• ArxCyberwolf@lemmy.ca
    4·
    3 hours ago

    Seems like half the music on the radio nowadays sounds bored, depressed, or is a rehash/cover of an already existing song that’s also half-baked.

  • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.netEnglish
    6·
    4 hours ago

    As annoying as this is, it’s not really the radio station’s fault. Broadcast licenses for songs are cartoonishly expensive, so most stations can only afford to hold so many at a time.

    So like most problems in the music industry, it’s due to the greed of the record companies.

  • Dorkyd68@lemmy.world
    13·
    6 hours ago

    This is why radio died. Rock stations playing Aerosmith, guns and roses and ac/DC on repeat. Instead of 5 minutes of something new. By 2010 most if us were leaving fm for pre-downloaded music, 2015 apps were widely available, by 2020, what even was radio

    They walked to their own Graves and pulled the trigger

    • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      Companies like iheartradio and others killed radio. I got to experience a little taste of the old days just before it all transitioned. There was an actual person. In a studio. Behind a mic. It was so much fun. Now it’s all syndicated, pre-recorded, pre-packaged bullshit sent out to 1,000 stations that all sound the same, playing at its preset time in an empty studio.

  • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    19·
    8 hours ago

    Back in the day I ran a small Shout cast server. Once had around 40 listeners. It made teenage me happy. In a broken voice, between tracks, I’d pretend to be a radio guy on my cheap desktop microphone (those white/grey/cream sticks, you know the ones I’m sure).
    “Yo yo yo, that was a SICK beat, let’s get on down to some more funky tunes!!!”

    Fun memories.

  • BigDaddySlim@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    8 hours ago

    Same with classic rock stations, I swear to fucking god Boston’s 100.7 plays Turn the Page by Bob Seger or Metallica’s cover daily at like 7:45am. That’s usually followed by one of 3 AC/DC songs then 10-15 minutes of commercials since iHeartRadio bought them a while ago.

    • meyotch@slrpnk.net
      3·
      4 hours ago

      Boot Liquor changed my musical tastes forever!

      They have a decent stand-alone app too. Lots of good stations.

      • BootyEnthusiast@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        3 hours ago

        Boot Liquor became a MASSIVE source of family drama during a fishing tournament around 2008 or so.

        We were tooting along in our boat, fishing the morning away when I decided to put Boot Liquor on.

        Classics such as “I’m not drunk, I’m just drinking” and “If I ain’t drunk, then I ain’t drinking” were well received.

        Then “Kiss You Down There” by Hackenshaw Boys came on, and my grandfather started to get VISIBLY angry about the content of the song. Him and my uncle started arguing about how it’s just a silly song and that his 20 year old grandsons were perfectly fine listening to it.

        Gramps was having none of it and flicked a cigarette butt at my uncle and all hell broke loose.

        We lost 4 fishing rods during the scuffle, swallowed up by the merciless lake.

    • dwemthy@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 hour ago

      They even do live shows in their studio along with interviews of the bands, really great station

    • DrWorm@lemmy.world
      81·
      1 hour ago

      Any NPR music station is gonna be awesome. KEXP is probably one of the GOATs. KCMP in Minneapolis, KTBG in KC, KOPN in Columbia, Missouri, KVOQ in Denver.

      Honestly, it’s the listener supported/community run radio stations that are the best.

      • Sunforged@lemmy.ml
        42·
        13 hours ago

        Listener support doesn’t mean they are NPR. Hate to nitpick most of the time but NPR can get bent for their corporate shilling.

        • DrWorm@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 hours ago

          Yeah, that’s why I mentioned listener supported radio/community run. As a separate statement.

          Honestly, it’s the listener supported/community run radio stations that are the best.

          I only mentioned NPR because that’s just something the average North American can relate to. Also KEXP is affiliated with NPR. So it felt relevant to mention.

            • DrWorm@lemmy.world
              1·
              2 hours ago

              And NPR handles the music licensing for the station. You can see them in mentioned in multiple NPR annual reports as a member station, going as far back as 2001 when the affiliation started. Then as recently as 2011, after that NPR stopped reporting the NPR stations.

  • chrome_daddy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    12 hours ago

    We have a radio station in my home town that used to call itself “Mix 100” (their frequency was 100.1). I figured it was because they played the same 100 songs and each of the songs they played were ones I’d heard 100 times before.