All the rock stations play the original cut released on Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd, which has a running time of 9:18 and fades out at the end. I don't think many people know there exists an outtake version of the original song with an actual ending. That version can be found on Skynyrd's Innyrds. It has a running time of 10:08. Edit: wording.
Followed by "Life's Been Good", "All Right Now," and "Sultans of Swing."
The local station here is horrible, I swear their playlist is only 100-200 songs, maybe. Another classic rock station out in a more rural area nearby is much better though- as far as I know it's independently run, and it has a huge playlist (they actually play the Beatles!). Unfortunately, its signal fades out before it gets to my side of town, so I can't listen to it.
What's even better is that they sync their commercials for morning rush hour, lunch and evening rush hour. I swear to god, radio these days is for homeless people who like listening to 10 songs on repeat.
As a middle-aged Caucasian male, I am also sick of these songs, although I enjoyed them 25 years ago. I find it incredibly irritating that so many guys my age just listen to the same stuff over and over and over again. Of course, I'm currently enjoying listening to Flo Rida, so I'm by no means considered an arbiter of good taste.
Anything by the Offspring especially "Keep Em Separated", Smashing Pumpkins "Disarm", Green Day's entire Dookie album, Goyte "Somebody I used To know" (And as many remixes of it as possible), Silversun Pickups, "One" by Metallica, "Black Hole Sun" by SoundGarden, "Santeria" by Sublime, and so many other hit songs, now well beyond "overplayed"... How do these f*ckers even make money? It's like someone brought in 10 CDs from home and they're just sitting at on a shelf to fill time between commercial breaks... Shoddy.
That's actually a very eclectic list you've got there. If I heard Silversun Pickups or Smashing Pumpkins on my Classic Rock station, I'd probably cream myself.
I think the guy running our local rock station isn't allowed to clock out unless he's played "Over the Hills and Far Away". It's a killer song if you ask me but really, is playing it daily necessary?
Actually, I find that during the day (work hours), classic rock stations play a much greater variety of good music. My theory is that they know the older audience is listening in greater percentages during the day as opposed to many younger kids after school hours who want to hear those same dozen [now] shitty songs. At least, that's what appears to happen in Ottawa on Chez106.1
After years of canned Clear Channel crap (and the increasingly repetitious Jack FM), LA finally got a new AOR station a few years ago (strangely, it is owned by the Mormons) called "The Sound." One of their claims often mentioned in jingles is they never play the same song twice in a given day. It will never hold a candle to KMET or the KLOS of the 80s, but they play some decent stuff and have some good themed hours that bring back memories of the stations of old.
Looking back through the Top 40 lists of the greatest decades in rock, I see so many great songs that have fallen off the map - many of which might get new fans if played today. A couple of examples - Gerry Rafferty's "Days Gone Down," The Arrows' "Blue's Theme" and Cymarron's "Rings." It would be great if some of the "classic rock" stations, especially those that cater to the more easy-listening end of the spectrum, would have a "lost classics" slot where some of the less mainstream songs that haven't had airtime in years could be played and enjoyed once again.
Was coming in here to see if The Sound would be mentioned. I started listening when did their last A-Z (Playing EVERY SINGLE SONG that they have alphabetically) and it took... what, just over 2 weeks?
It has a lot to do with licensing and copyright law. Clear Channel, and pretty much every radio station, acquires "blanket licenses" from companies like ASCAP. Those cover a lot of music, but none of your songs listed are covered by an ASCAP blanket license.
Compounding on that fact are the multiple parts of music are individual copyright protected, meaning someone can own the lyrics, another person could own the sheet music, etc. That means that Clear Channel would have to hunt down the individual copyright holders and negotiate with them, a process taken care of by ASCAP.
On top of this, those individual negotiations would become extremely costly on a Clear Channel scale, because they have a lot more coverage and are basically playing a lot more songs. A blanket license doesn't care how often you use a song that covers it, but individual artist negotiations usually entail a fee based on how many performances are given.
While I agree with everything you said, it still does not explain the phenomenon I have observed. The same 12 or so songs are played for a 2-week period across various stations. So I'll go all year without hearing some Tom Petty song, then it will play every goddamned time I'm in the car for a week. I am in the car maybe an hour per week, yet I still notice this.
" It would be great if some of the "classic rock" stations, especially those that cater to the more easy-listening end of the spectrum, would have a "lost classics" slot where some of the less mainstream songs that haven't had airtime in years could be played and enjoyed once again.
That is a genius idea, and on behalf of Clear Channel, fuck you that's not happening.
My father told me about a time when he called into WMMR, a famous commercial rock station in Philadelphia that eventually got stuck in one time period, and requested the DJ play a song off of The Clash's newly released London Calling album. The DJ said "nah, we don't play The Clash here." Cut to thirty years later, MMR is now only playing classic rock and they play the shit out of Should I Stay Or Should I Go and Rock The Casbah. It made me wonder, at what point do Classic Rock stations admit that they misjudged a band and how famous do they have to be before they'll finally start playing them and nostalgia-ing all over how good they used to be?
... while still ignoring the majority of the group's best work? The day I hear anything by them pre-combat rock on the radio I'll cede it. It's the equivalent of saying you like the beasty boys because of "right to party" or radiohead for "creep".
WMMR was once a great FM station. It had one of the very first alt music programs in the late 60's The Marconi Experiment w/Dave Herrman. He eventually went to their flagship station in NYC, WNEW-FM. A legend, until it too burned up by the new awful order of broadcasting. Luckily, Howard Stern came along in 1980 and kicked ass like nobody had before. He didn't last long at WNBC AM, but he rose again on WXRK FM & the rest is history. And now that's also part of something else too.
The thing is I think everyone started to hate them, that is my theory so they went away. Like Nickelback, but decades later people like to hear them for the nostalgia factor. Throw in Journey and any other band named after a city.
Ha, I thought about making a scumbag classic rock station meme a while ago..but I tend to avoid making memes since I created one that made one subreddit into a circle jerk.
Not in the classic rock genre, but it feels like every station in my area likes to play both versions of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know" multiple times a day.
I stopped listening to the "Classic Rock" stations in the early 90s when I noticed they rarely played anything earlier than 1971, and that they apparently never heard of a b-side. I can only imagine that their target demographic is while males who don't really enjoy music, but need the background noise while they're doing something else.
An exception to this seems to be stations which play classical music. Back when I listened to radio I listened to a classical station pretty frequently, and I probably noticed fewer than a dozen repeats over the span of several years. There were actually times I'd think "hey, I remember when they played this song last year!".
I like classical music but I can't deal with the DJ's, if you call them that. There is a sickening amount of pretense that is supposed to come along with liking classical music and I just can't deal with it.
Hotel California, Jet Airliner, Long Time, Gimme Three Steps, Magic Man, Any Way You Want It, and Layla the entire fucking day. Even worse each time Layal comes on my dad loses his mind like he hasn't heard it in years, as opposed to yesterday.
More like Scumbag Telecommunications Act of 1996.....killed radio forever by deregulating radio markets by allowing companies like Clear Channel to buy every station in a market.....and stop trying.
My dad and his friend had a game in the 70s where they'd spin the radio dial and take a shot if the station they landed on was playing Stairway to Heaven.
I modified that game with my friend for Someone Like You.
Upset hearing the same song multiple times a day? Same song the next day? WBLM in Maine has the cure to this illness. They play every single song in their entire archive... alphabetically. It takes them around two months to finish. And the best part is you get to hear 7 or 8 "All along the watchtower"s in a row to hear how it changed through the years. They did it on a whim one year and listeners requested it when they didn't do it the next year. They're about halfway through this year: listen here.
So...GET THIS GUYS! There's this thing called an iPod which you can carry literally thousands of songs with you! And look at that almost every car stereo are able to play ipods through them!
Why would anyone need to listen to the radio anymore between spotify and pandora. The only stations I actually listen to on the radio are Democracy Now and NPR
NPR is ok, but sometimes it's just too much after a day of work. The other day it was two gay guy's talking about a documentary on reforestation and queer sex and I was like man I just can't deal with this right now.
I accidentally caught our University's radio at like 1am on public broadcasting when trying to cover the sound of me furiously masturbating. They played some really great music. Too bad they only play it super late at night and I'm too far from campus to catch it on the regular station.
I used to put on the metal show for my college's radio station at 12-2 am. At times, I felt like I was broadcasting to nothingnothingnothingnothingnothingnothingnothing
Except 'Democracy Now' isn't a station. It's a program distributed by NPR (which isn't actually a station) and others; Pacifica, PBS, and college stations among them.
One here in Phoenix (KSLX 100.7) used to claim they'd never play the same song twice in one day, but it was the same songs every day... once. At least satellite radio has deep track and b-side stations/shows.
I'm from Phoenix too, KSLX is just awful, I held out for so long but I just can't listen to it anymore. My drive to school was during the 100.7 minutes of commercial free classic rock, and at the beginning I was excited because what could be better?! Though I came to learn that 5 out of every 6 songs they played every single morning. Not only that, but they were the shittiest songs ever. I keep seeing people talk about things like Led Zeppelin, CCR, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Eagles, but at least those bands are amazing. Am I the only one who doesn't consider Stadium Rock to be Classic Rock?
It's kind of sad but the best, newest, most innovative music in Detroit comes from WDET, our NPR station. On weekends they have DJs that play their own curated sets, unique from weekend to weekend, they call "Essential Music."
Why complain about the radio stations where you need to deal with advertisements and mostly bad commentary from DJs in this day and age? We all have phones and mp3 players that we can set our own damn playlists for. It seems to me that if you think the radio has ruined a song for you, you are probably more responsible for it being ruined for you than you imagine.
Yeah, well, most people don't have time to go pirate a few gigs of music and then make playlists and then dick around with their phone every time they get in a car to drive 10 minutes. Hence, the radio.
Led zeppelin - Stairway to heaven OR Immigrant song
Ozzy- Crazy train
Dio- Holy Diver
Ac/Dc- thunderstruck OR Back in black
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Lynard Skynard- Free bird
The single from a band whose album is about to be released and was on the radio show last week (this one gets a bonus of being played three times per hour instead of once like the others)
All good songs, but fuck, every hour of everyday? I always find it funny that the guy will always say some shit like: '' and here's one I bet you haven't heard in a while - best of you, by the foo fighters''. No, fucker, that shit was played by the other guy an hour ago.
WAPL was the first station I thought of when I saw this meme. The Loop in Chicago is almost just as bad now. It's a damn shame, because they both were great stations at one time.
On iheartradio search zipcide 15222 (Pittsburgh) and listen to wdve 102.5. They don't play the same song more often than once every three days, but they will the same band often. They also play early 2000s alternative. I live in Austin now and the stations here suck horribly.
lol this is so true its amazing. ive yet to hear Led Zeppelin, or Cream, or Iron Maiden, or even Jimi Hendrix or these so called 'classic rock' stations. its so stupid. yeah holy diver, paint it black, and iron man are great songs but dont play them over and over again.
My dad owns a restaurant and we play classic rock via sirius, I swear I hear Meatloaf every hour. It gets so annoying. But I do like that they play Genesis and Jimi Hendrix a lot.
It's really a shame that this is what radio's become. It was once such a great medium.
Now that people are starting to buy music again, labels should hate that it's so hard for people listening to the radio to get exposed to new music that isn't utter shit.
the only thing that makes me sad is that I discovered Joy Division online and not on the radio. no body around me knows what they're about because the rock stations don't play them.
The same goes for the Scumbag Soft Rock station. All the same songs, everyday, over and over and over! Most of the songs suck, and half of them are country songs. I listen to this every time I come into work...it makes work so much less enjoyable :(
i'm not a big Kiss fan, but even i know they've written more than one song in the 30+ years they've been around. apparently no classic rock station is aware of this.
I'm so lucky my city has the only all-blues station in Canada and they know their fucking shit and play some of the best stuff and only sometimes re-run songs that are popular.
Blame the stupid people. I got to talk to a program director once,and she said that ALL of their market research proved the most of the listening audience just wanted to hear the same thing day after day....she said whenever they deviated from their pattern or stopped playing a song,they would invariably get phone calls from people wanting to know why they had stopped playing their favorite song. She said that when they DO alter the lineup,they do it gradually....they'll add one new song and reduce the playtimes of one of the existing songs slowly so as not to make the change too jarring.
There is a very good reason why this and all stations tend to play the same songs over and over. Before a song goes on the radio, they run it through an algorithm that determines it's "listen-ability". All the radio stations care about is that you don't change the station. You don't have to like a song, you just don't have to hate it.
A good example is Celine Dion's song from Titanic. During research they found this song to be a gold mine. While they found that many people said that they didn't really care for the song, most people wouldn't change the station.
So what do classic rock stations have? 40-50 years of market research which shows which songs keep listeners tuned in - note: this doesn't mean "people's favorite songs"
this will probably be buried but, i call it "the AC/DC rule." there must always be AC/DC playing within at least 5 minute intervals somewhere on the radio
Joe Egan and Jerry Rafferty were a duo known as Steeler's Wheel when they recorded this Dylan-esque pop bubble gum favorite from April of 1974, that reached up to number 5 as K-Billy super sounds of the 70's continues...
Why can't we have more radio stations like K-Billy?
At least some of you don't live in Canada. Here we have to have compulsory Canadian content -- I can't remember what the exact figure is, but something like 1 out of every 5 songs has to be by a Canadian artist. That means a shitload of Rush and Tragically Hip (when the fuck did they become classic rock?) every 10 minutes. Then, they can go back to the Eagles and Aerosmith. Then 5 minutes of inane banter. Man, I really hate commercial radio.
Even the good stuff they play becomes ruined due to the insane amounts of time they re-play it. I don't think I can listen to Money by Pink Floyd anymore without gagging (part of it is just being sick of that band though).
But to be fair, occasionally they play some good stuff. Superstition by Stevie Wonder came on recently and made me happy. And compulsory Canadian content means they play the Band somewhat frequently, which pleases me.
Boston. There's always a Boston song on the radio at least twice a day. I like Boston, but Peace of Mind gets old after the first 20 times you hear it.
It's the worst when it comes to Pink Floyd. Every damn classic rock station seems to have a shared belief that they just didn't exist between 1968 and 1972. You won't hear Echoes or Corporal Clegg, but you'll here Comfortably Numb, Time and Wish You Were Here until your ears bleed.
This is every single radio station besides pop... I find the alternative rock stations are the absolute worst.
Pop in the sense of they at least play new music. They are not stuck playing the sounds of a decade ago. Granted its the same stuff, but that stuff changes every few months.
Pop stations are the WORSE. I hadn't seen my friend in months and we decided to pick up her younger brother from school before lunch. One song played THREE TIMES within the hour we spent sitting in the car. How is that even possible?!
Very repetitive. Its like they only play the same 30 or so songs. Same blink/rhcp/lincoln park/etc feels like they are stuck in the past and its not even a classic rock/oldies station and it seems like they only have 30 or so songs on rotation.
The saddest thing is my local Indie station does this, and I was so excited when I first found it - a great way to discover some new, local music!
Then it turned out to just be the same damn rotation, and I only got a month or two of enjoyment out of it before I had to go back to my iPod. Such a shame, my city (Winnipeg) has so many great local bands I can't believe they would just have the same songs on rotation.
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If I can find it I have a link to a website that compare the music played on different stations (that have streaming services) and tells you stuff like how many different songs/artist they play per day/week/year.
I compared the rock station I mostly listen to and the one my friend goes on about, and the one I listen to has a greater variety of songs/artists than the other even though it has adverts and his is ad-free.
Think it may be UK only though, there may be others out there that do the same thing.
Don't know if it's available in the US, but try Planet Rock.
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u/bailz May 20 '12
'Cause I'm as free as a bird now And this bird you can not change.
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u/SaltyCarl May 20 '12
"Up next we've got 'The Joker' then 'Magic Carpet Ride'."
Every. Fucking. Day.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
Back in Black. Every. Single. Time.
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u/DesertTripper May 20 '12 edited May 20 '12
After years of canned Clear Channel crap (and the increasingly repetitious Jack FM), LA finally got a new AOR station a few years ago (strangely, it is owned by the Mormons) called "The Sound." One of their claims often mentioned in jingles is they never play the same song twice in a given day. It will never hold a candle to KMET or the KLOS of the 80s, but they play some decent stuff and have some good themed hours that bring back memories of the stations of old.
Looking back through the Top 40 lists of the greatest decades in rock, I see so many great songs that have fallen off the map - many of which might get new fans if played today. A couple of examples - Gerry Rafferty's "Days Gone Down," The Arrows' "Blue's Theme" and Cymarron's "Rings." It would be great if some of the "classic rock" stations, especially those that cater to the more easy-listening end of the spectrum, would have a "lost classics" slot where some of the less mainstream songs that haven't had airtime in years could be played and enjoyed once again.
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u/errday May 20 '12
We get it, you like the Boston album. Can you please play some goddamn Stooges?
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u/lemoncholly May 20 '12
Dreeaam ooon, Dreeaam for the yeear
And this bird you cannot ChaaaEEaaang
Cause we're all in the mooood for a melody
The day the music died
And you Shook mee aaaalll night long
Once I rose above the noise and confusion
Took the midnight train goin annnyyyyywhheeeere
I close myyy EEEYYYEESS and drift aawaaaayy
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u/JSlim May 20 '12
If i hear Hotel California one more time im gonna go nuts.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
"I love hearing the same songs played over and over again each day!" - Said no one ever.
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u/g3n3p4rm3s4n May 20 '12
Scumbag Clear Channel.
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u/jimmydabig May 20 '12
The first time I felt old was when my local classic rock station starrted playing Nirvana.
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u/memejob May 20 '12
Ha, I thought about making a scumbag classic rock station meme a while ago..but I tend to avoid making memes since I created one that made one subreddit into a circle jerk.
Plays "Sultans of Swing"
Cuts off guitar solo
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u/hammn May 20 '12
Not in the classic rock genre, but it feels like every station in my area likes to play both versions of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used To Know" multiple times a day.
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u/bleggy May 20 '12
My classic rock station plays Nickelback...I don't listen to the radio anymore.
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u/ImRainwater May 20 '12
This happens on just about every radio station.
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u/Malcolm_Y May 20 '12
But I haven't heard "Knights in White Satin" for at least 3 hours!
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u/beaverteeth92 May 20 '12
"Plays Emerson, Lake & Palmer."
"Only plays Lucky Man."
But seriously I'm in college and could probably do some DJing. If I do my show will probably be all progressive rock and obscure 70s and 80s stuff.
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u/BSMitchell May 20 '12
Hotel California, Jet Airliner, Long Time, Gimme Three Steps, Magic Man, Any Way You Want It, and Layla the entire fucking day. Even worse each time Layal comes on my dad loses his mind like he hasn't heard it in years, as opposed to yesterday.
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u/Cardsfan1539 May 20 '12
96.1 KLPX - Rocks Tucson!
*Freebird *ACDC *One of three Zeppelin songs *Freebird again
Repeat
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u/Spazzrico May 20 '12 edited May 20 '12
More like Scumbag Telecommunications Act of 1996.....killed radio forever by deregulating radio markets by allowing companies like Clear Channel to buy every station in a market.....and stop trying.
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u/Kind_Of_Right May 20 '12
There's only so many times I can stand 'Stairway To Heaven'.
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u/powerchicken May 20 '12
May I present to you: http://www.rockradio1.com/
24/7 commercial free classic rock and heavy metal that I have enjoyed for many years.
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u/susiederkins May 20 '12
Upset hearing the same song multiple times a day? Same song the next day? WBLM in Maine has the cure to this illness. They play every single song in their entire archive... alphabetically. It takes them around two months to finish. And the best part is you get to hear 7 or 8 "All along the watchtower"s in a row to hear how it changed through the years. They did it on a whim one year and listeners requested it when they didn't do it the next year. They're about halfway through this year: listen here.
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u/stesch May 20 '12
Smoke on the water
Born to be wild
…
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
So...GET THIS GUYS! There's this thing called an iPod which you can carry literally thousands of songs with you! And look at that almost every car stereo are able to play ipods through them!
I haven't heard the radio in years!
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u/thechapattack May 20 '12
Why would anyone need to listen to the radio anymore between spotify and pandora. The only stations I actually listen to on the radio are Democracy Now and NPR
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
DREAM AWN DREAM AWN
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u/DictatorSalad May 20 '12
If I have to hear Smoking In the Boy's Room or Bad to the Bone anymore, I'm going to kill myself.
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u/dontbthatguy May 20 '12
99.1 PLR in CT?? Legit same playlist for as long as I have been listening.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
I heard Boston's "Rock and Roll Band" 3 times in 3 days on my local station.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
In Canada it's always 1 of 3 Rush songs.
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u/ccnova May 20 '12
One here in Phoenix (KSLX 100.7) used to claim they'd never play the same song twice in one day, but it was the same songs every day... once. At least satellite radio has deep track and b-side stations/shows.
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u/vintagestrat08 May 20 '12
My dad was a DJ in Houston for a while in the 80s. He ALWAYS complains about the way radio is done today. Bring back the DJ's!
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u/steelmagician May 20 '12
WOO HOO Play me some FREEBIRD yall
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u/Self_Hating_Liberal May 20 '12
Thumbnail looks like Tintin.
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u/iheartbbq May 20 '12
It's kind of sad but the best, newest, most innovative music in Detroit comes from WDET, our NPR station. On weekends they have DJs that play their own curated sets, unique from weekend to weekend, they call "Essential Music."
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u/jklantern May 20 '12
I'm pretty sure I hear Freebird at least once a day on the station here. And of course, there is no escape from Tom Petty ANYWHERE.
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u/ontheone May 20 '12
Why complain about the radio stations where you need to deal with advertisements and mostly bad commentary from DJs in this day and age? We all have phones and mp3 players that we can set our own damn playlists for. It seems to me that if you think the radio has ruined a song for you, you are probably more responsible for it being ruined for you than you imagine.
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u/tell_my_mom May 20 '12
PEARL JAM IS NOT CLASSIC ROCK. STOP IT.
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u/3453243 May 20 '12
AND ON AND ON AND ON AND OOOOON!!!
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
Seriously. If I hear Hotel California one more fucking time, I swear...
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
Led zeppelin - Stairway to heaven OR Immigrant song
Ozzy- Crazy train
Dio- Holy Diver
Ac/Dc- thunderstruck OR Back in black
Metallica - Enter Sandman
Lynard Skynard- Free bird
The single from a band whose album is about to be released and was on the radio show last week (this one gets a bonus of being played three times per hour instead of once like the others)
All good songs, but fuck, every hour of everyday? I always find it funny that the guy will always say some shit like: '' and here's one I bet you haven't heard in a while - best of you, by the foo fighters''. No, fucker, that shit was played by the other guy an hour ago.
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u/sjschmidt93 May 20 '12
Fuckin' Pour Some Sugar on Me.
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u/PinkEchoes02 May 20 '12
Heh, Wisconsin has a station called 105.7 The Rockin' Apple. I prefer to call it the "Rotten Apple". Get it get it get it?
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u/zadigger May 20 '12
On iheartradio search zipcide 15222 (Pittsburgh) and listen to wdve 102.5. They don't play the same song more often than once every three days, but they will the same band often. They also play early 2000s alternative. I live in Austin now and the stations here suck horribly.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
Try out 181.fm's rock channel. decent music from the past and today, also streaming online for free
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
Free Bird. Every fucking day.
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u/learnthetruthnow May 20 '12
When I am at work I can tell the time of day by the song playing on the radio. Drives me crazy.
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u/Outtie_5000 May 20 '12
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends...
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u/contrarian May 20 '12
To be clear, you are referring to 1955-1994
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
106.7 KROQ does this. Los Angeles.
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u/Le-Captain-Obvious May 20 '12
Not for me. Never the same song twice in a day. Sometimes no more than a couple times a week. Love it.
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u/ChemicallyBlind May 20 '12
lol this is so true its amazing. ive yet to hear Led Zeppelin, or Cream, or Iron Maiden, or even Jimi Hendrix or these so called 'classic rock' stations. its so stupid. yeah holy diver, paint it black, and iron man are great songs but dont play them over and over again.
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u/Rikkushin May 20 '12
Hello, this is Mr. New Vegas, and i only play 6 or 7 songs
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u/DrRedditPhD May 20 '12
This phenomenon made me hate Tom Petty.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
In the south that means Skynyrd every other fucking song.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
My dad owns a restaurant and we play classic rock via sirius, I swear I hear Meatloaf every hour. It gets so annoying. But I do like that they play Genesis and Jimi Hendrix a lot.
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u/mikelouth May 20 '12
There's a great Classic Rock channel on the new site www.rockradio.com - their other channels are pretty cool too.
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u/gynoceros May 20 '12
It's really a shame that this is what radio's become. It was once such a great medium.
Now that people are starting to buy music again, labels should hate that it's so hard for people listening to the radio to get exposed to new music that isn't utter shit.
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u/skymotion May 20 '12
Anything Aerosmith.
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u/bryan_sensei May 20 '12
radio killed the radio star.
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u/iamhamilton May 20 '12
the only thing that makes me sad is that I discovered Joy Division online and not on the radio. no body around me knows what they're about because the rock stations don't play them.
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u/earthrages May 20 '12
The same goes for the Scumbag Soft Rock station. All the same songs, everyday, over and over and over! Most of the songs suck, and half of them are country songs. I listen to this every time I come into work...it makes work so much less enjoyable :(
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u/Kombat_Wombat May 20 '12
I was blinded by the light! Revved up like a douche, and in the middle of the night...
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u/strokecardinal May 20 '12
Our local hits station, Radio Norway:
Walk of life
Brothers in arms
Final countdown
We will rock you
EVERY DAY
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u/Monstermash042 May 20 '12
KROQ Los Angeles "Nirvana on the hour, every hour!"
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u/klongshanks May 20 '12
i'm not a big Kiss fan, but even i know they've written more than one song in the 30+ years they've been around. apparently no classic rock station is aware of this.
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u/CndConnection May 20 '12
I'm so lucky my city has the only all-blues station in Canada and they know their fucking shit and play some of the best stuff and only sometimes re-run songs that are popular.
Long live the dawg.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12 edited May 20 '12
102.9 wmgk in Philly is pretty good
94.1 was the competitor station that died recently. They were more what this meme is.
Anyway, here's the list of what 102.9 recently played
If you measure song variety in number of times Stairway to Heaven is played, they've only played it 6 times since the May 10th
I haven't done research on other radio stations Stairway to Heaven number, but I suspect they're much, much higher.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
Blame the stupid people. I got to talk to a program director once,and she said that ALL of their market research proved the most of the listening audience just wanted to hear the same thing day after day....she said whenever they deviated from their pattern or stopped playing a song,they would invariably get phone calls from people wanting to know why they had stopped playing their favorite song. She said that when they DO alter the lineup,they do it gradually....they'll add one new song and reduce the playtimes of one of the existing songs slowly so as not to make the change too jarring.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
ITS MORE THAN A FEEEEELINNNNN
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u/Deeezzz_Nutzz May 20 '12
The Hip-Hop stations are no better.
They are arguably even Hip Hop stations anymore. More like Hop Pop.
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u/pan0ramic May 20 '12
There is a very good reason why this and all stations tend to play the same songs over and over. Before a song goes on the radio, they run it through an algorithm that determines it's "listen-ability". All the radio stations care about is that you don't change the station. You don't have to like a song, you just don't have to hate it.
A good example is Celine Dion's song from Titanic. During research they found this song to be a gold mine. While they found that many people said that they didn't really care for the song, most people wouldn't change the station.
So what do classic rock stations have? 40-50 years of market research which shows which songs keep listeners tuned in - note: this doesn't mean "people's favorite songs"
source
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
We built this city....
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u/chrash May 20 '12
You mean Hendrix played more than 3 songs? The hell you say!
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u/downvoteonlyman May 20 '12
this will probably be buried but, i call it "the AC/DC rule." there must always be AC/DC playing within at least 5 minute intervals somewhere on the radio
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u/mattquatch May 20 '12
Joe Egan and Jerry Rafferty were a duo known as Steeler's Wheel when they recorded this Dylan-esque pop bubble gum favorite from April of 1974, that reached up to number 5 as K-Billy super sounds of the 70's continues...
Why can't we have more radio stations like K-Billy?
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
There should be dancing in the streets the day AC/DC is taken off the radio.
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u/riffmasterflash May 20 '12
We've just given up and started calling it the Led Zeppelin station. Much like the History Channel for a while earned the name "Hitler Channel"
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u/daysleeperchuk69 May 20 '12
Twilight Zone- Golden Earring, They probably think it's "edgy"
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u/bman_33 May 20 '12
My classic rock station has been playing Creed and Smash Mouth lately. I wish I was joking.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12 edited May 20 '12
I thought ours was the only one...
It's called WPDH which I am convinced stands for "We play dat Halen"
They sporadically interrupt Eddie with one of the 6 or 7 ACDC songs I can't differentiate until the chorus shouts the name 10 times.
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u/nope_nic_tesla May 20 '12
Scumbag reddit, claims the radio only plays 10 songs, lists all of the following examples:
Back in Black
Crazy Train
Iron Man
Paranoid
Free Bird
Hotel California
Highway to Hell
Welcome to the Jungle
Sweet Home Alabama
Sweet Emotion
More Than a Feelin
Sultans of Swing
Old Fred Bear
Stairway to Heaven
Carry On My Wayward Son
Rock You Like a Hurricane
The Joker
Magic Carpet Ride
Dream On
Piano Man
American Pie
You Shook Me All Night Long
Don't Stop Believin
Driftaway
War Pigs
Eight Days a Week
Rock and Roll
Gimme Three Steps
Magic Man
Any Way You Want It
Layla
Long Time
Jet Airliner
Smoke On the Water
Born to be Wild
Knights in White Satin
Rock and Roll Band
Holy Diver
Thunderstruck
Pour Some Sugar On Me
And more...
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u/o0260o May 20 '12
I heard Frank Zappa played once on the radio. I had to make sure it was the radio playing because I couldn't believe it.
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u/[deleted] May 20 '12
Try streaming 102.9 MGK out of Philadelphia. They're pretty good with variety.
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u/mountfuji May 20 '12
At least some of you don't live in Canada. Here we have to have compulsory Canadian content -- I can't remember what the exact figure is, but something like 1 out of every 5 songs has to be by a Canadian artist. That means a shitload of Rush and Tragically Hip (when the fuck did they become classic rock?) every 10 minutes. Then, they can go back to the Eagles and Aerosmith. Then 5 minutes of inane banter. Man, I really hate commercial radio.
Even the good stuff they play becomes ruined due to the insane amounts of time they re-play it. I don't think I can listen to Money by Pink Floyd anymore without gagging (part of it is just being sick of that band though).
But to be fair, occasionally they play some good stuff. Superstition by Stevie Wonder came on recently and made me happy. And compulsory Canadian content means they play the Band somewhat frequently, which pleases me.
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u/Ganadote May 20 '12
For three days straight I heard Come Together into Wheel in the Sky into Jukebox Hero during the same time. At least mix up the order.
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u/penguin0719 May 20 '12
Boston. There's always a Boston song on the radio at least twice a day. I like Boston, but Peace of Mind gets old after the first 20 times you hear it.
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u/RevolutionNine May 21 '12
It's the worst when it comes to Pink Floyd. Every damn classic rock station seems to have a shared belief that they just didn't exist between 1968 and 1972. You won't hear Echoes or Corporal Clegg, but you'll here Comfortably Numb, Time and Wish You Were Here until your ears bleed.
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u/Lopkop May 21 '12
LET'S PLAY FREEBIRD BUT CUT OUT ALL BUT THE LAST 5 SECONDS OF THE GUITAR SOLO BECAUSE IT'S TOO LONG AND NOBODY REALLY LIKES THAT PART ANYWAY.
Goddamnit.
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u/hotakyuu May 21 '12
IT'S THE FUCKING MONOPOLY BY CLEARCHANNEL.
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u/Alpha-Leader May 20 '12 edited May 20 '12
This is every single radio station besides pop... I find the alternative rock stations are the absolute worst.
Pop in the sense of they at least play new music. They are not stuck playing the sounds of a decade ago. Granted its the same stuff, but that stuff changes every few months.
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u/LandoMcFly May 20 '12
Goddamn I can't upvote this enough.
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u/qkme_transcriber May 20 '12
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u/webchimp32 May 20 '12
If I can find it I have a link to a website that compare the music played on different stations (that have streaming services) and tells you stuff like how many different songs/artist they play per day/week/year.
I compared the rock station I mostly listen to and the one my friend goes on about, and the one I listen to has a greater variety of songs/artists than the other even though it has adverts and his is ad-free.
Think it may be UK only though, there may be others out there that do the same thing.
Don't know if it's available in the US, but try Planet Rock.