You don't have to give the actual name and identification number of the station if you feel it'll give away where you live. I personally like 80's rock and classic rock stations. Sometimes I listen to the radio for news because it's usually more convenient than trying to get in front of a TV at specific hours.
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Posts: 10292 (01/31/06 7:08 PM) Lunitari Mage |
I actually never listen to radio unless someone else has one on. And in that case, I don't get to pick the station anyway.
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Posts: 1962 (01/31/06 7:21 PM) Hit and away is my style! |
Personal station on Yahoo! Launchcast.
Normal radio stations have just gone bad recently. One of the better stations here now has an identical music selection to another, more established station. It's a little irritating. |
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Posts: 17530 (01/31/06 7:21 PM) Frickin' Fred Durst on Stilts |
The only time I listen to the radio is when I'm in the car by myself driving to and from work. I always listen to a classic rock or an oldies station. They're both owned by the same company, so they have a lot of overlapping content. The oldies station is more like a second classic rock station with some oldies thrown in. It doesn't really bother me because I do think there is a lot of old music, particularly from the 50's, that's outdated and not real fun or meaningful to listen to now.
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Posts: 988 (01/31/06 10:14 PM) Sister Midnight |
There was this public radio station I used to listen to that was supposed to be a sort of refuge from the popular music stations in the area, but it just came off as pretentious most of the time.
I remember once this DJ was going off on how much she hated U2 (Fair enough, I can see why someone would hate them), only to turn around and play something from some unknown hipster band that sounded exactly like U2. Since I got my Ipod, I just avoid the radio.  |
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Posts: 818 (02/01/06 2:08 PM) Lord of Women's Lingerie |
80's rock, Disco, Howard Stern, and Needlepoint.
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Posts: 527 (02/01/06 6:44 PM) Bagel, Dammit! Bagel! |
I don't really listen to the radio too much unless someone has it on in the car. It's usually an oldies or pop/rock station.
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Posts: 1532 (02/01/06 10:19 PM) Behold the many |
When I was younger, I listened to Radio Disney. Now I don't listen to anything.
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Posts: 4905 (02/02/06 12:02 AM) Phantom King |
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It's short for radiotelegraphy, where messages are transmitted by radiation rather than wire.
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Posts: 602 (02/02/06 6:34 PM) |
I like stuff from the 60s and 70s. Anything on up it depends on who they play.
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Posts: 708 (02/06/06 6:26 PM) He don't say nothin' |
I fish for what I like, but I usually just listen to CDs in my car.
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I used to listen to the radio a lot when I was in highschool, but too many talk programs, and the mediocrity of what the newer bands they were playing, killed my interest in it.
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Posts: 474 (02/08/06 6:41 PM) |
I tend to channel surf a lot. There's a lot of local Philly stations here I listen to and an occasional Delaware station. I just stop the dial when I hear something I like.
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Posts: 1769 (02/10/06 12:18 PM) and my bird can sing too! |
i used to listen to internet radio stations/audio streams back in school where there's broadband. don't do that anymore. listened to an R.E.M. station on a rather popular R.E.M. fansite. some american indie rock stations and a mix of MP3.com stations(before it got bought over by some bigass company who changed it all).
there isn't much on the local airwaves here. i like listening to x'ho's show in the morning @ lush 99.5. pretty much tune in to that station most of the time. they play a rather good mix of stuff, but usually it's way too much chill-out/lounge music. a lot of the stuff you might never find in most record stores. i like don & drew's show on perfect 10. and the UK top 20 countdown from the same station. The Edge with Vernon A is sometimes good too(most of the supposedly trendy/hip pop/rock songs nowadays don't really move me). when i don't hear nothing good over the stations , i usually end up with the classical music station(which occasionally plays new age stuff and which i don't like and some jazz which i'm only vaguely interested in).  "Valentine's Day is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap." rael board o thy dead |
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I listen to Country/Western music on the radio the vast majority of the time, though on occasion I'll switch to a pop/rock station for maybe a week or two. Then I get sick of how every song there sounds the same and switch back to Country where (despite what some people say) most songs DON'T just sound the same...
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Posts: 2918 (02/10/06 2:10 PM) Schmendrick's
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I used to like listening to classic rock and 80's rock stations, but lately the only time I hear the radio is at work and they always have some crappy adult contemporary station playing Celine Deon and Mariah Carey and Shaiana Twain, and...blech...I try to mentally block it out by singing Sesame Street songs and the DK Rap.
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Posts: 17530 (02/14/08 7:01 PM) Frickin' Fred Durst on Stilts |
Right now, I'm really loving 106.3 The Fox. I can no longer get this station on the radio around here, but I
can listen to them over the internet at work. They not only have a good variety of classic, 80's, 90's, and modern rock, but they also play a lot of
songs that aren't necessarily the most popular from the artists. That's the problem I have with the main classic rock station around here - they have a
decent variety, but a lot of times they only play the most popular songs and thus you end up hearing the same songs several times a week.
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Posts: 17530 (02/29/08 7:26 PM) Frickin' Fred Durst on Stilts |
I heard "Take the Long Way Home" on this station today. It's amazing how that song always seems to pop up right after certain situations occur...
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Posts: 17530 (03/04/08 9:21 PM) Frickin' Fred Durst on Stilts |
SolidChocobo wrote: People at the Game Pond were always talking about bands that sound like U2. Really, what the hell IS up with bands doing this? I heard a song the other day
on the radio that sounded like U2. The lead singer sounded just like Bono, the guitarist was playing his guitar exactly like The Edge. I figured it must be
some U2 song I'm not familiar with because I haven't heard as much of their newer stuff since "Mysterious Ways".
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Posts: 1769 (03/05/08 11:16 PM) and my bird can sing too! |
a whole load of new bands who made it to the charts sound like coldplay and coldplay sounds like u2...
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Posts: 17530 (03/05/08 11:23 PM) Frickin' Fred Durst on Stilts |
That name is familiar...I wonder if it could've been Coldplay...
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Posts: 17530 (03/19/08 7:27 PM) Frickin' Fred Durst on Stilts |
Man, the oldies station around here really likes to fudge it. They played the Beach Boy's "Kokomo" today. What the hell? That song was recorded
in 1988!
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Well, at least it's a band from the '60's.
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Posts: 2384 (03/20/08 11:43 AM) Slow Daddy |
Flying Omelette wrote: Some of my earliest music memories are from the mid 70's. My dad had several "Oldies but Goodies" albums, with songs from the mid to late
50's. (My first favorite song was "tequila"). So I suppose they're not far off with a 20 year old song :P
I listen to an "oldies" station in the car on the way to and from work. It plays everything from 50's to mid 80's.
20 years from now I will not consider gangsta rap to be oldies 
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Posts: 11114 (03/20/08 11:57 AM) The Fuzzy Physicist
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Really, I think they should be considered to be something like "'70's" stations.
But the terminology *kind of* makes sense, because rock'n'roll is only so old. You don't have to worry about what to call rock'n'roll of the '30's, because there wasn't any. So, the first stuff was "oldies", then "classic rock", then I don't know what to call music after that. I guess it's back to calling it "80's music".
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Posts: 17530 (03/20/08 1:14 PM) Frickin' Fred Durst on Stilts |
I don't mind them playing songs from the 80s, it's just that when a song from '88 is considered an "oldie" (and I do mean the
"oldies" station, not classic rock or classic hits), it makes me REALLY feel old. And yeah, the band is from the 60's, which is probably why they
can play it.
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Posts: 17530 (03/21/08 4:48 PM) Frickin' Fred Durst on Stilts |
Since I'm more into music right now than games, I thought I'd just ramble a bit about stuff I've heard on the radio lately.
I heard ELP's "Lucky Man" two days in a row, both times on the way to work in the morning, and on two completely different radio stations. Odd considering the last time I heard that song was before I left NJ. In fact it had been so long, I couldn't quite remember if it even was ELP or not...until it got to the synthesizer part at the end and I realized, oh yeah, that's them. The thing is, Greg Lake's voice changed somewhat over the years so I couldn't recognize him from that alone. It didn't sound the same as in "Touch and Go". (Incidentally, there's a YouTube video of ELP performing that song live from just a few years ago and in that one he sounds exactly as he does on "Touch and Go".) Today I heard, for the first time since moving to Ohio, the uncensored version "Jet Airliner" on the radio. The Fox plays the censored version, but another station around here apparently plays the uncensored one. I never even knew there was a censored version until I moved from NJ because back there I only ever heard the original. It surprised me the first time I heard it. I was also surprised to hear "The Final Countdown" on The Fox. I have to wonder if that's always been a mainstay of their lineup or if its use in Arrested Development brought it back into circulation. I dunno, because they play a lot of other goofy 80's stuff, too.
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Posts: 17530 (03/26/08 7:51 AM) Frickin' Fred Durst on Stilts |
Flying Omelette wrote: It was "The Bravery". I heard the same song again today.
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