Miles)

Though you lost em in the Mountains of obvious reasons

Anyway they never did the Talk right up to the first Lyric thing, Had a damn funny Morning Show(Mostly because they based their stunts around a Redneck thinking, IE Lets dress up our Producer as a Convice, Slap some Cuffs on him and pack him on a City Bus with hidden Mic

Or lets get the Local Car Dealership on our side, Then send our Producer out dress and smelling like a Deranged Hobo with a Bottle of Root-Beer disqised as Booze and give him a bad German Accent and a Briefcase full of (mostly Fake) money and have the New Guy at the Car-Dealership go on a test drive with him in a Viper

)

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-02-20 10:59am

I hate it when you turn over to a talk radio station to hear a show, only to find out they have cancelled it for yet another stupid sports talk show. Such as what happened to the Nashville station WWTN. They cancelled Coast to Coast AM back when Art Bell was still doing it. Only to be replaced with some stupid sports talk show.

Knife · Post by **Knife** » 2003-02-20 11:03am

Gandalf wrote:
Knife wrote:Buy CD's.
I have CD's, no player.

Yeah, that might be a problem. I listen to talk radio when I listen to the radio. When I want music, I listen to CD's or if I am feeling nastolgic, tape cassetts.

Montcalm · Post by **Montcalm** » 2003-02-20 11:40am

Like television radio want to please the idiots of the world.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2003-02-20 11:59am

Bah, the only DJ I like is LAZLOW, the REBEL-ROUSER!

(only GTA fans will get it)

Stormbringer · Post by **Stormbringer** » 2003-02-20 12:02pm

Radio like it's dumb cousin TV is going down the drain faster and faster. The whole mass media has been running up ever higher and higher gibberish-to-intelligent thought ratio. The tedency for inane prattle is only one symptom.

Stravo · Post by **Stravo** » 2003-02-20 12:14pm

I miss Opie and Anthony. Those guys were the funnies shit on the radio. Howard lost his edge a long time ago but these guys were HILARIOUS. I stopped listening to music altogether to listen to their show for four hours a day.

Anyone know what happened to them? I miss those guys.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-02-20 02:20pm

Stravo wrote:I miss Opie and Anthony. Those guys were the funnies shit on the radio. Howard lost his edge a long time ago but these guys were HILARIOUS. I stopped listening to music altogether to listen to their show for four hours a day.

Anyone know what happened to them? I miss those guys.

They were fired by Viacom when two people fucked in the vestibule of St. Patrick's Cathederal on the show.

Nathan F · Post by **Nathan F** » 2003-02-20 02:37pm

RedImperator wrote:
Stravo wrote:I miss Opie and Anthony. Those guys were the funnies shit on the radio. Howard lost his edge a long time ago but these guys were HILARIOUS. I stopped listening to music altogether to listen to their show for four hours a day.

Anyone know what happened to them? I miss those guys.
They were fired by Viacom when two people fucked in the vestibule of St. Patrick's Cathederal on the show.

WTF? They really DID that? That is just sick...

FireNexus · Post by **FireNexus** » 2003-02-20 03:13pm

Grrr... This is a topic close to my heart. I'm an aspiring talk radio phenomenon, and it bugs the piss out of me how they do that. if you want to talk, be a talker. If you want to run records, be a DJ.

Talk radio's going down the drain, though, at least in Philly. It was the beginning of the end when WWDB(Talk) turned into The Point 96.5(80's) in 2000. Now the only real game in town is 1210 WPHT, and it's syndicated half the day. Well, at least they have Rollye James.

Radio is in such a sad state.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2003-02-20 04:17pm

It could be worse. In Northern Ireland we have stations to chose from if your bellow 70. Cool FM, Belfast City Beat and Energy 106.6 Energy is a station for drugies who like dance, and Cool FM and City Beat have almost identical limited playlists, tape 90 minutes of it and repeat but don't forget to change the DJ every hour. I take my MP3 player with me everywhere for this reason.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2003-02-20 04:59pm

My biggest radio rant is that they won't do one thing anymore....

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

The Shadow Knows!

RadiO · Post by **RadiO** » 2003-02-20 05:39pm

I am generally dissatisfied with what has happened to BBC Radio 2. Once a trusty radio equivalent of VH-1, it is now a largely dull station, apparently obsessed with popularity and perceived trendiness. Gone are its staple diet of 60's, 70's and 80's pop and rock; largely replaced by a relentless tide of boy-band mediocrity and MOR yawnfests.
Radio 2's narrow selection criteria mean that its playlist frequently contains as little as seven tracks. Occaisionally a DJ will counter this argument with the riposte, "Oh, well, the problem is that there's so little good music out there at the moment, so our playlist is rather limited." And, having said that, he puts on Steps' perfidious, rank cover of Chain Reaction. I shit you not.
Okay, just switch over to another channel. Sorted. But it becomes a problem when you go on holiday with people who like Radio 2. Pretty aggravating when you're stuck in a car, hearing the same six tracks over and over again, all day every day... Once two summers ago they played Smooth by Santana four times in a 2-hour period. I don't care how good a single is, you can over-expose it.
And they have "45 whole minutes of non-stop oldies" (i.e the good stuff) every day in the afternoon, but 75% of the time one of the choices is House of the Rising Sun by The Animals. It's a classic, but it's dulled by repetition. They must really dig Foreigner's I Want to Know What Love Is as well, because they seem to play that four times every week.

RedImperator · Post by **RedImperator** » 2003-02-20 06:04pm

FireNexus wrote:Grrr... This is a topic close to my heart. I'm an aspiring talk radio phenomenon, and it bugs the piss out of me how they do that. if you want to talk, be a talker. If you want to run records, be a DJ.

Talk radio's going down the drain, though, at least in Philly. It was the beginning of the end when WWDB(Talk) turned into The Point 96.5(80's) in 2000. Now the only real game in town is 1210 WPHT, and it's syndicated half the day. Well, at least they have Rollye James.

Radio is in such a sad state.

Blargh. The Point. Another shitsack Philadelphia radio station. The radio in this town just flat out stinks (to quote a Philadelphia radio personality I can't stand, ironically enough). That's why I've got Kazaa, a CD-RW, a spindle of blank discs, and a CD player in the car.

Cap'n Hector · Post by **Cap'n Hector** » 2003-02-20 06:18pm

Aargh...I can't stand most radio these days. I'd have better luck buying an iPod and jacking a 60 gig drive into it. More variety, and I can make my own witty commentary.

I think that radio's gone downhill since something like 60% of all channels (might just be in some genres) are owned by ClearChannel...homogonizing makes it easier to manage.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2003-02-20 06:31pm

Lord Poe wrote:DJs do it to impress each other. It's called "talking up" a song. They pride themselves on how close they can come to shutting up before the beginning of the lyric.

I'd like to shoot every DJ that tries to talk for as long as possible in every song (even half way through it!). I shall call this hobby "shooting up".

Raptor 597 · Post by **Raptor 597** » 2003-02-20 06:52pm

Durran Korr wrote:Bah, the only DJ I like is LAZLOW, the REBEL-ROUSER!

(only GTA fans will get it)

Lazlow is the sheez-nez.